Even facial features depict real emotions and you cannot help but feel what she is feeling. After Claire dives down a staircase and rolls under a closing metal door and you see her grimace, you will feel her pain. The island has several huge locations to explore and while they are an odd mix including stark prisons, high tech labs, underwater facilities, and even a huge mansion, they are all very accurate in their design and modeled to look like their real-life counterparts. The designers have included the infamous door and stair animations between areas, partly to conceal the load times and partly to add to the suspense of entering each new area. Some of the more tense areas elaborate on the opening doors by zooming in on the doorknob as scary music plays.
Code Veronica are almost as good as the visuals.
The soundtrack always fits with what's happening on screen ranging from the action theme of the opening movie to the creepy music while you are exploring the depths of some secret laboratory. It really adds to the mood and flavor of the adventure and helps draw you in to scare the crap out of you at just the right moment. The sound effects are dead on. All the sounds in this game are of the highest quality and timed perfectly with the action. Even the weapon sounds and resulting explosions will rock the house when played through a decent sound system.