You should really play Kane & Lynch 2 (no, seriously)
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Kane & Lynch 2 is a weird, weird game. The gameplay isn't particularly fun, if I'm being honest, but everything about the experience is so unified, and considered, all with the aim of bringing you a truly disgusting, gritty experience, and it does that so, so well. It's an experience that I can't haven't in any other game, and that alone demands that I recommend this game.
The music in this video is from the Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days OST by Mona Mur - Hry
When you headshot someone and pixels cover their face it somehow feels more gruesome than if it showed you their head blowing up like other games
I think it because censorship in media always implies that the thing being censored is extraordinary violent or revolting being comprehension. So when it left for us to fill in the blanks we fill a much more gruesome image then intended
I feel that Dog Days did two things to mechanically reinforce its theme and style. The first is weapon inaccuracy, basically all of the guns are super inaccurate even in the best-case scenario. Second is the fallibility of cover; you're never fully in cover in Dog Days, a little bit of you is always peaking out and enemies will sometimes nick you even when you're sheltered. These combine to subvert the standard shooter power fantasy where you slip between pieces of cover where you're untouchable, one-tapping headshots as you go. It forces shootouts to be frantic and sloppy in a believable and organic way.
Bingo
Fully agree! This game has way more atmosphere than most modern shooters and playing it feels like being trapped in the most hectic parts of a John Woo movie fighting for survival. It achieves this in a way that Stranglehold did not and that game was a legit sequel to the movie,Hard Boiled. I can come back to this game and play through it on local co-op again and again just as with old classics such as Streets Of Rage 2. For me this is a timeless game and thoroughy enjoayble to play no matter how many times I come back to it. A true cult classic.
works horribly in the highway, tho
YES! Someone gets it! Most tps games of the era let you sit in the back of the room behind cover and click heads until everyone is dead. Kane and Lynch 2 forces you into the thick of battle. Another part of it is that guns only come with one or two mags, at least on the highest difficulty, so you regularly have to move around the battlefield to pick up new guns.
@@jerseymikes3403 glad someone gets it
Dog Days is one of those rare games that I don't exactly like but am utterly fascinated by
Exactly. Sad they didn't try to make another one. I'd buy that shit twice.
The cinematography, direction and production is so good. Nice artistic direction.
Ye I enjoyed this game it was halurious
I love that game
AHH the multiplayer...soo good...
I just like how it's a brutally realistic, straight-laced, adult videogame. They don't really make many games like Kane & Lynch 2, even most 18+ games are still kinda marketed towards kids...CoD, GTA etc know full well that the majority of their players are in their mid-teens and like flashy cosmetics etc.
true that. i wish we got more games like this
I was gonna say TLOU2 but that game is anything but straight-laced.
@@-sanju- TLoU and GTA IV are two great examples. A Way Out, Mafia 1 & 2 and Max Payne 3 also spring to mind. This was right before microtransactions really started taking off so developers' attention was drawn mostly to the Single Player experience
ye don't think gta 5 is one of them because kids play it, kids would want to play anything plus kids just go on gta online and not story
@@godzillazfriction I meant GTA 4 not 5
The sequel to Jacob Geller's video I didn't quite know I needed.
I was thinking this during the whole video, even the same way of describing it, just ugly
@@YOEL_44 a knock against this dudes stolen content idea.
they arent a dude but ok
@@phant0mdummy I wasn't talking about knockoffs, I was pointing similarities, don't get things wrong, ape
@@Nikkibuh be that as it may, they ripped off Jacob Geller's video idea
That 4 hour session that we played was insane. When you play this game, it starts at 100 and never stops until the end. It was short, but I’ll never forget those 4 hours I spent in Shanghai. Definitely give this game a chance if you haven’t.
Oh, are unlisted videos only visible to a select few? On that note, it's great to see that Lead's videos are scheduled out and released ahead of time.
@@aravindkrishna2043 Patrons get early access
You are so right. My friend and I played it coop and man it was a wild ugly ride, but when we finished it, I felt a longing to play another game like it. If only Max Payne 3 had coop.
So this game is only worth with coop?
@@junpei6180 it's definitely way better on coop. That way you don't experience the ugly craziness alone.
Underrated as fuck, people always ask for something different and unique in games but when a game do exactly that people bitch about "oh no this is too different, just go back"
Well, hi-fi rush, trepang2, metal gear rising, sunset overdrive, vanquish and doom 2016/Enteral would probably say otherwise.
I remember the first time I played this game, I really enjoyed the visual style, aesthetic, and camera. It was so unique and the game itself is so visceral it's really like a train crash you refuse to look away from. I really liked this game.
