Kane & Lynch: Dead Men has some issue's, but at a bargin price right now it's worth getting.
Dead Men
Publisher: Eidos Interactive Montreal
Developer: lo-Interactive
Platform: Xbox 360
Rated: Mature
Released: November 13, 2007
Visuals:
The visuals for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men are decent to look but are a little dated as well and I do realize that this game came out in 2007 and that is where I'll just leave it at that and talk about the detail's to the some of the great local's you go to and the detail to Kane & Lynch and some of the other non-playable-character's. So I'll start with the detail to the character model's and I personally thought the detail to the main character's Kane & Lynch were quite great to look at really well done from Kane's burnt scare's on the one side of is face and the detail of lack of facial hair because of that nasty scare on is face and the detail to Lynch's face also in great detail and the the detail to all the main non-playable-character's were all in great detail as well. Now the detail to all the local's and environment's are pretty nice to look at even though this game is 4-5 years old and the detail to such local's from the city streets to the Jungle in I think was in Cuba but it might have been in a country in South America I can't quite remember, but still they environment's were nice to look at and was not that bad from the creator's of the Hitman series. So in short the visuals for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men are a bit dated but still nice to look at and is not that bad on the eyes.
Audio:
The audio for Kane & Lynch is quite great from the voice acting to the musical score and the sounds of the weapon's it was all nice to hear. So I'll start with the sound's of the weapons which are not all that bad and they sound pretty good and most of the weapon's sounded great from the most of the pistol's and the shotgun's sound good and even some of the machine gun's and even the RPG's sounded great. The musical score/ sound-track sounded pretty good and went with the mood in some of the level's and even helped set up the action and suspenseful moment's it was simply good. Now the voice work for this game was just great and the voice acting for the Character's of Kane & Lynch were just amazing and so were the supporting (NPC) cast they were all great. So in short on the audio for this game and I'll just point this out right here and now this is probably the best thing about this game and in fact the audio was just simply great.
Gameplay:
Single-player:
Now the gameplay for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is good but not that great and in fact it can be fun at time's and frustrating at time's because of some minor and major problem's with game. Here is one of the major problem's that was with this game and that was the cover system did not work that well and even when their were some moment's in this game where you would have to do some stealth movement well that did not work out to well because the A.I could spot you no matter how dark the spot was or even how good the cover was either the A.I just knew you were their. the minor problem's was with the portion of the game where you had a little squad based style or I think so well work most of the time and other time it struggled. The story for this actually quite good and was the best part of the gameplay and you play as Kane and you get busted out of a prison convoy that was sending you and Lynch to death-row and then you get broken out by a group called the Seven which get's explained to you shortly after the break out and the group Seven is a mercenary group that Kane use to work with before he was put in jail and they tell Kane that he owe's them a lot and they put Lynch with Kane to make sure he get's back what he took from the Seven and their is a part later in the which was one of those what hell moments and might throw you off a bit, but I do not want to tell to much more of the story. So in short on the single-player for this game is the story is great, but their is some of the mechanic's were a problem and sometime's frustrating and so it was just plain good.
Multiplayer:
The on-line for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is quite fun, but the community is not that big it's not dead either but it's still fun non-the-less. Their is only one mode and it is called Fragile Alliance and it has a limited number of maps, but their is some down-loadable-content which is free to down load and the game mode put's up to 8-player's on the same team and you and your team can work together on stealing all the loot or you can turn on your team and and keep the loot for you self weather it's money, cocaine, art and what other loot they game has you to steal depending on the map you and the other player's are one. So in short the on-line for this game is fun and might not keep interested for long but it is still fun.
Overall:
The overall point for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is visually nice and easy on the eye's, but the visuals are a bit dated. The audio for this game is just great from the sound of all the guns, the sound-track and the voice work is also just plain amazing. The gameplay of the single player is a little shotty and as some issues, but the story is great with all the twists and turns. The on-line is fun, but might leave you uninterested after some time. So in short this game is playable, fun and can be frustrating at time's, but you could find this game for quite cheap now and it's worth checking out, hey for about $15 dollar's or less new or used and for that price it might be a good pick up.
7.0 out 10