Friend and I rented this game on a whim when it came out and actually ended up enjoying it a lot, except for that final stretch where the difficulty hiked up.
Love them ! Underrated how your main guys are bad and criminals not the normal goodie 2 shoes! Games should copy that format with great storytelling maybe making them change and become good hearted through the journey!!
I personally think Dead Men is superior to Dog Days. The graphics definitely look better, the gunplay mechanics are a lot more polished, the squad management system adds a layer of strategy to your encounters, and the story is so much more detailed and involved than whatever Dog Days had.
I still unironically love both Kane and Lynch games. The best part is you can play them back to back in 8 hours, that's 2 games for the time commitment of 1!
This game was only really acceptable in Co-Op, and while playing as Lynch. Still one of my favortie gaming moments when on my screen Cops were rushing us, but on my friend's screen I was just mowing down civillians. But other than that, I really only remember the dump truck and that the skyscraper mission exists.
SAME! That shaky camcorder style drew me in at first since I’d never seen anything like it. Within maybe 2 hours it gave me nausea that not even a vr game could replicate.
@@Jay_Costanza It gave me a hangover, literally. I finished it with my younger brother in a single session, and I remember laughing our asses off at the ending. The amount of audacity it takes to end a game like that... unbelievable.
This video made me remember I played this game at the Boys and girls club as a kid. I had so much fun doing the bank heist and other missions, mainly because that was one of the few shooters I ever played. Game definitely didn't age well, but oh man did it give a kid a great experience
What a fantastic game for kids to play at the Boys and Girls club. Lol like wtf were they thinking, let's let them play a game where not only can you murder innocent civilians but it doesn't even give you an instant game over when you do.
Your comment on the bank being in a Walmart is not far off. I worked at a bank in a Walmart once, and only managed to stick it out for like two months. Not the best job I ever had, but also, not the worst. If you're wondering what kind of bank has a local inside a Walmart, it's exactly the kind of bank you'd imagine would set up shop inside a Walmart.
Kane and Lynch wants to be Heat so bad, but it's like if McCauley and Waingro teamed up for some reason. There's no reason why the duo would ever team up and stick together in either game.
It's explained in the story. Lynch is The 7's watchdog who's supposed to make sure that Kane retrieves what he stole from them. If Lynch reports good news, then Kane's wife and daughter won't be harmed. That's why they're together.
how does it want to be heat so bad... it got inspired by it sure but the set pieces aren't directly ripped off like something from GTA 5 instead kane and lynch wants it to be it's own story and have its own world.... you do realise that rockstar got heavily inspired by kane and lynch for their 4th and 5th mainlined installment in the GTA series... so what do you have to say about that now?
Great game. I especially loved the moment where Kane said "it's Kanin' time" and Lynch said "it's lynchin' time". Definitely one of the games of all time.
It took me over half this video to realize that I actually had beaten Kane and lynch way back when when it came out lmao. That’s how forgettable it was I was like huh this feels familiar
I played split screen coop with my cousin back when this came out. It was actually a really enjoyable experience and mad funny. The coop experience made the game bearable.
8:55 Yakuza beat them to this idea by several years, iirc in Yakuza 1 on PS2, Majima drives a dump truck into the Shangri-La nightclub during a clan war.
In fairness, smart police chases happen below the speed limit, above the speed limit it becomes more dangerous to drive and it’s much riskier, however even after 30mph it’s very hard to actually get stopped by the police, as long as you don’t let them overtake or trap you in an ambush.
Hitman fought a helicopter in Codename 47, during one of the triad missions. I guess you could say he fought one in Absolution, too, but nobody really likes to count that game as canon.
I don't think you understand the genre. A mix of max payne and hitman, 2 psychos playing as hero's when there just bad men it's one of my favourite games.
In retrospect, having the ability to download demos for the first time on the 7th gen consoles probably saved me a lot of money. Managed to avoid stuff like this, The Club and Stranglehold.
Oh no, I got bamboozled into playing this **piece of media** by game journalism back in the paper magazines' days. They REEAAALLLLYY pushed such amazing features as clothes being made from actual polygons, not just textures smothered over the character model.
Kane and Lynch 1 is one of the most frustrating gaming experiences I've had. I lost several missions because of glitches. The last straw was the mission in the nightclub. I tried walking through the club with the escort, but they kept dying. So I left the escort in the first room and killed all the enemies in the nightclub. But then I got outside and was locked out of the club. I could see my escort through the skylight, but when I ordered them to follow me the game would tell me they died
Bruh the game came out in 07 this series is brilliant and has room for growth, image if Rockstar had this title in their hands in todays engine and story writing. They gave up on this amazing game
I remember playing watching the demo from the hit an trilogy for PS2 and thinking it looked so dope. Then I got to play the game. It was not as expected. I always thought that it would be better as a TV show or movie. A lot of promise but never really panned out.
