Overwritten.net
Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: TheOtherBelmont on Thursday, January 24, 2013, 01:19:21 AM
-
New game from Suda51 and his team. Looks completely crazy and is NOT a sequel to Killer7 even though it looks a lot like it at some points . I will definitely be getting it this summer if that release date in the trailer is for the US:
-
I've seen a lot of crazy stuff since Killer 7. I think at this point I want more. Some plot details, some idea of the substance. Craziness and ultraviolence alone have a rough time grabbing my interest.
-
I need to spend a weekend with my copy of Killer 7 at some point.
-
Killer Is Dead: Nightmare Edition - PC version coming in May 2014. (http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/02/17/killer-is-dead-nightmare-edition-announced-for-pc/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=emp)
As re-release nomenclature goes, "Nightmare Edition" is pretty good. Not nearly as memorable as Dark Souls' unquestionably accurate "Prepare to Die Edition", or even indie roguelike Teleglitch's "Die More Edition", but the name still effectively sets the tone for this PC release of Suda 51's Killer Is Dead.
In keeping with the name, it will come with a new, harder difficulty mode. In keeping with the tone of the cel-shaded action game, it also comes with a bizarre new trailer.
The game created a pre-release furore for its "Gigolo Mode" missions, which centred around ogling a woman while she wasn't looking in order to raise the protagonists blood pressure. In addition, the game failed to impress many critics when the console version was released. Edge, for instance, called Gigolo Mode "a marketable hook when otherwise its publisher might struggle to find one," suggesting Suda 51's celebrated unpredictability was becoming, well, predictable.
For PC, Nightmare mode will retool the game so that enemies can only be defeated through Adrenaline Burst, Dodge Burst, or Headshot attacks. Additionally, the QTE finishers will be disabled. Having not played the game, those last two sentences mean very little to me.
Slightly easier to parse is the information that the Smooth Operator DLC will come bundled with the game, and be unlocked to all Nightmare Edition owners after completion of Episode 3.
Killer Is Dead: Nightmare Edition will be available May 9th, for £20 / $20.
-
Here's my review for Killer is Dead: Nightmare Edition (PC):
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mysterd/recommended/261110