They improved. But its little. They completely removed the dirty and gritty look and made it worse.

i'd complain about the lighting before the water. too bright and cheery for the franchise.

I honestly preferred the washed out, grimy look of the original. It created a fantastic atmosphere for the first game which was never topped by any of the sequels as far as I'm concerned. Looks like they fixed something that wasn't broken to begin with as far as color is concerned.

For me the washed out look got old real fast so having a better lighting engine helps. Also I believe they just removed a lot of the crushed blacks in the game so you actually have decent shadows. The water on the other hand definitely is a miss.

yeah but that's a good thing, before E3 you had almost no new post, like XBO didn't exist. Now look at the frenzy, when you see so much downplay and so many posts about it you know MS is doing something right... So I take that as a really good sign.

Actually, it's not a downgrade from a technical standpoint. The waves are more demanding, the textures better. What has changed for better or worse (depending on the location probably) is their lighting. In some of these images it robs the scenes of depth and atmosphere. In others it seems to enhance it. It's a design choice really. And some people are going to hate it :P

That can't be true. That Xbox One Screenshot looks horrible! But I fully expect the final product to look better than the Original to be quite hones. Could be just some old screenshot from an alpha version with some bugs or whatever. I just don't believe it.

That said, I fully expect the Xbox One version to look worse than any PR shots and trailers that will come out. Because Microsoft will just use the PC version for that with nicely 4K downsampling and stuff like that. =P

Lol the game looks a lot better. I'm in the beta so I've witnessed 1st hand. No screenshots or comparison video. I do agree some of the grit and grime was removed and the game looks better but a tad bit different. I personally like it

That shot reminds me of Silent Hills HD Collection.

I personally liked the grit.

I don't get it. If people don't like the remaster, just stick the original in the Xbox One and bam... there ya go.