battling with cover and very tough low level foes. To get the most out of Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days will demand a lot from the player. What exactly went wrong here is anybody’s guess. The responses to the first game were clear, and the opinions about its problems were rather uniform – the developers should have had a very clear view of what was wrong with the first title, and what needed to be fixed with this new one. Hopefully sales figures won’t slant their opinion too much – this game is going to fly off of shelves regardless, because it was released in a very quiet period for new games. Hopefully the developers don’t translate this act of consumer desperation into a message that they have produced a top notch product, and hopefully they care enough to actually make the next Kane & Lynch title something that provides a much better experience than the first two. Then again, they didn’t do that last time... g
AT A GLANCE: It’s gritty. It says so on the box. But maybe there’s just too much grit here... Developer: Io Interactive Publisher: Eidos Distributor: Nu Metro
Parental Advisory Violence Language Sex Drug Use Prejudice
18+ gamecca review • issue 15 • September 2010
Accessibility Hard-Core Medium Casual
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to take cover behind them first. This means no mad dashing and vaulting moves. In addition to these issues, the game has a few bugs in it, particularly with the AI. While they aren’t too numerous, these can cause odd issues that should, in all honesty, not be found in a game these days. Dog Days has a mitigating factor – it offers a few great multiplayer options. There is a particular game mode in which the players perform a heist while one of them is actually something of an undercover cop (who needs to prevent the heist, obviously) which is great amounts of fun. But factors like the presentation and the like persist even here. The game can provide an enjoyable experience, but it will require a lot of patience and forgiveness from the player to do so. The story is rather good, as I said before, but getting through it can be a rough slog of inaccurate guns,
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