Zero Punctuation: Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

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Orcus The Ultimate

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That's true about the camera, it made me Seasick... and basically this game is a "MASS MURDERER" achievement if you had a result like in the Hitman Series... Why aren't they releasing Hitman games instead of that RUN/GUN crap !
 

JuggernautXUG

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Scrumpmonkey said:
How did Kane and Lynch get such good reveiws from some publications? The game is honestly horrendous, it'a borderline irredeemable. Myabe they thought they would be fired and have to go off and found a mildly more obscure gaming website that includes the name of some kind of explosive, such is the rule when being made unelpolyed by a Kane and Lynch game. Or so im told.

Personally i think Sqeenix needs to buck up it's ideas when it comes to action games becuase even at their best they never really seem to really nail it.
Ahem.... the publishers payed off reviewers to give the game good reviews and thus when it was discovered they did this they all got fired.
 

T0xiCity8

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Lol I loved Kane and Lynch 2 :p It's flawed, sure, but the I loved the look and atmosphere. But damn Yatzhee, you sure know how to tear it too pieces. But I really wish people would stop blaming the developers for Gerstmann's firing.
 

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Dear lord! This has to be the harshest review you've done yet Yahtzee! I'm not even going to rent this game in fear that you'll personally come around to my house and call me something nasty.
 

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Uberman5000 said:
Kane and Lynch are such incredibly repulsive characters. I feel like they should be driving a beat-up Chevrolet truck from 1980s barrelling down an unpaved road to check on their weed grow in the middle of the country. How do these people get the entire Chinese army after them?
The first mission is Lynch dragging Kane around and chasing some guy down for no reason other than "I gotta settle things with this guy! I'll tell you later!" (he doesn't). At the end, the guy holds a woman hostage and our duo just kills her (Hahaha! Holding hostages! Like we care!). Turns out that woman's the daughter of some corrupt politician/crime lord. Whoops!


I knew that this game was going to be pretty lambasted. I watched a Let's Play of the game and was less than impressed. Problem with the game is that it takes the Dark 'n Gritty premise way too seriously, resulting in characters that you don't care for (at best, they have crappy backstories that tell how much their lives suck). Even Gerstmann's only main compliment of the game is the visual style (even then he stated it's nauseating). And I would have thought that Yahtzee would have made way more fat jokes at Gerstmann's expense. Not saying that he cares much for the whole business, but fat jokes seem like the kinda jokes he'd use when he can.
 

Captain Pirate

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"So how about that Duke Nukem Forever business hmm" Haha, epic ending. Loved that review, now I'm definately not going to buy it just for the multiplayer. Needed a sixth opinion...
 

ProtoChimp

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Spunk instead of air. Yahtzee's best quote so far methinks. Also expect a P45 from Russ.
 

deth2munkies

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I love it when Yahtzee gets a hold of an unequivocally shitty game. Always much fun and many laughs to be had.
 

Azaraxzealot

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why the hell does this game even exist? i never knew about it before, now I'll never hear about it again (good)
 

thethingthatlurks

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Bloody hell, I could almost see the loathing ooze from the screen. Brilliant, mate!
I honestly had no intention of playing this game, and the review on the Escapist (as in the real thing, not ZP) didn't exactly inspire much hope in this. Glad somebody had the massive balls to utterly tear this apart.
 

PrototypeC

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Ugh. Yahtzee, I know your challenge is, each week, to come up with another horrible (in a good way...ish) analogy for something, but that last one actually made me gag. Ulgh, I can't even watch this one again just because I'm afraid I'll magically forget about it and accidentally hear it again.

So, congrats on that? Funny review, as always, and I'm glad to see that even with the same character shapes, same setup and same expectations, you manage to mix it up and keep it interesting week after week. That's a real talent you've got there, and I'm glad the Escapist caught you when they did.

Now I need to think about something other than your analogies for a while. Excuse me.
 

Twin Of Aphex

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It breaks my heart i spent £36 on the 'special edition' and I wont even get half of that if i trade it in...
 

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Batsamaritan said:
Second time I knew something was wrong with this game the advertising told me I could play a medicated psycopath as if that was a good thing. Only if i was fifteen, and then i probably wouldn't know what a medicated psychopath was, or at least thought it was someone in a 'mature' game, because this is the kind of game that fifteen year olds think is mature.
Eh... You are aware of games like Red Dead Redemption and GTA etc you play a psychopath and a murderer? Kane and Lynch are mature because they actually paint the characters as what they are - cold blooded killers. They are anti heros.