Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (2007)

IO Interactive

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 3 · Xbox 360

2.91 from 394 ratings

1794 members have it in their collection · 14 playing now · 901 backlogged · 87 wish listed

How long? Main story 5h · with extras 6h (from 10 logged playthroughs)

A squad-based shooter centering around the uneasy alliance between ex-military mercenary Adam 'Kane' Marcus and the psychopathic James Lynch.
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Release dates

  • Nov 13, 2007 (North_America) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
  • Nov 23, 2007 (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
  • Dec 06, 2007 (Australia) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
  • Jul 10, 2008 (Japan) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

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LowResPlayer

Status LowResPlayer Apr 19, 2020

I used to adore this game as a kid even though as someone also stated above, mid-campaign looks like they ditched the fun "fcuk everything and shoot your way out" philosophy to this dreadfully constructed military shooter as if the game wasn't bleak enough. Make no mistake, K&L was deeply flawed from the very beginning. But my god was i …

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I used to adore this game as a kid even though as someone also stated above, mid-campaign looks like they ditched the fun "fcuk everything and shoot your way out" philosophy to this dreadfully constructed military shooter as if the game wasn't bleak enough. Make no mistake, K&L was deeply flawed from the very beginning. But my god was i ever thrilled to have a series on this. It still has some sort of a cult following because of it's fair share of silver linings, funny enough, none of them being the gameplay itself; The straight up anti-heroic leads, the tragic soap opera turned into this chaotic shoot em up anarchy and then the most exciting "Heat" stylized run n' gun scenarios a shooting gallery would ever dream of. And yet it kinda died. As if the franchise had shot all it's best rounds here which wasn't saying much at all. I still wish it gets a form of upgraded revival (this day and age it never will) cuz' the potential is there. Even Eidos themselves seem to know it enough to have the leads wandering around Hitman Absolution.

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zadrotimus

Review zadrotimus 1/5 · Dec 31, 2019

«Польский шутер» от авторов Hitman.

«Кейн и Линч» очень плохая игра, которая очень хочет быть фильмом. Кейн — наёмник, Линч — натуральный псих на таблетках. У Кейна похитили жену и дочь, требуя чемодан алмазов, а Линча приставили за Кейном присматривать. Неплохая основа для бадди-муви, но...

Как можно испортить обычный шутер от третьего лица? Ну, можно взять движок от Hitman и …

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«Польский шутер» от авторов Hitman.

«Кейн и Линч» очень плохая игра, которая очень хочет быть фильмом. Кейн — наёмник, Линч — натуральный псих на таблетках. У Кейна похитили жену и дочь, требуя чемодан алмазов, а Линча приставили за Кейном присматривать. Неплохая основа для бадди-муви, но...

Как можно испортить обычный шутер от третьего лица? Ну, можно взять движок от Hitman и без изменений перенести оттуда шутерную механику. А она там дерьмовая, потому что Hitman совсем не про стрельбу. Попадания во врагов практически не ощущаются, отдачи у пушек нет, и вся разница между ними — количество попаданий в противника. Враги при этом тупые и берут исключительно количеством и шквальным огнём. А ещё их бывает очень тяжело разглядеть в темноте.

В качестве фишки добавлена совершенно ненужная простая система приказов напарникам: стой, стреляй туда, иди за мной. Работающая через жопу автоматическая система укрытий.

Отчаянно пытаясь походить на фильм, в первой половине игра явно вдохновлялась фильмами Майкла Манна. Штурм банка — «Схватка». Клуб в Токио — «Соучастник». Но всё эти попытки, помимо отвратной стрельбы, добивает ещё и крайне убогая графика и постановка: буханки на колёсах и залитый белым экран при столкновениях. Погоня после штурма выглядит непередаваемо убого, а взрывы машин выглядят лучше в «Мафии» 2002 года.

Во второй половине игра совсем выдыхается и нас забрасывают в унылые джунгли, где врагов совсем непомерные толпы, а говнистость текстур оправдывается серо-коричневой цветовой гаммой. Я не графодрочер, но в этой игре графика реально дерьмовая. Нормально выглядят только главные герои. И штукатурка у стен отлетает!

