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 Great game to play, 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.
5 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
Wish I hadn't purchased, 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.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
A little more?, 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!
6 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
 Don't Even Bother, 2007-12-24
Don't waste your money on this unless you enjoy replaying the same levels over and over and over and over again with no room for strategy nor FPS tactics in the most primitive sense.
Graphics are severely outdated by today's standards and the box says "coop" mode when what you get is the ability to play coop via a split screen on one pc???
This really irked me since I bought two copies of the game to play over our LAN. $100 bucks totally wasted for what amounts to a $12 game like maybe five years ago.
Eidos might have thought it slick to trick LAN users like us by FALSELY advertising COOP mode just to get you to buy multiple copies but guess what? NEVER EVER AGAIN EIDOS!
We buy an average of four to seven games a month and Eidos will never be any of them.
The other thing is the amount of gratuitous foul language used in this game for practically any line--after a while it feels like your surrounded by angry poor inner city kids cursing left and right at anything.
Don't be fooled people, just because it says Games for Windows with the Windows logo and all of that, it doesn't equate to a quality game at all.
AVOID THIS AT ALL COST EVEN IF YOU HAVE MONEY TO THROW AWAY--this is one of the worst titles for 2007!
16 of 21 customers found the following review helpful:
A Poor Game From Eidos!!?!, 2007-12-20
Kane & Lynch is outdated fare for pc-gamers with years of experience speeding or slogging or sneaking through generations of FPS games. As far as ports go, it's not the most disappointing I've ever played (WHY DIDN'T HALO INCLUDE CO-OP!!!). K&L attempts to bring squad-based combat to the seedy crime story shooter sub-genre of gaming. It does not succeed. Unfortunately for its publishers, it is probably the least competitive FPS on the PC game market today.
(I don't know how good it looks on an x-box or PS3, and I don't really care. This is a PC game review, so if you love playing this game on your console, please observe that I am only reviewing the PC port of this game.)
The first problem with K&L is the poor AI. The AI controller feels ancient after playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and Crysis. Opponents and teammates go straight to objective points (cover positions, good firing positions, or ordered destinations), without utilizing cover or providing covering fire. Also, your teammates sometimes, momentarily, stick on walls or cover while running past, which demonstrates, among other things, pathfinding problems in the AI.
The zoom/aim fire is severely outdated. Iron-sights have been an industry standard for years in the PC shooter market, and the fact that K&L uses an old mini-zoom with a crosshair change instead of well rendered iron sights significantly drops its comparative worth.
K&L's graphics appear last-gen or mediocre when compared to its competitors (Crysis, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl). Even with tweaking to max the graphics on my machine, the K&L graphics weren't as smooth or realistic as any of the other three games listed. This might be harsh, but playing K&L right after finishing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the graphics in K&L were like cartoons.
Speaking of tweaks, this game actually required them. I personally take it as a bad sign when a game has problems playing on default settings in a system with better than recommended specs. I do tweak my games and hardware settings for performance, sound, and graphics enhancement, but a game should run smoothly, if not maxed out, when loaded onto a computer with better than recommended specs. K&L doesn't do that. I had to tweak my settings just to get it to run smooth. The publishers just rushed too hard, and compatibility suffered. This is poor coding like I haven't seen since Max Payne, that gem of a game, showed us all what good, tight code could do for a game.
Scripting in K&L is much less than smooth. Enemies can spawn three feet in front of the player if one moves too quickly for the heavily scripted AI to keep up. For example, I took the left hand slope/path toward the docks from the church. Unfortunately, I moved to the exit too quickly for the game to register, so it spawned five enemies right on top of me. Poof, there they were. This should never happen. I haven't seen spawns this visible since the 90's. More than anything else, multiple bugs of this kind, throughout the game, demonstrate very, very poor scripting.
Squad controls are extremely limited. The game doesn't allow you to hotkey the squad command submenu orders or hotkey individuals in your squad. This might sound like nitpicking, but there have been some really good squad command control structures offered in squad based PC titles over the past five years, and the K&L team didn't use any of them. In the end, the squad based controls, especially when combined with poor AI pathfinding, where more frustrating than helpful. I ended up just beating the game using ancient run and gun tactics, and only using the squad commands when they were required.
Combat controls also suffer. The fire-from-cover feature is a cool addition to gaming, but please let us control our character. Titles in the Splinter Cell, Metal Gear, or Gears of War series allow you to key into and out of cover in their control systems. Having crates or walls GRAB you when you're trying to walk away from them is really annoying. So, in this area, K&L falls short of both old and new titles.
Finally, the game is way too short. Frankly, for fifty bucks, I expect twelve hours of straight through game-play at a minimum. I don't appreciate sitting down during the week to warm up for some serious weekend game-play, only to beat the game in under five hours. It was sad. Even with all of the frustrations, bugs, and annoyances, the game didn't take up more time than a DVD movie with a decent set of special features. This, more than anything else, makes me say that this game isn't worth more than $20-$25, which is about what you would pay for audio-visual entertainment lasting between 4 and 5 hours.
I cannot recommend Kane & Lynch: Dead Men for any attribute except a decent attempt at having a story line of sorts. It is surpassed by other new FPS games on the PC market in all aspects of game design, play, and visual effects. The best FPS games on the PC market are currently Crysis, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, BioShock, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. These are all great games in different ways. They all do some really new things, or revamp old stuff in new and extremely improved ways. So, if you have to have a really good FPS this year get one of them, and leave Kane & Lynch on the shelf.
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