Faces of gaming: Real vs Virtual

Above: Paul Guilfoyle as Captain Jim Brass in CSI, and in CSI

Now, we don't watch CSI. But our grandmother does. And she informs us that, sonny, this is a pretty solid echo of the troubled, frowning look that Brass wears throughout every episode - as opposed to the amused, cheerful face that Guilfoyle wears in the photo.

Considering that CSI isn't a big-budget game, or that the developers aren't exactly heavyweights, we're going to suggest that any team working on a film/TV license tie-in takes a good long look at CSI's able representation of Guildfoyle's face. Unless it's just clever lighting, and when he's out in the open he looks like a carved potato... The game character, that is.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.