The Park. Well worth a purchase at 12.99!
I don’t really get to play a lot of games but this one stands out in my mind for some great nighttime atmospheric lighting. The eye-adapation was spot on too! There are plenty of other games that look good as well that I’ve not yet personally played like Gears of War 4 looks amazing in the videos.
Ofcourse I don’t want to leave out Epic’s own games like Paragon and Fortnite have some really good lighting as well, especially Paragon when you start moving into this PBR and photo realistic design when using precomputed lighting and dynamic lighting techniques. Capsule Shadows are used for the characters there so that we get the soft shadowing for our characters where there isn’t any direct lighting.
For Fortnite this is a good example of dynamic lighting techniques since it’s got some randomly generated levels where precomputed lighting doesn’t make sense. We also use Distance Field lighting techniques in this one with CSM shadowing. They’re good for checking out and seeing how to discern these types of techniques from the videos or by playing the games. Also it’s stylized so you get a different approach to lighting that than you would something that is more realistic like Paragon.
Anyways, enough of my going on here. Check them all out and I think you’ll be plesantly surprised with lighting in any of these games!