MysterD: I liked K&L games - but no, they both are nowhere as great or as long as Sleeping Dogs. Not even close.
Still worth the cheap money they'll selling both for to play the campaigns, though.
matterbandit: I was wondering the same thing as
ciemnogrodzianin, so thanks for your feedback. :) I really enjoyed Sleeping Dogs too, big time! At this steep discount, I think I may just buy them anyway and try them out.
Sleeping Dogs is more of an open-world GTA-like game (third-person open-world action-game where you can ride vehicles) with Batman Arkham style combat-controls. The game's more focused on hand-to-hand combat and martial arts normally than say gunplay.
K&L games are linear third-person cover shooters, which felt like what Michael Mann would make if he was making a game.
If the multiplayer works and if anyone's even playing it - well, that's more like Payday 1 & 2. Even back in the day for both games - almost nobody was playing, so good luck getting to get into a multiplayer game quickly back then. That's a shame that nobody was playing b/c the MP was cool - and gives me more reasons to keep saying & push my point that skirmish modes like these should ALSO work offline and have bots b/c its MP was cool & just fun to play; and that these MP modes should also have old-school TCP-IP/LAN support.
mqstout: iOi? Are these actually DRM-free this time?
IO don't have the rights to K&L anymore. They gave those up, going independent.
See this -
https://www.vg247.com/hitman-developer-io-lost-the-rights-to-kane-lynch-but-ended-up-keeping-freedom-fighters So, it's probably whatever Square Enix decided to do w/ the game for Steam and GOG, since they kept it as part of the deal by IOI going Independent.
Not sure if Embracer took K&L, once Square did they crazy Western sell-off of IP's recently though.
