Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
Bear with me here: Kane & Lynch 2 is a bad time. It’s a game possessed by ugliness. At a time when developers were racing to put out the most aesthetically pleasing titles with the most polished and realistic in-game models, IO Interactive turned that realism on its head and threw it in everyone’s face. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is the product of that: a third-person shooter with a found footage aesthetic, pixelated nudity and brutality, a neverending stream of foul language, and two rotting old dudes at the center of it all. It’s a remarkably unsubtle meditation on violence that almost feels like an alternate take on the director Harmony Korrine’s recent film, Aggro Dr1ft. Kane & Lynch 2 is not for everyone, but it’s also one of the most remarkably disruptive games to emerge from an otherwise pristine era and you can have it for just over $4.
