Kane and Lynch 2 Will Be Big on Realism

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 11:43 pm

If you’ve had the chance to play the videogame Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, then you might have noticed something different about the graphics of the game. For instance, you may have detected how shaky the camera angles are or how rough and pixilated some scenes are. Like many players, you might have had the impulse to adjust your TV settings, not knowing that the rough texture actually comes with the game. According to IO Interactive, a credible and engaging story is not just about using high-res textures for graphics.

Game producer Karsen Lund takes time to talk about the game. He relates how he and the developers decided to tell the game story through a consistent point-of-view. This means that players won’t have any access to what the villains are thinking. In order to enhance this POV, a documentary feel was incorporated into the game. Lund also believes that to be able to heighten the authenticity of the game, the game also had to lose its Hollywood-like visuals which can make players feel that everything has been staged instead of occurring in real life and in real time.

Most would say that this concept is very ambitions for IO. And there is always the danger that players will fail to get the concept at all, but would simply consider the graphics of the game as incompetent. Lund admits that this possibility is one of their worries. However, he happily reports that the game has been understood so far by players who have tested it. Lund says that it’s all about enhancing the game’s realism while still polishing the visuals of the game.

Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days is set to be released in August.