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The Incredibly Bizarre Kane & Lynch 2 Teaser

David Ali — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:40:06 +0000

It might be the least graphically impressive video game trailer we’ve ever seen, clearly by design. It might also be the first teaser for Eidos’ sequel to Kane & Lynch: Dead Men.

A sequel is certain, reported to have been in development as early as October 2007. The likely name of that sequel, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, puts one aspect of this teaser clip, hosted by MTV Germany’s GameOne.de, into context.

The video appears to have been shot by a Chinese restaurant’s surveillance cameras, filmed in black and white, featuring two naked men—with their unmentionables blurred out—running from gunfire. One, who appears to be Lynch, appears to have been hit by some of that gunfire, tumbles over a dining table and is attacked by a dog. The other man, possibly Kane, beats the dog away with some type of blunt object.

And that’s about it. The trailer, if it is for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, is certainly… interesting, if only a very, very brief taste of what we can expect in the sequel.

Judge for yourself. Does this scream viral marketing attempt at Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days? Or is someone pulling our leg?

2 nackte Männer hauen einen Hund [GameOne.de - thanks, unknownassassin!]

via Kotaku

To Hitman 5 αναπτύσσεται από την Rocksteady

xollothnews — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:07:58 +0000

To Hitman 5 αναπτύσσεται από την Rocksteady (;) | Game 2.0

Σύμφωνα με το βιογραφικό του ηθοποιού Mark Sloan, το Hitman 5 αναπτύσσεται από την Rocksteady και όχι από την ΙΟ Interactive.

Eύλογα αναρωτιέστε τί σχέση έχει ο Mark Sloan με το Hitman 5. Προφανώς είναι ένας από τους ηθοποιούς που συγκαταλέγονται στο voice cast του παιχνιδιού[next]

To Just Cause γίνεται ταινία

xollothnews — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:25:56 +0000

: Image via Wikipedia

To Just Cause γίνεται ταινία | Game 2.0

Ο λόγος για το Just Cause, του οποίου την παραγωγή έχει αναλάβει ο Adrian Askarieh, που στο παρελθόν μας έδωσε το Hitman, ενώ ετοιμάζει και το Kane and Lynch για μεταφορά στην μεγάλη οθόνη.[next]

Now Someone Wants To Make A Just Cause Movie [Hollywood] (kotaku.com)
Just Cause movie is happening just ’cause (destructoid.com)
Hitman 2 Has a Writer in its Crosshairs (screenrant.com)
Hitman 2 Finds a Writer (themovieblog.com)
Next Hitman game is already being worked on (destructoid.com)

Kane & Lynch Dead Men

doctorx23 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:08:20 +0000

Kane & Lynch Dead Men

New Hitman, Kane & Lynch Games Confirmed

Yosuan — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:32:19 +0000

by Alice O’Connor Eidos Life President Ian Livingstone has revealed another Hitman game is in

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

str8underground — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:35:33 +0000

Title: Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Region: Free
Ixtreme: Yes
Stealth: Yes
Game Size: 7.29gb
Server: Megaupload
Links: 6×999mb y 1×182mb
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02 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CNBYT3AB
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Новият проект на IO Interactive е...

stranger — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:39:54 +0000

…ааа ъммм Mini Ninjas?!

Да, да същите IO Interactive – Hitman поредицата; Kane & Lynch: Dead Men… Не ми вярвате?

Ето:

Още инфо за играта? Нещо с нинджи; главния герой (предполагам тоя малкия) се казва Хиро; излиза за Plaistation 3; PC; Xbox360; Wii и Nintendo DS някъде през тази година. Рейтинг 7+

Официален сайт www.minininjas.com

Ето и няколко картинки от играта:

Тъй като явно не съм в таргета (дори не мога да се регна на сайта за да получавам ъпдейти) мисля, че май ще пропусна

Лека нощ

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

oyunpazari — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:12:52 +0000

partları kontrl edın…

Bruce Wyllis e os Dead Men

Tommy Beresford — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:09:37 +0000

Do portal G1:

O ator Bruce Willis está em negociações para estrelar a adaptação do videogame “Kane & Lynch: Dead men”, da Eidos Interactive. No suspense, o ator vai interpretar o criminoso Adam “Kane” Marcus.

Na trama, o personagem de Willis e o assassino psicopata James Lynch foram condenados à pena de morte e estão em um carro da polícia a caminho do presídio, quando são libertados pelo grupo de Kane. O protagonista então viaja para Los Angeles, Japão e Cuba em busca de uma fortuna roubada.

Чичо Брус ще бъде Kane...

stranger — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:43:47 +0000

Мда, гласят господин Брус “умирай трудно” Уилис за ролята на Adam ‘Kane’ Marcus (от играта Kane & Lynch: Dead Men).

Както някой от вас знаят, миналата година се заприказва, че и тази игра на Eidos ще се сдобие с филмова адаптация (Eidos – Tomb Raider; Hitman).

Принципно се говореше, че ролята на Lynch ще бъде дадена на Billy Bob Thornton, но този слух така и не е потвърден, а хората седящи зад филма твърдят, че все още търсят актьор за тази роля (ама май наистина ще бъде Били).

Снимките на филма би трябвало да започнат тази година, а готовият продукт трябвало да очакваме през 2009 г.
Мен чичо Брус не ме притеснява въобще, и смятам, че е подходящ и ще се справи отлично. Доста повече ме притеснява режисьора – Simon Crane, който за пръв път сяда на режисьорският стол, а преди това се е подвизавал като помощник режисьор и “координатор на каскадите” в Mr & Mrs Smith и X-Men: The Last Stand…

Иначе сценарият е на Kyle Ward… Мдаа и аз нищо не знам за него, а продуценти са Adrian Askarieh и Daniel Alter който са работили по Hitman.

