Canam adds: "What we are already seeing is 2D games that aren't presented in pixel art. We're seeing amazing things done in watercolor paints, razor-sharp vector graphics and so much more.

Vector was released in the dying days of 2013, and apparently Nekki GmbH couldn't have worse timing, because nobody seems to have even heard of it. There are two whole reviews of it on Metacritic.

But my fondest memories of a Terminator game is the 2D adaptation of the original movie for the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in America), which went all-out trying to recreate the grimy and gory ...