Product Description

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a violent and chaotic journey of two supposedly dead men - a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath ? and their brutal attitude towards right and wrong. Kane and Lynch's volatile partnership combined with innovative technologies allows Kane & Lynch: Dead Man to be an unparalleled gaming experience.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2102 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Eidos
• Released on: 2007-11-23
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

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With the Hitman series already well established, Danish developer Io Interactive are not exactly masters of the family friendly game. This latest effort is their most violent and shocking yet, as you take control of reluctant mercenary Kane and his schizophrenic partner Lynch. Neither character likes the other but for the purposes of the story they have to work together in a series of violent third person shoot outs. By default you control Kane, with the computer or another player taking on the role of Lynch. As the game progress you will also be able to recruit a team of up to eight mercenaries, with your reputation determining the quality of the personnel applying for the job. Ordering your squad around is easy enough but since any of them, particularly Lynch, can have completely different objectives to you, they won’t always take orders – particularly if they’ve taken a dislike to you already - which is a real problem when you want them to administer some first aid.

Although it is much more action packed than the Hitman games, there are obviously similarities between the two games, with highly interactive environments and multiple ways to approach any problem. One particular highlight already demonstrated involves a kidnapping at a rave with Kane & Lynch firing into the air to disperse a large crowd of dancers before engaging in a brutal gun battle with security guards, as the sound and music system continues to flash and blare. If the rest of the game is just as inventive with its scenarios then Io may well keep Kane and Lynch alive for a little longer.
HARRISON DENT

Manufacturer's Description
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men follows the violent and chaotic journey of two men - a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath â€" and their brutal attitude towards right and wrong. This volatile partnership combined with innovative technologies allow for an unparalleled gaming experience.

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men will immerse players into an emotionally intense crime drama with unflinching action. Proprietary technology will deliver fluid high definition graphics and lighting, highly destructible environments, massive crowd AI, single, cooperative and squad-based combat, a cinematic interface, and non-stop dialog between Kane and Lynch. The title also features innovative two-player cooperative and groundbreaking online game play.

Customer Reviews

Don't believe the hype...
From the makers of Hitman; inspired by some of the greatest crime movies around - think Michael Mann / Tarantino / Scorsese; great trailers and very favourable previews in gaming press...

All of these aspects add to the utter disappointment experienced when the disc slots into the console. The opening levels are dull - unimaginative settings, poor graphics, rubbish artificial intelligence (read: no intelligence) and no emotions at all evoked from the awful scripting and voice-acting of the two lead characters. I've never felt so hemmed in by invisible walls, with the only distraction from the onset of claustrophobia being the constant bugs that plague the game. The cover system is similar to that used in many other games - Rainbow Six Vegas, Splinter Cell etc - but despite having these excellent examples to work from the developers have still managed to implement it with the kind of incompetence that would usually be reserved for "junior officials" at Her Majesty's Revenue And Customs.

The only film that the game does manage to do justice to is in fact, Die Hard II. Specifically the scene where Bruce Willis' wrong-place/wrong-time LA cop is chasing down William Sadler's gang of snowmobile-riding terrorists. Brucey bags one of their weapons and trains the sight on his target, only to hit nothing but air. They're firing blanks! Which is exactly what happens regularly in Kane & Lynch.

Admittedly I haven't attempted the game in co-op mode or multiplayer, so you'll have to rely on the wise words of another reviewer for those aspects... but unless the developers treated the single player mode like a mock-GCSE exam - starting and finishing it overnight before the big (I almost typed "bug" there... would that really have been classified as a typo?) day - then I would be nothing short of astounded.

One last thing to mention is that the squad command system is lifted almost exactly from IO's ace and highly underrated Freedom Fighters... but alas the implementation is on a par with the other faults of the game.

Do yourself a favour and pick up Hitman: Blood Money, Freedom Fighters, Michael Mann's 'Heat' on DVD, and for a truly magnificent next-gen shooter experience - Call Of Duty 4.

SHOCKINGLY RUBBISH!!
Wow...

I have been waiting for this game for over a year...after the great Hitman Blood money my expectations of this game were reasonably high...

As soon as you play this game you will be dissapointed.

1. The graphics are very PS2... very blocky, minimal detail.
2. The gameplay is frustrating, aiming and covering at the same time is very difficult...
3. Makes no sense.. some parts of the game have you running out of ammo (while your partner seems to have an unlimited amount of ammo to give to you...whats the point?!) and other levels (back of the van) you have unlimtited bullets!!
I was suprised to see one level which is IDENTICAL to a mission in Driv3r on the PS2 (where you sit in the back of the van and shoot / blow up the chasing poice cars...this was done better by Driv3r over 5 years ago!)
4/ AI is stupid at best... swat team will ignore you totally and run past you to there specific spot to shoot.. no matter even if your behind them!!

there are loads of bugs and glitches through out.. you will constantly press L3 to see where you should be supposed to be going..

Its looks worse then Hitman Blood Money.. and this game could have easily been made on last generations console...

I havent played the 360 version so cant compare but if its anything like this....

AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!! you have been warned....

better than imagined
At first when I got this game free with my PS3 I thought I'd be really dissapointed, going off the majority of the reviews but I was surprised. The campaign is fun to play, especially in co-op and there is always exciting action. The graphics aren't shabby either, just not detailed. But the thing I love is the online play. Betraying someone has never been so much fun! It is extremely exciting with 4 different game types to go at. Overall, this is great fun and should have you keep going back to it. No way as bad as some people say.
Graphics: 7/10
Sound:7/10
gameplay:7/10
online:8/10
lifespan:8/10