It's enough to make anyone feel uneasy - but that's nothing compared to the part that follows. Instead, the bad guy's face gets covered in giant pixels - like someone who's having their identity concealed on a CCTV camera, creating the illusion that what's happened is so gory, it's had to be censored. And while the sizzling sound effects, and the man's screams are enough to make you cringe on their own, you don't actually see the grizzly results. At one point in the game, Lynch holds a hit man's head against a burning hob to try and get him to reveal a key piece of information. There's a lot of gore on show here, which, along with the colourful language, often helps to distract from the proceedings, but the game uses several clever tricks to make the gore appear worse than it really is. The entire game's presented from an over the shoulder perspective, with heavy dosings of film grain trying to make the game look like it's been filmed as a documentary, or a snuff film. They may be hardened criminals, but they're human too, and at several points in the game, you'll find yourself with an incredibly uneasy feeling that the situation they've got themselves into isn't going to end all that well. You're never really told much about Kane and Lynch's back story, so it's hard to know quite why they're in Shanghai, or how they got involved with the criminal underworld, but as Kane and Lynch 2 progresses, you'll actually find yourself feeling quite sorry for them and their incredible run of bad luck. The two main characters, and also the title's namesakes, Kane and Lynch, are two criminals - one a psychotic, self-medicated madman, and the other, a notorious ex-mercenary, who're on the verge of completing an arms deal, when a case of mistaken identity, and a slip of the finger threatens to bring the might of the entire Shanghai underworld down on them. It's hard to describe just how dark, both in terms of visual stylings, and content Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days is. They're pulling off the tough guy look pretty well, we think.
With some incredibly violent scenes, gratuitious swearing and gore throughout, along with its gritty, dark, disturbing presentation, Kane and Lynch 2 feels as though it's been positioned to grab headlines - something it's so far failed to do. You kind of get the feeling, from playing Kane and Lynch 2, that it was this sort of controvery that Square Enix were going for. Needless to say, the game's publisher, Activision, enjoyed the media frenzy that followed, and Modern Warfare 2 went on to become the biggest selling game of 2009, despite launching in the latter part of the year.Īs it stands, controversy tends to make games sell - the media's reporting of "evil" games simply helping fuel interest and demand for something that people may otherwise not have heard of. The scene was designed to test players morals - as an undercover agent, should they join in with the chaos, and risk blowing their cover, or stay with the plan, and gun down the same people they're employed to protect? - but the whole thing was, somewhat predictably, dramatically simplified and misrepresented by the media. Then, just last year, a similarly controversial scene in Modern Warfare 2, which put the player as an undercover agent in a terrorist cell, as they took part in an attack on innocent civilians at an airport, caused a similarly public storm.
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