I think that’s a perfect sentence for this game “A train crash you don’t wanna look away from” because it is !. Game’s absolutely brutal I quite like it, play it every couple years ish cus the games so unique and brutal? Don’t know why I like it but yeah?. It’s absolutely grim💀
I would love to use the “Kane and Lynch esthetic” for a horror game, like a modern interpretation of some lovecraftian cronenberg body-horror shit.
The closest thing we have is Outlast
manhunt....
which one is it, guys?
or sci fi
Or a War game ...
would be great to have a PTSD simulator with this kind of atmosphere
0:51 it’s a crime that they included The Saboteur on that list. Such a gem.
It's a ridiculous list, as they put Company of Heroes on there, a real-time strategy game.
@@BrotherSurplice also WANTED was very good
Same for infamous, I still remember the Playstation home promo
Also Infamous, it's not a shooter and is a pretty unique game, at least for the time. And obviously it was good because it had sequals.
Facts
i just watched jacob geller's video about this game today, but hell, i'll watch yours too
Holy _shit_ so did I. That's uncanny.
...praise be to the algorithm? I guess? IDK.
@@enricojrtuvera1037 yeah i would say so, it was pretty good
Jacob Geller videos are so good that I would watch one even if I made the game and know everything about it.
Same with leadhead, ofc
This is the last video I expected lead to put out, the last.
@@ranbeerchowdhary-74zy3 Cause this game was notorious on release and has been universally panned. It's...a strange case.
This camera man aesthetic is such a satisfying unique idea
K&L 2 captured the energy of late nights on gore sights. The fights feel like cctv gunfights in foreign countries, a ILL willed documentary that would definitely not ever be released, absolute stunner this game.
That recording of Lynch being attacked by the dog was so raw and real wtf
Yes the cultural cornerstone all will know and love, HLVRAI
I feel the camera shake was supposed to make it look like a super fast paced thriller movie.
It is for feeling you are right in the action. If you were not playing a game but you were there.
It's nauseating and disorienting. It's obnoxious when they do that in movies.
Let alone in a third person shooter where keeping track of your surroundings a lot more important.
@@releasethekraken5039 i love it exactly because of that, it's obviously not for everyone but i wish more games played with their ability to make the player feel disorientated or nauseus, fear and loathing in las vegas would not be what it is without these kind of nauseaus camera angles too
@@binja_ you could disable it in MGSV.
@@binja_ i always wondered why running felt so good in mgsv lol
Kane and Lynch very much reminded me of the Grindhouse subgenre. Gritty, disgusting, and pushes your tolerance for brutality to its limits. And much like Grindhouse, I've seen a bit of a revaluing of it, and I couldn't be happier.
Remember when the game first came out. Never understood the hate. It’s a really awesome atmospheric crime action shooter. It feels like a movie. For what it is, it’s beautiful.
Yeah, this game is somehow more than the sum of its parts.
just the title screens for this game alone have more atmosphere than anything i've played recently
that's called talent which makes a game becomes art itself
One of my all time favorite games. You don't get games this gritty and cut throat anymore. Just a masterpiece into the world of "urban industrial seriousness" that brings you into a world of crime that most people aren't comfortable exploring let alone thinking about. A extreme amount of talent went into this game, from the lighting to the shadows and the shaking camera, tossing you into a world of found footage, of a chaotic night, following two psychopaths that you actually get to play. Many people I know, still have never played it and they ask me what's it like? I say its like if David Fincher and Guy Richie made a game together.
Is it finally time that this game gets the appreciation it deserves? First Jacob Geller and now you.
czcams.com/video/v8BcUE8KtYU/video.html&ab_channel=GmanLives (Gmanlives says hi)
finally, pyrocynical understands the true worth of this game
Weird but finished playing this yesterday. This is my go to when I want something just dirty and not considered family friendly violence. A real homage to 90’s vhs overkill classics like natural born killers. P.s dude how the hell did you unlock the secret footage at the end?
