Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Review
Short Version: Its amazing how little effort went into this sequel to the notorious and mediocre Kane & Lynch: Dead Men. A unique visual style cannot mask a boring, aimless, and insultingly short story (4-5 hours) that has one of the worst endings in recent memory. The best part of the game is still the fragile alliance multiplayer mode but even that is just a carry over from the original game back in 2007. This game is just plain Lazy and doesn’t care in the slightest to offer anything new or even interesting.
What you’ll Like:
• The hand-held digital camera style visuals lend to a unique realism.
• There’s lots of shooting if your a fan of constant shootouts without any breaks or story bits.
• Best Part: Undercover Cop and Fragile Alliance multiplayer modes (both nearly the same thing).
What you’ll Hate:
• Insultingly short game length at 4-5 hours.
• An ending that makes the whole story feel pointless – probably setting up some DLC B.S.
• Why are shotguns better than any other type of weapon? No grenades?
• Boring drab locations that feel nearly the same the entire game.
• Stiff and plastic looking character models with average graphics made worse by intentional video artifacts.
• Some serious opportunities were passed up by not exploring Lynch’s Psychotic tendencies as a unique game mechanic.
• Worst Part: Realizing that naked over weight men running through the streets is the “unique feature” of this game as opposed to a full weapon customization or more varied mission types.
Final Verdict:
3/10
Terrible!
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144 thoughts on “Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Review”
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAhhahahaaahah Joe damn your funny when u are mad ass hell laughing my ass of!
Wait a minute!!! Going back in the archives here watching some old videos and I hear “You can’t expect multiplayer to make up for a lazy 4-5 hour single player campaign.” Um… isn’t that EXACTLY what the fuck Battlefield 3 did?!?! Yup, that’s what they did. And that’s why I hated that game, even though, yes, its multiplayer was great fun. But, I’ve said it before, multiplayer is killing games these days man. The ruination of the single player experience, the interactive story telling mode that provides the memorable moments for years to come. I can’t remember anything that really stands out from my extensive hours playing Halo 3, But I sure as shit remember the story, as short as it was.
do u ever review playstation games? cause i dont understand tht every game u review it has xbox written all over it. or u act like xbox is the only system in the world
Oh, now I remember this one. The game where I never died, used shotguns the entire time, never used cover much ’cause it’s pointless, finished it in 2 hours and 10 minutes, and trying to figure out what HELL is going on in this confusing story.
am just glad your not getting bribed joe thank you for being a GOOD reviewer and not an IGN drone
So sick of game with bad ending XD
LMAO
wha, why no game deserves naked men gameplay ever for any reason.EVER
how can this game be so short!? i played far cry 2 for over 2 years and i still didn’t finish the really interesting storyline and then when i bought Kane and Lynch 2, i was like WTF how can they make a game this short and crappy while even a game from 2008 does it better!!! thats an insult to every shooter in the world.
i totally agree with this review and i gotta say, i hate the naked part as well it just seems so wrong and seedy
My and my friends, brother and cousins like this kind of games… specially that you CAN PLAY A LOCAL CO-OP MULTI-PLAYER MODE!! sorry but I hate online multi-playing if is not co-op…
nothing quite like watching a pastey fat naked white guy running around
i even returned the first game because of the Metro part haahha. but didnt like the graphics to the first hitman game looked better. the para partner was an awesome idea though yeah. 4 hrs story? you know what is bad JOE?!
i liked Dead to Rights right? the psp game of it? hahaha no its not to laugh about NOOO ITS NOT …………..HAAAAAAAAAAALF AN HOUR ……FUUUUCK my hard earned money FUUUUUCCKK …..(my brother ..bro wtf is going on? you okee? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IM NOOOT half an hour…..my brother? HAHAHHAHAHAHA LAUGH HAHAH LAUGH sorry bro shouldnt laugh but its a joke right? ist not? let me give it a try …..FUUUUUUUUUCK)
Lol dead to rights XD.. damn that shit sucks… it was sooooooooo funny I still laugh about how bad it was.. me and my bro joked about the last male boss being the guy from the 6 flags commercial. The ending was stupid funny.
I reccomentd playing dead to rights… its a game so bad its laughable for all
the games bad gd review joe
Its a terrible game.Not worthy of a full retail price.I played it after the review and I agree with Joe’ s score.That is why I didn’t buy it. I saved some money from this review.
well… i actually like this game
Yeah, I enjoyed it quite a bit too, it felt more like a 5 or 6 in my book. I have to chalk it up to being a PC gamer starved for decent TPS games, and I also have to admit that I can’t really argue with any of Joe’s criticisms. Always interesting to hear an opposing viewpoint, thanks for the vids Joe!
Are you guys brain dead???????
joe i find this a abselut descras to my name i mean when i go to school and every body tackes the piss of my name fuck me this game pisses me off so much
wy is his game not good dat is wy i buy army of two the 40 day
4 hours..
haven’t the last 3 call of duty campaigns been 4 hours long?? No critics complain about that.
Dont worry, the days of COD reigning supreme are coming to an end. No longer can they carry their game with multiplayer alone, and when the more dedicated gamer’s start to leave the franchise, the casuals will too over time.
A game is made on its single player in my opinion. There are very, very few games that are the exception to the rule. Counterstrike for example, but even that was a mod of HL.
Super Smash Bros was carried primarily due to it’s multiplayer. Don’t get me wrong, it had decent single player, but very, very few players will give the games the 8-9 out of 10s they deserve based on single player alone.
The game just made me sick no really i could not play a game for two hours after playing this
man your so right, just watched the ign review and he said there were many things wrong with it, but that if you like crime thrillers you’ll like it, then still gave it a 7. A 7 to me is a good game, somethings like they describe is a 5 or lower, rent it and make your own choice, not call it an above average game. Definitely don’t trust them lol, keep it up JOE!
Naked men?
WHAT THE HELL!!
at least this game has some extras to offer and play it for a while even if you have finished it.
Amazing. Critics say this is a good game while they say Splatterhouse isn’t. What’s becoming of this world?
The “other critics”? i need to be wary of? no worries there, i dont watch any other reviewer than you Joe, critics who sell out should be banned from reviewing ANYTHING. Keep up the good work!