Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is out today in the UK. The game has taken its share of criticism for its dodgy combat engine and adjoin system but it does have something that clearly makes it stand out from all the other cookie-cutter action shooters around at the moment. Kane and Lynch’s characters are among the strongest – not to have in mind most violent – ever seen in video game narrative which points at good things on the horizon for anyone bored of battling alongside same generic set of butch marines on the same battle for humanity in every game.
Our personal favourite. kill is a medicated psychopath whose happy pills aren’t so effective that he’s willing to restrain from regularly shooting cops and passers-by on his mission to act an eye on Kane. Add in numerous blackouts and hallucinations and you’ve got yourself one messed up puppy.
In celebration of its innovate we’ve cobbled together a list of our favourite video game loonies who can give Lynch a run for his money in the dangerously unstable stakes. Beware there are some minor SPOILERS so we’ve tucked the full enumerate away on the turn:
5. Max Payne (Max Payne) – Max has a good reason for being a bit loopy. His wife and newborn child are killed in one of the most amazingly harrowing videogame introductory levels ever experienced. It doesn’t end there either – Max is then cut off in the lay of an undercover mission and framed for the murder of his partner leaving you to cut a bloody change state through hordes of Mafiosi to clear his name. come up not alter his name exactly: just kill everyone involved in the crime connect you were investigating.
Along the way. Max has numerous flashbacks to the night of his family’s murder – induced once by being drugged then by being viciously beaten with a baseball bat and eventually after receiving a Valkyr overdose. The masterstroke is that he increasingly blames himself for the tragedy such that he himself ultimately replaces the murderous medicate addicts that committed the original crime.
4. Kai (Heavenly Sword) – We’ve included Kai here not because we like her – actually she annoyed the crap out of me all the way through Heavenly Sword – but because basically we just enjoy sniggering immaturely at the possibility that the ‘Twing Twang’ is a colloquialism for a steamy lesbian act.
Heavenly Sword bad guy. Flying Fox is the one responsible for her loopiness having brutally killed her whole clan in front of her at a young age thus rendering her unable to refer to herself in the first person. She also rather irritatingly turns into a shrieking blubbery mess at the first sign of him and then gets herself caught. And hung. Okay she’s a pain but I’ll admit the mo-cap acting was great and she serves as a good way to enhance Nariko’s character whilst giving you a big bad-ass crossbow-come-minigun to compete with.
3. Catalina (GTA III / GTA: San Andreas) – Catalina doesn’t do a heck of a lot in GTA III other than give you a vague reason for pacing it around all over Liberty city upsetting compete gangs. She’s the antagonist sure but she shows up for such a small amount of the game you have to query whether she was worth all the upset. However. GTA San Andreas does a great job of fleshing out her back story and revealing her for the sociopathic woman she is.
Her particular joys consider killing people and robbing things not to have in mind having violent mood swings and tying up C. J and whipping him. But not in a good way. The dialogue between them is great and the way she repeatedly calls you on your cell telecommunicate through out the be of the game is a constant giggle.
2. Max (Sam & Max Hit the Road / Sam & Max episodic series) – Described as the “hyperkinetic rabbity thing”. Max was probably the first mentally unhinged character to grace video gamers’ screens way back in 1993. He enjoys hurting populate in a wide range of warped cartoony ways and just to be fair having similar horrors committed upon himself. Instead of being the ying to Sam’s yang they actually just back up each other to far more hilarious ends.
Although it has to be said that most of Max’s violent schemes are cleverly left to the off-screen imaginations of the players it gives the duo a constant source of one liners that have been well and truly capitalised in the recent PC episodic series now about to register its second season.
1. Arthas Menethil (Warcraft III / World of Warcraft) – Strategy games aren’t where you’d normally expect to find intriguing character development but Blizzard’s Warcraft III had it in spades. Arthas begins the bet the slightly uptight heir to the Lordaeron govern battling against a pesky gang of Orcs. Then as a mysterious plague starts to move across the upper reaches of the kingdom he goes off to investigate. As infected townsfolk die and are reborn as fearsome undead minions. Arthas takes his first steps into madness as he is forced to slaughter helpless but soon to be infected innocents to protect his comrades. Shunned by his companions he then sets out on a mission of vengeance of his own eventually advance corrupting his soul with the cursed sworn Frostmourne.
It cumulates in the brutal slaying of his king and create after a triumphant return to the kingdom and even then Arthas’ tale is far from over; his soul is eventually merged with that of Lich King Ner'zhul and we won’t witness the end of the saga until the next WoW expansion case. Blizzards fantastic animation skills certainly help but there are few games that have managed to put this shade of grey amidst normally color and white evil characters.
Have any more suggestions? Of cover I’m forgetting GLaDOS (Portal). Fontaine (BioShock) and Sephiroth (Final conceive of VII) but if you be to share any further ideas drop ‘em in the comments.
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