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: #302 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Eidos
• Released on: 2007-11-23
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platform: Xbox 360

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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

Kane And Lynch all anti-hype people!!!
K&L is a pretty good game, it starts with you escaping from a prison van in a pretty good tutorial type level. Many people seemed to put this down to be another gta spin off when it was being produced, but is atually an arcadey linear 3rd person action game. Even so, its pretty gd, the storyline is pretty good, and my only issue is where you suddenly go from the streets of japan, to a civil war in cuba, which takes up the last two or three levels. its not amazing, but its a good timewaster, and you will get hooked on some levels and want to play them over and over again, for example the level where you bust everyone outta prison!! the grahics arent awesome, but the way that if you shoot someone, they wont necessarily die staright awy, but will lie wounded on the floor, until you put a handy bullet in their head. :D

if your not sure, i dont reccomend the demo..its rubbish! :D

Brilliant! Buy Buy Buy!
You want a TRUE opinion on this game? well here it is!

I had a lot of doubt about kane and lynch when i heard that it was created by the same people as hitman because lets face it, blood money sucked!this game has a great storyline to it and its just great thats pretty much all i can say well anyway just buy! buy! buy! great:D

Not for the casual gamer
Since i first heard about it Kane and Lynch Dead Men had me in a 'buy now!' hold, and after reading some reviews, i wished it didn't.
But then, my commen sense caved in on me and i ordered it, and it is, quite simply, brilliant.
It vastly lacks novice status and is basicly a gift from IO to all hardcore gamers an shooter nuts, and alongside that a casual gamer SHOULD NOT pick this up, it needs brains, ou need to be able to delve deeper into the game than its skin, and you need to know how the hell to keep a an assult rifle steady when blind firing!
But of course, being a game from IO, it has it flaws, the cover system feels unfinished and in a big ruck weapons feel stupidly inaccurate, but the flaws are far far outweighted by its perfect story line, slick (dirty) diolouge, solid shooting and brilliant multiuplayer.
Its as close to perfect as a shooter can get.