The ending footage is official teaser trailers for the game
czcams.com/video/nkfBvxrIz5M/video.html
To me, it feels like something even worse than that. It feels like you are watching a cartel execution video or narco combat footage
@@pablo_giustiniani A bit of an extreme comparison, although to be fair I think this could be a generational misunderstanding back then violence on film was not real but creative and was not broadcasted to the masses to anyone with a internet connection.
the utter sound design of this game, with the very well made artistic realism from the lenses of a camera, is nothing short of impressive for a game from that era it looks utterly great still.
it's one of the very few games i keep replaying and i still haven't forget the very first time i finished it from getting it out of a bargain bin and playing it on hard REALLY sold me the experience of it being a fucked up word while also showing to me how AAA devs approach the same mechanic of cover shooters to make the levels memorable from the looks of them.
i will never forget the shipyard and the very final level on the inside of the airport where you are on a low ceiling power? cabinets.
and the helicopter section and level just completely shattered my mind by how the color pallet and the piercing sun on the side of the most unique tower shows to ya that you aren't there to do a good job but to just survive what's to come.
the best summary of the game graphics is "photobashing come to life" by how the ultra realism tries to emulate a cheap camera look view of the word, you can see the bleeding greens and oranges fightning to stay on focus while the lens flare is always just from one direction and engulfs the screen from top to bottom regardless of where they are on the screen at the moment.
thanks for doing a video that actually tries to sell more the idea of the game instead of others that just say its bad or like others talked about jacob video even that dude only sold a quarter of the idea talking that it was the reality of that fucked up world and story premise while not showing the full picture of what it could do.
It’s so nice to hear someone not shitting on this game for once. I love the story between the two games, but the co-op gameplay definitely pays off in different ways between both. The two player elements refined for Dog Days and getting to experience Lynch’s psychosis as the second player in Dead Men. Brilliant stuff.
I love Kayne and lynch 2 never understood why people hate it so much it's raw asf. These two guys are in constant shootouts to the point they become tired of it you really get the feeling you are fighting for your life the entire way through. I would love a Kane and Lynch 3
@@sozoxd3754 The reality tv presentation alone is worth the price of admission.
*jacob geller intensifies*
"The game is a lot more fun if you have a coop buddy to play it with."
So is every game with a local multiplayer feature.
I played this game on my Xbox 360 when I was 11 and damn, I remember this game for the atmosphere not the gameplay... the gameplay is boring but I love this atmosphere sooo much... basically the only reason I played it... it's really like you watch something you shouldn't watch, everytime my parents came in I stopped 😂
Same, I love games with that atmosphere but sadly there are not enough.
Leadhead: "You should really play Kane & Lynch 2 (no, seriously)"
Pyrocynical: " The Best Game You Should NOT Play"
I'm confused.
Dog days goes for the tragic real life angle, and it's amazing. There should be a sequel that keeps the angle up.
Beat this game on the hardest difficulty back in the day. It was a fucking journey and a half, glad to see you covering it ledhead.
10 year old me was convinced the Trevor looking character was a Trevor before GTA 5
You aren't wrong. A lot of the inspiration comes from lynch.
The mirror images caused by lens flare are called artifacts :) -sleepy film student
Now im waiting for a HLVR:AI video lol
It hasn’t been too long since I was looking into K&L 2. I played it at release and I remember absolutely loving the art style. Thank you for making a video about this game.
I've been waiting for you to make a video on Kane & Lynch 2 since I first discovered you, this was my second favorite game I played last year right beneath Death Stranding. Thank you for sharing the word of Kane & Lynch 2. Such an excellent game.
I thought this is one of the best games of the time a forgotten game , I really liked it, especially how stylistic it was
I love found footage films, and I can appreciate the dedication to the attempt in a game, but just watching the footage is giving me motion sickness.
This game is amazing , it feels like some kind of raw illegal footage, with that vhs crappy cams and distorted sounds
Your channel is amazing bro, keep up the good content !
Something else this game does interestingly is it's soundtrack. The pop songs are original and authentically composed chinese tracks, and those ones can't be heard in-game unless you are passing by a radio throughout the stores or inside people's homes, again showing the amount that went into atmosphere. And some tracks are very easy listening and have a soothing tone, which makes the horrific and constantly chaotic nature of this game even more fascinating. I always love to see dog days getting discussed. What a crazy but interesting game to be produced
i was binge watching vifeos about this game and you drop one of these bad boys, thanks Lead yar the best
this is a great video bro keep up the good work
"Kane & Lynch 2" is a "Journey" from the world of ugly games
I played this game a couple months back. After finishing it all I could think "was that it?"
As someone who typically looks too deep into shitposts I loved this.
I love K&L 2, it's so raw and like you say ugly, it gives it this grungy level of realism, and you constantly feel like you're improvising.
Now i finally know what gordon freeman's favorite game looks like
i was looking for this game for ages!! thansk yoou!
I love these 2 games so much, I was really attached to the story growing up. I feel like 1 was Kane's story about his family and 2 was Lynch's over his love for his girlfriend. Also I'm not sure if anyone answered you at 3:00 but if you're talking the reflections on Kane's body, that's called Specular Reflection Mapping. It's essentially a texture/mipmap that's placed over the true texture to allow reflections based on the current surrounding lighting. In unreal engine which I believe this game is made in, or a derivative of the IO engine, this graphical setting can be turned up and down at will. It's what you see when it rains on the road in GTA V for example.
