The small-ish park is cinematically lovely any time of year, especially since playgrounds were added and the fountain was moved five years ago to be aligned just so with the arch.
Knowing how far we can push things visually and cinematically totally changes the levels you can make, the environments you build and the playable set pieces you can throw the player into the middle of.
Enever surveyed the available material on meteor and asteroid strikes, then published his own calculations and analysis of what such strikes could do, and have done, to the Earth, with cinematically vivid prose and equally terrifying physics.