10 Masterpiece Video Games That Are Total Technical Powerhouses
1. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Horizon might be immediately visually arresting, but it does stumble a tad in regards to facial animation - an area where Uncharted 4 plants its flag as the new high bar for digitising an acting performance. Thought L.A. Noire was the highest possible standard? Just watch Nathan Drake's eyebrows twitch, the sadness in Elena's face, the age in Sully's, or any of their eyes widen when they're excited.
As a single example of what to hold up as a pure example of just how far we've come in regards to the pixellated delights of the MSX or the NES, Naughty Dog have consistently been one of the most meticulous developers the industry has ever seen, with a catalogue to back it up.
The Last of Us set the ball rolling in regards to conveying emotion through an immaculate marriage of facial scanning and coding, but it's a mentality that stretches across every square inch of A Thief's End, resulting in one of the best-looking, most technically impressive and mechanically tight video games of all time.
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