I do think this game will be awesome, really awesome.

but ya know when you get CG that is really close to really looking, but they just miss it so it looks weird and awkward, thats what this looks like to me. It kinda hard to describe, the feathers on the gryphon (its a gryphon right?) bug me the most. Don't get me wrong, the graphics look good, just a bit weird.

Also it looks like they stopped designing the kid's head half way through...

I think it's the most beautiful game I've ever seen mostly thanks to the gryphon.

The textures on the kid suck...and his shading is weird. I think it's to make him stand out from the rest of the background, but I dunno.

The shading and textures are more of an art style choice than anything.

Eh? Looks pretty awesome. Textures, details, animations, everything just fits. Heavy Rain has that effect you speak of, imo, but not this game. Not at all. Are you sure you didn't just watch the old video again? The kid and feathers did look rather weird there. I think it's been vastly improved now.

Everything looks nice except for the kid.
It's like he's freaking Mario 64 in Crysis.

@Morduk, um, you missed the E3 presentation? There's no "leak" going on with that.

The feathers look weird because they're spaced relatively far apart so as to accentuate the feather-iness of the gryphon. 
 
Basically, STFU.

You're crazy.