F.E.A.R - can it be done?

#1 You could do something like F.E.A.R. with TSE, but I would require a lot of work.

#2 What exactly was so "sexy"? I played the demo and it didn't really rock my world (so to speak).

I thought the shaders used in Doom3 to display gas escaping from pipes was the "sexiest" shader I've seen so far.

#3 @Nigel : I just meant that the graphics were very well done and at times looked real world.

Not wanting to get into a debate over Doom3 v F.E.A.R I thought it was very similar but at least in F.E.A.R. you weren't moving from one cramped tiny room to another.

#4 F.E.A.R. is lithtech, and that is very very expensive.

#5 Its a new engine, not the lithtech one it was originally on.

#6 Its even more expensive actually!!!

#7 Funny, thats the FIRST thought I had when I played the demo too! TSE has to be able to at least come close to what FEAR can do, since its next-gen technology as well.
For me though, the most important parts Id like to see in a torque game wouldnt be the graphics themselves, it would be all the special effects in combat scenes. The decals, the showers of sparks, and that HV penetrator thing nailing people to the wall, like in Painkiller.
Oh yeah and getting people to disintegrate like that girl does.

#8 You can certainly build all of that stuff in TSE. As far as shipping TSE with a similar effects set out of box, we have more pressing tasks to do first, like GL support or optimizing the rendering infrastructure. :)

#9 I couldn't even get FEAR running at a decent framerate. I have an ATi x800 and P4 3.0ghz, put the settings down to minimal and it still ran about 10-15 fps. At least Doom3 was fluid, FEAR was unplayable.