Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

[sleeve]

To my great surprise, I couldn't find a thread devoted to this game. It's coming out next week, along with Crysis, Assassin's Creed, Army of Two, some Contra game and a ton of other shit in what promises to be the game industry's Operation Overlord.

Why should you care about this game? It was developed by Io Interactive, justly acclaimed for its work on the Hitman series. But they also developed Freedom Fighters, one of the best and most criminally underrated games of the previous console generation. FF was a brilliant third person action game with amazing music and great, often humorous art direction. It was set in an alternate world in which the Soviet Union attempts a massive land invasion of the United States. Your player becomes the head of the resistance movement in New York City.

One of its coolest features was the squad control system. By the end of the game, you can have as many as 12 AI-controlled fighters at your disposal at one time. With a quick push of a button, you can give individual orders to each squad member, allowing you to perform complex tactical maneuvers on the fly.

Kane and Lynch looks like a spiritual sequel to FF. Like FF, Kane and Lynch is a 3rd person action game with squad control elements. The major difference is that the main characters in K&L are mercenary sociopaths who rob banks. Multiplayer sounds really awesome, too.

The only question is whether to buy it for 360 or PC. I'm tempted to go 360 just because Io's PC games have a history of massive bugs.

Anyone else picking it up next week? If so, for what system?

[B-Ri]

too many games no time.

I was considering assassins, but ive already got mass effect and uncharted coming, and finals, and ect. I think this may have to wait :x

[animegirl]

I was interested in this game after seeing the trailer. I didn't hear too much about it after that though. Might pick it up used.

[sleeve]

More multiplayer/co-op footage:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/27551.html

[Dyne]

i was following this and Army of Two for a while. the last i saw AoT it looked like ass so this may definately be a rental.

[A Robot Bit Me]

I'm not quite sold on Kane & Lynch, but I am sold on replaying Freedom Fighters. That game was awesome.

[Rumpy]

Army of Two is pushed back to next year. The multiplayer mode sounds great but I'm going to pick up AC instead of this, maybe make this a good rental or wait for a price drop. The early previews were very iffy but it sounds like they pulled it all together.

[Tain]

Kane and Lynch? Yeah, maybe.

I should hunt down a cheap Freedom Fighters though.

[bVork]

Freedom Fighters gameplay meets the art style of Hitman sounds fantastic. Too bad there are so many awesome releases right now. I can't really afford to pick up a game that looks like it will be merely great. Oh well, this will be something to get next year during the inevitable drought between March and September.

[morphix]

Any word how the PS3 port is turning out?