While it’s an improvement over the first game, Kane & Lynch 2’s high production values and streamlined focus are overshadowed by its thudding repetition, narrowly linear design, five-hour campaign and hugely unappealing protagonists. And at one point, you’ll snipe masked bad guys who are trying to snatch Lynch’s girlfriend off a balcony, one of the few points at which the duo fight to protect anyone but themselves. Another time, you’ll need to sneak around naked, unarmed and bleeding to rescue Kane and find a gun. Twice, you’ll briefly fight alongside a squad of allies who soak up bullets for you. While Dog Days is mostly about Kane and Lynch thudding their way through one crowded firefight after another, it takes a few interesting detours, although these are rare.
There’s just a couple of fragile cretins you're supposed to empathize with, a bunch of dudes for them to joylessly shoot and a whole lot of dingy-but-super-detailed environments to marvel at through the game’s hazy grain filter. There’s no redemption, no real attempt to make the characters interesting, and no sense of triumph when they win. There isn’t any elaborate backstory to delve into, or even any secondary characters that stick around long enough for you to get attached. In Kane & Lynch 2s story mode,you take the role of the psychopathic Lynch who is backed up by Kane.The online co-op mode will allow others to play as Kane.Unlike Dead Men,you will only be arm with up to two of any weapon you grab from dead enemies and cannot be swapped between players.The combat system. That’s really all you need to know, because in spite of its lavish presentation, snappy writing and stellar acting, the story – like the gameplay – cuts straight to the point: Kane and Lynch are in deep shit, and the only way to get them out of said shit is to gun down an army of cops, gangsters and soldiers. Oh, and this time around, you play as balding psychopath Lynch (who’s gotten his mental illness mostly under control) instead of mercenary Kane. Kane & Lynch 2 follows its titular goons – a couple of uncharismatic, intentionally unlikable criminals who spend most of the game grumbling the word “fuck” at each other – through the streets of Shanghai after a seemingly insignificant botched job leads to the entire city breathing down their necks.
It’s when you combine all those elements with the game’s story and characters that it starts to falter.
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