Why do the people in Activision "Hero" games look like shit?
The textures usually stink, they act clunky & unrealistic, & there overall design is shotty @ best.
Anyone else ever noticed how poor the characters in there games look & more profoundly, act?

Cause it's a music game?  Shouldn't really matter a whole lot to be honest.  I'm watching another part of the screen when playing.

" Cause it's a music game?  Shouldn't really matter a whole lot to be honest.  I'm watching another part of the screen when playing. "

Well in my mind it's like "Why waste time tuning character models to look really great when we could be implementing other stuff like new songs and then releasing a few weeks earlier?"  I realize it can bug people, and when playing it on my friend's Wii it's noticeably bad, but on mah 360 I think they're fine.

Actually, Activision doesn't make any game models. At all. It's the development team that does that job.
 
And yeah, Neversoft (Developers of Guitar Hero 3 and beyond) went for a style that just ended up being ugly with awkward movements, but DJ Hero's models (done by FreeStyleGames) aren't that bad in my opinion.
 
[EDIT]
Upon further inspection of the latest screenshots, I'd like to partly retract my previous statement of the graphics in DJ Hero. Some of the models are looking pretty damn horrendous. Damn.

yeah it totally bugs me - especially when put up next to Rock Band