I'm pretty sure he actually means an effect that's most noticeable when you actually play the game in darker areas with a neon sign. The 'Addbas' logo in that scene, for instance, will appear inverted, transparent and smaller on the screen, as if it were a reflection. If you look up some gameplay on CZcams you might be able to catch it. I'm pretty sure it's just supposed to simulate glare or a dirty lens, and I think it's a pretty cool effect at that.
Glad to see someone appreciating this game. It really is the most desperate, sweat-fuelled hangover of an experience I've ever played. It's not nice. It doesn't want to be. And that's ok. I really wish they'd make a third. Great vid!
nice to finally see a somewhat positive review of this gem.
it's seen as just another 00's cover-shooter but I think it's mechanically better than the rest
This is exactly why I occasionally mention this game in conversations about hidden gems; it’s not fun, but it’s an experience. Just like early Ayer films like Harsh Times and End of Watch, and even Sandler’s Hidden Gems. Having a video game that fits this type of entertainment is a special experience; because if it’s not played for fun, then it’s played as art.
If you have a PC, wait for a sale. It goes on sale pretty often with the Square Enix sale. Only $1!
Played it when it first came out. I was so intrigued with how it felt like you said. Gotta play it to appreciate it.
god that footage at the end was raw as hell
Oh my god, thank you so much for making this video! Even tho Kane and Lynch 2 is regarded as a generic shooter, you can see how much vision they had. All the UI, the cutsenes, the presentation. It may be just a third person shooter but it tried begin something more, something more interesting and "artful" even.
Sorry im rambling but im just so happy that you made this video. Cheers!
The design direction looks ahead of its time, it should be made into an art game today instead of a generic shooter
Most underrated game ever. What a great soundtrack too!
3:00 The effect is called "Anamorphoc Glare" or "Ghosts".
thanks
I always like when someone mentions Kany and Lynch again, there is no other game that I am very dissapointed about wasted potential and love it at the same time
A couple weeks ago, I thought of what a disgusting and disturbing place looks like. I hadn't seen something that made me want to throw up because of how deplorable it looked and was. So I started to make places that made me disgusted, what human scum would live in, and I find this atmosphere so interesting. I've been around it all my life and just from seeing clips from Kane and Lynch 2, I can tell they knew how to do just that.
I've played it with a friend a couple times. It was an amazing experience, we had tons of fun both times.
I still remember the cemetery scene from the first game. Shovel and all.
Im playing K&L2, once again, now on my Steam Deck. This is THE underrated game of the generation. It's the only game with the documentary style camera. Why for the love of Pete did no one else follow this brilliant style? It was the best idea since duel wielding.
ngl now i wanna play this game it seems really fun so thank you lead :)
I played this again with my friend I completed it originally with and we had a laugh especially when the draw distance breaks and an apartment complex keeps disappearing and enemies are walking on air 👌
Everyone maintain eye contact with Mr Leadhead while slowly backing out of the room
I only know it from HLVRAI, got called out in that intro
I thought the Multiplayer Cops and Robbers wherein the Robbers can choose to betray each other for more loot was an amazing concept never used again sadly
CZcams hasnt been recommending your vids for me. Had the notif bell turned on
Nice to see a video about this game, I just beat it a few days ago!
now that I think about it..this is basically hardcore grindhouse, add these same camera effects to the last of us 2 and that game might suddenly make sense lmao. Anyone know how to recreate the screen effects? might even make it a meme.
K&L 2 is by far the most best Art Directed Video Game of the decades. Cinema Verite style, lens flare, lens dirt, Hong Kong, HEAT style. 2010 when they review its bad because everybody in the verge of “uuh new tech era the millenium”. K&L 2 is a tech triumph for me because the realistic gritty-ness that wrap the digital 3D of it.
Would love to see you cover any of the the infamous games, your style of video is imo better in longer forms. Still appreciate any type of content you put out tho
Fun fact: the characters ending is hidden in Hitman absolution, Lynch is in the bar outisde of Hope and is part of the bar brawl and kane is actaully in Hope in one of the cells inder the courthouse writing his last letter to his daughter.
Also if you trigger the nuke easter egg later in the game a cutscene outside of the explosion Lynch is shown free, so the hidden story in that Kane busted Lynch out of prison and ran off.
I actually still have fond memories of the multiplayer that I used to frequent with a few buddies, specifically “undercover cop” and “fragile alliance” used to be intense
I remember I used to play it with my cousin, I wasn't old enough to seriously pick apart games so I loved it, along with a lot of similar games of this era.
