Killer 7 for GameCube Reviews by Gamers

I put in the game, I start it up. I choose normal, because it's full of helpful tips. I learn the controls. Strange, but they seem functional. I've heard a lot about this game, I can't wait to get into the good stuff!

I'm running, something explodes, then something explodes again. That's weird I think to my self. I see a guy, I shoot him. He doesn't die... ok, I talk to him. He hates me and I'm not sure why, but he won't let me through. I shoot him again. Still doesn't die. Weird. I go into this parking garage. Something comes for me. I shoot it, but not in time. I get blown up. I go back into the garage, pick up a bag with my body parts in it, and start killing these exploding things.

They never stop. I see the thing that's spitting them out, and I shoot it, but nothing happens. I keep killing these things. They never stop. I rated this game a 1. Not because of it's funny looking graphics or weird sound, (which I know are part of the "style" of the game) but because after playing for 15 minutes I was stuck in the first level with absolutely no idea what to do. Some "helpful tips" would've been appreciated.

I just got Killer 7 in the mail a few hours ago. I played through the first level, then I stopped playing. I know that this sounds like a bad time to write a review for the game, but I think I experienced pretty much everything the game has to offer.

The reason I didn't go any farther than the first level is that I was positive that the game wasn't going to do anything interesting with the game's elements. All you do is run forward until you get to an intersection in a hallway, then you chose a path, then you keep running. Sometimes you'll find items to use in painfully cliche puzzles, and sometimes you'll come across an enemy. The combat in Killer 7 is just plain horrible. All you do is stand in one place and keep shooting the enemy until they die. You can't move while aiming, but unlike in RE4, that fact never gets in the way because all the enemies do is slowly walk toward you. Once you find an enemy, you stop walking, take out your gun, and just keep shooting the enemy until it dies. There's no skill involved, there's no strategy involved, and there's no difficulty involved. The combat system is absolutely worthless, and it does NOTHING but make the game worse.

There are only 3 elements to the game: lame puzzles, lame enemy encounters, and interaction with NPCs. As you can guess, these interactions are lame. The characters don't have voice overs, and they just keep on talking even though they don't have much to say. Also, you can't skip any text. Either you wait for the NPC to finish making weird noises as you read the text, or you just skip the conversation altogether.

Killer 7 does have its merits, though. The art style is interesting, and each playable character has its own freakishly awesome style of running and gunning. Unfortunately, even though I'm the kind of gamer that doesn't just judge games by their gameplay, the amazing art style found in Killer 7 doesn't even come close to making up for the awful game design.