Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days test GPU
Year: 2010
Genre: Action (Shooter) / 3D / 3rd Person
Developer: IO Interactive
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Publisher in Russia: New Disc
System requirements for maximum visual quality in Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days recommended by the game websiteGPU:
The minimum
Operating system: Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: 2 Core Duo 1,86 GHz or Athlon 64 x2 4200+
RAM: 1,5 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MB RAM Radeon HD 5570 or GS GeForce 8800
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 7 GB free space
Effective
Operating system: Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: 2 Core Duo 2.2 GHz or Athlon 64 x2 5200+
Memory: 2 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 512 MB RAM Radeon HD 3870 or GeForce GT 8800
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 7 GB free space
Optimal
Operating system: Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: 2 Core Duo 2.66 GHz or Athlon 64 x2 6000+
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 512 MB RAM Radeon HD 4830 or GeForce GTS250
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 7 GB free space
Official description of the game
The dirty streets of Shanghai are a great place to forget about the bloody frenzy. Ten bucks, a girl at your side, and you're king of the world. But when an old friend comes, it doesn't mean a damn thing. And the passion is like a desire to sit and remember the old days - but new problems are on the horizon. But they will have to be solved the old fashioned way. After all, when the scum is pinned in a corner, you just want to take out a shotgun and cause a bloody massacre all around!
A couple of the most brutal and reckless killers in the history of video games are back! Kane and Lynch will tell a new story with explosions, hurricane shooting and thick streams of blood. The incredible realism of brutal events will take you into the concrete jungle. It is more dangerous here than in any ghetto, but these sinister heroes are seasoned predators. Your own skin is more valuable than the lives of local bosses. It is better to send an entire city to the next world than to allow someone to escape retribution. When they meet, the world around them will collapse. Get ready - Kane and Lynch are coming. And they are ready to kill.
Features:
– Brutal action: fight to survive
– Cult characters: cynical psychopathic killers
– Continuation of the story: greed, betrayal and revenge
Review: Playability
Finally, our old friends returned, and very unexpectedly. Less than a year has passed since the official announcement of Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, and the game has already appeared on the shelves of all stores around the world. The staff at IO Interactive went in a different direction and decided to present both the gameplay and the characters themselves in a different light. And if in the first part there was a certain amount of plot and certainty, then here the goals of our heroes are quite simple - to cooperate, complete a deal and earn a lot of money. But as you yourself understand, this is unlikely for them Will it work out and they will get into serious trouble...
The game world of Shanghai is presented in an extremely criminal light. Wherever you look, in the stinking and rotting city there are only bandits and gangsters scurrying around, and even the police are in no way inferior to street thugs... One can even say without assumptions that in China this “entertainment” will be properly suppressed and is unlikely to ever- will go on public sale at some point. Following in the footsteps of the original, the developers have maintained linearity and we will have to constantly move through narrow streets and corridors, moving towards our goal, along the way taking cover and shooting back from an influx of enemies. From the very beginning of the game our heroes they fall into the thick of it and don’t leave it until the very end. The camera in the game is very uncomfortable and we can’t even imagine what kind of turns console owners describe on controllers...
Again, let's compare Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days with the first part - our characters have lost the lion's share of their attractiveness and their inherent brutal and charming character. Their rudeness seems a little dry and in some situations just ridiculous. The original Kane & Lynch: Dead Men was produced at such a high level that a new Hollywood blockbuster is being made based on it, but the second part looks like a cheap action movie that came from the 80s, and hardly anyone will dare to make a film based on it.
We invite you to evaluate part of the game walkthrough of Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, where you can see for yourself the quality of this product:
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days can only please fans of its series who couldn’t get enough of it and shoot it a few years ago. But even they may be upset - completing the game will take about five hours, so in our opinion the game looks like an add-on released in a very short time, which is aimed at reducing the thickness of the wallets of fans of the original Kane & Lynch: Dead Men...
Review: Game Graphics
The graphics of Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days are implemented on the Glacier engine. Work on the engine began back in 1994, and since then, over the course of several years, the technology has been subject to constant refinements and improvements. The first game that was based on this technology was “Hitman: Codename 47” in 2000; at the same time, the last one, as you might guess, is “Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days”.
The engine contains several tools necessary for development: “Visual Scene Editor” and “Visual Scene Player” for working with cut scenes (game clips on the engine), a level editor, several tools for working with textures, objects and sound, as well as its own plugins for 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop and ProTools. Basic physics allows you to simulate the behavior of vehicles, collisions, falling objects, however, in more recent projects, the commercial Havok physics engine is integrated into the Glacier engine.
