Graphical Fidelity vs Visual Style

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

I actually don't agree with Mass Effect 2.

But I guess "realism" is subjective in this matter. I mean you start off the game, or at least I did with glowing scars which gets better or worse depending on if you are good or bad in the game.

From that point on, realism is kind of out the door.

BaB... They rendered Sherperd's stubble and skin blemishes. That is realism regardless of whether or not the scars glowed due to powerful implants/reconstruction. The subject matter may have been fantasy, but the art style definitely was not.