Customer Reviews

Kingpin

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

1. Profanity: If you don't like profane language, don't buy this game. Also don't go into any inner city ghetto, don't join the US Navy or more important the marine corps where they actually insert profanity inside other words. guarran-...-tee it.
2. Bleeding: Enemies don't bleed per se but when they run away having been shot they leave blood trails to follow.
3. Gangs: In the single player you can only hire 2 guys at a time and in one episode once one of two guys in a bar is hired the other won't work for ya. [even if ya got room]
In the multiplayer there is free for all [everyone for they selves] and bagman [2 gangs] and ya don't really hire them they just join ya. safe's can sdtore your loot until another gang rips you off.
4. Maps: Multiplayer version has many arenas available, and even stategies like 'the sniper' up in a high place while your opponents blindly walk below you. [note you have to download lots of maps or design your own (game includes a map design tool)

5. Rats: if you're beaten pretty bad and hiding 1 point of health can hurt more than just healthy exploring a warehouse.
6. Trains: you heard about the train? well there's an episode wher you have to dodge trains - worse than the guys shooting at you. almost as bad as avoiding molten steel pits, and be sure not to drown in the water...but sometime you need to dive in to get stuff.
7. Gullible: You can hire a guy to come with you, lead them away to nowhere and the off them [boy, are they shocked!]. And if you search their corpse, you can get the money you paid to hire them back! [great for gratuitous violence]
8. Postal: you can keep on shooting people [blow their legs off] of course if you shott their corpse all away, anything they might have been carrying is gone - so be careful before going postal.
9.Ladies: The single player version is a man's world and all the women tend to be a ...well, "...". The multiplayer version allows the player to be runt or thug [male] or ... [female] many skins for all are available. i like the cheerleader and homer simpson goon. hey if profanity, nudity, and violence aren't your cup of tea, then don't buy it, don't play it, and don't even think about making a popular movie these days.

my favoite maps [not supplied, but available]:

chinatownbrawl
goldeneye
old desert dog
[forget name off hand but it was a prison]
pirate ship
cemetary and church

many others are available
the only disappointment was when looking over files in the demo, lamont's woman has two phrases she never uses in demo or retail.. "Could you gimme [money] for my hormone shot?" and "Why thank you very much. You so sweet" both in a 'different voice'
I truly wanted to get her to say that. she only talks about lamont and lenny until ya attack lamont, then she just curses you and tries to kill you. also note her to search the dog's carcass.
i suppose a mapping function would have been nice, but in this environment, real men don't use a map. they don't ask for directions either.

Ok, I am a major fan of PC games. I applaud the programmers on this one. This game is one of few that has a story line and is VERY realistic at the same time. When I first played, I got discouraged because all I had was a crowbar and I just kept dying from people with guns in the back alleys. I didn't realize how realistic the game was until I found out that I had to sneak places so I wouldn't get shot, or that I had to put away my crowbar because even if a friendly person saw me carrying it around, they would go after me. It is a game where you use a lot of common sence. Get information from hookers and drunk bums, find weapons, hire street gangs, kill other gangs and STEAL THEIR MONEY by ducking down and pressing the action button (instead of just walking on top of them to pick their pockets), and use the money at various pawn shops to buy guns, grenades, bullets, health, armor, etc... You even get to tell your gang what to do and who to kill. Once you learn all of this stuff, its not as hard as you think when you first start out. Best game ever.

Kingpin: Life of crime. I had heard alot about this new game by Xatrix where you played as a thick necked overweight thug trying to make it to the top in a gritty dark world where gangs rule the streets. I had also heard alot about the language and how obusive it was. Well I got the game, and thirty minutes later I was the one cussing like crazy because the game was still installing ist sinful 570 MB. When this little ordeal was over and the game started, I had to sit and wait five more minutes for the game to load the first episode, which seemed surprisingly small for such a long loading time. When it finally loaded, I was forced to watch a lame intro movie with which the F word was gratuitously overused. The Enviroments are highly detailed however and the gamelay is exceptionally good. The AI is superb. Enemies run and duck and jump - even through windows to the streets and alleys below if it means staying alive! You can meet other local drunks and thugs, hire em for money and they'll follow you anywhere, wasting those that get in your way. You can command them to wait in a place and regain health when they're severely injured. You can talk to people however you want from "smack to cool." However as you get farther and farther into the game it seems more and more rushed, and the boss at the end of the game, the Kingpin and his woman is a very unreal fight. You can deal absolutly no damage to his b*tch and he himself is not hard to kill. But overall the games only real weakness is loading, loading and loading. Other then that, its great. Definately a buy if you got at least a pentium 233. Though the game did slow down even on a p-3 with 450 mghz, when there was alot of stuff going on on the screen.