I'd say it was a good game for the time, I mean your talking about a split screen shooter in 2008 with only adult themes, the action is so tense, the end of the game was so difficult I loved the experience. Kane and Lynch never flinches and I think it's a solid 7/10
Thought this and the second one was pretty great. No feel good endings and the the multiplayer in the second one had a really interesting and intense multiplayer. Got crazy betrayals and intense shootouts over the last van out of the area. Plus the gritty feeling of Shanghai was fresh.
I actually remember loving this game as a kid because I would only ever play it at my cousin's house and we'd usually play together with something playing the background
funny you mentioned the "why are we army guys shooting RPGs at BTRs in Cuba?" thing the latter levels in Kane and Lynch are reused assets IO Interactive made for a sequel to one of their previous third-person shooters: Freedom Fighters, which they scrapped that game isn't perfect either, but it's magnitudes above Kane & Lynch, and the fact they chose to do this instead of FF2 kinda sucks
They were good concepts but executed in not the best way. They remain a cult classic but could never reach mainstream appeal, both because of the extremely gritty and dark story and the janky gameplay
To be honest, this is my favorite bad game of all time, but the worst part is that the truck driver I've been trying to kill it from killing Jenny is the worst mission that I am stuck on it
I stopped playing this in the final level the guns can’t hit anything and enemies just hit you from everywhere. Just kept going down and having existential crisis while my teammates did nothing.
dang, I remember playing the multiplayer when this game was big, and the way you could turn on your homies and steal their money too was the best part. i also played the hell out of the story
Kane & Lynch was pretty rough around the edges, but there are a few aspects I can appreciate like the environmental attention to detail (even if a lot of it's just reserved for dumb jokes).
I really liked all of the unique types of guns in the game. Since it was set in Asia you had a lot of guns and such that you would never find anywhere else.
I love these games. They tell a cool and engaging story and it doesn't shit all over the gameplay. I also love how the second one plays like you're watching a documentary but still functions perfectly well.
This game was Brilliant! Actually one of my all time favourites... How this game got such bad reviews is beyond me?! I tried to get this on PC off Steam but it seems to be permanently 'temporarily removed' downloaded K&L 2 dead men which won't play on Onexplayer for some reason I'm still trying to figure out so I'll just have to play it one Xbox 360 as it's won't play on xbox series x (K&L 2 will play) Still a great game loved the characters and everything about it....
I played this game for a bit with a friend in coop because we picked it up in a bargain bin.. and it was a festival of bad gameplay of bugs and we dropped it after the missions with the escalators. Hard to believe the same studio behind Hitman made this
Friend and I rented this game on a whim when it came out and actually ended up enjoying it a lot, except for that final stretch where the difficulty hiked up.
exactly me and my buddy Paul played this cover to cover in one sitting absolutely loved it in the seventh grade lol
Yeah the difficulty ramps up when you get to the city mission
Maybe that's what killed it for me. I remember being stuck in that fucking courtyard and it was not fun at all.
@@bradlauk1419 I'd say the ending is the hardest co op experience I ever had
@@CorgiWrangler most people who played it with a friend got some real enjoyment and rate it higher
I unironically love both games.
I thought they were great
Yeah same I loved it, I don't see the hate
Love them ! Underrated how your main guys are bad and criminals not the normal goodie 2 shoes! Games should copy that format with great storytelling maybe making them change and become good hearted through the journey!!
Same
Me too
I firmly believe Kane and Lynch 1 is an outstanding 7/10 for some reason.
I made a comment I said it was a good game and also said it's definitely a good 7/10
I personally think Dead Men is superior to Dog Days. The graphics definitely look better, the gunplay mechanics are a lot more polished, the squad management system adds a layer of strategy to your encounters, and the story is so much more detailed and involved than whatever Dog Days had.
Bcuz it was...This is for Views
Hell yea
I like Kane and lynch 1 it's my favorite out of the two only because part 1 had squad base command functions.
I still unironically love both Kane and Lynch games. The best part is you can play them back to back in 8 hours, that's 2 games for the time commitment of 1!
Love them both
Same
This game was only really acceptable in Co-Op, and while playing as Lynch. Still one of my favortie gaming moments when on my screen Cops were rushing us, but on my friend's screen I was just mowing down civillians. But other than that, I really only remember the dump truck and that the skyscraper mission exists.
He kept saying "dump truck" so that my monkey brain immediatly switched to expecting a big booty woman to appear during the gameplay.
