It all comes down to art direction. There's nothing technologically special about Arcane. In fact, a fully 3D game with the player in control of the camera woul

It all comes down to art direction. There's nothing technologically special about Arcane. In fact, a fully 3D game with the player in control of the camera wouldn't look as good because Arcane uses flat 2d backgrounds and billboards throughout. The artists are in full control of what you see in the production. In a game with an interactive camera, custom shot/color/light composition is lost and would only look as good as the best games already available today. Although, I wonder if stylistically, Arcane will start a trend of bringing back texture heavy games with baked in lighting (as opposed to raytracing everything).