I came into this one with a sense of dread, we've all heard bad things about this game, broken cover mechanics, abhorrent characters and bland graphics. I can tell you this right now, it's all true, but the game is still fun despite these issues. Kane & Lynch are two of the most despicable characters ever put into a game, and the game makes no attempt to redeem them at all but they're never annoying enough to hate. Even when the number of partners swells to 6 its still fairly easy to keep track of them all. The game is nice and short, clocking in at around 6 hours, and spans the whole globe so you're never really stuck in one place long enough to get bored.
The game will test your patience though, the difficulty is sporadic, the cover system is atrocious and the controls are annoying as hell. Some levels you will breeze through while others will have you stuck on one section for well over an hour because you are overwhelmed with enemies. Two levels in particular featured areas where enemies will flank you from every side and murder all of your men which results in instant failure. In the end I learned that you have to run to an invisible spawn trigger, wait for enemies to appear, run to your safe spot, kill them, trigger another wave of enemies slightly further ahead, rinse and repeat. This style of gameplay, waiting for enemies, backing up, killing them then doing it again until they're all gone, slows the game down to a snails pace and only aggravates you if you die before one of the very spaced out checkpoints.
The cover system simply doesn't work. You can hide all you like, you'll still get shot and you will die alot. If the tiniest bit of you is sticking out above a wall you will get hit there, and there's very few places where you can completely cover yourself AND be able to shoot enemies. On top of that, the unusual command system really messes you up on more than one occasion. On Xbox 360, the X, Y, and B buttons send commands to your team. While your instinct will tell you X is to reload, it calls your team mates to you. I messed this up alot, this is one of the few games I've seen where you use clips for your guns but they reload automatically if you stop shooting. The controls are just incredibly unintuitive and never feel natural. Despite all these gripes the game is still decent and never really outstays its welcome. I picked it up for 8 bucks and for a cheapy, it doesn't disappoint.
6/10
The game will test your patience though, the difficulty is sporadic, the cover system is atrocious and the controls are annoying as hell. Some levels you will breeze through while others will have you stuck on one section for well over an hour because you are overwhelmed with enemies. Two levels in particular featured areas where enemies will flank you from every side and murder all of your men which results in instant failure. In the end I learned that you have to run to an invisible spawn trigger, wait for enemies to appear, run to your safe spot, kill them, trigger another wave of enemies slightly further ahead, rinse and repeat. This style of gameplay, waiting for enemies, backing up, killing them then doing it again until they're all gone, slows the game down to a snails pace and only aggravates you if you die before one of the very spaced out checkpoints.
The cover system simply doesn't work. You can hide all you like, you'll still get shot and you will die alot. If the tiniest bit of you is sticking out above a wall you will get hit there, and there's very few places where you can completely cover yourself AND be able to shoot enemies. On top of that, the unusual command system really messes you up on more than one occasion. On Xbox 360, the X, Y, and B buttons send commands to your team. While your instinct will tell you X is to reload, it calls your team mates to you. I messed this up alot, this is one of the few games I've seen where you use clips for your guns but they reload automatically if you stop shooting. The controls are just incredibly unintuitive and never feel natural. Despite all these gripes the game is still decent and never really outstays its welcome. I picked it up for 8 bucks and for a cheapy, it doesn't disappoint.
6/10
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