Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a video game that consists of 7 releases

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Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a crime-focused third-person shooter from IO Interactive.

Overview

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a third-person shooter, released November 3, 2007.  The game centers around two convicts, Adam "Kane" Marcus and James Seth Lynch, and their struggle against a mercenary group named The7.  The game has a sixteen mission campaign which supports two-person local split-screen cooperative play, and online multiplayer. 

Plot


Left to right: Thapa, Lynch, Kane, Shelly, Rific.
Left to right: Thapa, Lynch, Kane, Shelly, Rific.
The game's story centers mainly around two convicts, Kane, a former mercenary, and Lynch, a man whose psychotic rages are held in check only by prescription drugs. On the way to their execution, Kane and Lynch are broken out of a prison van by The7, Kane's old mercenary group. There is a catch, however: The7, believing Kane betrayed them, want Kane to get them their money back, and threaten to kill his wife and daughter, Jenny, if he does not comply. Kane embarks on the mission first with only Lynch, robbing a bank where the money was supposed to be held.  Finding nothing, a seething Kan e books flights to Tokyo to find a Mr. Retomoto who Kane believes has the money.  During negotiations, Lynch, with no more medication, goes berserk, killing Retomoto's daughter.  Retomoto is infuriated, and Kane and Lynch flee the country.  Wtithout Retomoto's share, the two only recover half of the money in the end, and The7 attempt to kill them when they attempt to explain.  After escaping, the two visit a maximum security prison to break out some old friends, Thapa, Shelly, and Rific.  Kane and company then go after The7 for Jenny and revenge; but first, they head to Tokyo, killing Mr. Retomoto for his money.  The men track The7 to Havana, Cuba, where the ring is involved in a civil war for profit.  Joining the opposing side of the war, Kane and company fight to the center of the city, where they learn that The7 have already fled to a remote wilderness base.  Upon arrival, Kane finds Jenny, who is taken into a nearby town held by The7.  After killing Jenny's captors, Kane and company attempt to secure the airstrip for their escape, but the planes are blown up and the group overwhelmed, and Kane is left with two choices: take the two-person helicopter with his wounded daughter and desert even Lynch, or flee to the nearby docks with both and leave the rest of the team behind.

Fragile Alliance


Bank robberies are a common scenario for Fragile Alliance.
Bank robberies are a common scenario for Fragile Alliance.

Kane & Lynch's multiplayer component is known as Fragile Alliance, a semi-competitive, semi-cooperative game mode. Up to 8 players are tasked with stealing as much money as possible from a bank or other institution and getting to the extraction point, where they wait for a van or chopper. The twist is that at any time, anyone can turn on the rest of the group in an attempt to take all of the money for themselves. Doing so will label the player as a traitor, and the one who takes him down will be rewarded. When a player is killed (By AI enemies or a traitor), he respawns as a police officer, who now attempts to kill the thieves.

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Original US Release Nov. 13, 2007
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