Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (Xbox 360, 2007)

Gameplay: 7.0
As a single-player experience, the game doesn’t seem to have the right feel to make it worth going through solo. The shootouts and interesting scenarios are best played cooperatively with a friend and with enough guns the action does get delightfully intense. It’s just too bad the ride is just way too short.

Graphics: 6.5
The game’s dated graphics can be a bit disappointing to gamers expecting this game to take advantage of the Xbox 360’s graphics capabilities but there are moments when the game does look good and certain backgrounds do stand out. Still, gamers won’t be able to feel as though the character models could have looked better than what is featured here.

Sound: 8.5
Both Kane and Lynch sound the way you would expect two hardened and psychotic individuals to sound and the rest of the cast do a good job as well. There is a good soundtrack here but I do wish the sound effects were handled better.

Difficulty: Medium
The enemies you will encounter range from smart to really dumb and there are moments when you will be overwhelmed by the number of enemies on screen. There are some interesting challenges scattered throughout the game and enemy snipers do a great job of trying to force you out of your hiding place.

Concept: 7.0
Both Kane and Lynch aren’t very interesting characters but their plight will not fail to entertain. There are some good scenarios here and a deeply involving online and offline multiplayer mode that will be the reason you will still be playing the game.

Multiplayer: 8.5
This game was certainly made for cooperative play so you will want to grab a friend and tackle the main story mode together. Sadly, co-op is restricted to offline play but the game makes up for this unfortunate blunder by making the Fragile Alliance online multiplayer mode loads of fun.

Overall: 7.0
Despite a few unforgettably stand-out moments and a deeply enjoyable multiplayer mode, Kane & Lynch is a crime caper that is not as great as it could have been on the Xbox 360. While the fast-paced and action-packed chapters have their share of spectacular moments, the game is held back by characters we do not really care about and dated gameplay that just doesn’t feel like a next-generation game.

What can I say about the highly anticipated Kane and Lynch? A few words come to mind pile of Elephant Dung about sums it up. I was looking forward to this game but after seeing it get bad reviews I decided to rent it before buy and thank god I did. Listed are the good and bad of Kane and Lynch (mostly bad)

The Good

The front cover is pretty cool

The trailers are good

There are two somewhat fun levels

Fragile alliance online multiplayer is a good idea. (You can betray teammates during a mission and get away with more points.)



The Bad

Broken game mechanics.

Impossible to aim weapons.

Sub-par graphics.

Shallow Characters.

TONS of glitches.

Extremely frustrating even on easy difficulty

Storyline sounds interesting but is boring during the game.

You only rob one bank despite what the commercials say.

No online Co-op

In Fragile alliance online multiplayer, enemies respawn in the same place every single time.

The members of your crew always get killed making you have to spend more time healing them then actually playing the game. If you dont you lose and have to restart the scene.


Overall if the game makers had put half the time and money they spent on advertising into the actual game it may have been decent. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME YOU WILL REGRET IT. Rent it first at least I know I'm glad I did.

Kane & Lynch, What more could be said than you already know?

The game revolves around 2 filty mouthed thugs hell bent on revenge.

Within the game you encounter a lot of really thrilling parts while bank robbing, and doing other dirty deeds.

Kane & Lynch was highly anticipated and therefore looked over very well for flaws. People exploit the game for what it should have been more than what it is. You should never allow yourself to believe anything said about a game before you actually see it for yourself.

I've played it and enjoy it. The reviews of people saying it has control issues. The Dialog is bland, and repetative, too much cursing. Well what do you expect? These are 2 horrible guys, they're broke out of prison, they kill cops, they rob banks. Do you expect them to talk like the monopoly guy?. The controlling issues I find to be a player problem only. I had no problem getting my men into cover and assigning my other teammates posistions and orders. The AI is questionative. Sometimes its really good, sometimes its really bad. I don't think its purposely made this way, it's just a glitch, if you find a parts to easy just do it again. I mean how many people remember Gears of War and all their glitches. It was still game of the year, and STILL has glitches a year later. Lay asside the fact the game wasnt packed with everything to be thought it would be. Try the game and trial it as it is. Not for what it isnt. Kane & Lynch has great missions, awesome multiplayer. And you get a chance to do things you'd go to jail for otherwise. Despite the fact you can do this also with games like, GTA, Saints Row, Crackdown. Kane & Lynch focuses more in depth and allows the players to be more involved in the dirty deeds at hand. I would recommened this game to anyone who liked the movie Heat. Its the closest thing you'll get to a hold up. Without actually doing it.

My thoughts: I give this game a 4/5, although its not perfect. It's not a horrible game either. Try it out for yourself. Because reviews can sometimes be decieving. :)

This would make a great XBOX title but looks kind of dated for a 360 title. This game reminds me of 360 Fear Files, the sequel to Fear. The graphics are ...alright, okay. Animation is acceptable, voice work is alright, game characters are a little hooky. Storyline is okay.

Lately I've been focusing on positive thoughts and ignoring negative thinking..
Sooo....when I played this game, I imagined it was ported from a XBOX title to the 360, when I thought that, the game didnt disappoint. If I imagined it as a pure 360 release I would have been very saddened.

Targeting is a little wonky now and then, playing it on the high level of Morphine wasnt too bad, for some odd reason when I played it the enemy hid in front of barriers so I could easily shoot them down. For me the playthrough was pretty easy and I like easy even when the game was set on the hardest "morphine" difficulty. I like to win when I play games and so this title provided that very well.

Multiplayer is alright, pretty fun for a little bit .. I dont know.. maybe it should be called a "free for all" killing spree..
I heard the makers of Hitman made this game too, some things are okay and some are broken, or at least not working the way its suppose to. Average game, buy it cheap if you can.

How this game recieves any priase at all baffles me; Kane & Lynch is a remarkably poor game with controls and important gameplay features that are obviously all kinds of broken and buggy. Major features like hiding behind cover so you don't get shot and killed are designed in such a lousy way, you're lucky if you can get it to work. Even if it does work, there's still a 50+% chance you'll still get shot. Commanding your partner/squad is another major game feature, but the controls are poorly thought out and the AI is stupid and unhelpful usually getting killed when told to do something. There's just a laundry list of things that Kane and Lynch: Dead Men does wrong that basically makes it leprocy and HIV/AIDS on disc. It really is terrible. The quality is so poor, its scary. Bad enough that Kane and Lynch is easily the worst of its genre. There are other games out there that do the exact same thing so much better.