The engine highlights of "Athena" include amongst others, HDR-Rendering, shader simulations developed especially for Wii in order to display ice, heat and water (realistic reflections and refractions), an ultra-fast particle system for amazing snow storms, soft particles for realistic fog and smoke, depth of field, motion blur, dynamic soft shadows, spherical harmonics lighting, as well as a high performance level-of-detail and streaming system in order to provide long viewing distance of the entire surrounding. In order to create an exciting atmosphere when battling the ghosts, the game employs a number of custom-created special effects such as the shader simulations as well as a newly developed post-processing framework. "Our engine technology really takes the Wii hardware to its limits and Wii gamers can really look forward to a heart-stopping, and breath-taking world that comes alive with this title," said Gerhard Seiler, Technical Director of Sproing.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/897/897888p1.html

Sounds...tasty.

This thread's title is hilarious when you read it out of context.

sounds cool so far, still need to see gameplay video to really get me hyped.

I hope we get too see some in game images/footage soon

I think there are developers who have started to realize that if they push the Wii to its limits their games will stand out in comparison to the PS2 ports and poor efforts that may developers are focusing on.

And its also the only system where pushing graphics will stand out, because it's hardly done. I want a video too.

This is showing that people are now starting to get it about the Wii.
The base is broad enough that it can support a range of titles -- and the middleware development to enable that to happen is finally occurring.

Mike from Morgantown

Good thing devs starting to do what HVS is doing

awesome, now if we can see some gameplay images soon I'll be happy :)