I thought this was and interesting questions. In generally, I have a high level of control with VuePro (I lust after the upcoming VuePro 5) and have found it easy to manuver in and get work done. For sheer polygon count this is my biggest: 42mil polys, mostly polygonal terrain gound cover, but 3 meshes of v3 and quite a few props in the "Hiking" image. For body count look at sacada's "100 Victoria Statues". At the other end is "Dr. Frankenwoodies' Monster" which has 9 lights, 7 glows, a low polygon count and rendered in ultra setting in about 5 minutes - quick and painless. I use a 3.06 with 1 gig ram, and a 64Mb nvidia card. Do you need Vue? No, not really. But you'll be addicted if you get it I'd wager. good luck