Killer Is Dead
| Killer Is Dead | |
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North American cover art; each region has a distinctly different cover highlighting the game's protagonist, Mondo Zappa
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| Developer(s) | Grasshopper Manufacture |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Director(s) | Hideyuki Shin |
| Producer(s) | Yoshimi Yasuda Shuji Ishikawa |
| Designer(s) | Tadayuki Noumaru Kees Gajentaan Hikaru Tamada |
| Writer(s) |
Goichi Suda Keisuke Makino Yudai Yamaguchi Hideyuki Shin |
| Composer(s) |
List of composers
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| Engine | Unreal Engine 3 |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows |
| Release date(s) |
PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 Microsoft Windows May 23, 2014 |
| Genre(s) | Hack and slash |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (PC) 67% (PS3) 60% (X360) 59% |
| Metacritic | (PC) 71/100 (PS3) 64/100 (X360) 64/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| EGM | 6/10 |
| Famitsu | 35/40 |
| GameSpot | 5/10 |
| Joystiq |    |
| Hardcore Gamer | 4/5 |
Killer Is Dead is a 2013 hack and slash video game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture. It is published by Kadokawa Games in Japan, Marvelous USA in North America, and Deep Silver in Europe.
Killer Is Dead includes such technology as lunar tourism and cybernetic enhancements. The main character is an executioner named Mondo Zappa (voiced by Ryotaro Okiayu in the Japanese version and Patrick Seitz in the Western version) who receives jobs from the Bryan Execution Firm. This firm, run by a cyborg named Bryan Roses, tasks Mondo with killing dangerous criminals and assassins from around the world. Mondo wields a sword with his right hand but his cybernetic left arm can be converted into many different weapons, including guns, drills, and other objects. Although Mondo travels the world as part of the game, Suda calls it a "personal story" of "a man who doesn't show himself much in the public world but still worms his way into society and mercilessly eliminates the evil dispersed in it". "Love and execution" and "how far can you protect someone" are also central themes of the story.
The game begins following a deranged former executioner named Tokio who has kidnapped a girl and is being hunted by a katana-wielding man who looks like Mondo. Tokio calls him "the darkness" right before he is killed. It then flashes forward two years to the modern day where Mondo is accepted into Bryan's execution agency following his assassination of the former executioner in his place, who had also been taken over by a dark force and was deemed unfit for his job. This man, Damon, warns Mondo about the perils of the job and that he may also fall to the dark side.
Mondo then kills many strange, monstrous beings known as Wires, eventually killing a woman named Alice who was transformed into a grotesque crustacean-like monster following her trip to the Moon. She blames a strange man named David for causing her to become a monster. Subsequently, they are visited by a woman named Moon River, who asks them to assassinate David. Mondo agrees and travels to David's moon palace on the dark side of the moon, though he is unable to kill the ostentatious and eccentric David despite a pitched battle.
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