I'll never forget the first time I played nfl 2k for the dreamcast. I literally thought I had accidentally changed the channel to real football. The last football game I played was 2d - madden on the genesis. This was such a leap forward I had trouble believing it.
Reminds me of when ESRB used to distinguish between "cartoon violence" and "realistic violence", in the freaking 90s. Meanwhile it's 30 years later and we still don't have photorealistic graphics. (Unrecord comes close, but that's not even out yet and it's still not indistinguishable from reality.)