Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days or Doghouse

After browsing through Metacritic I became aware that recent release (Aug. 17th in the U.S, Aug. 27th in Ireland) Kane and Lynch 2 has been garnering itself pretty disappointing reviews. 

A collation of the critic reviews has come to a low score of 64. Now 64 doesn’t sound so low but for a recent, anticipated release it doesn’t quite cut it. That’s just the critic reviews, if you look to the user reviews it gets pretty bad; 5.3 out of 10… there must be something pretty bad going on there.

Issues reported with the game included headachy graphics with much flickering, blurring and flaring of the world you find yourself in while the camera will make you feel queasy with the amount of swaying and shaking going on.
Further problems revolve around the in-game plot which is apparently lacking and replaced with shooting, lots and lots of shooting. This alone puts images of Left 4 Dead 2 back into my mind. *shudders at the thought*

For a first person shooter the aiming and cover system are reportedly poor and the character development equally so. Remember Lynch, the hallucinating psychotic? Apparently IO Interactive doesn’t because the psychosis has all dried up.

Well what more can I say? I had a hope that Dog Days would be a good FPS now that it has trophy\achievement support but since reading the reviews on Metacritic all hopes have been dashed. This is one I won’t be picking up.