I don't know what to call this but the marketing people will come up with something I'm sure.

Elemental will quietly use lots of cool graphical features to make the game still look good on older hardware.

This is a screenshot of Elemental on a low end ATI mobile card.

While someone looking at it can tell the difference between this and the glory of the latest hardware, it's surprising subtle to casual users.

https://draginol.stardock.net/images2009/ElementalScreenshotMay2010_1130D/image.png

My attitude is thus: If I can't play Elemental on my 4 year old laptop on the plane, then it's dead to me but when I get home and play it on my super mega GTX 480 mega machine and have it look awesome, well screw it then.