Corpse Killer – 25th Anniversary Edition

Genre: Shooting Gallery / FMV Game

Players: 1

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Review:

Corpse Killer was originally released in 1994 on 3DO, Sega CD, and Sega CD 32X (one of only six games that required both of the Sega Genesis add-ons). Made by the same developer as the then-controversial Night Trap, Corpse Killer was similarly an early attempt at using the new CD technology to work full-motion video into gameplay. While that video technology wasn’t especially impressive even when this game first released, this 25th Anniversary Edition, released in 2019 on PC and PlayStation 4 and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2020, takes the outdated video and remasters it for modern audiences.

Or… that’s the idea. In reality, this game’s video still looks absolutely terrible. Horribly blurry low-resolution video footage made with terrible writing and abysmal acting that is made worse by some atrocious screen-tearing. Even if you forgave this game for its low-quality source material, you can’t give a pass to this lousy “remaster” the game has received. By contrast, for all the issues the remastered release of Night Trap had, the video quality wasn’t among them.

And then of course there’s the gameplay. Again, even if we forgive the fact that this is a shooting gallery game without light gun support (and no gyroscopic motion control, either), this is still an absolutely miserable light gun game, with poor hit detection, enemies and placement that doesn’t make any sense, and zero thought or strategy whatsoever.

Unless you’re looking for a piece of history, there’s nothing worth seeing in Corpse Killer, and even history buffs will likely see this game as a disposable footnote next to the far more historically-important Night Trap. This is a bad remaster of a terrible game with virtually zero redeeming features. Do not buy it.

tl;dr – Corpse Killer is a remaster of a classic Sega CD Shooting Gallery FMV Game. Well, except replace “classic” with “absolutely terrible”, and “remaster” with “botched attempt at modernization”. And then replace any thought of buying this game with the money it would have cost you to do so, because that money is far, far more valuable.

Grade: F

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