I don't think that headline's necessary. They're a huge improvement over the first game (which, having worked for a while with the guy who made a lot of those models, I'm going to chalk that up to in-game rendering more than the content - he's one of the best character artists I've worked with) and don't look at all out of place.

Visuals overall look like a solid jump from Condemned/Fear. Also the taped up view model hand is seriously badass.