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Kane & Lynch 2 is another example of why the outside public believe gaming is aimed at an adolescent audience of monosyllabic thingy somethings.
The main focus of the game, being the story campaign, boils down to a 2.5-3 hour endurance of the two antagonists (Kane & Lynch if you've forgotten already) cursing at one another, cursing at the triad, cursing at the police, cursing at the army and cursing at anyone else they feel like cursing at.
The actual gameplay is a rather rudimentary objective consisting of trying to shoot and trying to hide, "trying" is what you'll be doing, as the overrall mechanics just work, if they were more polished, the game would be much shorter and easier to play than figuring out which side to aim from or which gun shoots better.
Not only is it not a particulary interesting game of hide and go shoot, but it tries so very hard to be mature by gratuitously showing 80s style video nasty sequences, in its approuch to appeal to an audience who think acting in such a manner would be considered edgy; by saying some rude words and shooting lots of people.
An interesting side note would be the digital mosiacing of graphic scenes of violence, that for some reason is deemed to be too mature and gritty. Kinda of a dichotomy to the overall nature of the game.

The only few possitive things, one being the lead voice talent for Kane (Brian Bloom) and Lynch (Jarion Monroe ). The other being its unique approach to its visual asthetics, simulating digital video noise and video grime, bringing with it a documentarian style cinematography during its cut scenes which may be nauseating at times. But the immersive effect is often broken by the overall graphics looking poor and AI enemies missing key frames of animation when they move.

As a cultural artifact Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is not something to be held with high regard.