god of war 2018 (and to a much lesser extent the last of us) got basically all its cultural clout off the back of this game. i think having the development experience from dead space 1 really helped visceral nail minute details that most other ""prestige"" developers totally ignore in favor of extreme scale. the lighting especially is so considered and thoughtful in almost every room across this entire game. it's really got that arkham knight magic where the graphics are better then most big $70 releases we see nowadays. i don't care that it's way louder and more brash then dead space and has really weird pacing sometimes this is an absolutely perfect video game.