Irrlicht Engine

Well I didn' t make my judgement until I got some replies to this thread, thankyou. I may use this engine afterall... but facing the delima of having to write a terrain former :-(, the one that Irlicht has atm is not optimized and has no LOD which I need, and I cant assume that will be finished ...

I looked at the person models and am wondering just how old technology is in the gam eto produce such low quality almost 2D appearing models?
They look horrible. Why is that? Especialy in the techdemo, that running girl looks somewhat 2D, just looks horrible compared to what I've seen from other ...