10 Most Realistic PS5 Games
3. Alan Wake 2
Even accepting that it's a decidedly not-realistic survival horror game narratively-speaking, Alan Wake 2 was an undeniable landmark for almost unsettlingly lifelike visual detail.
Benefitting massively from Nvidia's coveted ray construction technology, every aspect of the game's aesthetic design - from the lighting of environments to the finer intricacies of characters' skin - is unfathomably rendered in painstaking detail.
But perhaps the most impressive thing about Alan Wake 2 is how seamlessly it blends live-action video footage with in-engine gameplay, the in-game recreations of actual human beings proving true enough that it's not always immediately obvious when a transition has taken place.
Given that the game is hardly a monstrous AAA behemoth budget-wise - though certainly wasn't cheap - its accomplishments are all the more laudable, using its note-perfect rendition of realistic lighting conditions and human expressiveness to make the horror that much more unnerving.