Sorry, got too excited lol, one of my mates made all the weapons in AVP and i just loved watching him making these beautiful high res models, then cutting the hell out of them to make them low poly, but they still looked lovely with the high res normal maps he got from the high poly models!
I'm a 3D noob :S
I also have another mate who one of his architecture projects he put his building he made into CryEngine and beautifully lit it, then allowed his tutors and fellow class mates to run around his building in the nano suit... unfortunately you weren't able to blow the crap out of his lovely building