- This is the violent and chaotic journey of two men - a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath. Each hates the other but must work together to save themselves. Play Kane in single-player mode and either character in two-player co-op mode.
- Violence Erupts in Meticulously Created Safe Worlds: Realistic and responsive environments and crowds react when events get of out control. Manipulate the environments and crowds strategically to complete objectives.
- Wide Variety of Intense 3rd Person Game Play: Rappel from buildings, firing on the run or from moving vehicles, launch surprise attacks, lay down cover fire, and shoot blind from around corners, hurl smoke, tear, and incendiary grenades
- Fast and Iintuitive Combat: Lead a crew of criminal mercenaries to increase your chance of survival. You can also fight alone, you will automatically draw fire, throw grenades, lay down cover, and engage in close combat with their own signature moves.
- Two-player Co-operative Game Play: Team up and play the full story with a friend as either Kane or Lynch. At any point in the game you can choose to play the next, or previous, levels in co-op. Innovative Multi-player Levels: Up to 8 players.
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 Everyone Agrees With Everyone Else |
| Review Date: January 29, 2008 |
| Reviewer: bruiserbox, Los Angeles, CA |
When it comes to most gamers, my title is dead on. Here's what joe shmo consumer should know: Some fat guy with a bad attitude used to work at a video game site (games spot) and he got fired. This game was his most famous review because he panned it. That's really about as interesting as this story goes but for some reason, since this was brought up (his panning the game in a video review as possibly being the reason he got fired) over and over again in the gaming press, if you'll call it that since most is just blogs, a lot of jerk off with a computer have rampantly targeted the game without playing it and basically smeared its reputation.
I'm sure they can come up with the same four canned reasons they read this game suffers from being a 10/perfect game. Honestly, it's leagues ahead of Halo 3, which is just more of the same and for an additional $60 a year you can play against these same hate spewing jerks on xbox live in multiplayer. Look, it's Kane and Lynch is a good game. The story is subversive and about 90% of it risky. Will you love it? Probably not. But will it be like everything else out there? No. Look, in a time where a lot of game developers are trying to mix social commentary, subversive plot lines, unlikeable characters, and different kinds of game play together because god forbid they had something different to say... people who like more of the same will disagree.
I'm not going to bash other games. Hell, I'll even take back my Halo game. Although, I'd like Bungie, the publisher, to make a really original title and stop making sequels. I will say, try it out. If you like Reservoir Dogs or the Pusher triology or Heat or Godfellas, then you know there's going to be very unsavory characters here. That's why the game is fun because you probably are not one of these guys and you probably wouldn't let one of these guys around your wife or kids. The graphics are actually wonderful because you're playing in crowded places with innocent people. Lots of them. The sound is great and the game feels more like a movie.
Pretty much, my advice is that if you are going through reviews online, and you see one or two that drastically disagree, use that as fuel to think twice. You would in normal life so it can spill over into online judgements, too. |
Dead Men Do Tell Tales
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| Review Date: November 22, 2007 |
| Reviewer: M. Brenk, VESPERTINE |
| Let me just say the following, Kane & Lynch Dead Men is a fun game. I don't care what your preconceived expectations are or were, when you play the game (especially with a friend in co-op mode) you will have fun. Your weapons sound and react differently from one model to the next and the reason the bullets don't group into a perfect shots every time is because like real bullets when fired from a semi-automatic or automatic weapon, they physically don't do that. One reason why I preferred the pistol as a weapon of choice was its accuracy is greatly improved (much like the reality of a human shooting a pistol over a machine gun). There is a sense of pressure on some levels and not so much on others allowing for a fairly realistic sense of necessity and opportunity, if you play smart the game responds accordingly. Like any FPS, there is a reality that there will be a repetitive flow after awhile, but the game has an interesting plot, some very cool locations to battle through (the club scene is particularly crazy) and again, a stress on realism in terms of behaviors and weapons. I'm not a believer in a perfect game, I have a PS3 & and XBOX 360 and I have yet to experience the perfect FPS (Halo 3 is not the god game it is built up to be, but it is great). The only negative I experienced in this game was the ridiculous use of profanity. I am not a prude nor am I one to shy away from a gratuitous term, but it seems as though the game being rated mature meant that the characters say f*Y&% about every other word and its just corny. They need a better script writer and they need one yesterday. Being rated Mature doesn't mean I need my characters to leap out of Goodfellas or Scarface. Let my character sound like a human being and not a 13 year-old's stereotype of a criminal. I thought the graphics were good and I have a big HD TV. Again, I don't know what people expect in terms of graphics, its a game, not real life. The colors were clean and details were nice. I have yet to play the online multiplayer simply because I just got the game on Monday and finished it on Wednesday night. I believe we clocked in around 12 hours of game play on the hardest difficulty setting. If you want a smart and creative game that really does play like scenes from the movie HEAT (and it really does) hen I recommend this game easily. If you are expecting perfection then look elsewhere. I am giving the game 5 stars because an 2 star average by other reviewers isn't fair, especially when matched against their comments. I'd normally give a 4 star rating. Take that as you will and happy hunting. |
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
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| Review Date: January 2, 2008 |
| Reviewer: S. White, |
| It's awesome. The graphics are 100% better than any PS2 game. We have nothing but but fabulous things to say about it! |
It does not desserve 2 stars
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| Review Date: May 18, 2008 |
| Reviewer: just me, |
| The game is not 5 stars, but I put that to even out the other scores. The game itself is very fast paced, the environments are destructive and the graphics are okay. The story is the best part of this game so try to pay attention to it. Another cool feature is that you can play with somebody split screen and it would be a good way to play the whole story like that. The online mode is confusing at first( 4 to 8 robbers carrying a heist, but you can betray each other and respawn as an enemy), but later it becomes fun and interesting. I recommend this game to anybody who likes a criminal type game. |
FUN!!
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| Review Date: July 1, 2008 |
| Reviewer: R. Santos, |
| I had a good time playing the game, I wish it was longer. It has awesome graphics and lots of things to do. It went beyond what I expected from previous reviews. 5 star for me |
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