Wednesday 5 March, 2008

SUMMARY
Kane and Lynch is a third person shooter for the ps3 . The game lowers you into the middle of a story about two convicts Kane and lynch, who are broken out of prison in order to find some sort of treasure for an evil gang, that Kane hid before he went to jail. The story then shifts to a slightly more individually driven story of Cane trying to save his daughter from the S7ven.

GAMEPLAY
For the first forty five minutes of this game I was playing with a few friends (one other simultaneously) on the co op option. To start off with I will say that this game is tons of fun to play with other people. The game almost seems built for co op play with one player playing as Cane and the other as Lynch. The two can tag team save each other by injecting adrenaline and both players must be alive at all times in the game. And what’s more fun than gunning down endless waves of cops with your buddies? Game play is goofy at first probably because we had originally expected a first person shooter, but after about fifteen minutes the game play really starts opening up. As far as a story line goes Cane and Lynch is really a good game. Its almost like a movie I felt like and the voice acting was relatively high rate. However the characters made me want to let the cops kill me because of how worthless they seemed. In most games you have sick bad ass main characters but in cane and lynch you have some guy who looks like a balding child molester and some guy who’s face is nastily defaced. Aside from the bad character design the characters fit their role as convicts and the story gets more and more action packed, and outrages, as you progress.

GAMEPLAY
Our second forty five minutes was better than the first. We proceeded to a point in the game where the players have their entire control scheme available to them, which also included the ability to direct a few guys, who followed you around and help out. The storyline went from fun, we robbed a bank to more fun, we went to Cuban jungle and got some cool new clothes and weapons. The characters were also more bearable this round, because of their new attire. Game play was a lot of fun but we did often find ourselves repeating a “scene” over and over again before we conquered it. This got tiring at times but because the challenges were actually difficult it was fun to play and not too unbearable. This aspect made experiencing flow a little difficult however.

DESIGN
This game had some good aspects as well as some bad. The game had really good level design and variation. At times you were in the city other times the forest ect. Also the story line in this game was very interesting. It was a relatively realistic seeming story that made it so movie like and that is a pretty innovative design that most games don’t have. On the other hand though the game had horrible characters, and they really made it hard to be into your character and thusly the magic circle in a way. The game created conflict by putting the player among a next generation amount of enemies who were all well equipped with relatively intelligent AI. Also the game had such a perfect plot for heavy conflict it was easy to create conflict with the plot as well as reward players with further knowledge on the plot. I think one of the main reasons we kept playing was to learn more about the plot. The game was also relatively weak on weapons I felt. It seemed like not enough time was spent making them, graphically pleasing or super fun, and when your playing a shooter that is sometimes a key factor. One more innovative design that the creators had were cool cut scene style finish em’s (like the pistol wip in halo). In these cut scenes you do a cool execution but can still be affect by the live action of everyone else ie you can still get gunned down while melee attacking some guy.

Sorry about the single entry, I did not see those rules until after submitting. Thanks for you patience.

Did you read any of the previous grader's comments? We really would like you to read what we say.

Anyway, this is acceptable, though your English could be improved. Your ideas run together and don't flow well, making it hard to follow. All right, could could be better.

Amy Leek (grader)