Behold. Spec Ops: TL for men

I still can't believe there are people who genuinely enjoyed this game.

>Is deliberately not very fun to play
surely the godawful shooting mechanics with spray cones as wide as my screen were done as a deliberate message

This is the game that caused GamerGate before it was over taken by the Five Guys shitposting. There's a fun fact for you

Never, they left K&L with SE when they went independent.

Yeah, if they really wanted to make the violence count, they'd make all of the guns into fairly lethal killing machines, not "if it isn't a sniper, an AR, or a shotgun it's SHIT".

imagine making your shooting so bad that the sawed off semi shotgun is the most accurate and reliable long range option throughout the first half of the game

If it was written by those journos, how would it be worse?

I miss him bros
Think he will ever act again?

>This is the game that caused GamerGate before it was over taken by the Five Guys shitposting. There's a fun fact for you
Please tell me you're not confusing Kane & Lynch with Kane & Lynch 2.

Max Payne 3 ripped off this game's aesthetic

I like the artstyle

>Is deliberately not fun
Why should I play it then?

Nah, MP3 ripped off Man on Fire.

Oh my bad I thought it was 2 that got Gerstmann fired

It's not about letting you become an unstoppable killing machine, it's about having to make each shot count and being on a relatively level playing field with the rest of the AI. You're vulnerable and fucked up, kind of like how you can get 1-tapped by every enemy in Hotline Miami.

If you could just run around with an LMG hipfiring everything then it would completely ruin the storyline since half of it is K&L getting into situations like Thousand Cuts or accidentally shooting the chick in the first level.

They could make it so that you have less ammo to carry while having actually accurate guns. It's already bad enough having kamikaze hitscan AI that can jolt your camera like fucking nothing. At least in Hotline Miami, you have some control over every gun, it's not like it's a wild spray of horseshit like the SMGs and pistols in KL2.

If you had less ammo but more accurate guns then you could just get in close to enemies and pop them in the head once and not worry about ammo at all. Later on you do get accurate rifles, DMRs, snipers but they're limited in ammo because they make the game significantly easier. Again Kane and Lynch are both piece of shit alcoholic/drugged up protagonists, it would make sense if you are naked covered in flesh wounds suffering from withdrawals that you wouldn't be able to aim a gun properly.

>control over every gun in HL
Pistols and shotguns yes, but most of the SMGs that you get are just for spraying with the small amount of ammo they have and that's usually what you've started out with in the beginning. You get the better guns later on

I'm not defending that it's frustrating to play even on lower difficulties but that's kind of what the developers were going for. It's not a power trip Gears of War/Army of Two style shooter

OK, perfectly agreeable, have a nice day except for the people who thought that anti-control was good for KL2.

been looking for new games to play, this one caught my interest
can i singleplayer it? should i play the 1st game or starting from 2nd is fine?

Funny thing is, Kane & Lynch are really hard to kill, storyline wise.

You CAN play single player.

>make each shot count
>by having to dump an entire mac11 magazine to get 2-4 hits in
yeah no
outside of the two chinese police SMGs (the dinky WW2 one and the silenced bullpup) there's zero reason to use anything but shotguns right until you get your hands on actual rifles
shoot once, get 4-6 hitmarkers and a dead npc, switch to next target. at any range.
in the time it takes you to kill one guy with the scorpion/mac11 because of retarded bloom you could get five kills with the shotgun

The worst feeling was getting into a multiplayer lobby and seeing all of these unused weapon models. You're forced to slog through the campaign with an absolutely pitiful roster and then got teased by the dead on arrival mp mode as a reward

youtu.be/zLjgBnwNWZQ

these ads were kino. someone needs to make a hyperreal horrific crime/action found footage stylized film. heavy ambient noise soundtrack, story is constant escalation/ descent into psychotic brutality, all set over the course of a day/night. get zahler to write the scenario