Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

Kane & Lynch: Dead Man
Studio	IO Interactive
Publisher	Eidos Interactive
Erstveröffent- lichung	November 23, 2007 November 27, 2007
platform	Windows , Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3
genre	Third person shooter
Game mode	Single player , multiplayer
control	Keyboard , mouse
system advantages preconditions	Intel Pentium4 ™ 2 GHz or AMD Athlon 1800+, 1 GB RAM, graphics card with 128 MB RAM & Shader Model 3.0 (from Nvidia 6600 GT or ATI X1300), 7 GB free hard disk space, DirectX 9.0c, Microsoft
medium	1 DVD-ROM , download
language	Multilingual
Age rating	USK PEGI

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is an action video game from the third-person shooter genre developed by the Danish game developer IO Interactive . The game was in November 2007 by Eidos Interactive for Windows - PCs and game consoles Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 releases. According to Eidos, the game had sold over a million times by January 2008.

action

After the death of his son, Adam "Kane" Marcus joins the mercenary group The 7 . One of the group's missions in Venezuela goes awry and Kane is the only survivor to escape with the booty. He is later caught and sentenced to death. Kane and his fellow prisoner Lynch are freed from The 7 during the prisoner transport, and Kane is given the chance to save his family's life by retrieving the loot. Lynch is supposed to make sure that Kane does his job.

Kane and Lynch and former friends of Kane rob the bank where Kane deposited the loot from Venezuela. However, it only finds part of the prey. This is where Lynch's psychotic phases come to light for the first time when he shoots the hostages he has taken because he thinks they are police officers. After a spectacular escape that Kane's friends do not survive, Kane and Lynch set off for Tokyo, where Kane suspects the rest of the loot to be with an old partner, Retomoto. With Lynch's help, he kidnaps the old partner's daughter and demands the rest of the booty in exchange. The exchange comes to a catastrophic end when Retomoto tries to kill Kane. To make matters worse, Lynch also shoots his daughter because, according to him, she tried to flee. He claims he only aimed at her leg.

Back in the States, The 7 is disappointed by Kane's failure and has his wife killed. Assassins attempt to kill Kane, Lynch, and Kane's daughter Jenny. After these are eliminated, Kane vows revenge on The 7. The two break into a prison forcibly to round up Kane's old mercenary troops. Together with the troops, Kane and Lynch return to Tokyo to stop Retomoto. They break into his skyscraper and kill him. After their escape they find Carlos, from The 7. He offers his help to the ex-mercenaries. Carlos tells them that The 7 is in Venezuela. Equipped like soldiers, Kane and Lynch lead a rebel army into the headquarters of The 7. After a brutal bloodbath, Kane finds out that the head of The 7 is in the mountains of Venezuela. The squad infiltrates the site with the help of Carlos, who is captured and executed by The 7. The last member of The 7, who, as Kane learns, also kidnapped his daughter, tries to escape by plane. Kane and Lynch can prevent the start, save Jenny and turn off The 7 for good.

However, a few of Kane's men are still being attacked by The 7 troops in a nearby village. Kane and Lynch with Jenny in tow try to save their comrades. However, only one of Kane's men survived against this overwhelming power. The four shoot their way to the docks. The rescued comrade, however, is not grateful to Kane and runs ahead near the pier to rescue himself with a boat. Lynch steers the boat out of the harbor and Kane holds his wounded daughter in his arms.

In an alternate ending, Kane escapes with Jenny in a helicopter. Lynch stays in Venezuela to save Kane's men.

Style of play

In single player mode, the player can only take control of Kane. However, he can give Lynch (and later other followers) simple orders. Only in co-op mode can another player take control of Lynch.

reception

Reviews

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men received mostly good reviews in Germany and Eastern Europe. Above all, the plot and its cinematic, dramatic narrative style, as well as the non-standard soundtrack by Jesper Kyd were praised.

More negative voices criticized, among other things, the exaggerated and "too pessimistic" plot, the lack of likeable characters, a short playing time and poor controls (especially with regard to the use of cover). The graphics were also often presented as mediocre. It is questionable what influence the controversy surrounding the dismissal of GameSpot editor Jeff Gerstmann has had on the ratings in the press and by end users.

The Gerstmann controversy

The dismissal of GameSpot editor Jeff Gerstmann caused a stir . The latter published a rather negative review of the game on the GameSpot website , while the publisher Eidos Interactive was running an advertising campaign on the site in which many large-scale advertisements were placed on GameSpot. After this review was published, the advertising campaign was canceled. A spokeswoman for CNET , the owner of GameSpot, denied at the time that employees would be fired due to pressure from external advertising partners. As a result, many readers called for a boycott of the site. GameSpot had to suspend user ratings for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men because the game was overwhelmed with poor "1.0" ratings.

continuation

In August 2010 the successor Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days was released for Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 and PC.

filming

In March 2010 it was announced that in addition to Bruce Willis in the role of mercenary Adam 'Kane' Marcus , Oscar winner Jamie Foxx had also agreed to film the computer game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men . He will play Lynch. Production studios are Lionsgate and Millennium Films , and Simon Crane will direct . The film will not exactly tell the computer game.

Trivia

Kane and Lynch made a guest appearance in Hitman: Absolution (2012). In the “Welcome to Hope” mission, Kane stands in the corner of the bar next to the jukebox. In a conversation with a guest, he mentions that his partner is getting equipment in town. Lynch does not get any equipment, however, but rages around at the shooting range in the follow-up mission “Birdie's present”, where he can be seen doing his typical scolding tirades. Both carry a unique weapon in the respective level, which the player must receive in order to complete the game 100%.

There is also a video with Lynch that you can watch when you shoot the atomic bomb hanging on the ceiling in the "Dexter Industries" level in the main exhibition room. If the player crawls through a certain ventilation shaft in Hope prison, he can find Kane a second time. He is sitting in a cell and writing a letter to his daughter.

Web links

• Kane & Lynch: Dead Men at MobyGames (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Next Generation: Kane and Lynch Sells 1 mln ( Memento from August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). January 10, 2008. Retrieved May 17, 2008.
2. ↑ Kane & Lynch: Dead Men | Reviews | Ratings | Awards | Quotes | PC Games Database.de - Know how it was rated!
3. ↑ Kane & Lynch: Dead Men for Windows (2007) - MobyGames
4. ↑ Kane & Lynch: Dead Men for PC Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic
5. ↑ Alex Petraglia: Gamespot's Gerstmann Fired, Allegedly Over Kane and Lynch Review . (No longer available online.) In: Primotech. Primotech, LLC., November 29, 2007, archived from the original on May 26, 2010 ; accessed on November 26, 2008 (English). 
6. ↑ Jeff Gerstmann: Kane & Lynch: Dead Men Review. In: Gamespot . CBS Interactive Inc., November 13, 2007, accessed April 30, 2018 . 
7. ↑ CNET Denies 'External Pressure' Caused Gerstmann Termination. Retrieved July 8, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Hartmut Gieselmann: "An ugly game" and the dismissal of a gamespot editor. In: Heise online . Heise Medien , accessed on July 8, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Cinema .de: "Kane & Lynch" are coming to the cinema