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McGee

07-13-2010, 03:55 AM

Don SUCKFACE

07-13-2010, 04:11 AM

Yeah, I think that is the main reason why they pushed the game a week forward due to mafia 2 being released.

Vito Scaletta

07-13-2010, 04:18 AM

http://www.gamereactor.eu/news/4243/Kane+%26+Lynch+2+pushed+forward/?sid=86784b6dae776160337d2314605f7a55

It's very strange for a game to be pushed FORWARD. I'm thinking this has something to do with Mafia 2, since it's original date was the same as Mafia 2.

The reason why it was pushed forward, Was because all game CEO's say that with every success on launch day, Other titles are bound for doom.

And Kayne & Lynch 2 want an open window, With no launch date problems.
It's why Alan Wake suffered from terrible sales, Is because RDR killed it with sales.
If Alan Wake released a week earlier, It would have had alot better sales on the launch.

Don SUCKFACE

07-13-2010, 04:20 AM

Here is what the IOI community manager said:

"Alright, so here's the deal. Since the Exclusive demo launched, there's been a pretty massive demand for the game and its worked out that the game can get through manufacturing earlier. This offers us a nice window for release, allowing gamers to get their hands on it a week earlier than planned. A formal announcement on the date change will be coming this week - I'm guessing tomorrow. "

From Nick@IOI

Mafiashock

07-13-2010, 04:22 AM

Wish it was the other way around and mafia 2 was releasing earlier. Has it been announced when the Kane and lynch 2 demo will be out for everyone?

McGee

07-13-2010, 04:22 AM

Don SUCKFACE

07-13-2010, 04:27 AM

Kane and Lynch 1 sucked, not sure if 2 will be much of a improvement...

Well if you look at the gameplay vid's you'll see that they improved quite a bit.
The gunplay looks miles better and so does the coversystem and the Whole youtube shakycam thing seems to work rather than dumbing the gameplay down. Dunno about the storyline though,the first one was allright in my opinion,The characters stood out from your everyday action hero shootin' some bad guys.

Vito Scaletta

07-13-2010, 04:27 AM

Kane and Lynch 1 sucked, not sure if 2 will be much of a improvement...

To be honest, Eidos are a great company in my opinion. They made one of my most favourite game series HitMan, I have loved every HitMan they have made to date, I saw that kayne & Lynch 1 was from Eidos, And I decided to test it out on a Demo, I was quite disappointed, Terrible controls, Terrible anims, And not a very in-depth storyline it appears from the Demo, But Eidos now say that the gameplay has now been fixed. When there demo goes public I will be testing it out, And if it is as good as the HitMan series, Then I will buy it on PC.

Btw, Has anyone here played the exclusive demo? And if so what was it like in comparison to Kayne & Lynch 1?

p0wd3rp1l0t

07-13-2010, 04:37 AM

doesnt matter when any game is released...this guy is gettin mafia 2 collectors edition:D

Fugue

07-13-2010, 04:49 AM

Alright, so here's the deal. Since the Exclusive demo launched, there's been a pretty massive demand for the game and its worked out that the game can get through manufacturing earlier.

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA :D

I'll have whatever he's smoking please.

if it's anything like 1 it needs to get out before the reviews get published

andrew.

07-13-2010, 05:47 AM

To be honest, Eidos are a great company in my opinion. They made one of my most favourite game series HitMan, I have loved every HitMan they have made to date, I saw that kayne & Lynch 1 was from Eidos, And I decided to test it out on a Demo, I was quite disappointed, Terrible controls, Terrible anims, And not a very in-depth storyline it appears from the Demo, But Eidos now say that the gameplay has now been fixed. When there demo goes public I will be testing it out, And if it is as good as the HitMan series, Then I will buy it on PC.

Btw, Has anyone here played the exclusive demo? And if so what was it like in comparison to Kayne & Lynch 1?

I have the demo and wrote about it in this topic
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76126

andrew.

07-13-2010, 05:48 AM

Wish it was the other way around and mafia 2 was releasing earlier. Has it been announced when the Kane and lynch 2 demo will be out for everyone?

its too late for that. The demo was only obtainable by getting a code via text message on july 1st and there was a limited supply. IDK whos idea was that but it was terrible marketing imo.

Fugue

07-13-2010, 05:51 AM

so how exactly do you get a massive demand by limiting the availability of a demo?

andrew.

07-13-2010, 05:59 AM

so how exactly do you get a massive demand by limiting the availability of a demo?

good question, i guess there marketing did work then haha. Still, it would make more sense to let everyone try it, especially people who hated the first one cause it really did improve a lot.

Fugue

07-13-2010, 06:42 AM

it'll be a bargain bin purchase for me, first was pretty horrible but I did like the concept.

