A squad-based shooter centering around the uneasy alliance between ex-military mercenary Adam ‘Kane’ Marcus and the psychopathic James Lynch.
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men immerses players in an emotionally intense crime drama with unflinching action. Io-Interactive’s proprietary technology delivers fluid high definition graphics and lighting; highly destructible environments; massive crowd AI; single, co-op, and squad-based combat; a cinematic interface; and non-stop dialog between Kane and Lynch. The title also features innovative two-player co-op and groundbreaking online game play.
Tense and unpredictable experience – This is the violent and chaotic journey of two men: a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath. Each hates the other but must work together to save themselves and possibly the ones they love. Play Kane in single-player mode and either character in two-player co-op mode.
Violence erupts in meticulously created ‘safe’ worlds – Realistic and responsive environments and crowds react when events get of out control. Crowded nightclubs and calm bank offices become scenes of sudden terror. Manipulate the environments and crowds strategically to complete objectives.
Wide variety of intense 3rd person game play – Rappel from buildings; fire on the run or from moving vehicles; launch surprise attacks, lay down cover fire, and shoot blind from around corners; and hurl smoke, tear, and incendiary grenades.
Fast and intuitive combat – Lead a crew of criminal mercenaries to increase your chance of surviving and reaching your goals. You can also fight alone as your crew AI will automatically draw fire, throw grenades, lay down cover, and engage in close combat with their own signature moves.
Two-player co-operative game play – Team up and play the full story with a friend as either Kane or Lynch. On the big jobs, split the command of your crew. At any point in the game you can choose to play the next, or previous, levels in co-op. Innovative multi-player levels based on the game’s themes for up to eight players.
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men immerses players in an emotionally intense crime drama with unflinching action. Io-Interactive’s proprietary technology delivers fluid high definition graphics and lighting; highly destructible environments; massive crowd AI; single, co-op, and squad-based combat; a cinematic interface; and non-stop dialog between Kane and Lynch. The title also features innovative two-player co-op and groundbreaking online game play.
Tense and unpredictable experience – This is the violent and chaotic journey of two men: a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath. Each hates the other but must work together to save themselves and possibly the ones they love. Play Kane in single-player mode and either character in two-player co-op mode.
Violence erupts in meticulously created ‘safe’ worlds – Realistic and responsive environments and crowds react when events get of out control. Crowded nightclubs and calm bank offices become scenes of sudden terror. Manipulate the environments and crowds strategically to complete objectives.
Wide variety of intense 3rd person game play – Rappel from buildings; fire on the run or from moving vehicles; launch surprise attacks, lay down cover fire, and shoot blind from around corners; and hurl smoke, tear, and incendiary grenades.
Fast and intuitive combat – Lead a crew of criminal mercenaries to increase your chance of surviving and reaching your goals. You can also fight alone as your crew AI will automatically draw fire, throw grenades, lay down cover, and engage in close combat with their own signature moves.
Two-player co-operative game play – Team up and play the full story with a friend as either Kane or Lynch. On the big jobs, split the command of your crew. At any point in the game you can choose to play the next, or previous, levels in co-op. Innovative multi-player levels based on the game’s themes for up to eight players.
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men immerses players in an emotionally intense crime drama with unflinching action. Io-Interactive’s proprietary technology delivers fluid high definition graphics and lighting; highly destructible environments; massive crowd AI; single, co-op, and squad-based combat; a cinematic interface; and non-stop dialog between Kane and Lynch. The title also features innovative two-player co-op and groundbreaking online game play.
– This is the violent and chaotic journey of two men: a flawed mercenary and a medicated psychopath. Each hates the other but must work together to save themselves and possibly the ones they love. Play Kane in single-player mode and either character in two-player co-op mode.
– Realistic and responsive environments and crowds react when events get of out control. Crowded nightclubs and calm bank offices become scenes of sudden terror. Manipulate the environments and crowds strategically to complete objectives.
– Rappel from buildings; fire on the run or from moving vehicles; launch surprise attacks, lay down cover fire, and shoot blind from around corners; and hurl smoke, tear, and incendiary grenades.
– Lead a crew of criminal mercenaries to increase your chance of surviving and reaching your goals. You can also fight alone as your crew AI will automatically draw fire, throw grenades, lay down cover, and engage in close combat with their own signature moves.
– Team up and play the full story with a friend as either Kane or Lynch. On the big jobs, split the command of your crew. At any point in the game you can choose to play the next, or previous, levels in co-op.
