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| From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: £44.99
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Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 304
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: action-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: K&LXBOX360
EAN: 5021290029392
ASIN: B000NG70SG
Release Date: November 23, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: used will be sent out with in 24 to 48 hours
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Product Description
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a violent and chaotic journey of two supposedly dead men - a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath ? and their brutal attitude towards right and wrong. Kane and Lynch's volatile partnership combined with innovative technologies allows Kane & Lynch: Dead Man to be an unparalleled gaming experience.
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With the Hitman series already well established, Danish developer Io Interactive are not exactly masters of the family friendly game. This latest effort is their most violent and shocking yet, as you take control of reluctant mercenary Kane and his schizophrenic partner Lynch. Neither character likes the other but for the purposes of the story they have to work together in a series of violent third person shoot outs. By default you control Kane, with the computer or another player taking on the role of Lynch. As the game progress you will also be able to recruit a team of up to eight mercenaries, with your reputation determining the quality of the personnel applying for the job. Ordering your squad around is easy enough but since any of them, particularly Lynch, can have completely different objectives to you, they won't always take orders - particularly if they've taken a dislike to you already - which is a real problem when you want them to administer some first aid.Although it is much more action packed than the Hitman games, there are obviously similarities between the two games, with highly interactive environments and multiple ways to approach any problem. One particular highlight already demonstrated involves a kidnapping at a rave with Kane & Lynch firing into the air to disperse a large crowd of dancers before engaging in a brutal gun battle with security guards, as the sound and music system continues to flash and blare. If the rest of the game is just as inventive with its scenarios then Io may well keep Kane and Lynch alive for a little longer.
HARRISON DENT
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| Customer Reviews: Read 48 more reviews...
 Kane And Lynch all anti-hype people!!! July 9, 2008
JamesW92
K&L is a pretty good game, it starts with you escaping from a prison van in a pretty good tutorial type level. Many people seemed to put this down to be another gta spin off when it was being produced, but is atually an arcadey linear 3rd person action game. Even so, its pretty gd, the storyline is pretty good, and my only issue is where you suddenly go from the streets of japan, to a civil war in cuba, which takes up the last two or three levels. its not amazing, but its a good timewaster, and you will get hooked on some levels and want to play them over and over again, for example the level where you bust everyone outta prison!! the grahics arent awesome, but the way that if you shoot someone, they wont necessarily die staright awy, but will lie wounded on the floor, until you put a handy bullet in their head. :D
if your not sure, i dont reccomend the demo..its rubbish! :D
 Brilliant! Buy Buy Buy! July 8, 2008
A. Hayes (britain)
You want a TRUE opinion on this game? well here it is!
I had a lot of doubt about kane and lynch when i heard that it was created by the same people as hitman because lets face it, blood money sucked!this game has a great storyline to it and its just great thats pretty much all i can say well anyway just buy! buy! buy! great:D
Not for the casual gamer June 26, 2008
Fj Harrison
Since i first heard about it Kane and Lynch Dead Men had me in a 'buy now!' hold, and after reading some reviews, i wished it didn't.
But then, my commen sense caved in on me and i ordered it, and it is, quite simply, brilliant.
It vastly lacks novice status and is basicly a gift from IO to all hardcore gamers an shooter nuts, and alongside that a casual gamer SHOULD NOT pick this up, it needs brains, ou need to be able to delve deeper into the game than its skin, and you need to know how the hell to keep a an assult rifle steady when blind firing!
But of course, being a game from IO, it has it flaws, the cover system feels unfinished and in a big ruck weapons feel stupidly inaccurate, but the flaws are far far outweighted by its perfect story line, slick (dirty) diolouge, solid shooting and brilliant multiuplayer.
Its as close to perfect as a shooter can get.
good but hard June 15, 2008
Smholder
this game is very good but vey hard like on one mission 4 people had to take on wa whole army and i am stuck on one part wen i have to hunt theese to brothers down because they got my daughter but every time i move i get shot
Something different, and something special. May 25, 2008
Sam Anders (Scotland)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Kane & Lynch is a game which has more than it's fair share of serious detractors, scan the reviews on this page and you'll easily see that. But I urge you to read the positive reviews, as well as the negative ones, before deciding whether or not to buy this game. You may well hate this game, but you may well love it too. This is one of the most utterly unique, gripping, dark, adult, and memorable games I have ever played.
