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Not only is the single-player campaign more enjoyable when played through with a mate, but the main online mode, Fragile Alliance, is even better than it was in the first game. £35 for an accumulated 3 hours of fun isn't anyone's idea of good value.ĭog Day's saving grace - as much as it has one - is its multiplayer.
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Worst of all, a game that can easily be cracked within 5 hours still manages to feature levels that drag on 30 per cent longer than you'd like them to. At its best, Dog Days is raw, thrilling and edgy, with a strong grasp of shooter dynamics and a real desire to do something different, but there are just too many rough edges to ignore. There are some fantastic set-piece sequences around crowded apartment blocks and abandoned ship-fitters, and a genuinely brilliant section where a naked, post-torture Kane and Lynch make a bid for freedom.
Better weapons in the second half of the game seem more accurate, and the action picks up accordingly. Dog Days offers decent gameplay, but when Gears of War 2 and Uncharted 2 have raised the bar for duck and cover gunplay, decent isn't really good enough. Enemy and allied AI is also much improved, with Kane providing more reliable backup than Lynch did in the first game, but there are still moments where sensible behaviour goes out the window. The cover system works better this time around, but still slips when it comes to manoeuvring from one bit of cover to another, and the sprint action can be a nightmare to activate. Aiming remains worryingly imprecise, and while you could say that some of this comes down to realism, it's a constant frustration that, while you're struggling to nail the triad goon with your SMG - even when he's sitting right in the middle of your crosshairs - he doesn't seem to have the same problems hitting you. Sadly, the actual shooting still isn't as accomplished as it needs to be.
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The tale that follows isn't a whole lot more than an excuse for a long series of shoot-outs, but it's a reasonably well-written excuse with a couple of genuinely shocking moments. Strangely, the game makes the curious choice of having you play as the crazy Lynch instead of the more sympathetic Kane, though our protagonist has calmed down considerably for the sequel). Both men are deeply dislikeable in their own way, but each has some shred of humanity to keep your interest. The game begins with the original's criminal anti-hero, Kane, arriving in Shanghai to do one last job with his psychotic ex-colleague, Lynch. The plot this time isn't as strong, and the characterisation is nowhere near as sharp, but in both respects the game is still miles ahead of the likes of Army of Two.
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The visuals still have some faults when it comes to low-quality scenery textures, rubbery skin and ropey-looking characters, but the overall style is slicker and more coherent than in the notoriously up and down original. It's not far off the look of Michael Mann's Miami Vice and Collateral movies, but shot by a twitchy youth with an iPhone. Dog Days retains the harsh, gritty feel of its predecessor, and even amplifies it through the use of a very nifty, documentary-style shakey-cam effect, and some very nice filters that give it the look of cheap digital video, complete with colour artefacts and lens flare. It all dragged the game back from greatness.īest PS5 games 2022: Amazing PlayStation 5 titles to pick up
Kane and Lynch was hideously frustrating, too, to the point that some sections needed inhuman levels of perseverance. Weapons were spectacularly inaccurate, to the point that you couldn't really trust your crosshairs at any kind of range. The cover system - somewhat important to a cover-based, third-person shooter - didn't really work. Painful, frustrating gameplay? Not so much. Mediocre graphics can and will be forgiven. Unfortunately, Kane and Lynch had one problem that we just couldn't overlook. Instead, IO Interactive made a game that riffed on the crime thrillers of Tarantino, Tony Scott and Michael Mann, packed with terse, brutal firefights, realistic locations, and a healthy dollop of swearing and psychosis. Some of us who played it loved it for its brave, gritty storyline, its tense, violent atmosphere, and just the fact that - for once - we had an action game that didn't follow all the usual space marine/Saving Private Ryan/Call of Duty cliches. (Pocket-lint) - Were it not for one thing, Kane and Lynch: Dead Men might have been one of 2007's most original and entertaining shooters.
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