Killzone Mercenary - M08

M08 was a revisit to the M05 embassy again, this time at night once the ISA had retaken the building. The main visual theme for this level was to give the player a feel of escalation of the conflict. An environment they have already visited is now much more destroyed and much less pleasant.

We set the level at night and we knew we wanted the elements to be a large part of the lighting for the level. The lightning flashes are actually just a bright blue sunlight that has it's intensity keyed to flash erratically. Other than the lightning the majority of additional light is coming from fires that I placed where needed. Some of the lights in the building still work but they are fairly weak in intensity. Blending the colours of the natural light, the lightning and the fires was tricky at first but I'm very happy with the end results.