Kane And Lynch DLC

Tuesday 22 April 2008

I'm alittle behind on this one. The "Dope Bag" Free DLC add's 4 new maps to Kane and Lynch's multiplayer "fragile alliance" mode, and a handful of achievements.

As one of the unlucky launch day buyers of Kane and Lynch, i thought the only thing close to a saving grace was the Fragile Alliance game mode, where up to 8 players could work together to heist a variety of targets. unfortunately, the game was quite buggy, and 75% percent of the time when you tried to enter a game you were plonked back to the main menu.

Anyway, i downloaded the Dope Bag last night, and when i woke up this morning, I loaded up Kane and Lynch, and settled in for a few sessions, noticing it was newly patched. Now, Kane and Lynch's multiplayer is somewhat difficult to explain, the objective being to cooperatively rob your target, and make it to the extraction point, where all the money is pooled, and shared out equally, if you die you respawn as one of the enemy's and can earn a cash bounty for killing the surviving players, and stopping their escape with the loot. So far so simple, right? Well, this is where it get's devious.

The winner is the player who escapes with the most money, However thats done is left to the player. You can be a team player, and escape as part of a group and split the money fairly and equally, or you can pick your moment, and gun down the rest of your teammates, to take their share of the heist, and escape alone, the only problem being that the guys you just shot are now on the other team, and they really dont want to see you escape with what was their money.

Its this combination of Hurried negotiations,backstabbing and paranoia that makes fragile alliance so much fun to play, unfortunately it was marred by Innaccurate weapons and poor damage, meaning it took about 5 minutes to gun down your teammate and turn traitor and as a result no one ever bothered.

The new patch made the weapons more accurate, and damaging, and made it easier to join games, meaning that the free dope bag has made Kane and Lynch a very interesting prospect with the new globe trotting maps, it's just a shame we had to wait almost 6 months for the patch to make the game fun.

Labels: DLC, Free, Kane and Lynch, Xbox360

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