Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™

this version stutters terribly, tried all of the fixes provided online by other users and nothing worked, unplayable. hopefully this gets fixed up.

I've heard of the Kane and Lynch series before, but never followed it closely. The plot in particular was supposed to be interesting... Now I bought part 1 during the sale and what can I say: it was the worst game I've had to play in a long time. It is short, gameplay is not fun at all (especially solo) and the storytelling is aweful. The premise of the story is somewhat interesting. Kane, a mercenary in prison awaiting execution, is suddenly freed by his old comrades. They force him to get the loot from their last job together or they will kill his family. Lynch is assigned to watch over him. Unfortunately, this is as far as the "interesting concept" goes. Kane is a cold-blooded murderer who will walk over dead bodies to save his family. In the process, you have to kill lots of innocent people (e.g., policemen, security guards) who have the misfortune to cross his path. Reflection, character development or at least an explanation as to why he became such a person? Not a chance. His psychotic “buddy” Lynch is no better. He even murders unarmed hostages. There is no recognizable moral compass in the story. All the characters are completely unsympathetic and it is difficult to feel anything other than disgust for them. Even then, there could have been an interesting story, but instead you're just chasing after one McGuffin after another. There's hardly any backstory, all the characters are clichéd decals and the cutscenes are never well directed. Moreover, scraps of sentences drenched in self-pity and sad music when Kane is about to die are no good for a character study. The gameplay is also a disappointment. In this 3rd person shooting gallery, you blast your way through hordes of enemies in relatively narrow, tubular and scripted levels. Their AI is rarely very clever. Danger usually arises from the sheer flood of enemies, enemies that are easy to overlook and the miserable cover mechanics. Summary: Not recommended (not even on sale)!

A deccent 4-5 hour linear shooter game if you're tired of open world time wasters

Spoilers included. TLDR: This game is for you, if you want to experience intense Tarantino-like action in dark setting of criminal underworld, where only personal matters are worth caring, through the eyes of selfish, ruthless anti-hero and his psychotic sidekick... and if you dont mind having really poor aiming. What's good? Music is top notch, it creates great atmosphere and works well with great visuals - especially enviroment destruction looks nice. Action sequences are great. You have plenty of work to do and maps mostly allows you to take different routes and approaches. Flank you opponents, use covers and smoke granades, blow them with frags, take them in frontal attack or grab in close combat, all of this in quite memorable places like rave club. Also you will have elements like mentioned in title BiA. You can give orders to yout teammates and give them weapons during missions to use them later in certain roles. Even if you just keep them following, they are capable of doing thing on their own ... with some success. What failed? Shooting is poorly made. Bullets flies to random places, what maked firing at anything further than 10-20 meters quite a challenge. Your granades will bounce of covers behind which you are hiding or even of you buddies, if they're standing to close to you. You can, however, get used to all of it, reach some kind of profiency and beat levels even on hard. Story - Its messed. You will feel, that you missed maybe previous game or few starting chapters. Your protagonists are chasing one McGuffin after another, they summon allies for literally nowhere, Kane always has a "genius" plan which makes no sense, all characters has weird and complex relations that arent really explained etc. Also psychological aspect seems to fall shortly, as Kane's parental feeling are so annoying shallow. He cause allies, foes and bystenders alike die in order to save his dauther from bad guys, only to deliver lines of overly emotional sunday daddy.

Think Hitman - aesthetic meets GTA 4 - mechanics and realism. Story- 6/10 ; the story jumps around and doesn't really develop characters Shooting Mechanics - 9/10 ; It's not a heroic hack & jump-shoot shooter game Co-Op Multiplayer - 9/10 ; Awesome fun when playing alongside a friend Design - 10/10 ; A clasic IO interactive game that feels like you are playing into the expanded universe of the Hitman titles. Released in 2007 when the genre of shooter had gone through a renisance, this title was underlooked in a sea of COD , GOW clones. As you can see with previous reviews, COD (low risk/high reward shooters) & Arcade shooters heavily influenced a generations perception of what a shooter should be. But don't let their bandwagon prejudices discourage you from trying out a game that was years ahead of its time.