Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - ULUS10336

[rowan_G]

The first screen is a pre-rendered movie, even though it looks 3d its still a movie, that's why it has jagged edges, the second screen is a 3d rendered scene.
A-lot of game developers use pre-rendered movies as a way to show scenes when the hardware isn't fast enough to process the scene or its just to much work to program on that platform.
you can read more about pre-rendering here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-rendering

indeed, I just checked out the .pmf files of crisis core and its in there...
didnt expect that they used movie files for ingame graphics