i think the artstile changed becouse of 2 reasons (this is my opinion and i have no sources) : 1. to feel next gen even if it wasn't ; this is a thing that happened to halo too , in the anniversary of halo ce ( halo combat evolved) , 343i give halo a new art stile whit a higher saturation of colors and more lighting , that many people didn't like but it definitely looked new . 2. a gameplay reason becouse all4one has a fixed camera and that means looking at the character you are playing becomes harder becouse the camera needs to make visible all of the characters that are playing , and becouse in all4one you can play as 4 characters per time it really needs to get far away , to make the characters stand out more the developers give them a bigger head.
readers , if you think there are more reasons or one of mine are wrong reply , i'll be happy to read what you think .