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3 1/2 stars for a good, fun game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Pros:
The advanced cover system is a great addition to shooter games.

Nice array of weapons. (Some have a faster rate of fire, some more accurate at long distance,etc.)

AI is good as enemies work well together to try to flank, overrun, and surround you. (Watch out for snipers)

The actual combat is well done. Bullets and explosives are at a premium so, you can't just blast everything endlessly. Enemies take wounds "realistically". (i.e. limp, crawl, hop on one foot, panic, etc.) The graphics during combat aren't as sharp as some games but, the attention to detail is good though. Rocks fly and
walls chip. You see tracers occasionally and bullets can richochet off metal at times and hit you even while covered.

Even normal mode is tough and challenging. Nothing is just a walk through.

Cons:
While the cover system is great, occasionally you have trouble aiming at enemies and have to readjust to hit what should have been an easy target.

To activate the sniper system you have to click the right thumb stick and this can be a pain as you have to hit the thumbstick just right. Then, when your shooting in 3rd person you sometimes move the thumbstick just right and here comes the sniper mode.
You can recover from this pretty fast or just shoot in sniper mode but, they should have just made the select button the on/off.

Maybe I'm missing something but, I've yet to be able to play my own downloaded music in the background rather than the games'.
This is a mainstay with XBOX.

Overall this is a pretty good, straight forward game that I would like to see others learn from and improve upon.

May be to hard for some

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is by far one of the most difficult games I have played since stuntman for ps2.If you like trying to get through a level about a thousand times then you might like this one.There is nothing really special about this game except the cover system, weak graphics and extreme difficulty prevent this one from being a five star game.

Lots of fun, been playing it non-stop

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rented this game over the Thanksgiving holiday and have been playing it non-stop for several days. In a word; GREAT! Love it. If you like First Person Shooters (FPS) then you will like this game. The ability to crouch down behind boxes and walls while you lean out into a corridor will leave you wondering why it took so long for somebody to think of this feature. No more standing out in the corridor getting shot, no sirreeee. Just stand up against the corner, hold the left trigger, lean out and around the corner and engage enemy. This feature does not make you invincible, but does cut down your profile, and hence risk of getting shot. I hope other games in the future will make use of this feature. Sometimes aiming in crouch mode is difficult as noted in other reviews.

There are medi-pacs available to restore health, but there are well spaced out and you will soon learn to `hoard' them if you-don't-absolutely-need-one-now. Same thing goes with ammo. If you are heavy on the trigger finger then you will soon find yourself running low on bullets, and this will entail you running around the way you came looking for more dropped ammo.

The controls are pretty easy to use and are very Halo-like in layout.

Fast paced, hard fighting Third Person Shooter!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Think up a cross between Splinter Cell's Sam Fisher and the aggressive firefights of Conflict: Desert Storm and what you would get is Kill.Switch! I'll be perfectly honest, this is not a game that I would be quick to drop fifty bucks on, but is an excellent rental or one to scoop up at the thirty-five or lower price range. Those who appreciate a good shooter will love this one! Gameplay is very realistic and difficult, sound and graphics are great! This is how video game combat should be, grenade a room with a frag or flash bang then come in spraying! I have found the enemy A.I. to be very challenging, attacks are very coordinated using covering fire and flanking movements. Another big plus this games got going for it is the re-use of enemy rifles (I hate it when you can't pick up the guy's gear that you just shot). Character movement is the only real problem I have with this game. The character looks great and can combat roll but looks sluggish when running, but when this is the only problem you've got an awesome shooter! You'll love it when you're running for you life from the first attack helicopter you encounter! I have never been required to use the environment so much to stay alive, it's an awesome game element and I'm shocked that no one has done this before; thumbs up to you Namco!

Finally a Really Fun Game For XBOX

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Finally a Really Fun game has made its way to xbox. Here are a few pros and cons...

Pro's
~Fun game that will have you in action from start to finish.
~Great how you can hide behind a wall and heve the option to blind fire.
~Good graphics and cool how the glass breaks.
~Wide selection of weapons, as well as you can pick up enemy weapons.

Con's
~I do not like how he run's, his feet move to fast.
~You can't hold medi-kits, if you are in need of health you need to find a midi-kit.

That's about it, I'm sure I could find alot more good things about it but I just got it and I'm going to play it now... But as you can see there are more pro's than con's... so got check this game out!

A thinking mans shooter...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is little hyped but a great additon to anyones Xbox collection.

If you like "run and gun" games like Quake or Serious Sam you WONT like Kill Switch. You need to use tactics to survive this game.

If you are looking for something a little more cerebral than the above mentioned titles but don't like sneaking around *yawn* such as in games like Splinter Cell/Metal Gear/etc. but prefer a good fire fight you will love this game!

Another added bonus is there is no long, boring, lame story line to bog down your fun.

With SO many poor FPS games out there this holiday season, Kill Switch will delight anyone who likes shooters but prefers not to switch off his brain when he turns on his xbox...

Ghost Recon without back-up.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty basic. Imagine Ghost Recon without any other soldiers on your side. You have a fair choice of weapons but no spiffy toys like, night vision or infrared devices. You have to recognize your weapons by a small picture to know what you are using, though it doesn't really make a difference. The sniper rifle is useless as well as one silenced HK5. The story just kinda drops you into play with no intro and you slowly piece things together although after completing the game I am still a little fuzzy! But if you like straight tactical combat you should like this. The cover system is not what I expected but decent. And the AI is nothing special. Fairly short game with about 12 hours to complete.

