Killer7 will return, and this time it will be heading to PC.
In yet another surprise remaster for 2018, cult classic Killer7 is coming back to be reborn on the PC. The game developed for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube era has quite a lot of technology to catch up on, but gamers who were born too late to experience SUDA51’s masterpiece will now get a chance to experience one of the best stories told in gaming.
Killer7 was initially released way back in the summer of 2005. Developers Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. teamed up with Capcom to create a game that was initially quite polarizing with reviewers. Many praised the game’s unique story and gameplay, while others found the rail-like controls overly simplistic and the game’s story incoherent.
The game takes place in a near future where all international conflict has ended thanks to a UN treaty. That doesn’t mean the world is a happy and safe place though. An international terrorist organization known as “Heaven Smiles” are bent on world domination and are using suicide bombers to target the UN.
You play as Harman Smith, a 65-year-old wheelchair-bound man who has the unique ability to manifest as one of his seven personalities. While Harman is American, his split personalities come from all over the world, such as MASK De Smith, a Mexican Luchador assassin, or KAEDE Smith, a female Japanese-American assassin.
The player has the ability to swap between these personalities at will in order to hunt down Heaven Smiles and uncover a secret international plot between Japan and the United States.
As for what to expect when the remaster finally drops, we have precious little information to go on. The Killer7 Steam page has nothing for the minimum system specs or new features we can expect. Given the nature of the game, the simplistic cell-shading art style will likely ensure that system requirements stay pretty low, but you never know what you’ll get with remasters until they actually release the details.
We do know the remaster is being done by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by NIS America Inc. Neither of these companies has a PC remaster under their belt, so it’s difficult to make any projections on quality.
All we can say for sure is the tentative release date: Fall of 2018. Expect more details later this year.
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