Vito Scaletta

07-13-2010, 06:53 AM

so how exactly do you get a massive demand by limiting the availability of a demo?

I agree, Lol.

ThaCrip

07-13-2010, 01:28 PM

Dunno about the storyline though,the first one was allright in my opinion,The characters stood out from your everyday action hero shootin' some bad guys.

Agreed. the characters where definitely more interesting vs your typical shooter type game.

plus it did not hurt that, at least to me, that one level where your coming out of the building with cops everywhere felt like that major shootout in the film 'Heat' (1995) which did not hurt things ;)

p.s. it's kind of messed up that the video memory REQUIRES 512MB which is a little ridiculous considering it says 'Geforce 7800' for minimum requirements and my 7900GT is faster but has less video memory. does not seem to make much sense they would do that.

even for CPU says this... "Processor: Intel 3.0 GHz or AMD 2.5 GHz or higher (Asked IO Interactive and Square Enix for a bit more of information regarding this)" as they are very vague on this. but overall by looking at the game i am not expecting to be able to run it considering even the first game did not run all that great on my PC.

Ganja

07-14-2010, 11:11 PM

Kane and Lynch 1 sucked, not sure if 2 will be much of a improvement...

Not really, I had a lot of fun playing online and doing co-op story. I'm really excited to play KL2, have something to do before Mafia 2 comes.

Mafiashock

07-16-2010, 04:04 AM

Demo will be out on psn july 27th (k&l 2). I'm not sure if it will be on xbox live at the same time or not.

Vito Scaletta

07-18-2010, 08:29 AM

Found the facts about the demo and the release dates from Kayne & Lynch 2. :)

CVG : http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=256183

Mafioso

07-22-2010, 07:12 AM

Kane & Lynch, Hitman is made by danish IO Interactive.
Credit where Credit's is due. :cool:

sanpreet

07-23-2010, 11:47 PM

doesnt matter when any game is released...this guy is gettin mafia 2 collectors edition:D

i'm a wish i get CE me gunna get regular edition.

Vladdus

07-26-2010, 04:08 AM

Anyone checked the Steam demo? lol, a lot of people are having problems like BSOD, virus alerts and computer restart. btw, the multiplayer is also completely filled with bugs. singleplayer is pretty sweet.

Fugue

07-26-2010, 04:22 AM

quite enjoyed the amazingly short demo but I wouldn't pay full price for it, it still looks horrible :eek: , bargain bin single player game for me.

RunningBare

07-26-2010, 01:23 PM

quite enjoyed the amazingly short demo but I wouldn't pay full price for it, it still looks horrible :eek: , bargain bin single player game for me.Sounds to me like they pushed it out in a panic before it's ready, the players can only hope they patch it up better than they did with Just Cause 2, yes I am aware Avalanche are the development team for JC2, but it seems Eidos/Square Enix did not motivate them very well.

ThaCrip

07-28-2010, 09:44 AM

Kane and Lynch 1 sucked, not sure if 2 will be much of a improvement...

ill disagree. maybe it was the consoles that everyone said sucked with controls? , because i never had any real problems beating it on the PC.

the first game is nothing super great but i would say it's better than your typical shooter for sure as i liked the characters and feel of it even though it was basically a all out shooting fest. (but that one level on the first game reminded me of the movie 'Heat' (1995) with that huge shootout where your coming out of the building with cops everywhere and all hell breaks loose.

p.s. the demo on PC for Kane & Lynch 2 was good but to bad i had to basically turn off ALL the visuals/effects to as low as possible to keep a playable frame rate. but even then the graphics are still better than the first game even on low.

i noticed that when i had certain effects turned on (that improved visuals) i was getting fairly major artifacts when playing like the textures where really blocky and sometimes in the distance it would block up a lot and sometimes people's heads would turn into a bunch of big square pixels but i think that might be due to a lack of video memory(?) because my graphics card is 256MB (Geforce 7900GT on a AMD Athlon 3600+ CPU 2.0ghz overclocked to 2.4ghz with 2GB system RAM) and i thought i read somewhere that 512MB was needed or something but you see a lot of random sites giving out different requirements and they seem to be vague on what's required.... but once i turned off certain effects the game actually played and looked normal then even though the visuals took a hit because of it.

as for multiplayer... i am not even going to bother with it as it's basically a single player game and usually games that are meant to be single player usually have half-assed multiplayer.

sopranosfan

08-02-2010, 10:26 PM

i played the demo on playstation store the other day and kane and lynch dog days seemed pretty good to me, but i can see why they dont want it released on the same day because it does look like mafia 2 is going to be awesome and will probably be one of the games of the year