Kingpin: Life of Crime

Honestly, Kingpin is a great gritty FPS that feels like you're part of an experience close to the film, Scarface. The guns feel great, the dialog is hilarious, and overall, it has the makings of a great game. However, my main complaint is the difficulty. Mainly, the AI. The AI are the most self-aware AI I've ever seen in a game, which for the time, was something pretty neat. The problem is that everything you do matters, and I mean it does matter. Even if you take the smallest step around the corner to the point where an enemy cannot see you, they will somehow see you and get to you. Again, I do like it when AI is a challenge, but when it's this challenging, and on the normal difficulty mind you, then there's a problem. However, this is still a great game if you don't let the difficulty get to you.

...And that's it. Enjoyable but repetitive music, cheesy dialogue (which half of it is swearing) and really, really a mediocre shooter (almost ''bad''). There are some saving features, however: a surprisingly good AI, some nice mechanics (primarily, talking method to the NPCs) and a little of ''quest'' that need some exploring (and time to decipher them... I admit, I was giving up at first since I simply did not understand what I was supposed to do at the start). ... Unless you have nostalgia glasses, this is not a game that I'd usually recommend... but some ideas of it are... interesting, to say the least.

Kingpin was very specific game.. it was hard as a rock .. (or i was too weak player when it was out).. when i was playing i was exited .. im glad i can buy it now .. cus my original copy is damaged.. :/

I still have my original Disk, the online action was a blast

As a street thug affectionately called "Thug" by its fanbase, you've been given a beating by Nikki Blanco, the right hand man of the titular Kingpin, in a crime-ridden world that never was. With an urge to "bury those two motherf-ckers" in your heart, you grab a lead pipe and begin a roaring rampage of revenge against Blanco and eventually the Kingpin himself. As you can tell, this game is one of the first truly adult-geared experiences in video games: Everyone is a criminal out for eachother's blood, the setting is a dystopian city ruled by crime, the dialogue features a lot of fighting words and profanities, and most importantly, the game contains one of the most robust gore systems of its time: Limbs and heads can be blown off, leaving viscera and bone in their wake. Combine this with the above, and you have every reason why this game was so controversial and why it wasn't a good idea to release this in the wake of the Columbine Shootings. Also, the weapons and enemies are unbalanced. Now, my opening blurb which lists the two big problems and that description will give you the idea that this game is a piece of journalist outrage-bait aimed at pathetic edgelords and sociopaths from 4chan, like the later Hatred (made as a deliberate successor to Postal 1) and Tormentor (no good excuse and is being made just to get attention, thus the worst offender). However, beneath the swear-filled gory combat and unbalanced weapon roster and enemies lurks a genuine game made to deliver something unlike other games of its ilk: A semi-open criminal combat experience. You can speak with fellow thugs for information and possible recruiting opportunities, you can provoke for open combat with taunts. You can buy items like weapons, ammo and health at stores, and the AI is as smart as you are (mostly). It's a genuinely ambitious game that succeeds at what it sets out to do, and it's crazy fun to be honest. If you want something different, or something genuinely adult, buy Kingpin.