And if the inaccuracy of the guns makes some sense with the other style choices, it can be quite jarring when you carefully level your shot with more accurate weapons and only the third consecutive shot seems to hit your target, after a small recoil.Īlthough some good and inspiring levels/maps, with some vertical variations and (in case of Arcade Mode) different paths to take the objective, there are others where I got completely lost, with small corridors where the camera didn't help at all. The feedback on the guns is poor, not being exactly clear when you've killed your target, if not for the crosshair indication.
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Even all the moments that take advantage of the setting and cinematic inspiration, like the escape from the highway down into the city streets and the final level at the airport (the movie "Heat" continues to be a clear inspiration here), feel lessened by the underwhelming gunplay and clunky cover mechanic (too late, I realized sometimes was better to crouch behind something), which are the focus of the entire game. The problem then is that the story and gameplay overall are too simplistic and weak. The simple use of the blood turning the "camera" red, when you're getting shot, to signify your injuries, while not new is interestingly applied within this style. Not only through the choice of Shanghai as a backdrop for the story, with its neon lights filling the otherwise dower and dirty streets of the underworld you find yourself thrown into, its lens flares permeating your view but also through the found footage style view of the action, which I found quite stimulating (even with the running's shaking effect eventual problems). I had a soft spot for this game from the start, as I liked the visual aesthetic they chose here.
Reason why I found myself starting and quitting the campaign two times, before I finally decided to throw myself into it and completing the game, many years after I first tried it.
Not having played the first one, the problem with Kane & Lynch 2 is that, for all the things it tries to do, it feels uninspired and, frankly, boring.
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