To work with light, it supports light mapping, per-pixel and vertex lighting, volumetric rays, and pre-rendered (or displayed in real time) lights and shadows. It also supports MIP and bump texturing, object LOD, inverse kinematics, and frame-by-frame and skeletal animation.
There is support for a number of graphic post-effects, including light flares, motion blur and depth of field. Traditionally for engines of its time, there was the ability to create various weather effects (for example, fog or rain) using a particle system - it also controls some other effects. Shader support allows you to implement effects such as water with waves, light refractions and reflections. Glacier's built-in audio engine supports streaming or dynamic level music playback and acoustic effects for audio created using the A3D or EAX subsystem. The file storage system is based on the ZIP format, which makes it easier to access archives of game data.
But as you yourself, serious improvements regarding Kane & Lynch: Dead Men are quite difficult to notice, and only improved physics thanks to the use of Havok slightly improves both the picture itself and the gameplay. True, there are also deteriorations - as we wrote, the developers changed the style of the game, everything looks very muddy and illegible, as if recorded on an old VHS, and the sloppy textures of the characters are simply depressing... The graphics in the game are outdated - this is a fact, and if the developers still decide to develop games in this series, then they need to seriously reconsider the entire graphical component.
Review: Resource-intensive game
Since the game engine is already quite old, to play Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days comfortably, you will not need the most advanced hardware today, namely a Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz processor or an Athlon 64 x2 5200+ and a RAM capacity of 2 gigabytes.
Hardware configuration |
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Processors |
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550@ 4.25 GHz cache L2 12 MB Intel® Core™ i7-930@4.2 GHz cache L3 8 MB Intel® Core™ i7-860@4.2 GHz cache L3 8 MB |
motherboards |
MSI P45 Platinum 7512 socket LGA775 MSI X58 Pro socket LGA1366 product provided by the company MSI MSI P55-GD55 socket LGA1156 product provided by the company MSI |
Memory |
GOODRAM PLAY 1600MHz (8-8-8-24) product provided by the company GOODRAM GOODRAM Pro 2000MHz (8-8-8-29) product provided by the company GOODRAM |
Video Cards |
GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB |
Hard disks |
3x2 RAID0 Western Digital Caivar WD2500GL 250 GB, 7200 rpm, SATA 3 Gbit/s |
Power Supplies |
FSP GROUP EVEREST 800W 2xSeaSonic S12D 850 Silver 850W product provided by the company SeaSonic |
System software and drivers |
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Operating system |
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition x64 |
DirectX |
DirectX 11 |
Platform Driver |
Intel INF Chipset Update Utility 9.1.0.1012 |
Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 258.96 ATI Catalyst 10.7 |
All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality by the Fraps program in the most resource-intensive part of the game.
Less productive video cards are tested on the basis of the Core 2 Quad Q9550 processor, and more productive ones on the basis of the Core™ i7 processor. Our video cards are tested in general in all separate screen sizes, and you can evaluate how your video card behaves in relation to other modern solutions in almost all gaming separate screen sizes. All video cards were tested at maximum graphic quality settings with full-screen antialiasing enabled at 8X.
Testing at maximum quality settings 1024x768
So, for a resolution for maximum graphics quality settings of 1024x768, a minimum of video cards such as Radeon HD 2900 or GeForce 8800 GS will be required, so those who played the first part will be able to play the second on the same hardware...
Testing at maximum quality settings 1280x1024
At a resolution of 1280x1024, players will again need the same video cards, namely Radeon HD 2900 or GeForce 8800 GS.
Testing at maximum quality settings 1680x1050
With a widescreen resolution of 1680x1050, the level of performance will rise only slightly, namely to video cards of the Radeon HD 5570 or GeForce GT 240 level.
Testing at maximum quality settings 1920x1080
And finally, with an HD resolution of 1920x1080, your computer will already need cards of this level Radeon HD 3850 or GeForce GT 240. Everything is simple and straightforward. There is a little surprise for ATI card holders. In 3 separate screen sizes out of 4, AMD cards completely dominate, and only at a resolution of 1920x1080 Nvidia takes a slight lead, but only thanks to a higher minimum FPS...
Final World:Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is a good add-on to the first part, but it is unlikely to repeat the success of the original. The duration of the game time is negligible, and the plot leaves much to be desired... The system requirements by today's standards are very modest and will allow most owners of gaming PCs to enjoy maximum graphics settings.