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15 years ago, Kane & Lynch 2 took the crown as the most relentlessly miserable game of all time. It still is - and is still brilliant
Happy birthday to Kane & Lynch 2 - except nothing about this pair is happy.
But where those games are simply about being 'awesome' - chainsawing through aliens and slow-mo John Woo flipping one's way to mass murder with the occasional bit of hamfisted introspection in a cutscene, Kane & Lynch 2 is something else. In this, I hold Kane & Lynch 2 alongside Spec Ops: The Line as a shooter of this era that actually had something to say about the inherent violence in much of gaming, without a smirking quip or badass brofist in sight. Agent 47 has always been a more positive sort of anti-hero, carefully bumping off billionaire assholes and warmongering generals before they can do even more harm, living in a fantastical and beautiful world not dissimilar to that of James Bond, which makes IO a perfect pick for the next 007 game.
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