In the opening chapter, Kane unintentionally kills the daughter of a powerful Chinese underworld boss. (Quite ironically, an additional critism was that the game was too short.)Ī short synopsis: After the events of Dead Men, Kane and Lynch meet up in Shanghai for an arms deal. The obvious points of criticism included the 'unsympathetic and ugly' characters, the 'hectic' shaky cam, the allegedly 'broken' cover system, the repetitive action and the grim and pointless story that leads players down a bleak spiral of death and violence. I'll wait here with kind words and some band-aid.) Try arguing in favor of the game in any gaming forum on the internet, and you'll find the hatred for Dog Days is still hot and passionate in some players, almost two years past its release. Zero Punctuation's scathing review destroyed Dog Days utterly, and both Yahtzee and Destructoid voted it "Worst Game of 2010".Ī vocal number of players, however, hated it even more, with a passion that still persists today. Some of them were maybe still upset because of Gerstmann-gate, the media shitstorm following the first installment's Gamespot-review and the publisher's subsequent economic pressuring of the site. The critics acknowledged some technical advances over its predecessor, but mainly dismissed it as mediocre. When IO Interactive released Kane & Lynch: Dog Days 2 in 2010, the game was met by mixed reviews. Why am I voluntarily spending time with something that makes me confused, annoyed and angry? I can't see who's shooting at me, my surroundings are bleak and ugly and for once in a game, the repeated firefights aren't fun, but chaotic, stressful affairs, with no sense of agency, satisfaction or heroism to them. As I stop, the camera crawls back towards me, to stop unnaturally close behind my naked, razor-cut and bleeding body.
The third-person camera lurches and shakes as I get up and make a dash for a nearby cart, lens-flare and video-compression artefacts obscuring the view. Frantically I crawl sideways, blood-splatters obscuring my vision. The cover I hide behind suddenly splinters and breaks under the impact of bullets, fired by an unseen attacker, somewhere up ahead in the labyrinth of market stalls. A rapid succession of explosions, my only ally in this world shouting profanities while emptying a clip of his AK into the dark Chinese market ahead of us. The writing on the cliffside near the end is from Acts 9 and 22 ( King James version) as follows:Īcts 9:9 - And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.Īcts 22:6 - And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.Īcts 22:11 - And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.īefore you get to this point in the game, you see shortened versions of these excerpts, like "I came into Damascus" and "neither did eat nor drink," which is what was written on the side of the large boat you saw.Īlso, 'ACTS 22:0' is written on one of the rocks by the sunken boats near the beginning of the game.This post is an entry into Critical Distance's Blogs of the Round Table January 2012 on the theme of 'Being Other' it follows up and expands on my original article in German. a light from heaven suddenly shone down around him. The sentence written in the small shack on the way up to the cliffside is from Acts 9:3-4 ( New Living Translation):Īcts 9:3.
In regards to the shift from third to first person, that is how his conversion was told in the Bible itself (Acts 9 was in third person, Acts 22 was Paul giving a speech about his experience, and is thus in first person). They seem to be taken from different translations.
The quotes that appear near the end of the game are specifically referring to Paul the Apostle's conversion (who was known as "Saul" before he converted). In "The Caves," there is a quote from Isaiah 17:1 ( King James version):īehold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. I believe nearly all, if not all of the sentences written around the game are quotes from the Bible, and from as far as I can tell, many are from the fifth book of the New Testament, the Acts of the Apostles, usually shortened to "Acts."
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