Artistic Styles used in computer games.

Cell Shading

Cell shading is an increasingly popular style of game graphics, it was originally used in animation before it was recreated to be a digital graphic game style. Cell shading in games can look very effective, the colours look bright and stand out. The styling mostly resembles that of a comic book, and alot of gamers enjoy this art styling. Some games that use this digitial graphic are Wind Waker, XIII and Ultimate Spiderman. This artistic style is very effective in Spiderman, as it resembles its comic book stories.

Abstraction

Abstract art styling in games could be defined as the opposite to photo realism, the style doesn't strive to resemble realism in anyway and often has features that are very unrealistic and may look different in the different perspectives of different people seeing them. The style usually makes use of a lot of shapes and lines that don't really resemble any actually objects in real life, such as Child of Eden and EDGE.

Photo Realism

Photorealism is the style of art in a game or any other kind of art, where the artist's are attempting to make the the scene so realistic and defined, it could be mistaken for a real photo. Rather than just the creation of the artist. Photorealism looks exactly how it sounds from its name, the graphics are designed to look as realistic as possible. For example in crysis 2 a level was based in new york city: a scene where it could be compared next to a photograph they would both look similar if not the same. Some photorealism in games are that effective the game experience can feel somewhat like an interactive movie such as Heavy rain.
Some famous games that use this art syling are: Crysis, Crysis 2, Arma, Heavy Rain, LA noir.

Exaggeration

The exaggeration art style might have started at attempting to look photo releastic, but as the art style has developed, character's features have become more over dramatic or exaggerated when some audiences favoured the style.The exaggeration art style to an extent looks almost cartoon, the colours and edges are very defined and look very similar to the art in animes. Some famous games in the art style are Final Fantasy, Pokemon, Devil May Cry, Xenoblade.