#Kane and lynch 2 dog days movie movie#

Because of that, what happens to them already matters at least as much as what happens to the faceless protagonist nuked in Modern Warfare 2 or the cipher we played in Bioshock. These two guys are inherently interesting because they're so different. But take a little time to breathe, to give the grimness context, to show us who these people are and why we should care. I get that you're trying to be all grim and dark, naked and bleeding in the rain. It's unnecessary because it's so fast, gratuitous, and unearned. And understandably so, since we get the equivalent of Max Payne's dead baby scene to give Lynch his motivation. The first game played cleverly with Lynch's psychosis, but that's entirely missing here. The story is nearly a mirror of the first game, swapping the roles of Kane and Lynch in terms of trying to save a girl in peril. Why isn't Io confident enough to see through what they've started? Early on, Lynch gingerly moves his sleeping girlfriend's legs off his lap.

And then the cell phone concept is entirely abandoned. In the middle of the game, there's even an instance of 'ass dialing', which is a wonderful gimmick. These are mostly calls to other characters, where you only hear one side of the conversation. Ironically enough, the best bits of character development are shoved onto the loading screens, where you hear cell phone calls. We get all too brief cutscenes, as if they're worried the players are going to go play a Call of Duty if they don't hurry up and get to the shooting. It's a shame Io doesn't trust these characters a bit more.

#Kane and lynch 2 dog days movie movie#

So it just drops them into a Max Payne-esque competent, over-the-top, action movie shooter, and then squeezes little bits of supposed character development into the gaps between the shooting. In fact, the game itself isn't quite sure what to do with these two guys. They're more like, wellвЂ¦I'm not sure there's an easy analog in American action movies. These aren't really ex-cops avenging their murdered families. The developers at Io Interactive aren't so much interested in typical action movie tropes. That's what I kept thinking about while playing through the similarly short, furious, and memorable enough Kane and Lynch 2. It was short, furious, and memorable enough. It knew enough about satisfying gunplay to keep things interesting for the six hours or so it took to play through to the end. The Max Payne developers at Remedy had their own slightly clunky take on American action tropes, and they built a memorable shooter around those tropes. Kane and Lynch 2 is a latter day Max Payne. Expect a lot of filler between these cool bits, usually in a warehouse or parking garage or something.' The early bits are the best, on the crowded streets of Shanghai, chasing a pantless couple, or pinned down by the cops in a video rental store, or gunfire shredding the flimsy wooden panels of a gaudy restaurant, or threading through a stretch of jammed chaotic freeway. 'So we get a corridor shooter with a bunch of set pieces.