With how useless the guns are the total removal of grenades, replaced by explosives you throw and then shoot, hurts even more so since clearing a small group of enemies takes far too much effort.įrankly the only thing that this game really has going for it is its unique visual presentation. Shotguns are actually just as useful if not more so at medium range than any of the rapid fire weapons could ever hope to be. This means that the only weapons that are of any use are the single shot weapons, notably the very few rifles in the game. Even if your reticule is dead center on an enemies' body you will often miss most of your shots with all but a few guns due to sheer inaccuracy and ridiculous kick back on any sort of sustained fire. If this wasn't a big enough problem then you also have to deal with the fact that all of the guns in this game suck. Also don't let any enemies see you get within a ten foot radius or you're going to go down immediately since, once again, your characters are pansies. But all it takes is a small bit of sustained gunfire to take out either of your heroes so this knock down, which pops you completely out of cover, is often a death sentence. This knockdown mechanic is really obnoxious in most situations since it can happen multiple times in a single fight. All it takes is a solid shot to knock you on your behind from where you can get up, get up into cover or shoot at enemies. Where the two player characters in most games are able to take some gunfire they do rather poorly in combat now. Compounding this is that some walls can be destroyed by even light gunfire which reduces your hiding options yet more.Īll of this wouldn't be a problem if your characters weren't made of wet tissue paper. Should you crouch behind a wall enemies will often pluck at your health anyways so if you were hoping to hide behind cover to heal up a bit then you're likely to be highly disappointed. Even if you're totally concealed behind an object enemies have a pretty easy time hitting you if they're even remotely at an angle. The cover system doesn't really work at all. More or less every aspect of the actual gameplay is much like this done almost exactly like the first game but even worse. This means you miss out on set pieces like Lynch's awesome flip out in the bank. The main difference in the storyline is that they decided to take out one of the most interesting things by turning Lynch into a totally medicated character. Which is totally different from the first game. The two men fight for their lives, are captured, a loved one dies and they escape after taking revenge. Lynch calls Kane to Shanghai to help him out with an arms deal, they stop off to handle just a bit of business and things go wrong as they are wont to do. It seems to occur in some nebulous place between the two endings of the first game where Kane helped his associates but his daughter didn't die (apparently even the devs realized those endings sucked).
But let's take this piece by piece before this turns into a rambling mess of a review.ĭog Days picks up a few years after the events of the first game. On basically every level Kane and Lynch 2 manages to fail. That somewhat interesting story is replaced by something of a retread of the first games story mixed with a really bad camera. In its place are some running battles with gangs, running battles with police and then running battles with military. Gone are the interesting set pieces, gone is the delicate balance between the guns and gone is the very well done difficulty. So obviously the solution to creating a sequel is to throw out all of that. Even the Fragile Alliance, while praiseworthy for trying something different eventually got a little too repetitive and bland. The main weakness of the gameplay itself was that some areas were unnecessarily difficult, such as any area with snipers, and a really terrible pair of endings made it a bit hard to love. It had solid gunplay, an interesting storyline and some incredible set pieces that Michael Mann would have been proud of.
Controversies aside the game itself was a pretty damn good game.
So far, in my time reviewing games, I have only had this happen a few times and none have given me quite so powerful an urge to just stop frigging playing like Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days.Īt the possible chance of making myself a pariah of the gaming community I'm going to man up and admit to something I like the first Kane and Lynch game. Playing through games like this becomes a bit of torture akin to having teeth pulled by a drunken dentist on the back of an ATV driving off-road. Oh sure I might not like a game that I'm playing but there are only a very rare few games that have made me never want to play them again. It's a rare day that I no longer want to play a video game.
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