well that's a suprise , well a little

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http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/S&V/matroxparhelia512(4).shtml

Displacement Mapped Terrain Demo - Courtesy Westwood Studios
Click image to stream 5.8MB AVI File

well .. seems , discplacement mapping is IN this year

if anyone is wondering what that other picture with the guy is

it's from a game called nomads
http://www.radonlabs.de/projects.html