"We take 3-D models and automatically register photographs with them," he said, to produce images that have not just shape, but also intense color and highly realistic texture.

The environmental architecture and characters had to be extravagant enough to reflect the Batman universe, but possess realistic texture and detail.

The game features new innovations in sand, fire, smoke, and water dynamics and effects, also it adds to the movement of the characters, more realistic textures and animations.

Bisque is unglazed porcelain with a matte finish, giving it a realistic skin-like texture.

Similarly, the pieces often created a sense of movement, an accurate (or naturalistic) depiction of light and shade, and extremely realistic texture.

And features like hair and skin have more realistic textures than in standard photographs.

The single best-looking game for either console is Tecmo's martial arts game Dead or Alive 3, which has beautiful lighting, realistic textures and impressively detailed arenas.

Digital artist Edmund Kozin manipulated high resolution photos which were carefully stitched together to achieve realistic texture amongst the 22 CG logs of the film.

It featured more characters than the arcade version, and a choice between the original arcade graphics, or a more realistic texture mapped mode.

For all its realistic texture, "The Miracle" is also shot through with touches of biblical symbolism.