I thought it was a terrific game, who cares about the violence and/or language, if anything, it's realistic, how could you be so naive to think that this doesn't go on around the world, I think we needed a game this realistic, there's a reason that they put the ratings on games, to warn you, why buy it and complain about what it warned you about!!

Kingpin: Life of Crime is a dark fps with a great gameplay set in the real bad world. You play a unnamed guy just called Thug. The game opens with thug badly beaten up and left in an ally by Nick's men, Nick works for the kingpin, Thug vows to get revenge, but he does not have anything besides a small pipe, so he has to kill people for money, he kills people takes their money and weapons, buys more weapons, hires goons, rides on a stolen bike, jumps into a moving train, finally he takes on the kingpin, kills him and he becomes the kingpin. The single player gameplay is a different and great experience, no boss levels, all the villans are humans but their weapons and toughness changes. Besides shooting the baddies you have to talk and get advise from people in night clubs, visit the pawn o matic, hire goons ect. The level design is fantastic, From a dark ally, a steel mill, railroad, bad streets ect. They are very fun and very enjoyable to get through. The level are huge and are in hub layout. The weapons are good, There is a pistol, shotgun, tommygun, grenade launcher, bazzoka and a flame thrower. The flame thrower looks as good as it is in rtcw, This same company did rtcw.

Kingpin is built on the heavily modified quake2 engine. I play it on the default OpenGL video mode and the game runs very smooth. The graphics are fantastic, look great even today. The charecter animation is good but thier flesh moves as if they do not have any skeleton. Sound is very good, weapon sounds and the music is great. The voice acting is averange and almost all the male charecters sound the same. The art direction for each levels is superb, artists who did it should get an award for their contribution, kingpin has the best art direction in a computer game even today. Wow! fantastic environments look real and the atmosphere is superb. Kingpin is a very violent game, you could see arms and limbs comming off, baddies injured and running away will leave a trail of blood. the level of violace and langauge make games like sof look like a kids game, you can reduce them by installing the pg-13 version. There are lots of bad words you will hear the f-word hundred times in the first level itself. The AI is quite good, villans react well in situation. Kingpin is a very good game, If you do not mind games with heavy violance and bad words then you will surely like it. It is one of the realistic and coolest fps i have ever played.

Way back in 1999, long before the days of Grand Theft Auto, Kingpin assumed the mantle of the most controversial game out there, raising the ire of censor-trigger-happy panty-waists everywhere with its combination of graphic violence and even more graphic language. Kingpin is basically the Andrew Dice Clay of computer games, lacing every line of character dialogue with profanity. News flash to all the haters there: inner-city thugs on the make tend to use strong language. It's called realism, people. Do we really want to hear mafia dons saying things like "I say, old chap, whatever are you doing with that gun in your hand?" or "Dear me, I do believe I shall have to exact a modicum of revenge on that brash young man who helped himself to some of my cash holdings"? Uh, no. That would not be a good thing. And it's not as if the makers of the game, Xatrix Entertainment and Interplay, were sneaking this game into Santa's bag for little Johnny. It's got a great big red sticker on the front that says "Parental Advisory: Contains Graphic Language and Violence." Kids could never buy this game on their own. Going even further, the makers included the option of installing the game without all of the explicit language.

What about the game itself? Well, it's a darn good first-person shooter built on the Quake 2 engine. It does require a 3-D graphics accelerator, but that pretty much comes standard with any decent PC built in the last several years. In terms of player control and perspective, it is quite similar to that of Quake 2, which should be second nature to virtually every gamer out there. Yes, you'll see more than a fair share of warehouse settings, but you're looking at 34 individual levels in single-player mode, each of which is quite atmospheric in a film nour-ish kind of way. I do have to turn my brightness up to about 80% in order to see everything in the darker environments, but you're really looking at a fairly elaborate arena to exercise your thirst for virtual blood here. As for the violence, much of the shock value has disappeared since the game was released, but it's always cool to blow some schmuck's head clean off - and you have a decent variety of weapons with which to wreak your havoc: pistol, shotgun, Tommy gun, grenade launcher, flamethrower, etc. - all of your typical weapons.

As you start the game, you're basically a worthless thug with a chip on your shoulder, having just been beaten up by some of the Kingpin's henchmen. Naturally, you vow revenge on the bloke who made the mistake of leaving you alive and able to come after him. It takes time, patience, some puzzle-solving ability, and a lot of ammunition to work your way up to his high rise building and leave him laying in a pool of his own blood, but you don't mind because you get to do tons of damage along the way. It isn't all about killing people, though, as some of the NPCs can provide you with helpful information and others will back you up if you have the cash to buy their brawn and bullets. Being the thug that you are, you have a pretty limited vocabulary, but you do at least get to choose between friendly and decidedly unfriendly approaches to each character you talk to. Now, if you're like me, you always want to shoot first and ask questions later, so it can be hard to temporarily holster your weapon - but, there's no rule that says you can't ice your informants after they've told you what you want to know.

