pretty self-explanatory, but what games have the most realistic, varied, and/or unique explosion effects?

this came to me when looking at the Split/Second images, all of which have some sort of pyro going on, but was just curious as to what else is out there.

Any JRPG final/ultimate/super-duper attack/summon/game-specific-special-attack.

Those motherfuckers usually explode the whole solar system or some shit.

i never actually owned this game personally, but i always thought mercenary 2 had some pretty sweet exsplosions

edit: i was thinking about Splosion Man when i typed this and i guess i added an extra s in on accident lol, oh well

Bad Company was pretty awesome

I think Mercs 2 was great, the nuke blew my mind the first time i did it.

Far Cry 2, or maybe Crysis if you like a good nuke.

GTA IV has pretty awesome explosions.

Red Faction Guirreiala(damn spelling)

Lost Planet or GTA IV or Bad Company

RF:G or Crysis...maybe KZ2.

F.E.A.R. with it's slow-motion shockwave explosions.

Godfather 2's explosions were the only good thing about that game.

Crysis has awesome explosions.

Mercs 2's nuke was the best part of the game, no joke. I was in awe upon seeing that for the first...and second time.

Mercs 2 is cool, but the explosions in it are canned, unlike Red Faction Guerrilla's. I haven't played B:BC but I think Ryan or Jeff has mentioned it has sweet explosions.

Crysis, clearly.

Lost Planet has some pretty nice ones

GRAW 2.

It's Crysis for sure.  That game is gorgeous.

Most unique and LARGE explosions I can remember back in the day came from Starfox 64.
Now, I really am digging Red Faction: Guerilla's explosions.

The nuke that goes off in CoD4.

I think those nuclear-reactive explosions, not even the detonation of Megaton, in Fallout 3 are spectacular!

You casual n00b turds, the correct answer is GOLDENEYE

The explosion of Megaton in Fallout 3

The rocket launchers from Far Cry 2

I thought that Mercenaries on the PS2 has some of the best explosions last gen.

Also, where's the love for 2D games? Metal Slug, yeah!

Bad Company was pretty amazing. The sound design was what made it stood out.

I recall GRAW having really impressive explosions. The sound and look combined made it really impactful. Haven't had a rig to run Crysis though, so I can't say for sure.

yeah, I dig the blue/green explosions in RF: Guerrilla

Mercs 2 had decent explosions, but nothing was better (in my opinion) than Bad Company.  Man that game rocked.

Crysis: warhead.. The only console game to beat it out is killzone 2 imo.

Lost Planet.  After that it's dead rising because you know....it's the same effect.  That being said, explosions happen a lot more and on a bigger scale in lost planet, where as only shooting a gas tank or whatever in dead rising has one.
That reminds me, we need more games like lost planet.  Arcade 3d shooters ftw!  The only other one I know of is Earth Defense Force.  

World in Conflict

as soon as I read that stupid meloncat post I remember that EDF has fucking sweet-ass explosions when giant robots die.

Best nuke : Killzone 2

Best explosions : Battlefield Bad Company

don't know why so many people are saying Crysis, explosions not the strong point...

Crysis has the most realistic explosions I think, but we all know realistic is "boring"...

Fallout 3. heres my favorite explosion (yes that is me in the video) my cousin is such a tard in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb88koqfOWA and whats amazing is i survive it. the explosions at 1:59

" Bad Company was pretty amazing. The sound design was what made it stood out. "

far cry 2 has some cool explosions. battlefield: bad company. and hell even fallout 3 had some awesome explosions

GRAW 2 and COD4 when that nuke went off.

Crysis had pretty sweet explosions.

Red Faction is all about the explosions, and demolition in general.

Lost Planet.

Crackdown.

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I'm gonna say Crysis... cause it destroys all the shit around it as well.

Probably Crysis. But GTA IV is a pretty good game for explosions. 
 
For a long time the original Halo had the best explosions I'd seen in a game.

EDF:2017

World in Conflict. No doubt about it.

First thing that comes to mind is GTA IV and Crysis. But having played BC2 al lot now lately I guess it has some pretty good and realistic looking explosions.
 
Also, World in Conflict explosions looks really sweet!

Bad Company 2 has some badass explosions. Same with Mercs 2 (probably the best part of the game). Red Faction: Guerilla, too.
 
For best last-gen explosions, probably Mercenaries. Game was beautiful at the time.