And once again Yahtzees fanboy crowd hops onto his bandwagon and shuns the game.
It´s always fun to observe this behavior.
Sure the plot isn´t magnificent, the gameplay is repetetive, but hey, ever considered you are actually NOT MEANT to play through it in one sitting...like that thing called "break" or "real life" interrupting people from playing?
After buying Kane and Lynch 1 and playing it with my brother up to the end, while dying a lot and shouting at each other, generally having a good time, I found KnL2 and thought we might continue.
He was bragging about how nobody makes coop games anymore, and only inserts it when it "makes plot convenient sense".
He´s not a hardcore gamer tho, he spends most of his time playing the games weeks after I played through them and then continued to say how awesome they are.
So we played and again shouted obsenitys at each other, blaming the other for why one of us was shot.
AND we had a good time...
Since I judge games by the amount of fun I had, I like KnL2. The mechanics work, the guns kill stuff and the bullshitty "let´s film it handheld!" effect was confusing but worked.
The covermechanic worked amazingly realistic, and this might come to a shock to you, but when you stand behind a pillar you still are exposed when the enemy is standing in a 45° angle to you, and you won´t expect them to shoot the fucking pillar you are hiding behind, now do you?
This is called FLANKING!
So you either move your arse to the other side of the pillar to stop being exposed, or kill the guy who flanked you.
Bad cover is bad cover, this is why you should look WHERE the enemy is, before you choose to hide in a spot he can clearly hit you in...
A solid piece of concrete doesn´t form a magic shield around your arse that prevents you from getting shot<.< So if you are being hit while in cover, move your ass away because it is not covering you!
I do have complaints tho...as Yahtzee said, the ending was fucking dissapointing, even my bro shouted "WHAT, THIS IS IT NOW? THEY HOP THE PLANE AND THEN WHAT?"...altho he didn´t catch all the story anyway because he speaks very faint amounts of english and I bought the import copy.
The two dogs in the end do not count as a boss fight, altho they ARE the last enemys you face.
And I have a complaint about how friggin HARD it is...We played on medium through the campaign and died countless times because the mostly unarmored enemys absorb so much damage and shoot suprisingly well once they start getting SWAT and Military level aiming training.
The Cops also hold up their own fairly too well...
You see the little hit counters appear in the upper torso area and he goes down, then he stands back up if you don´t finish him and has full health as it seems, because he takes obcene amounts of leadpoisoning to finally kick the bucket!
But as I said, I had my fun, my bro had fun, and it is probably going to reside in the higher spot for us...after all, there aren´t so many games that I can play together with my bro.
Oh and, before I forgot, awesome review, very funny. I was suprised he doesn´t mention the self censory with the blocky pixels they do over headshots (and all other things you are not meant to see.)
