Kingpin: Life of Crime

Honestly I loved this game. It was the highlight of my youth gaming experience and the grittiness was unparalleled, even compared with today's modern PC games.

Kingpin qualifies as a flawed masterpiece in the world of video games. The load times are a nightmare and there are a number of places where it makes no sense. But all in all it is a satisfying first person shooter.

The unreal level of blood, brutality, gore, and out and out foul mouthed profanity is at times beyond belief. There's a nice touch where you can question game characters in the game and sometimes even intimidate them with threats of badass vi-o-lence! The game's also darkly funny at times. A cut scene where the main character is given a lift and how he pays the driver had me laughing my arse off! It was sick but funny as hell!

The makers of this film have seen the flick Pulp Fiction many times. And you can see whole scenes and lines lifted from the flick in Kingpin.

The Cypress Hill soundtrack is good for what little music they provided that is. They do some character voice work here and there too.

Be sure to download yourself a patch to fix the games many bugs and let everyone pray that a Kingpin sequel is in the works! C'mon Drew Markham! Show us one more Kingpin, brother! Kingpin: Reloaded. How's that for a sequel title? It sounds like The Matrix sequel title on purpose. I figure if Pulp Fiction influenced the first Kingpin, The Matrix seems like a good choice to influence the sequel! Kingpin: Life of Crime meets Matrix style action.

10 bloody stars for this gem. I often read silly comments on how some fantasy game is considered to be one of the most violent ever. BS baby, play this one if you really want to feel uneasy about dense and relentless violence, because you know, if you are killing in a game a reptile humanoid that spurts a green good when you cut it, that can't hold a candle to actually machine gun down a dirty psycho gangster who's shouting at you unreproducible insults while a shower of blood jams out of his body, you can blow parts of their bulky bodies with a shotgun, it's great how they fall knee first and then body to the ground when you make their heads suddenly explode without warning. Let alone the cascade of blood and the squirting sounds when you make them explode with a rocket, or the desperate screams they make when you set them on fire! O boy this game is everything i wanted for at the time... the mood is awesome, everybody is there whether to kill you or to be hired to kill, the "bitches" (that's the name of the actual characters) give you some hints, the gangsters are always commenting on some kill or some "job" they did recently, the backgrounds are great, from a labyrinth of projects buildings, urban decay is the keyword for the surrounding areas. All the enemies are awesome in design, from tough dangerously looking tugs with great different tones and accents, to deranged toxic mutated psychos. References to great movies like Pulp Fiction or The Big Lebowski, rats everywhere, garbage, sewers, condemned buildings, bums, junkies, oh God it's got it all! Is like playing a mix of Escape from New York with Death Wish III, i could talk forever about this game. The creators are my heroes, the concept is everything i want as i said, and i hope some time this guys will give us a sequel maybe letting us play with a new tough thug on his way to waste the thug we made Kingpin in this off the hook fricking ridiculously amazing violent game!

Rated M for Strong Language,Graphic Violence and for Blood and Gore.

Kingpin Life Of Crime is an ultra violent,very profane,gritty video game.Its the first high profile FPS game after the columbine school shootings.It was very controversial for its graphic violence and heavy profanity(The f-word is used a lot in the game).Best Buy and Walmart did not carry the game.Only EB Games did.Kingpin Life Of Crime follows a street thug out to get revenge on some men who brutally beat him.Starting with a piece of led pipe he goes on to find and kill all the mob members and anyone who stands in his way.For a price you can recruit bodyguards.You can buy various weapons and weapon mods.The graphics are not great but Kingpin Life Of Crime is a very good video game especially for its time.Its pretty hard to find(I have not found it anywhere) but if you do find it get it! You wont regret it.If you cant you can always download it.

9/10

Kingpin was a very advanced game for its time. It was violent, foul mouthed and gory. The graphics were really good looking in the urban setting and the level design was superb and made realistic through a population of street trash. The modern weapons were quite enjoyable to use on the latter. The voice acting was also pretty good.

The theme of the game is very much like Pulp fiction and you play a thug. The game was however quite buggy and the load times were horrible on lower end computers. The pace of the action is not as frantic as one would expect and the enemies can be quite tough at times, requiring something better than taking them in a head on battle.