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Battlefield 2 - EA

The award-winning Battlefield franchise invades the high tech frontlines of modern warfare in the new sequel, Battlefield 2. The game brings the intensity and excitement of Battlefield 1942 into the modern era with enhanced team play and the latest, most technologically advanced vehicles and weapons systems available to man.
 

I just love what this game can do in terms of gameplay and image quality. We had to use FRAPS to measure the performance and by command prompt remove a nasty framerate cap. The the results do not lie.

BTW the game by itself does not support these high resolutions, but simply make a little .bat file and insert the following:

bf2 +menu 1 +szx 2560 +szy 1600 +fullscreen 1

Would you believe that you are again looking at 4xAA and 16xAF here ? Amazing performance at both Single card and SLI mode. Look at SLI @ 2560x1600 go by the way ... 43 FPS :) With a single GS you can play up-to 2048x1536 (which does not suck).

That's really impressive.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Sam Fisher returns for his third installment. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, the third game in the acclaimed Splinter Cell series, manages to improve the games visuals, make the gameplay a bit more nonlinear and adds some new gameplay modes to the already exhaustive Splinter Cell brand. Anyone who has seen Chaos Theory in action can attest to its visual masterpiece. Dynamic lighting is back in a big way. No longer are shadows blobby, elongated representations of the characters. Now we have shadows that are detailed and exact.
Another of the biggest renovations of the graphics is the amazing use of bump and normal mapping. Now when you are sulking around in the shadows of espionage Sam actually has a recognizable face, with expressions and features that look real. Rather than the flat textured faces we have seen in the games previous.

It's still extreme good fun at ~40 FPS @ 1600x1200. We had HDR and 16xAF enabled.

Call of Duty 2

Call Of Duty 2 redefines the cinematic fighting game. It's a complete wargaming experience with more immense, more intense, more realistic battles than ever before. Beautifully rendered graphics, dynamic lighting and shadows, groundbreaking AI, and choice-based gameplay innovations make this the most intense WWII shooter yet. Go online for Axis vs. Allies team-based multiplayer action, building on the intense Call of Duty multiplayer modes.

With a single card you can play up-to 1600x1200. But with the SLI combo 1920x1200 is extremely playable. Call of Duty 2 is SO HARD on the graphics core. the 256MB cards did not have enough space to store the high-res textures at 2560x1600, so we could not test that resolution.