Hah, the same happened to me, i played the hell out of that game, and i remember that i had other "better" stuff to play at the time.
For some reason that game just worked.
Great game.

Yeah this game wasn't great but was a hell of a lot of fun to play. Thanks for the memories.

Yeah I'm one of the only other people who have played this as well, good game for its time.

I liked Kingpin, me and my friends played this game so much. But it werent only just shooting I remember you needed to sneek by someone while he was watching tv and such things. Metal gear Kingpin ftw!

i had totally forgotten about kingpin, i already feel so old

I remember this game coming out all those years ago, however by the time I got a PC good enough to play it, I ended up spending more time with Max Payne and Deus Ex.

Good article though, worth a read.

i actually just played through this game again recently. i've always liked it, but i have to admit that it has the worst final boss fight i've encountered in a while.

Bagman forever

I loved this game, even if it did end really poorly.

Visually it was pretty amazing; like a gangster steampunk dockworker (dockpunk?) thing at times. It was just a great world to run around in.

Kingpin IMO is still one of the best FPS games I have ever played, I think I spent more time playing this game than any other...excluding Diablo.

I would love to see a remake using the UE3.

I remember this game but played it only for a while. I think there was some crazy difficulty.

The original hobo killing simulator. Take THAT condemned!

I remember Kingpin. It was one of the last few PC games I enjoyed. Great game.

This game probably has the best flamethrower ever. Even to this day, I don't believe it's been topped.

meh. it wasn't that great.

Never played it. But I do like looking up old game reviews and or hardware performance reviews for the best GPU's of the time. Just last week I read once again the review for quake and how people thought it was the best looking game ever.....lol. Gotta love the oldies.

To me, somewhat boring game. Din't not improve much from Quake*. But I am comparing with giants like Half-Life. Valvo do rewrite a lot of the code, and enhanced the renderer, even the sound system is much better on HL than on King-pin. What is good in KP? I don't know, but there as to be something good, as some people still like it :D

I enjoyed it fully ,although I was disappointed that it didn't have the same things that the demo promised, ie. shotgun acid and other little upgrades for other weapons, the main pistol was upgradeable though. Almost makes me want to go back and try it out.

Heh I remember having to upgrade from 512mbs of ram to make the game more playable, it wasn't very optimized.

One can only dream of what it should have been.

This was like the Father of Condemned. I mean, you could even tell people to "fuck off", and if you succeeded in pissing people off they've fight you.
Oh mah gawd! I just remembered, you could even blow people's head off with a shot gun.

I haven't read the article just yet, but I loved the Weapon balance in this game, mainly in Multiplayer. Plus, this was the first game I played that threw every cuss word in the book at me, then the book itself.

AND, the cliff hanger ending? with no sequel?! I cry foul.

This game came bundled with my graphics card when I upgraded my killer 400 mhz Pentium 2 rig. It was quite a surprise to see that a free game could be so much fun, and it still is probably one of my favorite PC shooters from that era, right next to Jedi Knight 2 and Tribes. Unfortunately, I guess my copy had DRM linked to the graphics card, because I couldn't play it again once I upgraded to another card.

awesome game, want's a sequel!

I remember the big deal with this game was that it was one of the first games to really show off the 32-bit color palette.

Also I remember it being long and kinda buggy! With awful load times (worse than the game Sin). The worst was going into a shop to buy weapons and ammo. I never beat it and I think it would be... painful to try and go back and play it these days.

Yup I also played this one through. I liked the sort of quest structure in the beginning but then it just bogged down into mindless shooting. Also it said motherfucker pretty heavily which was the big controversy.

"Solllllllllllld! Hey, Thanks for shopping at Pawnomatic"

I couldn't get the demo working on my piece of crap PC, but all the sound files were recorded as wavs, and really easy to find. My friends and I amused ourselves for hours just hitting them. I still remember, "YOU PUNK MOTHERFUCK PIECE OF SHIT!"

@Krumm: true, it was buggy but it was also entertaining. I think it was the fact that at the time, it was one of the most vulgar games I had seen and being a college kid, I had a more vulgar sense of humor.

The game had a good multiplayer mode, but the real thing I respected was that the demo's length was measured in HOURS. While not shareware in length, that was clearly what they were shooting for (with multiple missions, etc).

Now we get time limited demos (crackdown, iron man), which are even shorter than 'back in the day.'
I guess free-to-play is the modern/popular replacement for the shareware/long demo method.

I played the demo back when it first came out. I remember enjoying it, but I couldn't say for sure why. Would certainly be interesting to give it another look now.

Looks interesting, this one seemed to skip past me but admittedly I wasn't huge into PC gaming around 1999. I might have to try this one out, I love older FPS games for some reason.

Seems like everyone rememebers this game, I will never forget all the buzz it had generated. I remember it was suppsoed to have a soundtrack by Cypris hill but all it had has two tone beats throughout the game that could have been made by anyone. I also rememeber it had really high System req.

I occasionally talk about a game that I still own called Normality. Usually when Full Throttle comes up because I played those two games at the same time.

I haven't played the game in about 12 years and I didn't realize until about last week that Corey Feldman is the voice of the main character.

Anyways, it's a point and click adventure were you kind of MacGyver items together to make awesome stuff.

Ha I was sadly too young at the time, my parents took one look at the 18 rating and checked what it was about and it was a resounding 'no'. I must have been 14 at the time, so a fair call, not that I saw it that way then!

"Nobody F**KS with the Jesus!"
This game was one of my favorites. I can not find it for sale any more so if anyone has any ideas please let me know how to snag a copy.

RPS is just about my favorite gaming site, and I'm not even that much of a PC gamer. They have the deepest articles, and they talk about interesting, obscure things like this, and their 3 part (!) retrospective on Pathologic. I managed to track down a copy of Pathologic, but I haven't found Kingpin yet, though now I'd rather like to play it.

@Manny: Exactly what I felt the first time I played condemned...
I tried to get into kingpin, but the music and tone of violence just didn't appeal. True it was my choice, but in the first 5 minutes you can beat a women to death with a pipe and that type of violence felt very different than, you know putting all my love in the shape of bullets and chainsaws into hellspawn/nazis/aliens/mutants.

The gang-play/gameplay sounded interesting though.
I should see if I still have a copy lying around in a drawer.

Kingpin was a really fun game. I remember playing it online for hours.

I loved this game very much...thanks for blowing the dust off of it and bringing into the sunlight for a sec...

I used to love this game...the Cypress Hill soundtrack, hitting people in the head with a pipe.

Good game when I played it. I liked the single player experience... but the last boss was a pain the ass.

His henchmen couldn't be killed. LAME!

The flame thrower was AWESOME in this game.

I too remember that game and it's massive load times.

Damn, this site has helped me remember two College favorites of mine in the last week...this and Shogo. Now I'm wanting to play them though...damn mac.

Fun game. I remember the women had a real sleazy attractive quality to them. Kinpin also had fucking amazing skymap art. The vertex boiling on the character models was the worst I had ever seen, though. All in all, a great violent shooter.

I remember Kingpin.