In this game you play as Kane, a balding, overweight, unfit mercenary who begins the game on death row writing a letter to his estranged teenage daughter. It's very unusual to have a central character in an action game who's this unlikable, in a genre filled with elite soldiers and heroic survivors it's both surprising and a welcome change to play a man as brutal, selfish and unpleasant as Kane. You're teammate and co-star is Lynch (a second player takes the role of Lynch in co-op play) a paranoid schizophrenic who helps break you out of the prison van on you're way to execution, thus starting the game-play as you battle you're way to freedom. Lynch isn't a nice guy either but you'll probably end up liking him a lot more than Kane, Lynch is flawed but unlike Kane he's more a victim of circumstance than someone who's an active force for evil in the world. These are not the good guys, Lynch might qualify for morally grey but it's hard to look at Kane as anything good by the end of the plot, and yet they are also completely compelling. The game's developers accurately compare Kane & Lynch to film characters like Scarface, you don't like them but you do care what happens to them and are compelled to follow their story to it's twisted, nihilistic conclusion.
Gameplay-wise this is a fairly solid third person shooter. Freedom Fighters' squad control scheme has basically been copied bit-for-bit into Kane & Lynch, which is no bad thing, giving a quick, simple and very useful series of commands which you can easily pick up in about a minute. You can hide behind cover, blindfire, shoot from the hip, precision aim, sprint (though not for very long since Kane is seriously out of shape) and do all the things TPS characters are expected to be able to do in the post-Gears of War market. The controls are well designed and as previously mentioned very easy to pick up, and you never find yourself having to go back to the manual in a tough spot.
The health system is a fairly standard regenerative set-up which allows you to take a very small number of hits before you have to get behind something heavy and automatically heal up. A nice touch is that when Kane goes down he doesn't die right away, if a teammate gets to him in time they will give him an emergency adrenaline injection that brings him back from the brink, Kane only dies when he's either too far away for his team to get to him or if he takes multiple injections in a short period and ODs. Whilst lying immobile waiting for help you're treated to a sound-bite of Kane's past as his life flashes before his eyes, this is a very clever (if occasionally disturbing) method of filling in Kane's back-story and you'll get put down enough times throughout the course of the game for you to hear all of the sound-bites.
The missions are largely well designed and feature a wide variety of locales and objectives ranging from bank robbery to kidnapping the owner of a Tokyo nightclub to fighting pitched battles in the streets of Havana. Some of these levels look utterly amazing, the nightclub level stands out in particular as does a level set in a rainy night-time construction yard. If you've ever wanted to play the bank-robbery shootout from Heat or the nightclub battle from Collateral then Kane & Lynch is definately worth checking out since both those films were clearly a major influence on several levels and those scenes in particular have been replicated as closely as it's possible to do so without infringing copyright.
The environments are very responsive and it's a lot of fun watching them tear apart in the midst of a firefight, as bullets shatter glass, blow chunks in concrete and send blood-stains flying onto walls with a stunning sense of impact and destruction which, particularly when considering the amoral motives for much of the killing in this game, can occasionally make you feel quite guilty for pulling the trigger. There are however quite a few bits of graphics in the game which look unpolished and last-gen which crop up too often, leaving you feeling that the developers were rushing the job on the graphics in places. I didn't find the graphical glitches overly distracting but I am aware others found it a major problem so it's worth taking into consideration.
Having completed Kane & Lynch I have to say it is one of the most unique games I have ever experienced. And maybe that's what this really is - an experience. If you play Kane & Lynch you will take part in a dark, violent, adult crime story which treats it's audience as intelligent and makes them fill in the blanks and read the subtext themselves, refusing to dumb itself down or explain everything in simple terms. It can be an unpleasant experience, as well as a thrilling and compelling one. When the credits role (no matter which of the two endings you choose) the world isn't a safer or better place then it was at the beginning and an awful lot of people are dead who shouldn't be; this is video game nihilism, and that makes it almost completely unique.
This game isn't for everyone, and that's fine (after all neither are Quentin Tarantino movies), and it's probably worth renting it or borrowing it from someone before you buy it just to make sure it suits your personal taste. But if you think you're point of view tends to line up with this game's fans rather than it's detractors (there's plenty of both on this or any other review page for you to sample) then I highly recommend you try it out because this game is something different, and something very special.
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