I'm pretty sure that Gerstmann was fired for his review of the original Kane and Lynch game.
Anyhow I downloaded K&L2 as it was free and C grade tps was my bread and butter back in the day. Holy shit does this game stink. The maps and enemy placement/movements are OK, the weapons in this game are beyond awful. Shotguns are crazy accurate and effective over long distances, but you get limited access to these and you're forced to use machine pistols over the first couple of levels, which basically involve hiding in cover and shooting 200 rounds to kill one baddie. Really poor and unsatisfying gameplay.
Best part of the game is the shaky digital camera style they went for, its truly pretty unique and a fun game world to manouvre through, and it also band-aids shitty texture pop in by making it "intentional". I've never played a game that masked it's technical shortcomings by a stylistic choice and I have to say its pretty cool. Video game historians may mention this one as some throwback chic someday