Play the XB360 version, then reevaluate the graphics...  You'll see why PS3 ports just aren't getting it done...

so this was a port from the 360? If it was that explains why graphics were below PS3 standards Damn companies trying to save money & porting games with out making the neccasary changes for that hardware

Here is the stuff on that PS3 development makes 360 games better:

Scott Steinberg, in an interview over at Gameindustry.biz, has stated that he thinks more and more developers will be switching to the PS3 as their foremost development console, and that will be making multiplatform games better as a result.

We see the development just now starting to get going.  We’re now in our third and fourth generations with first party, and that will start to create some distance with the competition - from our standpoint - but as the third parties begin to move their development to native PS3 and port down to other platforms, they’ll start to see their games’ fidelity getting better and better - and in fact I think even Xbox 360 games will start to look better as a result.

There’s a historical fact of having the [Xbox 360] dev kits first, so there’s the thought of porting down to the late arrivals, but I think that Burnout [Paradise] is a great example of a game that shipped fairly recently that showed what you can do if you start originally on PS3, and we’ve seen and heard more of that from our third party publisher relations group.

As they are starting to realize; that if you start the game on the PS3, the other platforms look better, and it starts to become a no-brainer for developers.  As you seem Burnout was started on the PS3, and XB360 game is very good.

We’ve heard before from PS3 developers that it’s not an easy machine to develop for. These latest statements from Midway indicate that the main reason for this is because the PS3 uses a multi-cored “Cell† processor, which is so different from the 360 that every game has to be rebuilt from ground up.

2007: Since developers never did anything with multi-cored processors before the PS3, games have been severely delayed and faults were often seen in the final product in terms of graphics and frame rate issues.  This statement is partially incorrect, the XB360 is multi-core-, but does not need the special code to prime the SPEs, and does not need separation of code/thread to be spread over each core, like the PS3 requires (separate code for each SPE), more like DEMANDS. 

Midway boss David F. Zucker had this to say about their development problems: “For our first wave of next-gen games… lead development has been on the Xbox 360, due to its earlier introduction and larger installed base. We ran into some technical issues developing for the PlayStation 3 that have taken more time to finalize than we expected.â€
    “These include… making sure that the frame rate, networking, and graphical features are at parity between the platforms. We’ve also encountered challenges as a result of shipping two of the very first PS3 games using Epic’s Unreal Engine 3.â€

It really does sound like they were having problems compared to the 360, but as it turns ouy, it’s not all bad. Zucker also said, “We do believe that these technical issues are now complete at a core level in our engine. Looking ahead to 2008, we expect the PS3 versions of our titles to ship day and date with the Xbox 360 and other SKUs.â€

Still, if you compare the game PORTED from XB360, on the PS3, they just don't perform the same.  This is why they want to switch to PS3 as the development tool, then port to 360, because it's so much easier.   As I said, they are both PowerPC CPUs, they both understand the code, but the PS3 version will be so much more optimized.  Its just that the CELL CPU cannot just run code without being primed, optimized, and so on.  Each portion of the game is split-up between the SPEs, which was hard at first.   Xb360 is on it's 3rd year, and the PS3 still has LESS games now (2 years later), than the XB360 did on it's 2nd year.   

I personally thing the CELL, the way they configured it, was a mistake. If it was configured like the Xenon, a General Purpose CPU all the way around, this would not be a problem.  Plus the fact that the GPU was added when they found the CELL would not handle the game and CPU functions and perform like the XB360 does.   Why?  Well, they throttled the CPU back, as it is capable of 4+Ghz speeds, for POWER consumption issues...  Just a mess really, when compared to how easily Xenon works.   Xenon (CPU), and Xenos (GPU) as a TEAM outperforms the PS3 as it is now.

PS3 should have gone with the unified memory like M$, or just plain old had more memory for the CPU to work with, but since they locked in 256MB for each processor, they limited performance.