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...that is, if you can stand a total lack of intelligent gameplay design. Corpse Killer for the Saturn is an upgraded version of an interactive movie with light gun-style gameplay that previously appeared on the Mega CD, 32X, and 3DO. But while the FMV does look better than any earlier version, the game still amounts to playing the same cruddy levels over and over and watching the same videos OVER AND OVER. Here's the basic flow of the game: Play through the insanely easy opening levels, enter the village, and run the "village" and "swamp" levels over and over until full on health and datura bullets. Then tackle the fortress and its four levels, the last of which is absolutely ridiculous and guaranteed to drain at least 50% of your health. You've now rescued one of your army buddies - but you still have two levels to go to make it back to camp and save your game. Did I mention that there's no way to skip the FMVs in this game? Seriously, it's cool that you can actually pause FMVs, but isn't it traditional to not force the gamer to watch the same long videos every single time he dies? So what that all adds up to is: If you die on the 2nd of those two levels, you have to go through the intro levels, the village levels, the four fortress levels, the two return to the graveyard levels, and all the FMVs joining them all over again. I am not joking. And brace yourself, because it gets worse. Even if you somehow make it through all those levels without dying, you STILL have to go through the intro levels, the village levels, the four fortress levels, the two graveyard levels, and _most of_ the FMVs linking them all over again! That's right. You have four army buddies to rescue, and while the videos in which the current captive appears obviously differ slightly from rescue to rescue, everything else is exactly the same. ...except that the developers had the clever idea of using randomly generated levels. Unfortunately, they didn't set reasonable parameters, so sometimes you'll be positively showered with health recovery items, other times you'll face a screen littered with too many zombies to shoot and too many health-draining items to avoid. What's worse, you frequently face situations where you cannot avoid taking damage because you have zombies coming at you simultaneously from opposite sides of the screen, and even a gaming wizard can only move the cursor as fast as the game allows. As a result, Corpse Killer is a matter of 20% skill and 80% sheer luck. For variety, there are a couple "side quest" levels and a final, 3-level dungeon. But the last level requires nearly all of that 80% luck to beat, so you're again left repeating levels and FMVs OVER AND OVER. The funny thing is, despite being two discs, Corpse Killer not only has very little gameplay, but very little FMV to boot! A good chunk of the discs' space is wasted on pointless segue FMVs and alternate videos of the same event(e.g. three different videos of your friends pulling the jeep up to the graveyard). More importantly, roughly 2/3 of the videos of disc 1 also appear on disc 2. All in all, if Corpse Killer were presented as a movie, it would be about 20 minutes long. The one thing earning this thing a rating of "2" is the video footage. Corpse Killer is a truly hysterical b-movie with great tongue-in-cheek puns and laughable innuendo, all delivered with great zest by the actors. If you find it for $5 or less, _consider_ buying it.Read full review
Hi! I have bought this game because I play in pc-emulator and liked very much. I have a Sega Saturn console but PAL so I have bought also a cartridge that allows me to play with other countries region games (NTSC). I am telling all of this because I were little disapointed when I played this game in my console and I dont know if it is my TV (LED 32") or the console (Pal with cartridge) but the videos didnt see very well, a lot of pixelating (but it is video, not game!). But playing, the game was great and fun, if you like gun-killer games, of course. A lot of zombies, also. Two discs to play with. A pity that it cant be used with a gun light! I have read the other platforms can use it and it is clear that it was made for that purpose but... it is not. Anyway, despite the video-edges (I cant help thinking it has to be my tv, too modern for this games!) and not gunlight use, I continue thinking it was a great buying. Ah! And the bad character is a known actor in B movies;)Read full review
Best version of Corpse Killer, that's for sure. Outdoes the Sega CD and 32X by a long shot, and offers much faster gameplay that's more challenging, and entirely full screen video that's much clearer. What's better, the controls have been overhauled and improved on from the Sega CD/32X versions. In the old versions, you had to keep pressing B to get to a certain weapon. The saturn version has a specific function for each of the 6 buttons on the Saturn controller and lines them up so it's easy to use. AS far as FMV games go, there are worse ones than Corpse Killer. But it's an inventive and hilarious B-movie style FMV game that really makes you laugh and is a joy to play. It's basically a cross-hair moving shooter that is more ideal to play with a light gun of some kind. But it's easy to pick up and play. Great game as long as you don't pay too much for it.Read full review
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