Games that are all about being the "most powerful" or "killing the most baddies" suck for the most part unless there is a good story involved and/or good characters and/or good art.
I love strategy games and games with great stories and atmosphere, and games with at least one those elements, so Call of Duty is a big nono for me, along with most other brown and boring shooters.
I believe that more games should go for artistic style like Alice, and just as much time should be invested in art style and story as gameplay. I really don't like the whole realism thing either, I play games to escape, not to look at kinda real looking people...uncanny valley stuff is too creepy for me (although I did like Mass Effect, still not a fan of super realism)