Sharp & Crispy? Try tiny and blurry. I\'ve seen MPG\'s with more appearant detail than these pics. Thanks for posting them, but the title to this thread is very misleading.
I did see some pretty good quality .MOVs of this game over at IGN, and let me tell you.. these pics do NOT do the game justice. You have to really see it in motion to get a sence of just how well built this game really is.. expecially in the animation/movement deparment. I don\'t think I\'ve ever seen a game with characters that move so well and accurately as in this one.
As far as shadows go, I\'m sure ND will add them later. After all this detail already I can\'t see how they\'d overlook something as obvious as that. They probably just didn\'t have enough time to program them in before the show and knew that crappy last minuite placeholders would just degrade the look of the game.
Platformers really don\'t interest me that much.. but I\'ll definately have to rent this one just for the eyecandy if nothing else.
BTW: How is this game possible? I thought the PS2 couldn\'t handle any more than 4mb of textures.