Regarding the US Gold game, World Cup Golf:
“Prerendering means we can have things like complex tree shadows but it doesn’t honestly look much better than some of the other games.”
Based on your screenshots, I honestly think the in-game rendering of other games looks better.
The mid-90s CGI of this one makes the scenery look like it’s made of plastic, and the (digitised photo?) golfer plastered over the top with the wrong depth of field and mismatched lighting just looks like lazy scrapbook decoupage.
Something like Links 386, sitting on the opposite slope of the uncanny valley, looks a lot more seamless.
