The facial animations are impressive, but frankly, there’s nothing here that even remotely makes me wonder how they pulled it off. It’s a small step up from Uncharted 4, but it’s nothing like the gap from Uncharted 1 to the original The Last of Us on PS3.
RDR2 is still the most technologically graphically impressive game I’ve ever seen. This doesn’t touch it. TLOU2 is a good looking game, no question, but ND clearly focused their efforts on real-time rendering their performance mo-cap sessions. It’s their most impressive work - but, everything else, from the lighting to the vegetation, is about par. If this shipped before RDR2, or even FFVIIR, I’d be more impressed.