I love me a janky game with a lot of great ideas that it's reaching really hard to achieve in ways that more polished games just don't. Kane & Lynch was probably a lot less interesting at its time. I've really only known it all these years as the game whose review started the saga of Jeff Gerstmann's firing from Gamespot and subsequential launch of Giant Bomb. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men has some of the worst gunplay I've ever encountered, but it's also head and shoulders above its peers in so many of the other details.

The shine really started to come off the apple for me by the end, but I suspect that's mostly due to the Wii remote being an abominable little bastard. It's still the best Prime game, and it still has a firm place in my heart, but there are so many little things that chip away at my enjoyment of it. The knockback, the emphasis on morph ball platforming, the emperor ing boss' final form not actually suiting the way gunfire works in this game, the way light ammo is always drained and so rarely replenished, and the hunt for the temple keys is an unforgivable sin. But everything else is straight fire. Just . . . Don't play it on Wii.