Benchmarks and video preview of HL2 Lost Coast
 

To our eyes, there is no discernable visual difference between ATI and NVIDIA cards. Although we understand that they are rendering differently internally, as far as we can see, there is absolutely no difference in the quality of the output. The image on the left is a scene rendered on a NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX on the left, and an ATI Radeon X850 XT on the right. Both are at 4x / 16x. If you can spot a difference in quality, let me know

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2005/...nchmark/1.html

be sure to download the movie; everything looks very fine!

except for the weapons, they are all made of shiny plastic it seems

In game graphic will be better I am sure.