With all the bad press surrounding Kane & Lynch in the past you would think it must be smooth sailing from here on out but you would be wrong.


The Advertising Standards Authority in the UK (A.K.A. the A.S.A.) has pulled, banned and spit on Kane & Lynch TV and printed ads in the UK due to public out cry that the ads were not only offensive in general but promoted violence towards women.

The ASA said: "The majority of the complainants believed the ad was offensive, because it included shocking images, which condoned violence, particularly towards women," states the ASA's adjudication."

This problem was apparently big enough to pull future ads in to the argument by questioning ads set to run in an issue of Edge magazine, the ASA had something to say about that as well: "Although we noted the image in the ads was not dissimilar to some of the images shown as part of the editorial content of Edge and Total Film magazines, we considered that the portrayal of violence it contained, with particular regard to the female hostage, was graphic and too shocking to be seen in any medium,"

Nice try Eidos but it looks like its back to the old drawing board again with this ad campaign.

360-Hq Game Database: Kane & Lynch