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Worst let-down ever!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 19
Date: November 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was really excited when I first heard about this game. It was made by the guys over at IOI (Hitman series), and they have never let me down . . . until now. The trailers and hype make it seem like this is a high-budget game, but the actual gameplay comes out incredibly short:
The sounds and environment are bland, so there is really no sense of urgency or intensity. The cutscenes are choppy and lackluster and they don't add to the "action-movie" style that this game could have achieved.
The graphics are incredibly poor for a game of its time. I shot a window, and it cracked. The next time I shot it, the entire window just disappeared. And this wasn't because of a glitch, the animation is just that underdeveloped. When I died, my teammates came up and their big blocky arms went through me when they adminsitered the adrenaline shot. This game really looks like an early PS2 game at best . . .
The gameplay is the most underdeveloed part of the game. Hit detection sucks, and even though it claims to have a cover-system, it also sucks. In fact, there is no cover button even. Walk up to a wall and jiggle the joystick around and hope that your character will eventually take cover. It really is annoying. Your character constantly pops in and out of cover whether you want him to or not.
Stay away from this game. I really wanted to like it, but I had to return it after about an hour and a half of play. With game prices as high as they are, you'd expect to have some half-decent quality delivered. Kane & Lynch fails. If you really have to play this game, rent it and you'll be happy you read this review.
This game had everything going for it: a quality developer, a quality storyline, and very capable next-gen systems to support it. However, laziness and greed on the developers' part totally ruined everything this game could have been.

Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 19
Date: December 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Best avoided. All the characters use the 'f' word in every sentence they speak which gives an indication of the 'talent' and 'creativity' involved in the conception of this game. The violence does not compensate for the basic graphics and poor story telling.

The lasting achievement of this game will be to further the cause of those who would like to see the banning of violence in videogames since it is such a pointless, lame and exploitative waste of everyone's time and money.

Disaster

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 17
Date: December 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Disaster Indeed, an unmitigated disaster. Please do yourself a favor and stay away from this one

Horrible AI

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 28
Date: December 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Please do not buy this product, you will be disappointed and out money.

The A.I. is the usual, around corners and the rest. Don't buy this product or any other Eidos product.

An Extremely Poor Effort From IO Interactive

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: December 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This most recent game from the makers of Hitman proves to be one of the more disappointing games I have experienced in recent years. The controls are horrible, the characters are unlikeable, the AI is abysmal, and the graphics look like a first generation PS2 game. Even more perplexing is that the game is based around coop between the two title characters yet the game doesn't feature any online coop.

Also be warned that the publisher of this game, Eidos, has recently recieved a lot of bad press for trying to bribe their way to higher review scores and even using outright bogus reviews to promote their game. Anyone who does not want to encourage such behaviour should not financially support this product.

In conclusion, stay as far away from this one as you can.

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.

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.

Kane & Lynch disappoints

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 16
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I probably should've stopped playing Call of Duty 4 when I played this game because I think it influenced my opinion (COD4 is amazing in every way). I was also pretty excited about this game since I started reading about it a few months ago, so I may have had elevated expectations for it.

I would love to experience the story, but poor controls and really terrible friendly AI prevent that. I wouldn't recommend it for gamers experienced in other FPS titles. If you have no comparison, I suppose its not so bad.

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: November 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was really excited for this game. This game reminded me of the big heist scene in "Heat." The game features two great characters and a good storyline.

However, two parts where the game falls flat are the graphics and the gameplay. The graphics are nothing like the graphics seen on the online media sites. It seems the developers used the Hitman: Blood Money engine, which is not that impressive since the Hitman:Blood Money engine was a last-gen engine used built on the PS2 and Xbox.

The controls and gameplay are bad. The aiming and hit detection are completely off. It feels like the guns are spraying bullets rather then hitting your targets. The character movement is also sluggish.

I think the levels and their design are varied. I think the concept of the game was very cool. It is just that the game was not executed well.

A lot of hype for a lot of nothing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: December 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overall, I am pretty disappointed with Kane & Lynch. Usually Eidos makes really great games, like Hitman, so I had high expectations for this title.

The graphics for this game are so-so and kinda of glitchy -- for example, your characters sometimes walk through walls or other people. The game controls are difficult and make it very hard to complete missions. Kane ends up being more of a dead-weight instead of a helpful teammate. The game doesn't seem to be very realistic. It sometimes takes 5-7 shots to an enemy's head before he dies. Another frustrating thing is that there aren't many save points within the game, so you end up having to start over from the beginning of the scene whenever you die.

Honestly, I think this game would be a whole lot better if the developers had taken more time to work out the kinks before releasing it. To me, it's not worth the $60 I spent. You're better off waiting a while and picking up a used copy.

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