He downloaded the file.
He played through the bombing mission. The combat was transformed. In the standard view, enemies often attacked from off-screen, requiring a radar to track them. Now, Elias could see the Shinra troopers flanking him in his peripheral vision. He turned the camera and saw the entirety of the walkway, the Mako tank bubbling below, the distant lights of the city above. It was immersive in a way the developers hadn't intended, a secret view of the world.
A: This mod affects real-time rendering. Pre-rendered video files (.usm) are encoded in 16:9 and cannot be dynamically stretched without heavy cropping. This is a limitation of the source video files.