Current cartoon style graphics in PA.

I love high clarity bright color art styles. The "Mirror's Edge" look.
So I couldn't be happier.
I do agree about the wreckage though, but that will be improved, every graphical effect we see now is just temporary stuff, more particles and gubbins will come later!
They haven't even finished the shaders, texturing system or post-processing yet!

I don't see how one can call this "cartoon" though. Cartoon doesn't represent everything that has bright colors. Wouldn't you call grim comics "cartoons" too? Yet they are mostly gritty dark colors and dirty hues. Batman etc being examples of that.

I wish people would rather call it a vibrant style, instead of trying to use the whole old "cartoon for kidz" label to try to devalue the asthetic direction. It ain't cartoon nor is it for kids. It's an art style, that's all.
I love it, and I was a big TA fan, not to mention that i usually prefer gory gritty styles. I hate the World of Warcraft art style for example. But clear bright clean colors? Love that style.

The gameplay visualization in the kickstarter looked absolutely brilliant. Similar to what you have described here. To be honest I can't imagine the game looking any different.

I'm kind of expecting to see people to release early "realism" mods that just replace the textures on everything. The cool thing is the way we have the game setup, one person can play with the official visual style and someone else can play with a "gritty realism" graphics pack. As they can be purely client side, both players can be in the same game and not have any problems.

I saw something like this on the TB video comments, and it just annoyed me. Any time a game goes for a more stylised look, people call it lazy (which it ISN'T) or just generally crappy. And still, people judging a game based on very early alpha pisses me the hell off.

I should get off the internet, I can't tolerate people with no common sense.

If you don't like it you can always wait for texture mods to come out to make the game look how you want, or you could make one yourself and have it perfectly tailored to your taste.