Kane & Lynch 2 Breaks Out Early

We’ve just been told that Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is done, complete, signed and sealed and on its way to the factory where they press loads of copies of the game for you to buy. They also make Shreddies there, but don’t tell anyone, you’ll spoil the illusion.

The upshot of all this is that the game will now release a week earlier than planned, so you’ll be able to pick up the innovative, exciting third person shooter on the 20th of August here in Europe (the 17th in the States) on both PS3 and Xbox 360.

I’ve had an early build of the game for a few weeks now and it’s great fun. It’s gritty, demanding and bloody, and the grainy camera approach is really quite cool – we’ll be able to talk about it all pretty soon, so stay tuned for our impressions.

“The team has worked hard to deliver a game that’s different from the current trend of third-person shooters and we’re so pleased to be able to share it with the world ahead of schedule,” said Niels Jørgensen, general manager of IO Interactive.

“With development now complete, why keep people waiting any longer? We want to let gamers experience the game we’ve created and get them online betraying their friends in Fragile Alliance, so we have decided to bring the release date forward by one week.”

9 Comments

  1. Top news, nofi. Been interested to see if they’ve improved on the first one as I felt like they had a great dynamic but it was poorly executed first time ’round. The intensity of the recent trailer has been nothing short of superb!

  2. Great stuff, this is most likely to be my next purchase, the videos I’ve seen of the MP side seem really cool..

    • it was really cool when it worked in the first one but it took ages to get a good game

  3. I loved the first game but was a little let down by the ending. I hope the new one is as good as it looks.

    I have never been a fan of the online mode in this as I felt people were ruining it online. I hope this is somehow worked around, or servers are better loaded.

  4. Not really interested in this game…

    however it looks to be repeating the ‘Assassins Creed Syndrome’

    2 being brilliant whilst 1 was Cack…

  5. Good, now I can get both this and Mafia 2!

  6. early release instead of push backs sounds good to me.

  7. i really liked the 1st game great when u have ur m8 around.

  8. Please tell me your planning a review then nofi? It looks great, just like the first one, which then turned out to be average I though.
    Nice to know its getting released early, most games just get delayed!

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