Kingpin: Reloaded

Do not recommend this remaster. The graphics looks like from 2000 and it works way worse than the original game. Game freezes while quick loading, my bodyguards gets stuck behind me repeatedly and I was able to go for a gun in the bar and started a shootout. The only element I like are achievements. I am not surprised 37% here on Steam and have to admit this is very lousy remaster to be honest! --- 3/10

Here are the differences: - Subtitles now appear also in cutscenes and are centered in the middle of the screen in a more modern style. Can be adjusted, so it's great. In the Original you only have captions for NPC which appear in the top left corner of the screen - Textures are improved slightly, keeping the aspect of the original. There is an enhanced option setting where you can toggle new or original skybox, which I thought is a nice touch. Also bloom options and other lighting settings. - You can change between Enhanced and Original graphics by pressing a key (default 9) - There is better volumetric lighting (fixed now) and shadows Cons: - I do not like the new blood. I noticed this as a tendency with modern games, the blood is not looking real anymore, but more like a sauce. There is an option to set the intensity, ironically the default setting is actually called Tomato Sauce. I set this to the Bloodbath setting which made it look a bit more closer to blood, but the effect is a bit too much. The running NPC will leave trails and trails of blood all over the place which is persistent. - If you fight an NPC and they run all over the place spreading blood on the floor, once you reload the game the NPC are alive and back in the place they were before starting the fight, however the fking blood is still present on the floor. Literally, you can fight lots and lots of NPCs and then reload and you will have blood everywhere in your playthrough, It is not fixable even if you restart the map. I did test this in the first encounter at the very beginning of the game, so maybe it is only present there since you are not supposed to fight those guys. idk - There is a motion weirdness in regards to how elements move on screen relative to camera rotation. I cannot put my finger on it, however the camera is smooth, playing at your monitor's refresh rate, but the environment is like being at a lower framerate when changing the view. Not sure if it makes sense, but you can feel something is not right. Also, in Pawn O Matic, when you select the weapons and there is the rolling animation, the refresh is somewhat lower. I think it's 30 FPS if I am not mistaken. - The HUD. I cannot express how bad the HUD is. Especially your character icon. Why did they need to improve that? It was perfect. Not to mention it is huuuge. You can shrink it, fortunately. I think they added this afterwards, in a patch. Anyway, it is so bad, when you put armor on yourself you look like Robocop. When you press 9 to change to Original graphics the HUD also reverts to Original, so they need to add an option to toggle Original and Enhanced HUD also in the settings. At least the character figure.

As much as I would like to recommend this, it was a huge letdown and remains so. I don't know if it's a lack of will, skill, funding or a combination hereof, but it has the charm and feel of an average modification. - The menu is poorly designed. You can't navigate with keyboard keys like in the original, unless you first hover the mouse cursor above a menu option. It has the world's most pointless scroll bar that does nothing. It doesn't scale to the monitor size. On my 4K 42" monitor 100% scaling, the text is too big. The subtitles are horrible, even compared to the original engine. The mouse settings are hidden away under keyboard settings. It lacks QoL additions such as enabling the original keyboard layout and being able to see what the original settings were. The four QA guys (yes, I checked the credit) have completely slept on the job. - There is no multiplayer. - The crouch and walk sound is broken compared to the original. - The blood effect looks bad. - The original render isn't faithful. As an example, it's completely missing the shadows, despite them being enabled in the video option. - At least some tracks still has quality issues. - The remaster hasn't improved QoL issues from the original. - I very much dislike the art direction, such as the guy on the HUD showing your health. That cheap cel-shading technique that strongly resembles the horrible Adobe Flash graphics from the 00s. It's not unplayable, but I am utterly disappointed, and that's a very hard feeling to shake.

i liked the OG a lot so being able to play it now with it looking and running better is nice. game isnt super long i beat it in about under 7 hours. worth a replay though.

Warum ich einen Daumen hoch gebe?! Sicher nicht dafür, wie dieses Remake hier auf Steam rausgeheauen wurde für den Preis...Und auch nicht für die mangelhafte Kommunikation zwischen DEV und Spielergemeinde...aber: Das tatsächlich, Ende 2025 , noch ein Patch nachgeschoben wird hat mich (so doof es klingen mag) irgendwie milder gestimmt;) Ich möchte die Schwächen nicht entschuldigen damit.... aber hey...zumindest hab ich nochmal reingespielt...

Good old Kingpin. Graphic is much better. But you have to little play in video settings with gamma, contrast and brightness. Really nice game. Well done.