Killer 7 Review

When it comes to the actual characters, they really look superb in every fashion possible. There are seven different personas that you can take on in each level, and each look very different from each other and that’s just great. Dan Smith, Con Smith and Mask de Smith seem to be the youngest members of the group, but they each look great and very unique! Dan looks sort of like a businessman dawning a nice looking suit. Con Smith is the more “casual” of the Smiths wearing a sleeveless t-shirt and shorts. Mask de Smith looks just like how he’s described by others in the game, a professional wrestler! He wears a mask and cape to try representing that role.

The other males in Kevin and Coyote Smith look very cool as well! Kevin is a sort of hunched over man that wears sunglasses and Coyote is the thief of the group, dawning a sort of “exotic” looking outfit. There even happens to be a female member of the group in Kaede Smith who tends to wear a number of different dresses. It’s even creepy to see her wear her blood stained white dress during some of the missions! Speaking of her dresses, each character does have a few variations of the outfits they wear, but it’s nothing too special. It almost would’ve been no different if Capcom just gave each character one particular outfit because really the only variations there are in the multiple outfits deal with the minor color changes.

But nevertheless, each Smith persona definitely looks great, and it’s cool to have a look at each throughout the game! Now when it comes to your actual enemies, the Heaven Smile, they are quite diversified as well! Now there are instances in which a certain “species” of the terrorist group are repeated in each mission, but each level actually do have new ones for you to encounter that will look very interesting! There are the normal ones that look more or less like “turned humans” but there are other REALLY weird looking ones that will truly make your eyes open in wonder. Some of them can float or fly, some of them just roll around on the ground and some look like bio-freaks. But regardless, some of them are seen in every mission, while each also have new types of the terrorist group to throw at you!

Next we have our special effects and animations. It’s really tough to say the special effects in Killer 7 don’t impress, because they most certainly do! When it comes to all the natural effects dealing with fire, wind, water and such, they all look very good! If you ever do watch anime on tv or have played other videogames that feature this similar graphics style, you will be pretty familiar with how these effects actually look! But how Killer 7 does it once again seems both cartoony and realistic at the same time. Killer 7 carries a very mature atmosphere, and the special effects were implemented to very much accentuate that! Just like the natural effects, others like the bleeding of your enemies to how fluid everything moves, it’s all great! Oh yeah, there is PLENTY of blood in this game, so it’s definitely not for the squeamish.

Finally, we have our anime style FMVs, and Killer 7 is full of them! They normally take place inbetween missions or during the story when important parts of it are revealed, but regardless of where they are, they couldn’t possibly look more beautiful than they do! If you watch anime on tv or have seen anime style cutscenes in any other videogames, you will know what these looks like. They are rendered beautifully and really make for an authentic anime experience!

So all in all, the only major complaint that could be seen in the graphical style of Killer 7 is the lack of elaborate colors. Some of the areas just look so “meshed” together because there’s nothing really distinguishing parts of them from others. The detail is definitely there for the most part, but some areas of the game really just look downright bland. The same can also be said about the “recurring” Heaven Smile species, they don’t tend to look to different from each other either.

The music style in Killer 7 is unique to say the least. Combined with a confusing story, unique graphics and love it or hate it gameplay mechanics, the music just joins them to make up the unique presentation that is Killer 7. This game will definitely throw you through a loop with how strange the music can be sometimes, but that doesn’t mean it’s not enjoyable! Most of Killer 7′s music will encompass various techno and suspenseful themes that help push the pace of the action forward. Some of them are more upbeat and fast paced, some are more spine chilling and serene. It all depends on which mission you may be going through and how the mood of the actual atmosphere is being portrayed.

Honestly, the best theme in the game is during the screen that you can choose which difficulty setting you will play with at the beginning, and that is somewhat unfortunate. That techno beat can really make you just want to dance if you’re into that kind of thing, but that kind of “drawn in” feel doesn’t exactly happen as often during the game. Sure the music is still great, but it’s sole purpose in the actual game is simply to keep the action flow at the nice pace and keep you from being bored. Nothing really “draws” you in, but perhaps that is because the game relies so heavily on the story that drives it rather than making you feel the true, raw emotion. Don’t take that the wrong way though, there are certain parts of the game that will definitely make you feel something on the inside, but it’s not as often as it could’ve been.