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I have certainly seen more than one of those in years since!

More seriously, that intro is clearly supposed to be a technology money-shot, but the polygons, lighting, camera movement, and textures are all much worse than in Quake II, which provided the engine for Daikatana:

It's as if the intro was sketched out with the intention of tossing in the money-shot graphics at the end of development, but at the end there was no time to optimize graphics at all and the result is a regression from prior standards. The splashy cinematics of the scene instead help to emphasize how bad it looks. The game has its pants around its ankles from the very start.