Kane & Lynch 2 - Dog Days

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is an artistic video game that steps up the gritty realism beyond today's conventional graphics.  The visual and auditory aspects of its overall atmosphere make it worth checking out more for the exhilarating documentary experience experience alone. An experience of two bad asses fleeing China after a botched arms deal in the international black market. With complex ambient sound-scape layers generated from real city noises, vintage synthesizers, guitar amplifiers creating a vastly real world experience in the perspectives of a two drugged up inebriated criminals. The gameplay feels more like an arcade shooter with an interesting set of complex disastrous situations to blast your way out of.  Replay value is found in the elaborate online co-op missions and reattempting the main story on the highest difficulty for maximum experience.  It's one of those games you love for sheer badassery of the experience over all other matters. And be warned, some things in gang wars do get ruthlessly extreme but I won't spoil any of it until some of you are shocked by these parts of the game yourself. 

So Dog Days is actually a sequel to the first Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - however the sequal surpasses the first one in all aspects. You follow two professional criminals - James Seth Lynch who contacts his old business partner Adam "Kane" Marcus to work together on a new project that could mean retirement.  After a series of messy incidents in Venezuela (from "Dead Men") the pair parted ways and Lynch starts a new life in Shanghai with a girlfriend named Xiu. Lynch is still connected to a unknown mafia through a UK man named Glazer who tells him about a new underground arms deal with various African countries that needs to pass through China.  It's excepted to be a highly covert operation with lots of international support until word gets out to unaffiliated Chinese criminal organizations who soon want to take over the deal.  Personal lives grow involved and all hell breaks loose when Lynch finds out his girlfriend is taken hostage.  These violent conflicts quickly spark involvement of Chinese authorities as the situation becomes an all-out war.