Kill Switch (video game)
| Kill Switch | |
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| Developer(s) |
Namco Visual Impact (GBA) |
| Publisher(s) | Namco Destination Software (GBA) |
| Distributor(s) | Zoo Digital Publishing (PAL) |
| Designer(s) | Chris Esaki |
| Engine | RenderWare |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 Xbox Windows Game Boy Advance |
| Release date(s) |
PS2 & Xbox Windows March 3, 2004 Game Boy Advance |
| Genre(s) | Third-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Aggregate score | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 78.34% |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| GamePro |   |
| GameSpot | 6.9 / 10 |
| GameZone | 8.5 / 10 |
| IGN | 8 /10 |
| OPM (US) | |
| Play | B+ |
| Gamers Hell | 8.4 / 10 |
| Games Are Fun | 9 / 10 |
| GMR | 8 / 10 |
| Loaded | 8.2 / 10 |
| UGO | A- |
Kill Switch (stylized as kill.switch) is a third-person shooter video game developed by Namco in 2003 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. A Game Boy Advance adaptation was released in 2004. The GBA game was created independently of Namco, due to a licensing deal with Destination Software.
As a relatively straightforward third-person shooter, the most distinguishing characteristic of Kill Switch is its cover system, a mechanic that has the player character taking cover behind objects and around corners in a manner similar to Namco's own Time Crisis series of light gun shooters as well as Koei's third-person shooter WinBack and Konami's stealth game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. However, Kill Switch was the first third-person shooter to feature the cover system as its core game mechanic, and introduced the blind fire mechanic to the cover system (though cover and blind fire mechanics were earlier used in The Getaway).
Protagonist Nick Bishop (voiced by Marcus McCollum) is a super-soldier remotely controlled via direct neural connection by a man known only as "Controller" (voiced by Chuck McQuary) in a series of combat missions designed to bring "the North" and "the West" to war. Profiteer Archer (voiced by Adam Baldwin) plans to benefit by selling the technology used to control Bishop, who gives Controller headaches on recollection of suppressed memories featuring a woman and the phrase "Say my name". Moments before launching a biological warhead, Controller is killed by a surge triggered when a woman known as "Duchess" (voiced by Adrienne Wilkinson) seizes control of Bishop. Sent to attack Controller's base, Bishop's memories are eventually restored: the woman from his memories was his new wife, who Archer killed when he captured Bishop to sell the technology inside him. Freed, Bishop kills Archer in a final assault and walks away.
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