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men Key Features:
1, RAM: 1GB
2, Video card: 128 MB NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better
3, HARD DRIVE SPACE: 7GB
4, INPUT DEVICES: 100% Windows 2000/XP compatible mouse and keyboard
5, RAM: 2GB
6, Video card: 128 MB NVIDIA 8300 or better/ATI X1800 or better
7, INPUT DEVICES: 100% Windows 2000/XP compatible mouse and keyboard or Xbox 360-compatible controller
The game opens with a voiceover of Adam 'Kane' Marcus, reading a letter addressed to his daughter Jenny. Kane is traveling to death row after being convicted of manslaughter. Another death row inmate, James Seth Lynch, lets on there will be a breakout. Their truck is involved in a head-on collision by a group of mercenaries. The two are taken to a construction site, where they are confronted by four members of a gang of criminals called The 7, led by The Brothers and their henchmen Carlos (a close friend of Kane) and Mute. They accuse Kane of stealing money from them, and reveal that they have taken his wife and daughter hostage. Kane is given three weeks to retrieve the money or his wife and daughter will be killed.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Pentium 4 2Ghz or AMD Athlon XP 1800+ | Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz / AMD Athlon XP 3000+ |
| CPU SPEED | Intel Pentium 4 2GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1800+ | Intel Pentium 4 2.5GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2400+ |
| VRAM | 128 MB | 128 MB |
| RAM | 1 GB | 2 GB |
| OS | Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista | Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista |
| Graphics Card | 128 MB NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better | nVidia GeForce 8300 / AMD Radeon X1800 Series 256MB |
| Direct X | DirectX 9.0c | DirectX 9.0c |
| SOUND CARD | Yes | Yes |
| HDD Space | 7 GB | 7 GB |
| CD-ROM | Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive | Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive |
| Game Analysis | Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a dark and gritty drama featuring two men, one is a flawed mercenary and the other a medicated psychopath. Forced together on a violent and chaotic path of redemption and revenge, no action is considered too harsh as this volatile partnership is pushed beyond reason in this brutally realistic, character-driven third person action shooter. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Note | 100% Windows XP/Vista compatible mouse and keyboard / Xbox 360 Controller for Windows | |
| Optimization Score | 10 | |
brainless shooting
predecessor of Trevor from GTA character archetype
bug on some levels
angry people with f bombs
bland plot and not make sense
To be fair, writing this review should be divided into two kind of aspects.
First of all, the technical issue, this game is barely out-dated so everyone can run the game flawlessy and I had nothing problem on running it on the latest gpu such gtx1060 with i7 processor. You have to install Windows Live first to run the game if you encounter error issue such the game wont start properly.
The second thing, ofcourse its about gameplay. So lets get started with the plot.
PLOT
You are Kane, an ex-criminal that do revenge against to your crime organization because they kill your family and must save your daughter that is kidnapped. In order to do that, you dont do it alone, you will be accompanied by Lynch, a troubled temperamental guy who swears alot. He helps you during the gameplay and mission which you must shoot everyone from police to Yakuza where the gameplay is basically just getting from point A to B and so on with interesting feature such as commanding your partner or your groups (on some mission) to face your enemy for killing.
Story-wise its over-used theme and the dialouge are territbe, for personal reasons, I cant see the reason why the writers here write their every single characters in this game have swearing lines that were not necessary and exaggerating in order to convince the character you play is not average good guy trope. Its like written by an edgy writer who thinks that character who swears a lot is great to convince the player that has unique personality, and the problem almost single of characters here sound same with angry attitude.
CONTROL
This game requires keyboard and mouse to control, so if you have controller/joystick its useless. The problem with the control mechanic is really awful in aiming for far range. You have to remember precisely which the keyboard button function for exact control. The most annoying thing that this game dont have “jump” button which in one mission I almost being stuck to continue my gameplay, and besides please be patient that your movement isnt smooth enough to move with confusing camera movement and auto-hiding feature that is glitchy. But overall, still you can enjoy game if you get used with default controlling mapping if you dont play this game often.
VISUAL
Its little bit out-dated but still cannot categorized into retro game considering this game came out in mid 00s. The facial movement looks stiff and sometimes ridiculously weird with characters moving their lips on dialoge unsynchronized and you can find bug here and there during the gameplay.
FUN
For the game that you can spend for more 5 hours, this game can potentially be fun for third-person shooting genre, but considering this game is not controller / joystick ready and have lack of story-line interesting plot. You can still add to your collection but for me, Its really hard to see what is the replay value from this game and maybe I never look back because the only thing makes thie game interesting is probably its kind of starter to explore third-person genre on PC that is “cheap” to try on Steam (bought on sale).
P.s : too bad, there is no such button beside yes or no on steam, i’d like to put “maybe”.
Rating : 6.5/10