Все пак ако чичо Брус участва (понеже сега уж само “преговаряли”) това ме успокоява до някъде… Въпреки, че всеки велик актьор има право на три тъпи филма
Ще поживеем и ще видим

Източник: Bruce Willis in talks to star in Kane and Lynch film adaptation @joystiq.com

Reviews - Previews, can they be Trusted . . . ?

xboxoz360 — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:27:42 +0000

Talking ‘Bout A Review Revolution

by: dkpatriarch

Ed Intro:

“I ask dkpatriarch (David Hilton) from the Aust-Xbox-Forums if he’d like to contribute some stuff to the XboxOZ360-Blog, as I often find his news items and points of view very interesting and well worth reading. So here’s his first piece regarding the latest kuffufl over GameSpot and Edios’s “preview/review” of one of their games that saw a high ranking GameSpot staffer “removed” from his position, with various “accusations” being passed back-n-forth over the net. – Welcome aboard mate.”

So Gamespot.com, one of the most popular gaming sites in the universe, got caught out doing a “cash for comment” deal with Eidos. The well publicised story of the Gamespot editor and reviewer who got sacked for giving Eidos’ game Kane & Lynch a low score of 6 when Gamespot had a lucrative advertisement deal with Eidos has been doing the rounds on forums and emails all over the place. Gamespot denies it, of course, but there are too many coincidences to truly buy the PR attemps. But I’m not interested at the moment with the arguments that have been raised about online gaming journalism’s integrity; that’s being dealt with elsewhere. I’m interested in the power of a number.

It was the ‘6′ that caused the commotion; the relatively low overall gamescore given the game. This scandal reveals just how important review score numbers are; so important perhaps that publishers like Eidos and others will invest in a website expecting a better overall review score to sell more games for them. With the rise of online gaming magazines and websites the game review score now reaches even more people than did those in the trusty gaming mag we had to pay for. These online game websites generally have no subscription income and so rely on advertisement dollars. That opens them up to pressure from advertisers. Advertisers know how popular and how important online review scores are or they wouldn’t use the website. How many of us, myself included, visit a site like Gamespot, or ever better, Gamerankings or Metacritic, to see how a game ’scores’ overall? One single number and we see that the game is gold or rubbish. We don’t even need to actually read a review.

The problem, besides the possible conflict of interest issue, is that these powerful review scores do not really sum up a game properly. They certainly do not represent the tastes of all gamers either. Nor are they consistant.

For example, the latest 360 Magazine scores Assassin’s Creed a 2 star out of 5. That’s on par with this month’s review score for Beowulf and Kengo Zero, and higher than Cars: Mater National and Viva Pinata Party Animals. However it is lower than Scene It, a game they say “fails to beat Buzz! in almost every respect”, and Tomb Raider Anniversary, which it describes as treading “a very fine line in that perhaps its very existence (on 360) is questionable when you consider what you’re really getting here is just a hi-res PS2 game”. So a glorified dvd game apparently worse than Buzz! and a hi-res PS2 game are better than Assassin’s Creed. Bullocks. No matter its failings it does not deserve that kind of comparison. Assassin’s Creed has also been getting high game review scores from other reviewers, and without a doubt displays amazing technical achievements.

So here is the problem in mirco: the review scores as they are do not really work. A ‘Big Brain Academy’ (which Gamepro gave a 9) cannot really compare to the latest Zelda or Mario Galaxy, despite the similarity of score given by game sites. They may all be fun but which are obviously technically better? Also you cannot compare a score for COD4 or Halo 3 to Viva Pinata or Assassin’s Creed. They simply aren’t the same kind of game. Some gamers will want high level technical detail like graphics and tight controls; others are more impressed by the ‘fun factor’ of a game, or its replayability. All gamers want to know that they are comparing apples to apples and a straight comparison of overall game scores does not contextualise the game. So, short of forcing every gamer to actually read all the reviews or to eliminate the overall game score altogether, what can be done to improve review scoring?

Do you trust reviews/previews . . . ?

I believe the overall games review score needs to be split at least into three. Category 1 would be an overall score for technical aspects like sound, graphics, control scheme, frame rates, clipping, and design etc.. Category 2 would be an overall score for gameplay or “fun factor” and replayablity. Category three would be a “better than” or “worse than” comparison with similar games in the genre, or a “new game genre” tag if it is a new type. In this way a review of Big Brain could say how technically it is rather simple, but that it is a lot of fun, and a new genre to videogaming, without being put in position where its score makes it seem like the same experience as Mario Galaxy or Zelda. The reviewer of Assassin’s Creed mentioned above would be able to show that technically Assassin’s Creed is a real achievement, but that in his opinion the ‘fun factor’ was lacking, without giving a ludicrously low 2 stars.

Sure, some review score systems incorporate elements of this model, but most rely on gamers to read the review to get the clearer picture and still rely on the overall score to mark the game as good or bad. I think reviewers need to move away from having one overall number to represent everything a game offers and gamers should not limit themselves to a ‘Metacritic’ average of these single overall scores. These numbers make or break a game, and it really is a shame for the many titles that may have had greater support if the game had not been distilled to a single puny representation of its merit. In some other cases it is a shame some titles end up purchased by gamers who are impressed by the high score but then find they wanted more fun or better graphics or a different genre altogether.

At the very least, if the review you skipped to the end of incorporated the three category system it might cost Eidos and their ilk three times as much to ensure positive scores….or be much more obvious if they and the pressured reviewer try to cheat on the game’s report card.

How about you? Have you got some ideas for a game review revolution? Share them in the comments section below!

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, A Pretty Good Game

thatruth2006 — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:50:29 +0000

Kane and Lynch: Dead Men is actually a pretty good game in my opinion. I had mixed feelings about th

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