Kane and Lynch: Dead Men™

On va passer outre les anecdotes au sujet de l'histoire et de la réputation du jeu pour se concentrer sur le produit. J'avoue que la licence m'a toujours intrigué pour je ne sais quelle raison, sans doute pour des questions styliques. Le scénario est un peu convenu, fait très film d'aventure américain des années 70-80 et vous met dans la peau d'un braqueur de banque qu'on libère pour honorer sa dette envers un milieu criminel, en lui adjoignant un gardien psychotique, le fameux Lynch. Le ton est sinistre comme il faut mais sans la touche parodique ou satirique faisant le charme des jeux GTA de Rockstar, Kane & Lynch se prenant franchement plus au sérieux. Si je devais faire une autre comparaison avec un jeu Rockstar, j'aurais moins de mal à penser aux Max Payne mais là encore, K&L ne bénéficie pas du même soin dans ses mises en scène. Tout est en fait plat à côté, des sensations de jeu à l'ambiance sonore inexistante, bousillée par des niveaux de son affreux vous donnant l'impression d'avoir pris un coup de pelle sur la tête avant d'avoir démarrer le jeu. L'ambiance en question n'est d'ailleurs pas relevée par une gestion des couleurs criarde et peu inspirée, le jeu étant sorti au début de l'ère du filtre pisse/marron. C'est en revanche relativement stable car en deux heures de jeu, j'ai pas eu de souci de baisse de FPS, de déchirement, etc, ce qui est toujours un bon point et évite au jeu la note d'une étoile. Reste que c'est vraiment pas intéressant, pas très bien doublé et que le jeu est incapable d'immerger le joueur dans son propos ou dans un quelconque moment de jeu tant les systèmes ludiques sont simplistes lorsqu'ils existent. A réserver aux mordus de jeux de tir en vue objective à l'ancienne vraiment en manque.

Definitely not a bad game by any means, but is also a product of its time. A lot of nifty gameplay mechanics for sure, but some things just don't feel quite right. Controls are decent enough but there are times when the game is trying to force you into cover mode when you might not want it. The camera, while not terrible, can get a bit finiky in some situations leaving it difficult for you to see what's going on. Sometimes your weapon's sightlines get hinder in odd ways leading to occassions where you have no choice but to expose yourself to gun fire in order to actually fire beyond your cover. Weapon accuracy is also a big problem. Your crosshairs feel more like a generalized direction of fire as opposed to actual aiming. Overall, not a bad game, but not really a great game either.

i loved this game on 360 wanted to experience it again its not available via backwards compat on my series so thought i would buy on pc it loads gets as far as the level loading screen then goes back to desktop looked up the fixes with no luck ive updated my drivers ive tried it in different resolutions ive tried all different windows compatibility glad its only cost a quid i9 12900H Processor, 14 Cores 20 Threads, 24MB Cache, 2.5GHz base frequency Intel Iris Xe Graphics 32GB DDR4 Ram

Well, let's make this easy. Here are the things I liked: + Characters that you belive in; + Logic story, wich made you think "could it even be better?"; + Conspiracy crime organization. Well I didn't expect that at all. But it feels like "John Wick"'s but just in the beginning; + Good atmosphere music (where there are some). + Actualy not that stupid AI parthners. They DO something and the DO save you. + Awesome revive system wich is fresh for SP even now. + Game duration. It's just perfect. Short and full of action story. And here's what not so good: - Shooting. I though it's good but not, it's not at all. Even when you aim, you don't get shots get in the aiming area, they just burst all over the screen; - Sound design. Oh damn, there are so many times when you just couldn't hear somebody because he's on the "wrong" angle from you. There are no problems that couldn't be solved by remastor or remake. This game deserve it. Overall I will give it a 8/10.

If Breaking Bad somehow killed off the main characters and focused on any one of the crazed henchmen, it wouldn't look too disimilar to Kane and Lynch. All you can do is shoot, and all the plot can do is neander to 90's homages until it ends. You will find references to Heat, Predator, and Collateral. Where those references are generally found in light-hearted games like Saints Row 4, Kane and Lynch's story and aesthetics are miserable and depraved, so it almost feels tone-deaf. The simple shooter action is blindsided by a callous story, one that drunkenly falls to a sad corpse of an ending that leaves an awful taste in your mouth. Its worth the few dollars spent, but the sequel is where this game's ideas work together. These games are painful, not forgettable.