More promisingly, the focus of this outing is Lynch rather than Kane. "It's the most urban place on the planet," says game director Karsten Lund, "the best place in the world to disappear." The story this time hinges on a simple arms deal gone wrong, and the setting is videogames' latest group craze, Shanghai (possibly so popular because the inevitable army of out-sourced artists won't have to look far to find visual references). Neither of these things are problems the sequel's likely to suffer from, however. It wasn't particularly stylish, either: a drab chug through drab locations, in which you filled the shoes - in single-player at least - of the drab, sane guy rather than his sparky partner. It wasn't particularly brilliant, truth be told, even though Lynch, looking rather a lot like the kind of person found putting his hand up to ask about poinsettias on Gardener's Question Time, made for an unlikely proposition on the front of a videogame box. Fragile Alliance will return in multiplayer, and co-op's presumably a shoe-in, right? Kane & Lynch: Dead Men was the fruits of a strange marriage between Ray Liotta and Terry Nutkins, as Kane (the kind-of handsome thuggish one with a military background) and Lynch (the definitely not handsome one with some severe emotional problems) dodged a one-way ticket to death row before shooting up a variety of holiday locations ranging from LA to Havana. It's a peculiar kind of bullet-point, perhaps, but these are peculiar times, particularly for Kane & Lynch, a franchise that's probably more closely associated with boardroom scandal than couch-bound thrills at this juncture.Ī quick reminder may be in order, actually. That's why one of the entries on the developer's first-reveal slideshow presentation is "More Real". They want something that will make you drop your ice lolly and think, "Ooh, that's a bit raw for a videogame". Rather it means that the designers of Kane & Lynch have been studying the kind of things people associate with reality - prodding through the internet in search of whatever it is that has the power to jar and shock by virtue of its authenticity. That doesn't mean the developer's selling its car, renting out the flat and heading to Goa with an acoustic guitar, some awesome liquorice sticks and a dreadlocked chick named Mary-Beth it met on the Circle Line, however. Every aspect of the game has been designed to deliver a fresh perspective to the words 'intensity' and 'realism' in videogames.IO Interactive has spent the last year or so thinking about what's real. Introducing a new visual experience, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is inspired by documentary filmmakers and the user-generated era. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is a raw and brutal crime shooter designed to take players on an even more intense story experience, following two of gaming's most disturbed criminals, through the gritty Shanghai underworld. Once together, they set-off a chain of events over two days, as the deal falls apart and Kane and Lynch face the consequences the hard way. Despite their differences, Lynch calls him for help. Kane is a wanderer, an ex-mercenary with family problems who needs to get away.
He's involved in a big arms deal but needs help to make it happen. Lynch is living the good life as a henchman in Shanghai, where he has settled down with his girlfriend. After a simple job goes wrong, Kane and Lynch find themselves wanted by the entire Shanghai underworld.
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