Comments on: Grimacing: Kane & Lynch 2

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:42:14 +0000

Agreed on that front. He was no Shaun Elliot or Jeff Green.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:50:59 +0000

I think ultimately it failed because gamers don’t seem to like being the sort of anti-hero portrayed in K&L.

You’ve never heard of GTA then? Or even Gears of War? Everyone in that is utterly repulsive, and actually far less likeable than Kane.

Really though, I don’t think it’s that at all. It failed because it was simply a pretty poor game, and got infamously panned in the press.

By: hoff

hoff — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:33:51 +0000

What an exciting™ announcement!

By: Malibu Stacey

Malibu Stacey — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:16:02 +0000

Yes because better graphics = better games right?

By: poop

poop — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:11:47 +0000

has anyone seen this german clip that is supposedly viral marketing for the game? http://gameone.de/playtube/2-nackte-maenner-hauen-einen-hund/581257

if there actually is a sequence in the game where you have to escape attacks while completely naked it will be one of those non events people love to talk about like the airport in MW2 :D

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:47:55 +0000

I loved the ending to Freedom Fighters.

Everyone: “Hooray, we won! We saved the city!”
Love interest: “Hooray!”
Main character: “Yeah. One city. Thinking about it now, this is all a bit of a futile waste of time, isn’t it?”
Love interest: “…..”
Main character: “Oh well, fancy a snog?”

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:24:31 +0000

I loved the titular character, BTW. It was like the old Road To * movies meets Guy Ritchie.

By: jRides

jRides — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:16:45 +0000

At least it’s guaranteed a 10.0 rating from Gamespot, should help with the Metacric score. :)

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:07:40 +0000

Hyperbole™

By: l1ddl3monkey

l1ddl3monkey — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:41:24 +0000

I kind of liked the first one, up to the Venezuela level (although the later assault on the bad guys house level was ok). It had some good ideas (admittedly all stolen from Michael Mann films) and some of the levels were great.

The combat was very shoddy for a shooter and about 90% of the complaints I’ve seen about it are actually about (drum-roll) Games for Windows Live which had all sorts of K&L specific glitches including one that meant you could only play the game through once after which it would permanently lock you out.

I think ultimately it failed because gamers don’t seem to like being the sort of anti-hero portrayed in K&L. They’d rather be some sort of future soldier with bowling ball sized arm muscles who makes wisecracks while massacring armies of repetitively faceless carbon copy bad guys and who suffer absolutely no negative consequences for their actions at all.

A revenge crazed ex-con/mercenary with a schizophrenic wife murdering sidekick probably doesn’t feature highly on many gamers lists of “characters I’d like to play”.

By: weegosan

weegosan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:10:16 +0000

Have they photoshopped john malkovich’s mouth onto john goodmans face to make the guy on the right?

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:17:17 +0000

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/11/18/grimacing-kane-lynch-2/comment-page-1/#comment-359565