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"Kane & Lynch - Dead BORED Men" is more like it.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

In all fairness, I really wanted to like this game. I gave it a fair shot and rented it out. After completing it, I've decided that Kane & Lynch had a lot of potential that got turned into a 16-level rehash of Michael Mann's bank robbery scene from the movie Heat.

The game description tells us:

"This is a violent and chaotic journey of two men - a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath. Each hates the other but must work together to save themselves. Play Kane in single-player mode and either character in two-player co-op mode."

The reality is: Yes, two men who hate each other are teamed up - but they should direct their hate towards the game control system. We can only change two buttons in the options screen, so if you don't like the layout of the controls, you've got to suck it up.
Passing a weapon to another character is not fluid - holding the R3 button and using the D-Pad to choose a weapon is simply not possible in a heated firefight.
In single-player mode, Kane shows up to the left of the screen, not centered, as one would expect. If you play as Lynch (which can only be done in co-op mode), he's on the right side of the screen.
It's usually standard for games to offer playability as either of the protagonists, but that wasn't done here.

The game description tells us:
"Violence Erupts in Meticulously Created Safe Worlds: Realistic and responsive environments and crowds react when events get of out control. Manipulate the environments and crowds strategically to complete objectives."

The reality is: Yes, if you fire a bullet in a crowded dance hall, the characters start screaming like an 8-year-old girl who saw Michael Jackson in 1983. However, the crowd movement is totally inaccurate. Everyone is able to make it outside but mysteriously, no patrons are trampled to death, as one would expect.
I don't know what it means to use the crowds to complete objectives, as the crowds in this game act like medicated sheep that don't react to much other than gunfire.

The game description tells us:

"Wide Variety of Intense 3rd Person Game Play: Rappel from buildings, firing on the run or from moving vehicles, launch surprise attacks, lay down cover fire, and shoot blind from around corners, hurl smoke, tear, and incendiary grenades."

The reality is: You can do all these things, and the variety of weapons is impressive. However, Lynch usually starts every level with the shotgun as his primary weapon. In a game where most of your adversaries are firing from afar with rifles, Lynch's shotgun is virtually useless. Sure, you can change the weapon out with a better one, but why is the crappy weapon always the default?
Also, the camera angles in single-player mode are agonizing. Since the camera has Kane left of center, if you're behind an object and try to do a close-up aim on Kane's enemies, you'll get a screen full of Kane's bald spot instead. It doesn't help that the targeting reticule is the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

The game description tells us:

"Fast and Intuitive Combat: Lead a crew of criminal mercenaries to increase your chance of survival. You can also fight alone, you will automatically draw fire, throw grenades, lay down cover, and engage in close combat with their own signature moves."

The reality is: The description doesn't mention that the criminal mercenaries have no survival instincts whatsoever. If you don't keep them on a tight leash, they'll walk right into a heated firefight and try to stop their enemies with a devious trick: jumping in front of the bullets they shoot.
You will typically do most of the work yourself, while the mercenaries pick off the leftovers. As far as signature moves, once you've seen Kane break someone's neck for the 79th time, it gets boring.

The game description tells us:

"Two-player Co-operative Game Play: Team up and play the full story with a friend as either Kane or Lynch. At any point in the game you can choose to play the next, or previous, levels in co-op. Innovative Multi-player Levels: Up to 8 players."

The reality is: I don't see what they mean by playing the full story in co-op mode - the only real difference between single player and co-op mode is seeing some events from Lynch's perspective, which we can already deduce from Kane's reactions in single player mode.
Playing previous levels or present levels is a standard feature, so there's nothing innovative here.
I haven't come across 8 players who want to tackle Kane & Lynch, let alone 8 people who want to play it at the same time.

Kane & Lynch is entertaining for a little bit, but the gameplay degenerates quickly into a repeating loop of showing a major gunfight - then another - then another - and then another. Excessive gunfights and generous heapings of cursing can't save this game. I wouldn't recommend Kane & Lynch for anything other than a rental.

Fairly good game for the PS3

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The best game for PS3? No. But it is a damn good game to play. I really enjoy games that follow this genre of story. I'm tired of every game that comes out where you have to kill an alien. They didn't fully utilize the power of the PS3 for graphics but overall they're pretty good graphics. The story is a little unbelieveable at times, especially the Lynch character, but the Lynch character does add some humor to the game. It is a very quick game though, had it beat in about 4 days, and I'm not that serious of a gamer. Controls are a little off but become manageable, but overall it's pretty fun.

Everyone Agrees With Everyone Else

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When it comes to most gamers, my title is dead on. Here's what joe shmo consumer should know: Some fat guy with a bad attitude used to work at a video game site (games spot) and he got fired. This game was his most famous review because he panned it. That's really about as interesting as this story goes but for some reason, since this was brought up (his panning the game in a video review as possibly being the reason he got fired) over and over again in the gaming press, if you'll call it that since most is just blogs, a lot of jerk off with a computer have rampantly targeted the game without playing it and basically smeared its reputation.

