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This brief taster of the single player game makes its biggest impact when the action moves out onto the streets of Shanghai with our duo forced to deal with local police and panicky civilians. It’s a relationship that is entirely dependent on danger and violence. However, once battle breaks out in the restaurant, as it’s invaded by what appears to be a SWAT team, they come alive, and begin sparking off each other. Instead, Kane & Lynch are two people who don’t seem to mesh well together, at least socially. The awkward, fractured relationship between the protagonists is the star of the show and as we see them eating dinner silently together at the start of the demo, you’ll want to give IO some plaudits for avoiding the odd couple/buddy scenarios that have been so overplayed in gaming and cinema.
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It was during this single player level that Dog Days really started to pile on the atmosphere and, if the full single player campaign continues in the same vein, we suspect the sequel will be a compelling solo (and co-op) experience. In the single player level we are given access to in the demo, enemy AI seems pretty switched on and, with a couple of exceptions, we were generally impressed with the way enemies concentrated on covering fire and flanking rather than simply charging straight towards you. It also feels like a fair concession to the player as, on the higher difficulty levels, Dog Days is damn tough. It’s not a revolutionary feature by any means, but it does add a bit of tension to proceedings as you hit the floor, squeezing off desperate rounds in all directions in the hope that you’ll hit your enemy before they finish you. Take too much punishment and you’ll fall to the ground where you can attempt to take out your attacker (and gain a health boost) or get up into cover, if there’s any around. The Down Not Dead mechanic is one such addition and gives players a chance to save themselves before they die. While IO obviously concentrated on addressing perceived problems with the first game (and there were more than a few), it has also seen fit to add some new features. Snapping to and from cover now feels more fluid and, while you may still encounter the occasional awkward moment, it’s much improved. Of course, it wouldn’t be a modern third person shooter without a cover system and you’ll be glad to know that this has been suitably overhauled too. It’s a simple but effective addition that helps the gunplay to feel considerably more precise than it did in Dead Men. Not only do the enemy ragdolls crumple convincingly, you’re also given a visual indicator (in the form of a wee ‘X’) to show where you have hit the enemy’s body. Thankfully, IO has clearly spent a lot of time on the feel of the shooting – movement, aiming and firing feel much more responsive this time around and the combat is undoubtedly satisfying. And, let’s face it, Kane & Lynch is a game about action, and if you can’t get the shooting right, you’re left wit h… well, Dead Men. The most notable improvement is in the way the game handles the action.
From just a few minutes with Dog Days, it’s clear IO has brought its ‘A game’ to the table. What made it worse was that this was IO Interactive, the studio behind Hitman and Freedom Fighters, and we knew it could do better.
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Unfortunately, while IO’s first game in the series got some things right, it got an awful lot wrong and players were left with a game they really wanted to like and a game engine that made it impossible.
The idea of a gritty, dysfunctional crime duo is appealing and Lynch, God bless him, is a fascinating, if somewhat repulsive, character. You can check out our reasoning in our column on the game, but to summarise, it’s this: Kane & Lynch was an above-average idea that became a below-average game. Now, if you’re an IncGamers regular, you’ll most probably know that we’ve been looking forward to Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days.
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