Mass Effect 2 or 3: Which is more beautiful?

ME 3 had crisper looking environments and textures but ME 2 had better looking character models. I also preffered ME 2's galaxy map. It was more vibrant and actually easier to see to use for me. I know they darkened the game on purpose in ME 3 because of the situation in game with the reaper war but I preferred ME 2s overall interface.

I have to go with ME2. It had so much going for it. The characters, colors, the atmosphere and alien feeling with each planet we landed on. I think the only thing I really enjoyed about ME3 was the Silversun Strip.

Naturally ME3 is going to have the better graphics.

Easily Mass Effect 3.

I just got to the first part of Leviathan on my current playthrough and I think there is some real artistry (I know, I know, "artistic integrity") in the creepier-than-average atmosphere to the whole thing. I don't know if the music for when you first arrive at Dr. Bryson's lab is on any of the ME3 soundtracks, but I think it's one of the better pieces from any of the three games, and the disorientation of Bryson's assistant and the mining facility staff after being released by Leviathan is well-portrayed ("if 'dark' was a feeling..."). The facility staff are sort of darkly humorous in their zonked-out attempts to deflect Shepard (the Leviathans would suck as covert operatives, seeing as 'turn back, the darkness must not be breached' is not the sort of answer that dispels suspicion), but when they do say anything else, they often seem to be having pretty disturbing conversations, e.g. one of them who "doesn't know how to feel" about a recent death, or discussions of the effects of modified "pain stimuli."