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IBM PC
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| Year:
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2007
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| RFG ID #:
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U-016-S-17030-A
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| Part #:
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MKALYPUS01
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| UPC:
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788687100519
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| Developer:
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Io Interactive
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| Publisher:
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Eidos Interactive
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| Rating:
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| (ESRB): Blood , Drug Reference , Intense Violence , Strong Language |
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| Genre:
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Shooter
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| Players:
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1-8
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| Controller:
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Mouse & Keyboard
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| Media Format:
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DVD x1
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Collection Stats:
- 13 of 7621 collectors (0.1%) have this game in their collection
- 0 of 7621 collectors (0%) have this game in their wishlist.
- 1 of 7621 collectors (0%) have this game for sale or trade.
Overview:
Welcome to the dirty world of men at the end of their rope. Join in as they seek at first solace, but ultimately revenge in a blood-spattered thrill-ride that will send you the world over without ever leaving your seat.
It is a squad-based 3rd person shooter with an emphasis on the cinematic.
Review:
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men[/b]
- PC –
This game comes extremely close to greatness and then proceeds to fall flat. It can only be compared to the first Hitman, a game that sat on the verge of a whole new world in 3d gaming and yet was so poorly presented that no one really noticed it.
Still, Kane and Lynch is just another baby step into the world of cinematic gaming. --
IO used the Hitman Engine to good effect. The physics are OK, the bodies are heavy rag dolls, crumpling and falling at those funny angles and yet not flying over the horizon every time a grenade is thrown. The graphics are quite gorgeous…most of the time. However, like nearly every aspect of the game, some sloppiness is visible. In places the detail is incredible and in others things were overlooked—you will watch the sweat drip lazily down a character’s face and at the same time wonder why his hair looks like it’s floating an inch above his head. Explosions in the game are especially lackluster, reminiscent of five years ago, and having little impact on the environment.
The gameplay itself is simultaneously invigorating and extremely frustrating. Squad members will get in your way, will shoot at walls with enemies behind them, will do so many retarded things that you didn't tell them to that you’ll wonder why they even gave you any control over them. The enemy A.I. is no better and does much of the same stuff, but they have much better aim than your squad members and will snipe you down from sometimes ludicrous distances. The enemies are sloppily spawned as well, pre-loaded and waiting in closets and corners to come out and fight you. Sometimes they are sometimes visible in the distance, just standing around waiting for their scripts to kick in. At some points you can even snipe these automatons from forever away and they will not respond in the slightest until they die—at which point they die. While this makes some of the later levels quite easy, it is undoubtedly sloppy on the parts of the devs.
The difficulty of the game varies greatly. One level will allow you to simply zip through, running past enemies and to the finish, and others will have you fighting inch for inch, reload after reload. One major beef comes with the aiming system, which is ANNOYING as HELL. You point and shoot and yet your bullets do NOT go straight towards your aiming reticle, there is ALWAYS some amount of error to your shot, moving your bullets off in some weird direction. This was probably supposed to be realism but instead provides a silly random feel to every fire fight as you simply point and click and hope you get a head-shot. Arguably if aiming were perfect the game would be extremely easy, with players screaming “BOOM HEADSHOT” at every enemy. It seems rather tacky however. Likewise distressing is the OTS (Over the Shoulder) view that does not line up the gun with the reticle. So you can be aiming the reticle at an enemy and shooting the wall your character is leaning against.
The story to Kane and Lynch is at first great, later on becomes run of the mill, and finally flies off to la-la land whilst trying to return to that uniqueness that it lost halfway through. There are two endings, you choose one at the end, and they both suck...which sucks. At some point the story lost its way, which is a shame. The dialog is lacking throughout, consisting primarily of the words: FUCK, SHIT, ASS, SHOOT, and BITCH.
The characters of the game are interesting. Kane, who you play in the single player campaign, is your all-around John-badass with a tinge of madness that makes him awesome. Lynch, who your friend plays in co-op mode or your computer runs mindlessly into walls, is a completely psychotic and yet lovable fellow—prone to blackouts and insane rampages. Your crew, which you assemble to help you kill the bad(der) guys, is a rag-tag bunch of pissed off ex-cons whose personalities blur and slowly just fall apart as the game progresses. The7, the bad guys, are never really explained. They just look cool and do stuff in the world, like overthrow governments and stuff like that. All the characters have long back stories that we never really learn (*sniff* sniff* is that a prequel I smell?) which in the end just tends to piss you off.
As far as ADULT CONTENT goes the game is violent and has the mouth of a sailor. Apart from the thugs of the underworld that you blow away in EVERY game ever made you are also required to kill just about every policeman (and policewoman—at least they’re politically correct) in the world. Likewise in your sights are civilians whom you can gun down with impunity, or not. The amount of foul language used, as earlier stated, is quite silly. Expletives make up probably a third of the entire dialog. There is no physical sex, although it is implied that a girl is raped (and you can kind of see her panties). Drugs are mentioned often, and adrenaline shots are used to revive you when you've fallen.
In the end I am in some sort of Kane and Lynch: Dead Men shock. It has many flaws, it is BAD, and yet I am still attracted to it. It sits on that verge of greatness, falling way the other way off that verge no doubt, but hell, something kept me playing, it’s definitely entertainment.
65/100
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You can get a 1000 Gamerscore on this version and the Xbox 360 version.
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