Rendering capacities of a 2011 game !

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

The thing that initially impressed me (with my flight sim hat on) was the big pall of smoke rising in the distance.

I said wow that would be fantastic rising above a city as your flying your plane towards it (or away). The I realised it was static and didn't change.

That's an excellent example of "picking your battles". FPS's can do this much easier than Flight Sims since you are usually stuck on the ground in a certain area. Flight sims don't have that luxury of being able to hide things in the distance. One thing that I was sort of disappointed with CloD was their lack of "corner cutting" graphics where appropriate instead of cutting features.

Those high density forests we see could have been replaced by "Oleg Trees Version 2.0" and nobody would have noticed and I'm sure it would have helped free up some resources for other stuff.