(For other examples, please see Thief: Deadly Shadows and Deus Ex: Invisible War)
Just started playing this recently and I'm absolutely tickled by how it looks. The only thing that's missing is everything being caked in CHONKY oversaturated low-res bloom so typical of late-era Xbox games. I wouldn't be surprised if it got removed in this later HD rerelease I am playing, but if it did, it's a crime against nature
Stranger's Wrath is a sci-fi Western fps set in the Oddworld universe that asks the question: What if John Marston was a furry that could double jump and run on all fours?
Incredibly sharp, hard outline stencil ass shadows... come back to me...
Also see Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Doom 3, F.E.A.R, Condemned
Not sure what happened with FEAR 2 but aside from being crap it had none of the crisp clean visual style of FEAR 1 (stencil shadows included)
I remember Condemned 2 looking really impressive but that game was also a huge mess. Monolith managed to run both of their cool new franchises into the ground in record time
The best thing that can be said about Fear 2 is that at least it was not Fear 3
That's Unreal 2.5 for ya. Honestly such a classic time, and that bump mapping. Has anyone made a game throwing back to this aesthetic?
Perilous Warp kinda?