Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days - Sony PlayStation 3 - Toiminta

One of the key tenants of the visual design of Kane & Lynch has been to live up to the mantra of 'down-to-earth'. They decided early on to move away from glitter and glam of a shiny, high-tech, high-bloom world to try something different with Dog Days. The ambition was to get the game visuals to a level of gritty realism you just don't see anywhere in videogames today. Creating a massive, glowing, bright universe of huge explosions and insanely ornate scenery would be fun and beautiful but would also go against what you wanted to achieve with the game, which is to make it seem like you're truly situated in an existing world and that you're a part of something living. Kane & Lynch are, for the most part, everyday antiheroes and you wanted the world of Dog Days to reflect that.
Going from a dark, rain-filled and grainy back alley to the buzzing streets of the tech market filled with glowing neon and blaring radios is a good example of the contrast players should expect while playing the game. The contrast between new, high-tech and plain old low-tech will also be quite massive and is a real reference from the trip the creative team took to Shanghai for inspiration. It's that feeling - analog meets digital, cheap plastic meets fake furs and gold and diamonds - that you're working on getting across.