OH WOW
That's a hidden gem what went over my head lol.
Don't forget the cops get literal pig heads too in one area.
The 2nd Kayne and Lynch game was probably the first and only game that made me physically ill while playing it. Headaches, nausea, you name it.
SAME! That shaky camcorder style drew me in at first since I’d never seen anything like it. Within maybe 2 hours it gave me nausea that not even a vr game could replicate.
@@Jay_Costanza It gave me a hangover, literally.
I finished it with my younger brother in a single session, and I remember laughing our asses off at the ending. The amount of audacity it takes to end a game like that... unbelievable.
You could of turned shaky camera off
That's apart of the experience! A real gamer uses the blurry camera to aim shots quicker!
This is way too late to be useful, but you can turn the camera shake and fullscreen effects off in the options.
This video made me remember I played this game at the Boys and girls club as a kid. I had so much fun doing the bank heist and other missions, mainly because that was one of the few shooters I ever played. Game definitely didn't age well, but oh man did it give a kid a great experience
What a fantastic game for kids to play at the Boys and Girls club. Lol like wtf were they thinking, let's let them play a game where not only can you murder innocent civilians but it doesn't even give you an instant game over when you do.
@@Rayzboomboomroom His school is based.
JK, Split/Second is more based than Kane and Lynch.
@@brawler5760 boys and girls club isn't a school
@@Rayzboomboomroom hahahahahahahaha 😂 oh, my God.
@@Rayzboomboomroom get a grip 😂😂😂
I have never heard oboe laugh that hard at a cutscene. This truly must be a special game.
I LOVED this game as a kid, playing this with my dad was the greatest
There's always this one guy on all of his fucking videos
Same here
Dang, y'all had cool parents...
@@julienandrus4169 yeah its a shame there aren't many couch coop games anymore
@@gabrielcruz7402 Yeah, Even LAN co op on pc is fading...
I might be the only person around who wanted a third installment
Max Payne 3 is probably as close as you get to a 3rd installment of this game tbh
You're actually not. A good amount of ppl, including myself and let's player Willzyyy want a third Kane & Lynch. : /
Your comment on the bank being in a Walmart is not far off. I worked at a bank in a Walmart once, and only managed to stick it out for like two months. Not the best job I ever had, but also, not the worst.
If you're wondering what kind of bank has a local inside a Walmart, it's exactly the kind of bank you'd imagine would set up shop inside a Walmart.
Navy federal
@@asdfghjkl3669 Woodforest. It's a small bank, mostly located in Walmarts.
Woodforest days 😂
0:40 Hitman fought a helicopter in the very first mission, Kowloon Triads in Gang War, in the first game - Hitman: Codename 47.
Kane and Lynch wants to be Heat so bad, but it's like if McCauley and Waingro teamed up for some reason. There's no reason why the duo would ever team up and stick together in either game.
Dawg what, the game is good fuck u mean
It's literally explained why they're together.
It's explained in the story. Lynch is The 7's watchdog who's supposed to make sure that Kane retrieves what he stole from them. If Lynch reports good news, then Kane's wife and daughter won't be harmed. That's why they're together.
This game was dope
how does it want to be heat so bad... it got inspired by it sure but the set pieces aren't directly ripped off like something from GTA 5 instead kane and lynch wants it to be it's own story and have its own world.... you do realise that rockstar got heavily inspired by kane and lynch for their 4th and 5th mainlined installment in the GTA series... so what do you have to say about that now?
Great game. I especially loved the moment where Kane said "it's Kanin' time" and Lynch said "it's lynchin' time". Definitely one of the games of all time.
Plzz let this joke die
It took me over half this video to realize that I actually had beaten Kane and lynch way back when when it came out lmao. That’s how forgettable it was I was like huh this feels familiar
That billboard was a nice jab at Microsoft for releasing Vista, when XP was widely used and it worked
I played split screen coop with my cousin back when this came out. It was actually a really enjoyable experience and mad funny. The coop experience made the game bearable.
Drinking game: Take a shot every time Oboe says Dump Truck
Whelp I’m mildly buzzed
wait this isnt a 4 hour analysis
The multi-player for this game was actually really good... miss it.
8:55 Yakuza beat them to this idea by several years, iirc in Yakuza 1 on PS2, Majima drives a dump truck into the Shangri-La nightclub during a clan war.
Kane and Lynch 2 is my guilty pleasure. Yeah, the game is bad in many if not all aspects, but god damn the atmosphere
Me and you should play co-op sometimes
It’s not even bad, it’s just really weird.
and soundtracks and effects
A masterpiece that rivals all.
