If you look closely they turned off a couple visual features so that they could focus on others. They turned Shadow quality down a bit, you can see some small aliasing in the new version. They also turned down the Anisotropic filtering, this can be seen when looking at the details in the sidewalk. The edges are more blurred and not quite as clearly defined. This could also

What you do get however is better Ambient Occlusion helps the image look better and have much better lighting effects. It also looks like they bumped up tessellation a bit since most rounded objects do appear to be a bit more true round.

In the end I approve of the changes made.

**Edit - Oh and if you look closely at the crowd in the distance it looks as though the draw distance was also increased just a smidge.

During E3 2015, it was going through developing phase. This kinda reminds of how amazing GOW 3 upgrade turned out to be from its pre-release.

I'll get it delivered to mine tomorrow. 

Yes I agree with Wright on this one some things look better some look worse. Overall 2016 looks a little bit better to me, due to the more natural looking colours. 

Aerys said: If marginally means the opposite of what you mean, yes

It still looks mind blowingly good, just not that much better compared to the 2015 one. Unless you got a less fuzzy and more crisp shot of 2016 which I can compare better.

isnt this just different weather? Where is the upgrade?

I don't see much of a difference in the graphical quality. Some things like the scenery have been changed abit, and the lightning is different, but I'd hardly call it an "insane upgrade".

I can't see an insane upgrade. I can barely see an upgrade, apart from color saturation/lightning.

The game was beautiful already. Maybe OP is seeing what he/she wants to see?

God Of War III is the biggest upgrade from E3 reveal in 2009 to the release of the game in 2010. This pic makes it look only marginally better than 2015 and worse than its first reveal.

I think ambient occlusion is worse now.

The main diference is the time of day, if anything there has been a downgrade.

I prefer the 2015 overall.