Eidos’ Ian Livingstone has told website Eurogamer that the studio is not done with murderous duo Kane and Lynch.
The original game, subtitled Dead Men, and its sequel, Dog Days, both received mixed reviews from critics but performed satisfactorily at retail.
In the interview, Livingstone said, “We haven’t made any announcements about Kane & Lynch going forward, but we all know that Kane and Lynch are two amazing characters who have a lot of brand equity.
We don’t have a water cooler at Gameplanet and until now that hasn’t been a problem. Whether “Dan from Editorial” and “Simon from Management” are finally going to “hook up at this weekend’s team-building retreat” is a question that, frankly, we have little interest in exploring.
That all changed this week with the arrival of a courier envelope concealing preview code for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. Since it turned up, there has been an overwhelming sense of bewilderment and dejection that we have no time-honoured place to congregate and gossip. Instead, we’re forced to speculate on the scene at videogame site Giant Bomb from the comfort of our sofa, parked in front of a plasma TV. It’s unnatural.
The original Kane & Lynch was an unremarkable game, chiefly remembered now for the scandal that followed Jeff Gerstmann’s review of the title on GameSpot. At that time publisher Eidos had made a significant advertising investment on GameSpot to promote Kane & Lynch. Gerstmann, then the site’s editorial director, scored the game 6/10 in his review, writing, “When you consider the nearly ridiculous number of extremely high-quality shooters available recently, there's not much room for something like Kane & Lynch.”
Square Enix has announced that a demo for Kane & Lynch 2 is now available for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Additionally, Valve has confirmed that the PC version of Kane & Lynch 2 will ship with SteamWorks: auto-updating, leaderboards, Steam achievements and statistics.
The full title will be released on the 19th of August.
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Limited Edition includes:Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is a raw and brutal crime shooter designed to take players on an even more intense story experience, following two of gaming’s most disturbed criminals, through the gritty Shanghai underworld.
- Exclusive Multiplayer Map
- Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days - Limited Edition delivers an additional experience to the critically acclaimed multiplayer modes with free content.
- Play the Exclusive Radio Tower multiplayer map in Fragile Alliance, Undercover Cop, Cops & Robbers multiplayer modes, and in Arcade Mode.
- Glazer, the crime boss of the Expats, has been hired to collect dirty cash from an abandoned factory. Old communist monuments in the run down area of Shanghai are soon to be demolished, making it the perfect location for deal to go down. No one is sure that this deal is safe, so everyone needs to be ready to work together and be prepared to get in & out quickly with the $4 Million
- Stay Sharp Choose your weapon from the 7 confiscated exclusives available.
- Conceal Your Identity Use 8 exclusive costume masks stolen from a Chinese gift shop. You never want to be identified, especially if you are a traitor!
Introducing a new visual experience, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is inspired by documentary filmmakers and the user-generated era. Every aspect of the game has been designed to deliver a fresh perspective to the words ‘intensity’ and ‘realism’ in video games.
