Ground Zero

"Ground Zero. Science can be bad once it gets in the wrong hands, and the people of this city know it. I'd say they experienced it on their own skin...if they had any left." - the Energy Being speech at the beggining of this level.

Ground Zero - fourth level of the video game Insomeria. This level explores themes of Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings.

Decription
Ground Zero is taking place just after an atomic eruption over a Japanese-looking city, with ashes swirling in the air, and the collosal mushroom cloud towering over the ruins. The level appears to be frozen in time, as the cloud is always the same size, debris, bricks and destroyed buildings hover in the air and the shockwave appears in form of a dust wall that player can't go through, creating effect similiar to the Hell level in Painkiller. Player wanders around the crumbling city through it's cracking streets, half-destroyed homes and finally reaches the city hall.

Monsters

 * Atomic Victim - those monsters look like naked skeletons with chunks of meat on them, eyes melting out of sockets and no hair. Before player comes near them they just lay on the ground in pieces, but once he does the pieces connect rapidly creating the enemy. Player has to fire exacly at their torso or legs because if he will shoot at one or both of their arms they will fall off and their owners will keep on chasing him and attacking without them, the same thing aplies on shooting down the head. Those enemies can attack without their head and both arms, but otherwise they are very weak - two shots to the torso will tear them to shreds.
 * Atomic Overseer - they resemble naked, slanded-eyed humans with black, scorched skin and something resembling large, black horns portruting from their nostrills. They attack the player by breathing green-and-orange colored gas at him from their mouths.
 * Atomic Samurai - they look like Atomic Victims, but wear Japanese WWII uniforms and are armed with katana swords which they swing at the player. They can also commit a seppuku, exploding into green-and-orange flames that can kill the player if he isn't careful.

Trivia

 * This level, along with Nanking was re-done in the Japanese version of the game to avoid controversies. Japanese version of Ground Zero is named just "City Ruins",enemies got their slanted eyes removed, and all of the references to Japan were also removed. All of the Atomic Samurais also got their uniforms changed to resemble German WWIII soldiers. The mushroom cloud also got removed.