А что про сценарий? А он тоже говно. Максимум это тянет на скучный боевик категории «Б». Кейн за всю игру не выдаёт вообще ничего интересного: только постоянно орёт о том, что ему надо спасти дочь и что все должны его слушать. Линчу выделили два потенциально интересных момента. В одном он убивает всех заложников, а потом заявляет, что у него часто бывают такие помутнения. А во втором выясняется, что во время такого помутнения он убил (или не он?) свою жену. И всё! Вот и вся заявка на неоднозначных персонажей и их взаимоотношения.

Спасает игру только то, что она пробегается за 4-5 часов. Но это сомнительный повод мучить себя дерьмовой стрельбой, слабым сценарием и дешевой постановкой.

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Please...callmeYork

Review Please...callmeYork 3/5 · Dec 27, 2018

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men has a number of fantastic sequences in its first half. As characters its protagonists can seemingly only exist in those forgotten spaces on the fringes of society – an abandoned mall, a quiet underpass. Unfortunately, due to their circumstances they have to throw themselves into situations with a lot of civilians, and there is no …

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Kane & Lynch: Dead Men has a number of fantastic sequences in its first half. As characters its protagonists can seemingly only exist in those forgotten spaces on the fringes of society – an abandoned mall, a quiet underpass. Unfortunately, due to their circumstances they have to throw themselves into situations with a lot of civilians, and there is no hope that it can in end in anything but chaos. An excursion through a crowded Tokyo nightclub is K&L at its best. Lynch has a woman slung over his shoulder as you try to avoid detection whilst leaving the club. The guards have their flashlights raised, so you push through the writhing bodies as you make your way towards the exit. When that doesn’t work you raise you pistol and pick your shots, hoping to limit collateral damage. By that point the clubs patrons are panicking and running in circles. This is what happens when Kane & Lynch are flung into society: death, chaos & panic. There’s a great moment when you ascend to the next floor of the club only to realise that everyone is still happily dancing, completely unaware of what has happened on the floor below.

Sometime before this scene there’s a Michael Mann inspired bank robbery that is a lot of fun. A little later there is a prison break-out that rivals the nightclub scene in terms of enjoyment. But then, there’s Havana.

As soon as the game throws you into the midst of a civil war in Havana you are probably safe to just turn the game off. Nothing interesting happens after this point. It is truly awful. This happens roughly halfway through the game and it is genuinely sad to see it devolve into a clunky mindless military third-person shooter. Even after a location change, this unimaginative dreck continues to the end. A small spoiler here: the game ends with a final choice. You can either decide to finish it as an asshole, or play one final level in the hope of redeeming yourself. By this point the game had destroyed any goodwill it had built up in its first half, so I happily watched those credits roll with everyone still hating me.

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kurodutch

Status kurodutch Aug 30, 2018

First of all, you are gonna face some troubles trying to run this game on a Win 10 PC. You need to disable some things in order to avoid the lag and make it possible to play. Btw, it uses GFWL. The gameplay it's nothing special. It is an average TPS gameplay. Your partner's AI it's awful. Sometimes the don't …

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First of all, you are gonna face some troubles trying to run this game on a Win 10 PC. You need to disable some things in order to avoid the lag and make it possible to play. Btw, it uses GFWL. The gameplay it's nothing special. It is an average TPS gameplay. Your partner's AI it's awful. Sometimes the don't follow your orders and they stay like afk in the middle of the field. The worst decision (for me at least) was to add bullet deviation in this game. Why???? you need sometimes to use a full mag on just one guy because your bullets don't land where your aim is. Buy this on sale, otherwise don't

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Amarjunchu

Review Amarjunchu 3/5 · Dec 12, 2017

Worth playing if you can get it running nice!

Getting this game to work is really a pain but Its probably worth the effort required to get this running on modern Windows 10 pc. Now if you are still ready to do all the effort to play this game then the gameplay is pretty decent and the varied locations are just awesome. I gotta point out that Havana level …

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Getting this game to work is really a pain but Its probably worth the effort required to get this running on modern Windows 10 pc. Now if you are still ready to do all the effort to play this game then the gameplay is pretty decent and the varied locations are just awesome. I gotta point out that Havana level though because it is just too difficult and to beat it you just got to be super patient otherwise you will become a patient at hospital. Other than that its just a nice little ride of an awesome Third Person Shooting and goodness.

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