I enjoyed this as a kid, I played this before ever playing any GTA games.
The 2nd game had a very fun arcade mode
This is like if A Way Out was a bad third person shooter.
Don’t diss A Way Out like that.
Bro this game made me think of a way out but I couldn’t remember the name .🤣
This game is so grey that just watching Oboe play it made me colorblind.
I remember playing this split screen, when I was a kid, with my best friend when it came out. We had a great time.
In fairness, smart police chases happen below the speed limit, above the speed limit it becomes more dangerous to drive and it’s much riskier, however even after 30mph it’s very hard to actually get stopped by the police, as long as you don’t let them overtake or trap you in an ambush.
God this has to be my favorite series of videos I've ever seen
Kane and Lynch 2 is interesting enough to make me write about it so I’d say it’s worth the money for the perspective alone
Hitman fought a helicopter in Codename 47, during one of the triad missions.
I guess you could say he fought one in Absolution, too, but nobody really likes to count that game as canon.
Love hearing complaints while trying to hear the gameplay
Go watch a walkthrough then, genius.
@ I have genius
Man if you consider this a really bad game then I want to see you play the sequel. There will be no words in vocabulary to describe this.
From what I remember it had this experminental noise soundtrack. An interesting idea, but such a terrible game!
Atleast the sequel has a unique visual and sound design with some interesting ideas
I don't think you understand the genre. A mix of max payne and hitman, 2 psychos playing as hero's when there just bad men it's one of my favourite games.
In retrospect, having the ability to download demos for the first time on the 7th gen consoles probably saved me a lot of money.
Managed to avoid stuff like this, The Club and Stranglehold.
Avoided badass tps there, mate.
Stranglehold is sick as hell
@@joshweed123 Not a fan from my demo experience. Like a bad Max Payne.
@@nathandts3401 fair enough, it’s better than WET atleast 😂
@@joshweed123 That's another one I'm thankful a demo kept me away from.
Early 7th gen was a rough place.
Oh no, I got bamboozled into playing this **piece of media** by game journalism back in the paper magazines' days.
They REEAAALLLLYY pushed such amazing features as clothes being made from actual polygons, not just textures smothered over the character model.
Playing Kane and Lynch was quite the highlight for me in my teenage youth!
Kane and Lynch 1 is one of the most frustrating gaming experiences I've had. I lost several missions because of glitches. The last straw was the mission in the nightclub. I tried walking through the club with the escort, but they kept dying. So I left the escort in the first room and killed all the enemies in the nightclub. But then I got outside and was locked out of the club. I could see my escort through the skylight, but when I ordered them to follow me the game would tell me they died
Bruh the game came out in 07 this series is brilliant and has room for growth, image if Rockstar had this title in their hands in todays engine and story writing. They gave up on this amazing game
Lynch looks like he fell out of his chair and ended up a tree
This game was my childhood really loved it
I Remember Kane and Lynch 1 (for good reason)
I loved these games. They were so different than other games in this period.
I remember playing watching the demo from the hit an trilogy for PS2 and thinking it looked so dope.
Then I got to play the game. It was not as expected.
I always thought that it would be better as a TV show or movie. A lot of promise but never really panned out.
I'd say it was a good game for the time, I mean your talking about a split screen shooter in 2008 with only adult themes, the action is so tense, the end of the game was so difficult I loved the experience. Kane and Lynch never flinches and I think it's a solid 7/10
Oh look, the prequel to the pyrocinical video, exactly what I needed
Thought this and the second one was pretty great. No feel good endings and the the multiplayer in the second one had a really interesting and intense multiplayer. Got crazy betrayals and intense shootouts over the last van out of the area. Plus the gritty feeling of Shanghai was fresh.
Unironically one of my favorite games of all time. The atmosphere is really something.
yikes
I loved Kayne and Lynch split-screen with my brother
This was the most average game I remember playing in 2007. Yet I still have a few fond memories of enjoyment with it
At least this game is relatively better than 2010's Dog Days.
I actually remember loving this game as a kid because I would only ever play it at my cousin's house and we'd usually play together with something playing the background
funny you mentioned the "why are we army guys shooting RPGs at BTRs in Cuba?" thing
the latter levels in Kane and Lynch are reused assets IO Interactive made for a sequel to one of their previous third-person shooters: Freedom Fighters, which they scrapped
that game isn't perfect either, but it's magnitudes above Kane & Lynch, and the fact they chose to do this instead of FF2 kinda sucks
I was looking for this comment, I'm still annoyed that we got this instead of FF2.
I remember it. I loved it.
Of Mice And Men is a great book, and this is its best video game adaptation.
Stop bashing K&L.
