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Dead Men Do Tell Tales

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 23 / 42
Date: November 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Let me just say the following, Kane & Lynch Dead Men is a fun game. I don't care what your preconceived expectations are or were, when you play the game (especially with a friend in co-op mode) you will have fun. Your weapons sound and react differently from one model to the next and the reason the bullets don't group into a perfect shots every time is because like real bullets when fired from a semi-automatic or automatic weapon, they physically don't do that. One reason why I preferred the pistol as a weapon of choice was its accuracy is greatly improved (much like the reality of a human shooting a pistol over a machine gun). There is a sense of pressure on some levels and not so much on others allowing for a fairly realistic sense of necessity and opportunity, if you play smart the game responds accordingly. Like any FPS, there is a reality that there will be a repetitive flow after awhile, but the game has an interesting plot, some very cool locations to battle through (the club scene is particularly crazy) and again, a stress on realism in terms of behaviors and weapons. I'm not a believer in a perfect game, I have a PS3 & and XBOX 360 and I have yet to experience the perfect FPS (Halo 3 is not the god game it is built up to be, but it is great). The only negative I experienced in this game was the ridiculous use of profanity. I am not a prude nor am I one to shy away from a gratuitous term, but it seems as though the game being rated mature meant that the characters say f*Y&% about every other word and its just corny. They need a better script writer and they need one yesterday. Being rated Mature doesn't mean I need my characters to leap out of Goodfellas or Scarface. Let my character sound like a human being and not a 13 year-old's stereotype of a criminal. I thought the graphics were good and I have a big HD TV. Again, I don't know what people expect in terms of graphics, its a game, not real life. The colors were clean and details were nice. I have yet to play the online multiplayer simply because I just got the game on Monday and finished it on Wednesday night. I believe we clocked in around 12 hours of game play on the hardest difficulty setting. If you want a smart and creative game that really does play like scenes from the movie HEAT (and it really does) hen I recommend this game easily. If you are expecting perfection then look elsewhere. I am giving the game 5 stars because an 2 star average by other reviewers isn't fair, especially when matched against their comments. I'd normally give a 4 star rating. Take that as you will and happy hunting.

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.

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.

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.

Good gameplay, great scenarios, horrible story and transitions

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: November 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game looking for a satisfying co-op experience with my friends (and in this case, my brothers), but it fell short, and most of our time was spent mocking it instead. The actual gameplay was thoroughly enjoyable once we got familiar with the controls and knew what to expect, but other issues constantly broke our immersion in the game. Surprisingly though, the problems covered by most of the other reviews were no problems at all with us here. Graphics lacked polish and looked lower-budget, but not only did they satisfy my brothers and I-- we liked them and the feel they gave. Guns have some spray to them, and it's such a pain to lean against (some) walls for cover that it isn't worth the effort to try, but these issues are easily compensated with either skill or creativity.

The only real issue we walked away from this game with was the story. The story that I was sold (and the reason why I bought the game) was that Kane and Lynch are two good-as-dead men who have no choice but to rely on each other to survive after they escape a prison fate. The story of the game winds up entirely focused on Kane's daughter, and has you do some ridiculously complicated things (story-wise, not difficulty-wise) for what seem like silly reasons. Don't get me wrong, you do some sweet stuff. You escape police, you rob a bank, you bust back into and back out of prison, you invade Cuba, you rush a jungle hideout Bond-style, and you get to shoot down planes and helicopters. All these things are really fun, but I never felt like there was a valid reason for doing any of them. I essentially abandoned the story line altogether and just tried to enjoy the new locations and outfits we got to kill in.

The main issue my brother had with the game was a lack of stats/a score. We finished the game (co-op all the way, took three days casual playing) and the first thing he did was search the game menus for some type of tracking system to see how he and I compared in terms of how well we both did. There isn't any such system, which really robs the game of its replay value and meaning in general.

I am happy that I had a chance to play this game through and experience some delightful scenarios (for example, a shootout in a night club with a panicked mob running in all directions and bad guys seeded throughout, wading our way to come take care of bidness), but it's not something I would pay full retail price for. I'll be keeping it for awhile just because I have no other multiplayer ps3 games to offer my real life friends, but aside from that: This game is a rental, through and through.

P.S.: on the multiplayer note... there is online play and there is LAN play, but split-screen is not supported here. The only place two people can play together split-screen in this game is the Campaign; LAN requires multiple playstations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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