Lund: Kane and Lynch sequel was obvious
Kane and Lynch 2 all about credibility
Karsten Lund, the director of Kane and Lynch 2, has been talking about the first game and the decision to do a sequel.
Lund told MTV's Multiplayer that doing a sequel was actually a pretty obvious choice.
Lund said: "We don't see it as the failure that the rest of the world saw it as. It sold a lot of copies; actually, it was one of the best-selling new IPs of the year. We're still in love with the characters and the whole gritty tone and the uniqueness of the franchise, so from our perspective it was totally obvious to do a sequel."
In doing a sequel, IO has been careful to make sure that Dog Days makes up for the shortcomings of its predecessor.
Lund continued talking about the new game: "It's a Kane and Lynch game, it has to go over the top at some point. I think the key word here is not realism, it's more credibility. Once everything clicks together you get a whole suspension of disbelief feeling."
"Once you have a firefight in a garage you're like, ok, this could happen in real life," Lund added. "Then you go to the next part of the level and it's a derelict building that's about to be torn down to make way for a skyscraper and it turns into almost "Gears of War" with futuristic landscapes...but you still believe it."
