Kane and Lynch 2 Demo

[Limited]

Well, I heard the first game was atrocious, never played it but I saw the trailer for this one and it looked fairly decent.

Theres a demo on XBL and variable via Steam, I assume its on PS3 but I'm not sure. The game has adopted a like, film making documentary style, with 'buffering' instead of loading, pixellated brief frames on the screen, quick shot of blue, and crazy camera movements, omg I physically feel sick right now. I hear you can turn it off, so I'm definitely doing that. Terms of gameplay, its pretty hard to tell, its like 4 minute demo and it has online which I havent tried.

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I played the first game. It wasn't very good, but the story and characters were fairly inventive and intriguing. The concept behind the Fragile Alliance multiplayer mode was also inventive and fun, but the game both looked and controlled like ass. It just wasn't fun to play.

From what I could gather out of the demo, the sequel is far, far better. The cover system works, you can actually aim and fire with relative ease, and the "guns are loud and have shitloads of recoil" style of gameplay both helps it stand out just a little farther from every other cover shooter on the block and fits quite well with the Cloverfield-like presentation; which, far from making me sick, perfectly masked the game's otherwise jarring graphical deficiencies. I literally lol'd when a guy's head was censored via pixellation after I shot him in the face at point-blank range. It's not bug-free or anything, but it's certainly a step up.

The multiplayer, now that it's playable, is great, although I wish there was a way to prevent you being marked as a traitor if you kill a teammate and steal his cash out of everybody else's line of sight. It's hurt by lag, though; and I mean massive lag. I don't know if it just assigns hosts without checking to make sure they have a suitable connection or what, but the lack of dedicated servers (or the lack of good internet among the playerbase) shows, hard.

Providing they iron out the connection BS by launch, I can see this earning solid scores in the 7-8 range, with maybe a 9 or two. Should be worth it if picked up either used from a store (if you're a consolefag) or during the inevitable Steam sale (:pcgaming:).

(I also lol'd when Lynch was muttering gibberish about not stealing shit (?) during the firefight in/near the DVD store. Hopefully there'll be more like that.)