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Hey everyone, hope you’re all having a happy Halloween. To celebrate, I’m going to talk about Thrill Kill, the most violent game you have never played. What do I mean by that? Well...
Thrill Kill was going to be a game based solely on killing your opponent. Not tactically avoiding him to save your health: this was rushing in to cause damage. More on that later. Because of this, there were lots of concerns of it simply being released. None the less, it was still planned on coming out in October 1999. That is until its publishers, Virgin Interactive, were bought out by another company. I’m not going to say which one, not to bad mouth them, but their initials are EA...
Erin Ashley *opens door to the prod studio*: Are you talking about me?
Oh, no, not you...
Erin: Alright *closes door*
With about a week to go before its intended release, EA cancelled the game. They also refused to sell it to any other publisher that might want it since they didn’t want such a “needlessly violent game to get out.” Of course, the designers and such that worked on it were pretty furious about this, however they had a solution. Someone on the team actually released several versions of the game on the internet. That means that you can play this game with a modded Playstation or an emulator of it.
*Voice whispers, page gets passed rustled* Oh *clears throat, music changes* Level Up and all people affiliated with it do not encourage the ROMing, Emulating, Burning or modding of any games or systems, or any illegal distribution of video games. That good? *voice sounds pleased, music returns* Moving on.
Second only to the amount of gore, the main attraction to this game was its unique battle system. As mentioned before, it encouraged an offensive battling technique instead of a defensive one. Here’s how: in most games you have health and if you lose all your health by getting hit too many times, you lose. In this game you start with an empty “kill meter” and each time you hit your opponent, you add a little to it. The first person to fill their kill meter gets to perform a thrill kill (ladies and gentlemen, we have a title); a gruesome attack that kills one person permanently taking them out of the round.
The characters are also an intriguing bunch. Playing as them, you got your clichéd fighters: the strong but slow one, the small but quick one, the nimble one, the average one, the one whose better with basic moves, the one who has awesome special moves, etc... But it’s their actual character that’s intriguing about them. Currently their fighting in hell for the right to be reincarnated and seem to be physical manifestations of their tortured mind and sins from their past life. For example, one of the most popular characters is Belladonna, a former house wife and part-time librarian who snapped one day when she found out her husband was cheating on her with her sister. She became a lethal dominatrix favouring the cattle prod and that’s what she’s like in the game. There’s also the Imp, a little person suffering from a napoleon complex who died after amputating his legs and trying to attach experimental false legs to be taller. He fights in hell at his normal height, but with stilts grafted to his ankles. My personal favourite character is Doctor Faustus, a plastic surgeon with a modified bear trap for a mouth (he died due to an infection he got while grafting it on). In his former life, he actually tried to graft it onto some of his patients. Seriously, isn’t this a disturbing thought: a psychotic doctor who tried to unknowingly give people bear trap mouths while they were under the knife? There are 8 characters in total with equally interesting back stories and 3 others who are just... there. All fun to play and learn about.
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