I'm sure they can come up with the same four canned reasons they read this game suffers from being a 10/perfect game. Honestly, it's leagues ahead of Halo 3, which is just more of the same and for an additional $60 a year you can play against these same hate spewing jerks on xbox live in multiplayer. Look, it's Kane and Lynch is a good game. The story is subversive and about 90% of it risky. Will you love it? Probably not. But will it be like everything else out there? No. Look, in a time where a lot of game developers are trying to mix social commentary, subversive plot lines, unlikeable characters, and different kinds of game play together because god forbid they had something different to say... people who like more of the same will disagree.

I'm not going to bash other games. Hell, I'll even take back my Halo game. Although, I'd like Bungie, the publisher, to make a really original title and stop making sequels. I will say, try it out. If you like Reservoir Dogs or the Pusher triology or Heat or Godfellas, then you know there's going to be very unsavory characters here. That's why the game is fun because you probably are not one of these guys and you probably wouldn't let one of these guys around your wife or kids. The graphics are actually wonderful because you're playing in crowded places with innocent people. Lots of them. The sound is great and the game feels more like a movie.

Pretty much, my advice is that if you are going through reviews online, and you see one or two that drastically disagree, use that as fuel to think twice. You would in normal life so it can spill over into online judgements, too.

Eidos - you fired "Jeff" and ruined "Gamespot"

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I hate you Eidos, and I will never forgive you. I will NEVER play this POS game, go die.

Here is whats right with Kane & Lynch

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First lets start with what is wrong. Yeah the game play is a little laggy, I personally hate the controls, and I thought the story play was totally unbelievable. One second your in a prison, then to a bank, then to amazon rain forest. Seriously?! The aiming is messy, and I found the zoom on most weapons to be sub-par. I also personally had trouble aiming while in cover, or getting into cover for the matter as well. But I do love this genre of game. So onward -
I played most of this game on the split screen co-op mode, on Aspirin setting. I found it a little hard in some parts.
But its not all bad, here is what I really liked about the game. First off, its violent, and the cursing is fine with me. But What I really liked which I found to be unique to this game was when you play on co-op Lynch and Kane sometimes have different missions to complete on story mode, they can't help each other, and if one dies the mission is over. I thought that was pretty unique and cool. I also like that the game has two endings, based on what Lynch picks. Sure, maybe the game was slightly a let down, OK fine I'll give you that. But at the same time, I still think it's a decent game.

Don't buy this game. Rent it... AT BEST!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Quite possibly ONE OF THE WORSE GAMES ever released for the playstation 3, considering the price point charged to its gamers. I gave this the benefit of the doubt, after reading many negative reviews. I should've listened. TRULY AWFUL GAME for a nextgen console, like the PS3.

Not as bad as everyone says

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you don't like crime movies with tons of swearing and blood, then you'll hate Kane and Lynch. Yes it's very violent and pretty much every other word that comes out of the character's mouths is the F-word, so if you're easily offended, stay away. Since I don't mind swearing or blood, I rented it and it wasn't AS bad as people said it was. It was still bad, though.

CONS-
poor shooting controls
bad cover system
aiming is a mess
swear words felt tacked on and unnecessary
many glitches
teammates are stupid and unresponsive

PROS-
good story
above-average graphics
good voice acting
interesting and somewhat likeable characters
gritty atmosphere and environments
makes you feel like you're in a crime movie

Kane&Lynch ???

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is crazy tight! If you ever seen the movie "Heat" with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer that is how it plays out.

I think these poor reviews are being written by parents due to how violent this game is. In short, you must kill everybody who gets in your way to achieve your objective. Civilians, cops, guards ect...

This is not a game for little kids! The controls are a bit akward and take a little time to get use to but once you got it down the gaming experience is much more enjoyable. This game is challenging and may cause the younger crowd to become very frustrated while trying to get through the levels.

Hide seek and shoot is nearly non existent. You must be a quick thinker, master the controls and issue out commands to stay alive! Anything less equals failure. Probably another reason for all these poor reviews!

Download the demo from the PS3 network or rent it first just in case you are not into this type of game. The poor reviews will probably cause a price drop soon which is better for everybody who is into this type of game.

OVERRATED...had potential but, didn't live up to the hype.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big fan of this genre of games, but this game COULD be so much better. The gameplay is TOO SLOW...comparing it other games like this. I bought it right whne it was released because, I saw a quick view of it on a website...I wish I waited. It's playable...I completed the game fairly fast, but I haven't even played it since. Not a game you would enjy playing multiple times.

GREAT GAME!! But silly ending

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The graphics, game play and plot of this game is amazing. It is one of the funnest shoot em up games I have played. The only part I hate is the ending. Kanes a traitor!!

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