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Is This The First Teaser For Kane & Lynch 2?

Do I look like I read German?

It's blurry as hell, but those guys look enough like Kane and Lynch to me. 
It's blurry as hell, but those guys look enough like Kane and Lynch to me. 
Kotaku's Michael McWhertor got a line on a deliberately blurry video hosted off of MTV's German games site. The video isn't really surrounded by text that tells you what, exactly, it's supposed to be, but it sure as heck looks like Adam "Kane" Marcus and James "Lynch" Lynch, totally naked, and totally busting into a restaurant to escape gunfire and dogs. That could mean that this is the first piece of promotional material for the sequel to IO Interactive's Kane & Lynch, which was released in 2007.

Here's a machine translation of the German text that's alongside the video.

Disturbing, confusing and a bit erotic. Thus one could describe the surveillance camera footage, which we make you this world exclusive access, if you wanted. Let's not. 

It was pretty difficult to find the. I had several of my dubious and ill-smelling Contacts anhauen, (PR-people are truly the very worst) bribes changed their purses and a dirty piece of paper was signed with blood and sweat. 

But now times butter for the fish: Does anyone have the two types identified in the video? What are they doing anyway? And why? And what has that to do with games? Give me your speculations, and Spiced gingerbread! Soon it's Christmas! 

You do not even come on it anyway.

Yes, that's right. You do NOT even come on it anyway. Thanks, Google Translate.

While Eidos has stated that a sequel to the first game is in development, there haven't been many announcements about it, just trademark filings for "Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days." If having a pissed-off attack dog attempting to rip up a naked dude is IO's idea of "Dog Days," then I'm pretty interested in seeing more.

Actually, I'm super-interested in seeing what this game ends up being. The first one, for better or worse, will always hold a "special" place in my heart. I'll probably never be able to think about that first game without a rush of extremely mixed feelings, which, obviously, have very little to do with the actual game at this point. It's been my secret hope for some time now that K&L2 comes along and turns out to be completely amazing from top to bottom... basically everything that the first game wasn't. Something that actually capitalizes on the concept of "hey, what if we took Freedom Fighters and crossed it with Heat?" instead of pissing it away with poor shooting and bad squad AI. Something with a script that doesn't make you feel like you need to take a shower after you finish it. Hey, better, more random AI in the online mode would be nice, too, while I'm making a list.
 
Anyway, if you want to see the video and missed the part where I linked to it already, click here to see it.
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I don't think this game deserves a review from the site.

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Screw GS when we all have GiantBomb :) 
Long live Giant Bomb! 
 
oh and btw. the game wasn't so cool anyways :)
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@Red said:
" For some reason I always thought that with a last name like Gerstmann, Jeff knew a little bit of German. I guess I was wrong. "
That's really sad, you know. Irish Americans celebrate Christopher Street Day every year and many Asian Americans still practice Karate as their main religion, but German Americans? Aren't you aware of your cultural heritage, Herr Gerstmann? Achtung, mein Leben!
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I would love to be fired for this game.

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I found it pretty hilarious when Kane started beating the dog with a chair.

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@Kou_Leifoh said:
" @Seedofpower said:
" Think this will spawn Giant bomb 2? "
@JaM said:
" i wonder if jeff will review this game   awkwaaaaaaard "
As soon as I saw the title, I knew someone was going to reference the incident. "
Dude you're so clever.
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I reckon Jeff will review this himself if it comes out, but he'll want to be professional so I don't know if their will be any references at all.

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nah, I think Jeff doesent care about the " incident" or whatever and will review the game like normal.
 
Isnt he also the only one in the GB crew who actually played the first Kane and Lynch?

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Wow, a lot of people have totally misunderstood the whole K&L thingy that happened on Gamespot.. How patheticly funny :D 

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I really looked forward to the first one, but it did fall short of expectations, even though I probably enjoyed it way more than I should have.  Here's hoping this one is awesome and that IO gets to what should really be on their top list, Hitman 5. 
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This game is going to be like Assassin's creed 2 (maybe.) 
In that it'll be so much better than the first one. 
But  if on the other side of that maybe is that: Gamespot will be paid to give it another 99% score and have to sack someone else because that person couldn't lie to the public. 
I would just love it if Kevin Van Ord joined Giantbomb. :-) 
On a less interesting note: I hope not. I hope it's good. And I hope Jeff reviews this game and loves it. 
I mean, this whole thing needs to be buried. Stop talking about Gerstmann gate. Gerstmann gate, Gerstmann gate, gerstmann gate. LOL. 
Just playing.
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The madness . . . begins. . . 
 
 
*Cookie for vague quote recognition

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I would like another Freedom Fighters game I liked that game a lot but they screwed up so hard on Kane and Lynch I wouldn't have much confidence in a sequel being any good.

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And the best part is... Jeff can say whatever the hell he wants about the game this time, and no one can try and sway his opinion by threatening his job!

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@Seedofpower said:
" Think this will spawn Giant bomb 2? "
Yes.
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I think Jeff will be risking his life by reviewing this game.

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Maybe when it comes out they can tell us what actually happened back in '07
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@Enigma2099 said:
" And the best part is... Jeff can say whatever the hell he wants about the game this time, and no one can try and sway his opinion by threatening his job! "
Exactly how the world should turn :P
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@Media_Master: Thank you, out of everyone who quoted me you actually gave me a reasonable answer.
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Is that the closest thing to confirmation that we've ever gotten about the rumours of his dismissal? 
 
Otherwise If igure the only way we'd ever know for sure is if Jeff were to move on to another project and they ran a parody version of the K&L scandal where they went step by step through the whole thing until Jeff is finally removed
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@JaM said:
" i wonder if jeff will review this game   awkwaaaaaaard "
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They are still making these games?

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Whiskey Media is going to fire Jeff when he gives this game a 6.0.
 
Nah, but seriously, K&L2? 
 
DO NOT WANT

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These Gerstmann-gate jokes stopped being funny after the first page.
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6.0! What a shitty game!

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My girlfriends dad bought this game a few months ago so I figured I might as well try it out.  I played less than 20 minutes and it kinda pretty much sucked.  I didn't like the controls and how the shooting felt.  No thanks on a sequel when there are already a shit ton of actually good shooters out there.  And fuck the glacier engine too, the game was ugly.

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I wonder if Jeff will get fired from GiantBomb for his review of this one.
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kane and lynch is ugly, in more ways than visuals.  
that trailer gave me the same feeling