Digital Graphics

Photo Realism

Photo realism is a style of graphics based on using a camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information, creating graphics that look to be extremely realistic, like a photograph.  They look as close to real life as possible.

                                                                    L.A. Noire:

Battlefield 3:

Saints row the third: 

Cell Shading

Cell shading is a type of non-photo realistic graphics designed to make the graphics appear to be hand-drawn.They look hand drawn.

                                                                      Borderlands

Afro samurai

Exaggeration

Exaggeration is when everything looks very over the top, most games that use this technique are Japanese or Chinese.They look unrealistically over the top, everything is bigger and better than in real life.

xenoblade chronicles

Dot Hack

Abstraction

Abstract art style often employs a lot of lines and geometric shapes that don't resemble any real-life objects.Very colourful and mainly 2D.

Geometry wars

 

Photo realistic games are normally first person shooters, sport games, and many more game genre's. Cell shading games are no where near as common as photo realistic games. Exaggerated games are not that popular in Europe and America, but in Japan they are extremely popular, nearly all their RPG's use exaggerated graphics. Abstraction graphics are mainly used in arcade games.