Very Fun Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game does have a few flaws (like the zoom in views - although very realistic, and its hard to see sometimes) but overall its just plain fun!!! And isn't that why we buy these games? It's hard at first but the more you try the easier it gets - naturally. Namco (who makes Tekken, Soul Calibur, Time Crisis) should put out more games like they have in the past. And this one is another goodie! Buy this game if your looking for some fun shoot 'em up action.

The REAL Fast and the Furious

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Kill.Switch is not a bad game at all. It reminds me of the Bruce Willis platform game Apocalypse. In fact it is probably one of the best 3D Platform shoot `em ups you can get your hands on. You play Bishop, a sort of Metal Gear Solid's Solid Snake x Splinter Cell's Sam Fisher with more firepower than both combined. In fact that is what kill.switch is - one big free-for-all GUNFIGHT.

The story is actually confusing and told in flashback style (some flashback shots are cinematically realistic). Bishop is an ultra-tech Soldier and who is married to Lynn Takamura - a Neural Interface designer for some weapons tech firm. Bishop was supposed to execute a terrorist called Archer but failed. Archer came back to kill Lynn and to take control of Bishop's neural technology sending him about the globe committing terrorist acts of violence. Eventually Bishop finds a way out from Archer's control and goes to take Archer down himself.

Having said all of that, the gun fighting is first rate stuff simply because the enemy AI is the best seen in any game of its kind. The enemy is smart and moves accordingly. They will take you down by flanking you or sending a grenade in your direction. One or two hits are all it takes and you will go down. So you need to use the environment and this is where kill.switch scores in aces. As you hide behind something you can blind fire on the enemy with several different weapons to choose from or you can lean around the side, sight someone and shoot them. The detail in each level makes this one an essential purchase for the XBOX user. It pushes the PS2's graphics quite a bit (now and again the FPS stalls).

So kill.switch plays like you would expect it too - run around various levels (there are 5 major levels divided into two parts each) shooting the enemy and diving behind boxes as you blow things up. Sounds boring or unoriginal - yes, maybe - but kill.switch does it all so furiously. Once you start firing and throwing grenades and dancing about the obstacle pulling off headshots with some blind fire you will see how enjoyable all of this really can be and for that kill.switch is all golden 5 stars.

However it does have some negatives. The story is simply very hard to understand and makes no sense. The zooms are not very deep on the gun scopes meaning that you do not really get to zoom around and see the awesome sights that they have designed. It could have done with better zooms. It was absolutely terrible that they did not make more objects destructible. You couldn't even shoot up things like tables and chairs. I didn't see a single wall blow out in the game.

In the end I would not really purchase this unless you like blast em ups. If blast em ups are your thing then do not even think twice about this review. Stop now and go pick up kill.switch. It is insane live fire from start to finish. You will get a bang for your buck. However if you are looking for a game that might do something other than that (forget any type of Splinter Cell objectives or Metal Gear Solid coolness) then I suggest you go look elsewhere.

Pros:

- Furious action. Non-stop suppressing fire.
- Amazing enemy AI. The best of any game out there.
- Highly detailed graphics.
- Blind-fire. A very cool option.
- In terms of action this is what MGS and SC want-to-be but are not.
- Cuts scenes are realistic.

Cons:

- There appears to be no screen size adjustment.
- Short. Really only 6 to 8 hours of start to end game play.
- No environmental destruction.
- Extremely limited objectives.
- Story makes no sense.

Ok, But Not Great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Kill.Switch redefines what the action/shooter genre is by adding new elements to the norm. It boasts unique miltary techniques, 15 levels of action, and a deep story. Does Kill.Switch deliver all of these? Keep reading to find out.

Kill.Switch does indeed redefine the action/shooter genre, but that's only because of the blindfire element they threw into this game. Other than hiding behind objects and shooting, there isn't much innovation. Plus dong blindfire over and over again get's old quickly because that's basically all you really have to do in the game.

The control of the game is perfect on XBox, it doesn't take long at all to master it. So you will be blowing up and shooting stuff in no time at all. It is interesting on how the blindfire works, you basically just go to a wall and press the shoot button while holding down the duck button. By doing blindfire you are protected by enemy fire, which means you take less, if any, damage.

I won't give any of the story away, but that's only because I didn't understand the story. Although I didn't understand it, it did keep me wanting to play the game in hopes that I could understand it by unlocking more of the story.

The voice acting, music, and sound effects are good. I can't really complain about any of those aspects. But I dislike how in the cutscenes how non of the peoples lips move when they are speaking. The sound effects of the guns, bombs, and footsteps alll sounds realistic. The music is driving and it keeps you wanting to play through the games various levels.

The in-gsme graphics are good but they could have been better, because they look a little out of date. But the CG's are great looking. The movement of the characters is smooth and fluent, unlike some of the reminicent shooters like WinBack.

Even though this game has some flaws that doesn't mean it's not worth a buy. Especially for the XBox owners because this one of the top action/shooters on it. This game isn't reccomended for the weak or new gamers because this game has a high difficulty level. All in all this is a good game and it deserves a buy if not it makes a great rental.

Hit
+ Blindfire is a nice touch
+ Good gameplay
+ Good CG's
+ Great sound, music, voice acting

Miss
_ Gameplay can get tiresome
_ Steep difficulty level for soft games
_ AI is pretty weak

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