I never played RS2.  Was the level of detail on those ships adequate at all distances?  Simplistic AI?

I have this feeling that there's a level of exaggeration in that statement or that there's something missing from it.

RE4 Wii was mainly a port of the gamecube game. The PS2-Version was a port of the gamecube Re4 too, but the graphics was much worse because the ps2 had not nearly the graphical power of the gamecube.

The extra Missions of the PS2-Version are not in the gamecube game but in the Wii Version and this extra missions look like the PS2-Version. You can see clearly the graphicall differences to the main game.

Are you sure of that? Because even the PC version was ported from the PS2.

They actually do all the time, no modern game can be reasonably coded on a console without such optimizations. When I studied a course on 3d graphics I remember seeing tricks like these in quake II level engines, so I'm talking about more than 10 years ago.

All modern 3d engines for example allow to create a separate 3d scene for distant objects (the evolution of the old skycube) such as swarm of enemies running on a hill near the horizon, that allows to simulate scale with much less detail and thus much less performance hit.

The Rogue Squadron series also used level-of-detail mechanisms that included imposter sprites off in the distance.  On top of that, in a spaceship game, you don't have to skin meshes to animated skeletons, nor animate the skeleton to begin with.  Everything is "hard" geometry -- very easy to model, very fast to render.  As such, thei level of detail mechanisms don't need to be as aggressive as a game with "people" characters.  Spaceship "characters" are cheap.

I always get a chuckle when people point out RS and its ilk, on the GameCube, as examples of its horsepower, for this reason.  Spaceships are approximately one bazillion times closer, than animated characters, or detailed indoor environments, to being those tiny 1-or-2 tiny texture triangles they use to spit out performance numbers for graphics chipsets... i.e. very specialized, very easy, very fast.  Then again, obviously they can still be used to make some phenominal games -- RS was awesome, although it doesn't prove anything about the GC or Wii's power, like people like to believe it does.

The AI was simple with various groups moving in unison though there were dozens of groups and different ship types between Rebels and the Empire.

LOD shifted with depth but this is not aknock on RSII but a matter of being used in practically every 3D game since forever.

100% positive that RE4 was based on the GC build.

@Soriku- I KNOW RIGHT! I figured the 100 monsters on screen would get them in and be enough to have them click on the link, lol. I didn't know it would turn in to a tech battle however. *sigh*

The only think that I hope is that it comes over like it was mentioned before as being. =p

well I think what they meant was "its coming over but we can't talk about it yet."

And considering Wii is 2 GC's ducktaped together, we already know how awesome the Wii could make it right.  Actually people should go watch the Spacworld 2000 GC Tech demo, "Rebirth", on youtube so they can full understand what GC could do.  System never gets enough credit.