Ehhh.. I think it adds a sense of cinema spice into games. I mean, why would movies add shaky cam? Whatever the reason it was awesome in Children of Men. And Lense Flair makes sci fi movies like Star Trek look even more sci-fi and techy. That's why Mass Effect 3 and Killzone uses it, and why we did it in Fall of Cybertron.…
Oh yeah, that was awesome. But there they had the excuse of the player wearing a helmet, so it made sense. For Sci-Fi, my favorite stuff was the space scenes in Firefly. I don't remember if they used lens-flares or not, but I loved how it goes all silent. The excuse being that since there's no air in space, you won't hear…