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| From: Eidos Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $13.99
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New (35) Used (7) from $13.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 2094
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 20041
Model: 15782781
UPC: 788687500500
EAN: 0788687500500
ASIN: B000UUATJ2
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Good gameplay, great scenarios, horrible story and transitions November 24, 2007
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
 Worst let-down ever! November 22, 2007
14 out of 20 found this review helpful
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.
 Dead Men Do Tell Tales November 22, 2007
30 out of 49 found this review helpful
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.
 Kane & Lynch: Dead Men November 21, 2007
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
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 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 November 16, 2007
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
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.
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