I've always enjoyed the way the camera moves around in this game, it is ugly and raw.
I appreciate how short it is, granted i got it for cheap but the older i get the more I go for more focused stuff
i played it when it came out, the scene where youre naked and all cut up is still etched in my head
>Infamous shows up on the chest-high walls list
clearly, they never actually played it
Game is definitely not that bad! In fact, I just realized that arcade mode is basically Fragile Alliance from the multiplayer only with bots and I absolutely love it ! Can't stop playing those heists ! Story is fun too only its too short. Its often for a 1 buck during sales on Steam and for that price its an absolute steal! And btw if you don't like shaky camera or visual effects, you can both turn it off in the settings. Definitely give this a try !
I wish they made third game one day :-´(
Love to see I'm not alone liking this game and especially loving it's lofi graphical styling.
It feels more Marble Hornets then Lo-fi to me.
@@wickerhazbrownsauce8564 Something being lo-fi is not an opinion. It is a fact.
And if you mean the Marble Hornets CZcams series, that is not a visual style. It is a name for a series filmed with hand held cameras and bad compression. Not lo-fi, just low quality.
@@anteshell Wow, you got a bit worked up over the comment, Huh?
@@wickerhazbrownsauce8564 Worked up? When? I was merely explaining you something you didn't seem to understand. If you consider a normal discussion as being worked up over something, I don't even dare to even think how bad problems you have understanding other people around you.
I remember this game giving me such a...visceral nauseating feeling like you're watching a really bad video on the web, I remember the craziness of the camera, the shouting, all of the sound effects, and the way it all ended.
It was a beautiful horrible mess of a game and characters, ugly and bad people, and I love it, I still love it, from the menu screen with its deceitful calmness to the OST which introduced me to the world of industrial atmospheric music, I love it
It literally looks like an acid trip, I just started it this morning
I loved this game. The ambience, even in the menu screens is cool AF.
I remember buying 2 copies of this game on sale for around $5 and convincing a friend to play through it with me, it was one hell of an experience
the atmosphere is definitely there. Hopefully another game comes along and do this kind of style with actually good gameplay and better story.
Kane and Lynch is a series that has potential, potential that I think is a damn shame will probably never be fully realized. I like how ugly and grimy these games are. They don't make shootouts look fun, they make them look like gruesome ass skirmishes that are terrifying to be in the middle of. The protagonists aren't heroes. Sure they're humanized and even tragic, but at the end of the day they're still scumbags who continue to keep doing terrible shit. This game's atmosphere combined with actually good gameplay could be a masterpiece in my opinion.
Shout out to errant signal, he's been making similar types of videos for the past 10 years and is really good at it but somehow has half as many subs as leadhead (not that she doesn't deserve them just that he definitely does)
Nice, I’ll have to check out her channel. I dig leadheads stuff.
Ikr,his videos are great
Leadhead is a she?
@@harambae7014 yes
@@harambae7014 yes,she recently transitioned
CCTV footage is also the game? Dope!
I actually loved that game. It was one of a kind carismatic game. Simple but with great character. Sometimes I still listen it's ost Asian Gardens.
I even did a wallpaper with my and my friend's face in Kane & Lynch style. His nose was cut in half by a flex disc and he had a nose patch.
I got this game at launch and me and a friend sat down to play and ended doing a 2 player run through. At the end of that 4 hours we were shell shocked. The most intense experience I've ever had with a game
After I spent a month in China, I even loved this game more than before :D That was a 4D experience.
I remember in 2010 I played this game for about a year, I would finish the story in two days and do it all over again so you can count the number of times I finished it.
This game sucked so much, yet its style made me finish it three times over the last few years and I loved it every time
if so then this game is not suck
My mom bought me and my brother the first Kane and Lynch for Christmas when we were like 13 and was so surprised at what was happening. There's not good games but the story is fun especially the second one
I remember playing this game around 2012-2015, this game is one of the best games ive played(also one of the first) on Xbox 360. I might decide to play it again one day.
One od the games i loved when growinf up. The goofiness of having kane and lynch getting brutally cut with a knife and in camers recording is gold. The multiplayer is awesome, the dlcs was unique ane interrsting. One of the forgotten games
I've had this on Steam for ages, i remember playing 10min of it some point, will definitely give it another shot
I remember when I played this game's demo at launch, of which I was very impressed by the game's graphics and gameplay.
to The game itself, it was quite fun, especially its multiplayer. But the game is nothing more than a summer game to pass the time until the bigger games are released.