This bloody, ultraviolent, profanity-riddled affair offers an uncomfortable view of ugly men who have lost their humanity. The single-player story gets nastier by the chapter as Adam “Kane” Marcus delivers his brand of psychopathic hurt, including execution-style kills, shotgun blasts, grenade launching, tossing and exploding gas cans at enemies, and frequent neck-snapping of unaware foes.Ī selection of cooperative modes includes teaming up as Kane and Lynch for the solo campaign and Fragile Alliance and its multiplayer variations.Īt Fragile’s most complex, teams have four minutes to steal 4 million bucks and survive the cops and each other’s backstabbing. Presented in a down-and-dirty documentary style complete with shaky hand-held camera work, the action is too real (the most graphic on-screen moments are tiled out) and it takes a little getting used to. Once the wow factor of the graphics engine wears off, the repetitive gameplay isnt enough to hold interest, and it soon becomes dull. The game also intentionally censors some of its extreme violence and nudity through pixelization. You shoot bad guys and run to the next cover point, and nothing more. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is a 2010 third-person shooter video game developed by IO Interactive, published by Square Enix’s European subsidiary for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. There just isnt much to Kane and Lynch 2. Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days, (Eidos Interactive, Xbox 360, rated M for mature, $59.99) Two reprehensible and morally bankrupt bums return to wreak vengeance upon Shanghai’s filthy and corrupt underworld in this ugly third-person shooter. With the good stuff out of the way, now comes the bad. The animation, with its cutting homage to Jack Kirby and the sweeping absurdity of Samurai Jack, is wonderful and should extend from the video game, acting as a blueprint for those studios (that will remain nameless) that keep trying to make PG-13-rated comic book cartoons that end up all looking the same.
Added to the levels of action is some occasionally tricky platforming, and an unlockable local cooperative mode (Shank is joined by a former partner equally adept at killing) that reveals the origins of the hero.
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