Unrecord – Official Early Gameplay Trailer

Wow. At first glance, I couldn't tell if this was a real game or a video of a real-life scene made to look like a game. The characters move in such a natural way.

But after checking out some Unreal Engine 5 demos and looking for glitches, I am now convinced that this is indeed a bona fide game.

The game plays off the fact that realistic flaws can trick our brains into thinking it's real-life, not CGI.

Right from the start, with the blown-out sky, wide-angle shot, and imperfections on the building, it's clear that this is a real-world setting. Yet it's not.

Around the 0:05-0:06 mark, you can see how a low dynamic range camera would react to range variation via exposure change. This is a departure from the usual method of processing high dynamic range in games, which involves pre-processing the world into a low dynamic range.

This news deserves more visibility on HN. I upvote!