Old game that perfectly blends vulgar language, music & concept in creating a Kingpin universe...
Idea/Originality
I remember when it first came out, and it had original story, concept, music and speech... somehow it all blends in perfectly....a lot of games even new always leak on some parts....
Storyline
Circles around street bandits, mobsters, mafia...as you were left in an alley beaten up...you set up to get your revenge..because they didn't know with who they were messing with...
Sounds/Music
Excellent unique brutal language....that even after all this years is stuck in my head reminding me of this game...
Music fits the game perfectly...I never listen to this type of music...but in the game...perfect...passing through bars music change...creating the Kingpin atmosphere....
Graphics
In that time graphics was good....even now is solid if you decrease brightness making the game more darker so you can't see old graphics and even the game looks better with dark streets...
Mission updates/Debriefing/Quests
Really good accompanied with animations of certain events or deals going on....even some of the new games lack this...
Gameplay
Awesome gameplay...playable in realistic mode...I recommend to anyone to try and pass the game in this difficulty...awesome....one shotgun blast kills you instantly...I remember one time at the beginning, the guard of the warehouse chased me leaving a blood bath...he blasted the entire map including me and walked away slowly saying Fu... Pu.. A.. this stuck in my head forever...by the way I passed the game in realistic so don't think its impossible...Until now I never came across a game where you can play Realistic so this makes Kingpin unique...
Another excellent part what is unique for this game...are the followers, they will follow you anywhere even in the air vent...I never came across this in other games...where you usually are frustrated by their stupidity....
You can support up to 2 mercenary...and you can order them to stay put...also their body is displayed as a health bar on the screen...they will use vulgar language at the enemies even warn you that they are wounded...
There is a variety of mercenaries from crowbar to various weapons...my favorite were the guys at the beginning handling 2 pistols...but not effective....the most effective were with Tommy guns in pair they would cut anything on their path...
Also taking a female mercenary with a shotgun ...nice....
Interesting for me was to loot corpses for cash...
AI
Good Artificial intelligence...making your mercenaries and enemies chase each other with a lot of swearing and bullet language...
Weapons/Armor/Upgrades
A variety of weapons where some of them are upgradable in Shops "Pawn-O-Matic"...like faster reload...silencer...or buy some body armor, health, ammo...
Multiplayer
Unique concept where you can choose the type of character you'll play either slim or fat...and also choose to wear hats or cigarettes or different types of clothing shirts and pants separately even including your underwear....uhhh boy a laughed plenty times shooting some fat dude with a Cuban cigar dressed up in his underwear.... a lot of games just lets you take some ugly character...while here you can create your own....