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This is an article on the video game Kill Switch. You may also have been looking for the security device called a kill switch.
- The correct title of this article is kill.switch. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
Kill Switch is a video game developed by Namco in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC. A Game Boy Advance port was released in 2004. As a relatively straightforward (and short) action game, the most distinguishing characteristic of Kill Switch is a mechanic that has your character taking cover behind objects and around corners - like WinBack some years before or a third person version of Namco's own Time Crisis series.
The main character in the game is a remotely controlled super-soldier, Nick Bishop. For most of the game the soldier is remotely controlled by a man known only as "Controller." Controller is apparently using a direct neural connection to Bishop. Bishop's suppressed memories occasionally break through, causing Controller headaches. The memories feature a woman and the phrase, "Say my name." Controller, under orders from a man named Archer, uses Bishop in a series of combat missions designed to convince two nations or groups known as the North and the West to go to war. Archer plans on war profiteering in the resulting war, in part by selling copies of the technology that controls Bishop. Moments before Bishop launches a warhead equipped with a biological agent, a woman known as "Duchess" takes over Bishop, in the process causing a surge that kills Controller. Duchess uses Bishop to attack the base Controller is operating out of and eventually restore Bishop's memories. It is revealed that the woman from Bishop's memories was his wife or fiance. She was killed by Archer when Archer captured Bishop. Archer wanted the technology in Bishop for resale. Freed, Bishop makes a final assault on Archer.
[edit] Trivia
- Some of the game's features were added to the game CT Special Forces: Nemesis Strike.
- This hide-and-shoot style of gameplay plays a major role in Gears of War.
- The story seems to imply that the player does not play as Bishop himself, but rather the Controller, who is in turn controlling Bishop.
[edit] Weapons
kill.switch features several real-world weapons:
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