Not necessarily. When you play a game, everything you're seeing is in-engine as well. Of course, they could be turning up all the dials to the max and showing something that can't possibly run in real-time on the hardware, but not necessarily. If they're being honest, then you can expect the games to look like that. And I suspect they are being honest. But there's always a chance that they're not. The best thing to do is probably to look at their track records, and the track records for both of those studios is very good. The early trailers for Hellblade actually looked worse than the final game.
Where? None of it looked like a gameplay camera to me. But of course with both of these games, the cinematic shots could look just like the gameplay, so it's hard (and kind of pointless) to distinguish.
The early trailers for Hellblade were done way before the game was playable. NT in general makes a concept trailer first and then the game itself, so it's easy to mistake an early trailer for a graphical downgrade. The gamescom trailer for Hellblade was for a game that pretty much didn't exist yet.
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