For rendering an individual piece, maybe not; but as part of much larger scene with many objects, animation, and rendering effects, it would place an unnecessary burden on the GPU.
It would be much easier to simply have a 3D artist create the object anew from scratch, in a format and resolution that best fits the game.
It would be much easier to simply have a 3D artist create the object anew from scratch, in a format and resolution that best fits the game.