The nonstop cussing rapidly becomes background noise, and you'll immediately become aware of what incredible use the developers have made of the Aging Quake II Engine (through repeated use, "Aging" is now officially part of the immortal codebase's title). It's high time someone brought Double Dragon into the world of action shooters. You're an avenging thick-necked goon traveling through a bleak urban landscape on a quest to kick some big boss tail.
When it comes to plot, though, Kingpin is less Tarantino and more an homage to the side-scrolling beat-'em-ups of the '80s. The more obvious of these pop culture appropriations occasionally gives Kingpin the feel of an amateur novelty mod. One enemy, called The Jesus, repeatedly screams all of that character's most obscene lines from The Big Lebowski.
The mob bigwig you're chasing is a Ving Rhames look- and sound-alike (the credits list Drew Markham himself as having provided the dead-on impersonation). Kingpin's dialogue is inspired by and, as often as not, lifted directly from Pulp Fiction.
The developers claim to have been greatly influenced by film. Whether the prerelease infamy and the embarrassment of disclaimers are a result of the current political climate or conscious hyperbole by the Interplay marketing machine, they tend to overshadow what is actually a decent shooter. There's plenty of violent content tossed in, but no more than in any other game in the genre. After all the dramatic claims of impending immorality, you may be disappointed to discover that the hand-wringing is simply over Kingpin's inclusion of an absurd Smurf-esque hooligan dialect in which every second word is profane. By the time you've successfully installed it, you will have clicked through an age statement, some dire content warnings, and an impassioned editorial on youth violence and responsible parenting by Xatrix CEO Drew Markham. Kingpin, Xatrix's encore to its first-person shooter Redneck Rampage, is packaged with the most disclaimers of any game ever released.
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