Kane & Lynch review

Good: Fairly fast pacing through most of the levels; each level different enough from the others to keep the game interesting; shooting is not perfectly accurate (as it should not be); no disney-esque ending

Bad: Interesting concept (duality between Kane and Lynch) never really fully fleshed out; gameplay does get redudant after a while; fairly short

The long: While Kane & Lynch delivers a startling fresh idea (allowing the gamer to ‘nearly’ play two characters at once and develop simultaneously, the game never really fleshes out the concept. The game could’ve been a charm had it, at some point, branched out between the paths of being Kane or Lynch, giving you the choice of seeing one backstory versus another.

The game itself is a fairly fun, no-holds barred, typical gunfest, where you are driven, as Kane, to save your daughter and wife. The concept is rather vanilla, but the game does hold its merit in the way you go about trying to save them, hitting up people from the past and looking for clues–one level has you goign through a busy nightclub to get to the owner, another has you repelling down the front of a skyscraper, bombing out a window and raiding the building.

And short: Kane & Lynch delivers some interesting concepts that deliver a little more than half-heartedly. It’s an above-average game that you won’t feel bad about tearing through in a day or two.

Score: 70%