Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $9.99

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.

Customer Reviews:

A little more? [Posted on 2007-12-29]
I had a blast anticipating this game and going along with all the hyped in the media. Although this excitement ended after the final scene in the game.

My expectations for the game were far too great for what is at hand. Don't get me wrong, the parts where you get to mow down scores of baddies in one mission is quite thrilling. Though there is no re-playability to the game as a whole! I played the game through in 6 hours, looking under every rock, tree, room, building, etc., and there's nothing for me to go back to. It's like a B movie, maybe if they have additions to this game in the future, you can see this game as a piece in the puzzle. Though for now, it is just piece #1 in a thousand.

The repetitive death audio clips can annoy you after you die 50 times because you cannot locate the baddie in time for his sniper bullet. Controls are designed for a console controller. In this game I was expecting at least a few bosses to fight against, but all in all there were none except for the ending. :/

The PLUS side to this game is that it does have a few exciting moments and the banter between Kane and Lynch is quite humorous. Also the group controlling is fun, but has been done better elsewhere. If they would have added a few more scenes and actually ended the game's storyline better, I would give it a higher score.

That's my motto for this game is: buy it, beat it, sell it. Cheers!

Wish I hadn't purchased [Posted on 2008-01-12]
I purchased this game because of the connection with the Hitman series which was enjoyable. I wish I hadn't wasted the money. It's buggy and the inability to skip past cut scenes after death gets really frustrating. The story is alright and somewhat entertaining but there are many other titles which are much better, while not 3rd person shooters I'd check out Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, Crysis, the Witcher, The Orange Box (team fortress 2, and portal), etc.

Great game to play [Posted on 2008-04-06]
I bought this game las month and is one of the games that are very fun, I installed this game and had a lot of fun with it; however, the installtion of this game is good, but the game chrashes sometime and have e-mailed the support team at Eidos, but haven't recieved a response. There phone support is not very good, because you would have leave a message and you get a phone call back within 24Hours. I think that Eidos has created the game very nice and fun to play, but if you have Windows Vista or Windows XP it could crash at some point. I am not saying that I would recommend this game, but would just wanted let other people know that it can chrash at sometime, and would have to contact support. Finally, I whish that Eidos made the game more stable to Windows Vista or Windows XP.

Highly underrated [Posted on 2008-04-12]
The only reason everyone is tearing this game a new one is because of the one Gamespot guy that got fired for giving this a bad review. Being a Michael Mann fan, I am the exact demographic this game was aimed at. The game consists of a bank heist similar to the movie "Heat" and a nightclub shootout similar to "Collateral". I don't know what everyone else is whining about with the game not working on their machines. It ran perfect on my rig at max quality. I've never been impressed with any of Eidos' other franchises other than Deus Ex and Timesplitters, but I would have to say this one would take 3rd place (shut up Tomb Raider fanboys, the controls in those games SUCK).

I'll give the reviewers credit that the graphics ARE dated, the AI DOES suck, and the cover system IS a train wreck, and you SHOULD buy this game at less than full retail price (otherwise yeah you are being robbed). Maybe Eidos could fix up the AI and the cover system and release a patch. It definitely would make the game more enjoyable.

If you're a casual gamer looking for something different from the "let's save the world" song and dance and/or a big Michael Mann fan like me, give this game a shot. Don't buy it at the full MSRP of $40-50 but don't pass it up either. You get to be BAD GUYS for crying out loud!

I will step out and complain that I think it's a ripoff to have to pay for an Xbox Live membership to even play multiplayer so unless I cough up $9.99 a month for a live membership for the only MS Live game I own, I'll never play the fun multiplayer.

Waste of Money (PC Version) [Posted on 2008-05-10]
I am disappointed with the loss of my $29.99. Its hard to beleive that games are still made like this "They sold me a brick wrapped in shrinkwrap". The game is so buggy and not a patch in sight.

Do not Purchase this game!! You will be so dissapointed.

EIDOS says that it can't get every computer configuration to work. But what about when one can play Half-life, Call of Duty 4, Battlefield 2 & 2142.

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