Little is new when it comes to how you will do it though it’s about moving through chapters ducking behind various objects and walls scattered about the area to blind fire at multitudes of gangsters and cops who will be doing the same, but won’t have your advantage of a regenerating health bar. well, much of what you’ll do during the course of this anarchic anecdote. The tale is so raw and intimate that extending it with needless gameplay would be a crime on par with. Accompanied with excellent performances (voice actors Jarion Monroe and Brian Bloom, as Lynch and Kane respectively) and dialogue that bring the two to life, it’s easy to get smitten with their cynical charm and feel for their plight. It keeps in line with the quick-edit, frantic tone of the story and intensity of the set pieces, and prevents the game from ever getting too repetitive or dull. The developers at Io-Interactive do great things with small packages, and the length works more to the game’s favor than not. At least it was playing through in online co-op on the hard difficulty (with fellow CLR reviewer William Bibbiani) for the first time. What’s two days for them turns into about five for you though. So obviously this is really all his fault for tempting fate. Things go bad and the hood and his girl end up dead at the duo’s hands, causing a reaction that thrusts the pair through 48 hours of utter hell.Īt one point in the course of the game, Kane mentions to Lynch that this was supposed to be his last job before retiring from a life of crime.
The disheveled, desperate Kane steps off the plane to meet his chaotic comrade, and is immediately pulled into a small bit of business intimidating a local hoodlum. The roles of the two get heavily reversed and the focus is on a sober Lynch, who has set up something resembling a peaceful life in Shanghai at least as peaceful a life as a lunatic enforcer working for a local ex-pat mob boss can get. It’s a simple, yet powerful narrative wrapped up in a game with myriad problems both large and small, but through sheer force of will breaks through them to reveal bits of bastardly brilliance.įormer criminal compatriots Adam ‘Kane’ Marcus and James Seth Lynch are brought together again after spending a few years trying to forget the dismal sales and controversy of their original outing, 2007’s Dead Men. Akin to the boasts of a town drunkard, it’s a brutal, tragic tale of one wrong turn leading to another, and the sheer determination required of two men to pull through the worst situation of their whole lives. Platform: PS3, PC, and Xbox 360 (Version Reviewed)ĮSRB: M for Mature CLR This afternoon: A digitally delivered drama of dogged, dangerous, dudes!įor the titular characters in Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days, the events of the game’s story are a sort of awful anecdote.