Posted on: July 29, 2022
bs27
Verified ownerGames: 359 Reviews: 29
ok..ish?2.5/5
Really I'm only rating it that high because of Lynch. Also because I expected it to be grittier and edgier. Instead this whole thing played out more or less like a really bad American action movie complete with cringey not-Venezuela not-Cuba where of course your guy is connected to CIA and Illuminati types because reasons. I never would've bought this game had I realized that I was not in fact just playing a realistic portrayal of two psychopathic criminals in a raw, dirty way, but instead just a really dumb and cringey over the top American action movie. Also no, the shooting is bad, the cover is bad, the mechanics is bad, none of this feels like it was "intentionally done for realism of chaotic firefights" but instead just done badly and this is all the more laughable when cops just stand there in the middle of the road, NPCs just stand there shooting at you or run all the way across the map out of cover. Lynch is the only really redeeming quality, and I don't personally think it's necessary to play this first in order to play Kane and Lynch 2. Like even Kane is somehow supposed to be a guy "just trying to save his daughter" like he's this cringe American action-dad some reddit posting office worker would dream himself up with who'd get mugged by a 16 yo kid. Maybe they did it to try and make him more "relateable" or give some narrative direction but frankly the shallow emphasis on Kane trying to find his daughter killed the sole thing this game had going for it, which was a half effort at grittiness. Like why tf am I supposed to believe this guy that just skipped out on his daughter all her life and couldn't even bother to write a card would care now? Spoilers but unsurprising, he doesn't even bother to associate with his daughter after this game either. He's an unloveable psychopath, that's supposed to be the point. Pass on this one, even at $2
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