In a year of intense competition, with at least one bona fide GOTY candidate emerging every week, it’s certainly impossible to pick the Game of the Year. Therefore, you should ignore any trying websites and just listen to us. Elevating the status of any one entry on the 2023 Gold List would be to the detriment of all other entries, and we don’t want to do that. Instead, we’d rather take them all and pay homage to the goat: Kane & Lynch 2 Colon Dog Day. Yes, the notoriously bad shooter from Killer Lads . Confused? Do you think this is a joke? As explained in the video below, it doesn’t feature special guest Steve Burns, who once had a loyal cult following on some other site (unfortunately, no idea what happened).
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Much-maligned upon release for being ugly, disorienting, and generally unpleasant, it arrived at a time when Gears of War’s graphics and aesthetics were nearly at their peak. It was the age of the movie game: over-the-top sets, huge budgets for voice acting and performance capture, and surreal visuals with a desaturated brown palette. Then came Kane & Lynch 2, which was carefully designed to look like footage recovered from an abandoned video camera (we used to have those, they were what we used to make our videos, not what we carried around with us) Small Hollywood movie studios) our pants these days).
The visuals are rough as a result of stubbornly adhering to this aesthetic. Over sharpening. Low resolution. Blurred camera lens flares flickering everywhere. The whole thing suffers from compression artifacts and encoding errors. Frankly, the entire experience is designed to be ugly, disorienting, and generally unpleasant in service of its narrative and overall atmosphere: this is not a Tarantino movie. Killers live and work in a seedy, bland world where conspicuous coolness is likely to get you killed, the music is strictly narrative and rarely fits the subject matter, and you have to carry your own damn suitcase. Kane & Lynch 2 wants to rid you of any ambivalent notions you might have about the protagonist’s situation, and it pursues it relentlessly: You’re going to be exposed. You will be abused.
To this day, few games serve artistic truth so boldly and boldly. Last year I compared Pentiment to Pentiment, a game that does the same thing: looking like a weird medieval cartoon as one of the Xbox’s flagship first-party RPGs during the Christmas season, it’s A brave choice. It was criticized for its appearance and was considered to lack technical prowess. “Is this supposed to be the next generation?” people asked in disbelief. “2D? And no voice acting?” Yes, and it’s all the better.
“but Kane and Lynch 2 It looks bad and it doesn’t feel good to shoot in it.” Yeah. Look up.
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