I never tried the online multi-player component of Kingpin, so I can't tell you anything about that. One thing I can tell you, though, is that this game installs and plays flawlessly on Windows XP, unlike most games released in 1999. Having just played the entire game again recently, I think I actually had more fun with it now than I did when it was first released.

I only have the demo and I really want 2 buy the game the game is the best fps out there I think the language rulez and the violent content WHOA!!!!! the whole game just BLEW ME AWAY thwe graphics are incredibal I give it a 5/5 its that [...] good

I preordered this game and got it when it first came out. The vulgar language, a first in PC games, and the provocation by the A/I characters when your character came on a scene without a weapon drawn was hilarious. The graphics were very good with much violence and gore. Player and A/I character interaction pertained to nothing but hiring a gang member, a direct fight to the death or provocation by the A/I character before a fight. Speaking to an A/I character gave an indication of the level of hostility toward the player. More player, A/I interaction could have been added with more of a variety of phrases thrown in. More than phrases such as "What the F*** you doin back here.", "F***in, Piece of S***." or "Got some money. Let's go". For its time, this was a very good effort, humorous. Not for kids. What does Xatrix have coming out next? I will probably buy it.

In Kingpin you start out as a guy just like everybody else, but then you get this "reputation" as this bad [guy], who doesn't take [anything]from anybody and is basically unstoppable. There are alot of good, and BAD things about this game, and this will deffinetly be the review you need to look at because I like the game more than I dislike the game, or vise versa.
The Pros for the game are: The graphics are Great in some aspects (people, explosions, fire, and sometimes surroundings),
also realisticness plays a big part in the game at some points, for instance, the blood, the blowing off of limbs, it's not like those other games where you shoot someone in the face 50 times with a bazooka and bleed a little! The language is also GREAT, most people think that the language is "terrible" or cursing is way overused but if you think that then you shouldn't even have bought a game like this! I mean what do you expect? This is a game, where people almost ALWAYS have a gun. Live in the WORST area of anyplace that I have ever seen and have box's at the best as homes. So I really doubt the people in kingpin are going to care about their language! I also seen someone complain about how long it takes to reload the shotgun, that is bullcrap, it is almost the exact same speed of realoading a real shotgun! Another thing is, the enemys have to reload! Thats right!! When they run out of ammo you can blast them and they can't do anything about it! The lighting is also good in the game! When you shoot a gun liek the tommygun it will definetly light up the room! It's also great to be able to hire people or "thugs", which basically only help you kill people or unlock doors or safes! There asre also diffrent gangs in kingpin! You can spot them by their attire. The Sewer rats, the scorps, the dragons, and the jokers. You later in the game even get a chance to join the Jokers! which all have a joker head tattooed on their arm. The cons of the game are, first of all, like another review said on here. What the Box of kingpin says is a COMPLETE LIE!!!! First of all it says, Recruit a gang of thugs, LOL, NO, you can have up to 2, yes 2!!! thugs at one time, if you try to hire any more then they'll say something along the lines of "sorry, i can't run with ya" or "you gotta make room for me", the box also says about what the thugs do, and it says something about them hanging back to guard your turf, what turf???!!!! You have no area of your own, you rarely ever go back to a spot you've visited before in kinpin! So if you tell them the stay put then you'll never see them again! It Also says, shoot a snitch in the knee caps, there are no snitches, and if you shoot anyone in the kneecaps, your going to catch a cap in the face and lose 60 health! It also says shoot an enemy with a single head shot and watch them bleed! No again, in the later levels of the game it is EXTREMLY hard to kill people you can sometimes go up to an enemy at point blank range and shoot them in the face with a shotgun and they will just shoot you back! Another thing, enemys don't ever acutally bleed! They just have red marks. Another completely moronic thing about this game is that the RATS can hurt you!!! They can set there and bite you and take off 1 point of health each time they bite you! thats just dumb! Another thing about the enemy is they sometime are just stupid, they'll set there and run around in circles until you kill them, even if they have a gun! And that is kingpin, thats a long review but it is basically everything about the game!

I purchased this game when it came out new, then again as something to pass around on deployment. The multiplayer is awesome with some great support sites to download new content from. TThe single-player mission is also fun even though the graphics are clearly dated. On the plus side: there will be very few computers that CANNOT play this. I play this on my ASUS netbook, but not sure if some of the older netbooks will be able to handle this.