Lotsa people love it.
I just discovered your channel because I was curious if anyone still made videos of this game. I love you bro your a really good commentator🔥😂
3:53 missed opportunity for a Raising Cane's joke
After watching Pyrocynical I'm conivinced the games were just misunderstood at least in the story department
If that's coming from Pyrocynical...
Pyrocynical? more like fempyro!
Pyrocynical is a nonce, never take what he says seriously
All in le head?
They were good concepts but executed in not the best way. They remain a cult classic but could never reach mainstream appeal, both because of the extremely gritty and dark story and the janky gameplay
This is the game of all time
That prison break jail mission was the best
did anyone else notice that the pics on the soft drinks where just takin from the bigger picture above it 1:35
This game had a GREAT premise
Mannn THIS NEEDS A REMAKE 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
This game was a classic.
To be honest, this is my favorite bad game of all time, but the worst part is that the truck driver I've been trying to kill it from killing Jenny is the worst mission that I am stuck on it
I stopped playing this in the final level the guns can’t hit anything and enemies just hit you from everywhere. Just kept going down and having existential crisis while my teammates did nothing.
I remember it and still love it due to the nostalgia of playing it when I was a kid
They decided to not improve the freedom fighters squad system by making a sequel to that and instead made Kane and Lynch with a worse squad system
I loved this game. It makes it much more fun when u aren't a loser and have someone to play coop with
You should give a shot to Army of Two. Both decent couch co-op games. Oh no, there's no third game. Never heard of it, don't think it exists!
The yapping is off the charts here lool
I think if it was remade with the graphics we've got now, it would be a interesting comeback.
The bank robbery shootout reminds me of the shootout in heat(1995).
I remember an interview with some of the developers at the time and they cited Heat as a strong influence. Man, I liked this series!
@@LOCATIONREDACTED but its less action, still loved it though
Man this game was fucking sweet idk why I guess it was just a gem for the 360 at the time
It wasn't.
dang, I remember playing the multiplayer when this game was big, and the way you could turn on your homies and steal their money too was the best part. i also played the hell out of the story
Throwing in the gertsmann little quip at the beginning was just *chefs kiss.
Somehow I liked this game for its gunplay, especially the 2nd one
At 4:22, "There's no grace. This game has a funny face". Good bars.
I can’t believe oboe missed the npc at 0:15 just shooting straight up into the sky at nothing
Oh I guess he was probably shooting the helicopter
I remember this being one of the first games I had for my Xbox 360
When life gives you access to a giant dump truck you take it.
Kane & Lynch was pretty rough around the edges, but there are a few aspects I can appreciate like the environmental attention to detail (even if a lot of it's just reserved for dumb jokes).
Nobody remembers Kane and Lych2 for even better reasons
@@bldontmatter5319 it give seizures while playing it
I really liked all of the unique types of guns in the game. Since it was set in Asia you had a lot of guns and such that you would never find anywhere else.
I played both games as a kid with my dad on the ps3 it was really nice
So guys we did it
You can shit on it, but you still bought it and played it in 2022.
My brother in Christ, that's probably one of the best games he bought and played in 2022
that is a terrible take
i still love this game and series
I love these games. They tell a cool and engaging story and it doesn't shit all over the gameplay. I also love how the second one plays like you're watching a documentary but still functions perfectly well.
I played this game recently, a true sable of my childhood at least
This game is a highlight of my childhood. Second one too but especially this one
This game was Brilliant! Actually one of my all time favourites... How this game got such bad reviews is beyond me?! I tried to get this on PC off Steam but it seems to be permanently 'temporarily removed' downloaded K&L 2 dead men which won't play on Onexplayer for some reason I'm still trying to figure out so I'll just have to play it one Xbox 360 as it's won't play on xbox series x (K&L 2 will play)
Still a great game loved the characters and everything about it....
I love that the dump truck had one guy on it
This game was a BIG part of my childhood, and this video was good as fuckkkk
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is a much better game.
No its not it was shit and seizure inducing
I played like the first 5 minutes of this game and never played it again. Still gathering dust on a shelf.
am i like the only 1 that loves kane and lynch 1 and 2?
I played this game for a bit with a friend in coop because we picked it up in a bargain bin.. and it was a festival of bad gameplay of bugs and we dropped it after the missions with the escalators. Hard to believe the same studio behind Hitman made this
I remember Kane & Lynch.
I have PTSD!
This was one of my top 10 fav games. For the time it actually has really solid physics and graphics
bro this game was awesome in 2007. If you didnt experience it you just dont get it
Played this game split screen with my best friend and loved it.
I want Kane & Lynch 3 so bad. Sue me.