You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish. There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. It’s low-res 2D as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. Ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything-the game’s running at your resolution of choice. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. Ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. This Steam Guide from user heli圆66 includes just two files, a dll and a. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Created by then up and rising game designer studio Crytek from Germany, Far Cry promptly upon discharge got one of the most significant PC game arrivals of the mid-2000s. You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Far Cry 2 is an honor winning and outwardly fantastic open-world FPS game from 2004. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8-in 4K, no less-with little effort. Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. It was definitely a step forward for technology-even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.Īnd then there was the cursing. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. This week's expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in '99. Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions.
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