Cry Tek

SL should licens the Cry Engine 2 from crytek. It has already been licened by the company Avatar Reality to create a game much like second life.

Everything from its advanced animation system

http://www.crytek.com/screenshots/index.php?sx=cryengine2&px=character_editor.jpg

To the crazy graphics that are very close to real life

http://maxygames.no.sapo.pt/Crysis.jpg

and its incredible physics engine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFMLS8sjyzY

make it the most incedible game/engine i have ever sceen.
All of these images are acutal in game screenshot/ movies running under DX10. Dont say its not do able since it is already being done.



This final video show just some of its many features

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogYMkkrmvC0&mode=related&search=

Linden Lab would have to build a completely new Second Life if they wanted to use the new Crytek engine. Then by the time they had finished building the new Second Life, there'll be posts in the forums asking why they don't use the new Cry Engine 3.

Basically, they can't just switch their 3D engine for a new one. It's not that modular. Second Life is proof of Stephen Hawking's string theory.