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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 204 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Eidos EAN: 0788687500500 ESRB Age Rating: Mature Label: Eidos Interactive Manufacturer: Eidos Interactive Model: 15782781 Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 Publisher: Eidos Interactive Release Date: November 13, 2007 Sales Rank: 3100 Studio: Eidos Interactive
Features:
This is the violent and chaotic journey of two men - a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath. Each hates the other but must work together to save themselves. Play Kane in single-player mode and either character in two-player co-op mode.
Violence Erupts in Meticulously Created Safe Worlds: Realistic and responsive environments and crowds react when events get of out control. Manipulate the environments and crowds strategically to complete objectives.
Wide Variety of Intense 3rd Person Game Play: Rappel from buildings, firing on the run or from moving vehicles, launch surprise attacks, lay down cover fire, and shoot blind from around corners, hurl smoke, tear, and incendiary grenades
Fast and Iintuitive Combat: Lead a crew of criminal mercenaries to increase your chance of survival. You can also fight alone, you will automatically draw fire, throw grenades, lay down cover, and engage in close combat with their own signature moves.
Two-player Co-operative Game Play: Team up and play the full story with a friend as either Kane or Lynch. At any point in the game you can choose to play the next, or previous, levels in co-op. Innovative Multi-player Levels: Up to 8 players.
Product Description: After the tragic death of his son, Kane leaves his family and becomes a member of The 7 - an elite mercenary group. After years of being at the top of their game, a mission in Venezuela goes terribly wrong. Kane escapes with the loot as the only survivor, but is caught and sentenced to death. However, not all of The 7 did die. They want the loot back and they want to deliver the punishment due to a traitor - death to him and his family. Kane is busted out of the prison van and offered a deal by The 7 - he'll still be killed, but his wife and daughter will be spared if he returns the loot. Lynch, a medicated psychopath sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, is busted out of prison with Kane to be his watchdog and make sure he fulfils the deal. An experienced mercenary with everything to lose and an unpredictable psychopath with everything to gain, Kane and Lynch are thrown together in an intense, volatile alliance. No means are too harsh as they fight to save Kane's family and take revenge on The 7, hating each other every step of the way. A new breed of action in a brutal tale of loyalty, loss and revenge. Intense, hard-edged action gameplay. Explosive squad-based combat with intuitive squad control (optional). Co-op mode - play as both Kane and Lynch. Treacherous online multiplayer mode. Intensely high-quality graphics Incredible soundtrack from the composer behind the Hitman series ESRB Rated M for Mature
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - LAME
I bought this game after a salesmam tell me that it was great.
After a day of playing, I think this game is very lame.
First, if die, you have to watch the same cut-scene over and over again. There is no way you can skip it. My wife just ask me if I want to sell it. I'm having some thoughts about it. Probably so.
I wouldn't recomend this game at all.
Rating: - Gameplay and Graphics Lackluster
Kane and Lynch is a co-op based third person shooter. The game's dark storyline and interesting characters and character development add personality to an otherwise lackluster shooter.
The game can be thought of as a combination between a third-person shooter and a squad game. Playing the game involves a lot of use of cover and blind shooting, similar to Gears of War. You can aim more carefully, which zooms your view in (there's no first-person mode, though). However, the controls are kind of awkward as a whole; moving into cover is haphazard, as you'll only "take cover" by standing next to an object that can provide cover, and there's no visible indicators or buttons to press to actively try and take cover. Shooting is equally questionable; despite their highly visible bullet trails, none of the guns really feel that solid, and none are particularly accurate. Even when you're zoomed in, shooting is pretty much a random exercise where you spray as many bullets as you can at a target and hope you hit them. The bullet spread is really unrealistic and almost all the bullets go completely off course.
In most cases, there are only two characters, the titular Kane (the first player) and Lynch (the second player, or AI-controlled in single-player mode), but in some missions you will receive extra subordinates. Your subordinates are controlled with a simple "Attack/Move/Follow Me" command setup similar to many squad-based action shooters. However, they never seem to do much, really; sure, they're each an extra gun firing at your enemies, but their contributions never seem particularly significant. If one of your allies is downed, you must go to them and administer adrenaline before they die; if you yourself are downed, an ally will try to get over to you and administer adrenaline to you. However, the latter seemed to be about a 50/50 chance of them actually reaching you in time, so it really just seemed easier to load a checkpoint.
Multiplayer only has one mode, but it's at least fairly imaginative - all the players must try to escape from the (AI-controlled) police after a bank heist. It's not a simple matter of cooperating, as players can kill each other to take their victim's share of the money, but by doing so they become a juicier target themselves. The interaction between players and the combination of paranoia and necessary teamwork is at least a nice effort to separate the game from traditional deathmatches.
The graphics are okay, but not cutting edge. In cutscenes, they look okay, but once the game is actually going the motions and animations change from being reasonably natural to being awkward and jerky. The most annoying thing is the bullet trails mentioned earlier, which make the game feel silly and unrealistic and detract from the serious atmosphere that it's trying to promote. The sound is pretty good, but not noteworthy except for the voice acting, which is done well.
The best part of the game, hands down, is the characterization, the acting, and the plot. All of those are done well, and this game would make a great movie. Unfortunately, the gameplay and the graphics drag its actual value as a "game" down, and all-in-all it's not that fun to play.
6/10
Rating: - Kane & Lynch
i bought this for my younger bro, from what he said it's a real good game.
Rating: - FUN!!
I had a good time playing the game, I wish it was longer. It has awesome graphics and lots of things to do. It went beyond what I expected from previous reviews. 5 star for me
Rating: - It does not desserve 2 stars
The game is not 5 stars, but I put that to even out the other scores. The game itself is very fast paced, the environments are destructive and the graphics are okay. The story is the best part of this game so try to pay attention to it. Another cool feature is that you can play with somebody split screen and it would be a good way to play the whole story like that. The online mode is confusing at first( 4 to 8 robbers carrying a heist, but you can betray each other and respawn as an enemy), but later it becomes fun and interesting. I recommend this game to anybody who likes a criminal type game.
- LAME
- Gameplay and Graphics Lackluster
- Kane & Lynch
- FUN!!
