IO "satisfied" with Kane & Lynch 2

By Robert Purchese Published 31 August, 2010

Genre preconceptions caused divide.

IO Interactive has claimed to be "satisfied" with the reaction to Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days.

Eurogamer awarded a below average 4/10, but others have gone higher.

"I would say we are satisfied with Kane & Lynch 2, which in its final form ended up being as we had imagined it," studio spokesperson Tom Stratton told Eurogamer Denmark this afternoon.

"I do not think there are other games out there that equally divided the players and critics into two camps so extremely and equally, finishing with scores at the lowest and highest ends of the scales.

"But that is probably how it should go when you go new ways and not only will provide a me-too product," he added.

Stratton went on to question people's preconceptions of what a third-person shooter should be - a pigeon-hole he feels Kane & Lynch was, "in the worst cases", thrust into.

A Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days demo is available on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 now.

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Comments (25) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • Skurmedel #1 1 year ago

    I'm quite satisfied as well, but pleease... fix the startup crash. You can do it baby.

  • Spekingur #2 1 year ago

    This game surprised me. I suggest playing through it only in co-op.

  • Haloboy #3 1 year ago

    Everyone I know playing this absolutely love it. I rated the first quite highly back in the day and I'm told this is an improvement. It's just meant to be a tad short. Engrossing and violent as a cat falling in a meat grinder but short. Like ----bang!---fuck!---end, that short.

    I promised EG I wouldn't buy it though. Damn my eyes.


  • hobojebus #4 1 year ago

    Yeah but i'm not paying 30-40 pounds for a four hour game, 20-25 maybe but not full price.

  • SAMagic #5 1 year ago

    Stratton went on to question people's preconceptions of what a third-person shooter should be - a pigeon-hole he feels Kane & Lynch was, "in the worst cases", thrust into.

    ...
    It's third person. And you shoot people in it. What does he expect?!

  • Haloboy #6 1 year ago

    Pigeons? In 3rd person?
    Edited by 1 at 31/08/10 @ 15:11

  • el_pollo_diablo #7 1 year ago

    "But that is probably how it should go when you go new ways and not only will provide a me-too product,"

    Well yeah, sort of. But when you look at something like Heavy Rain which fulfilled that same criteria AND was very well critically received, you have to accept that it is at least possible to achieve both.

  • Gl3n #8 1 year ago

    Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Poop

  • CaptainQuint #9 1 year ago

    Call me an old fashioned romantic, but I prefer rooting for a couple of likeable protagonists over a couple of c*nts, when playing a game, or watching a movie.

  • Dr.Mott #10 1 year ago

    Excuse me, Io, could you please make Hitman 5 now? Thanks.

  • Pastici #11 1 year ago

    @pswii6o

    It was £18 on Zavvi yesterday I think.

  • bad09 #12 1 year ago

    I liked it but certainly wasn't "satisfied" with the atrocious ending IO, Who there went "yeah sod it, that'll do"?.

  • alimokrane #13 1 year ago

    Hitman 5 now please, thank you!

  • Rizo #14 1 year ago

    Didn't this drop to 17.99 in three days? no wonder it charted well!

  • systems #15 1 year ago

    Zavvi were doing it for £17.95 recently but today it's back up to £24.95.

  • Skurmedel #16 1 year ago

    CaptainQuint, what about Scarface and Fargo? I think playing a bunch of bastards were quite a relief actually.

  • FreakyZoid #17 1 year ago

    Yeah it was £18 in a couple of online stores over the weekend. £25 in store at HMV. I don't know how you could really be satisfied with your game being dumped so quickly. Would expect to see a lot of 2nd hand copies soon.

  • mixpython #18 1 year ago

    found so many bugs i couldn't even complete it!! they released an unfinished product.. on co-op my partner had his gun taken away randomly TWICE.. and was given very few guns to collect each with only several rounds in, while on my screen there were guns everywhere.. at one [point giving me over 3000 rounds.. while he was left to try and take hostages at every opportunity as he had no way of defending himself.. now when your playing on hard.. this is a little bit ridiculous. Oh yeah and the game crashed 3 times!!! Sry, i loved the style, but you should have finished the polishing!!

  • Reihn #19 1 year ago

    A better use for four hours: Limbo.

  • Cyclone #20 1 year ago

    Is that four hours limbo dancing, or four hours in a void of nothingness? I suppose neither really reflects well on the game.

  • Nephirion #21 1 year ago

    The game suffered from a lack of variety in terms of game play and the overall length. Locking multiplayer maps as DLC is a real insult to the customer for a game this short. Looks like they are trying to follow MW2 sales model with a product even less polished and with greater restriction.

  • bratmandu #22 1 year ago

    Right IO, you've had your experiment in new franchise creation and it blew goats - now get back to work on more fucking hitman and freedom fighters games right fucking NOOWWWWWWW!!!!!

  • CaptainQuint #23 1 year ago

    @Skurmedel

    You missed my point; Tony Montana is an extremely agreeable movie character, or "anti-hero". The two leads in Fargo are amusing and oddly endearing.

    Kane and Lynch are neither agreeable nor endearing; they're just a couple of angry bastards with no redeeming features. They do not have the charisma and charm of a strong character like Tony Montana.

    Big difference.

  • GooseUK #24 1 year ago

    It's £25 in almost all supermarkets. I bought it the other day and I am really enjoying it.

  • xenoss #25 1 year ago

    Sick and tired of publishers and devs coming out to say stuff like this. "We're satisfied with blah blah blah..." This 1 is even worse, here he is basically commenting that people are too stupid to understand the game it is so far ahead in the genre. They need better PR people; because this only put the company and the game in an even more negative light for me.

    I liked the art direction, and if people think it was a trick to cover up crappy graphics, then it is a pretty clever trick and that's cool too. The multiplayer concepts are likewise brilliant; the best concept this side of The Ship (most of you know this as Assassin's Creed Brotherhood mp).

    So it isn't like I don't "get" the game. What's wrong with Dog Days is the crappy gameplay. All the art direction and brilliant concepts are wasted on the shitty game mechanics and design. The AI is dumb. The gunplay was subpar. The levels feels too linear. The game is short. The controls are wonky.

    Those are NOT issues related to genre preconceptions. Or are you telling me a game doesn't need good AI, good gunplay, good level designs, and good controls?

    Stuff that genre preconception right back up your IO arse, why don't you. How about make good a game that had so much promise, instead of making excuses after the failure?