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[Numan]

After many moons, I finally had an opportunity to play the game that nobody would release, nay, that allegedly Electronic Arts purchased the rights to prevent it from ever seeing the light of day.

By 1998 (or thereabouts the day of the proposed release), the game is highly inappropriate. However, it probably would have been game of the year. By today's Vice City/Manhunt standards, it would be tame.

The game is a four player deathmatch. Rather than everyone having a lifebar, you have a kill meter. When you fill that up, you can then eliminate one of the 4. At the final two, when you fill it up you can do a Thrill KIll.

The characters are a twisted lots: there is a midget dressed as satan on stilts, a doctor with mechanical jaws, a dominatrix, a guy who uses a limb for a weapon and eats it.

[Ze_ro]

Dude, the game completely sucks. The only redeeming factor the game has is it's graphic nature. The gameplay is almost nonexistant, the characters are pathetically lame, the moves are ridiculous, and the graphics are merely passable. The "Thrill Kill" moves are all generally stupid (somewhere around Mortal Kombat 3 fatality lameness), and you can easily get killed by one by bad luck alone, even if you were totally dominating the match.

A friend of mine has a copy of this game (yes, an illegal copy), and we tried playing it for a while, and even the four player mode couldn't make it fun.

Go get a copy of Power Stone 2... aside from the unnecessarily graphic content, it's everything that Thrill Kill isn't.

--Zero

[liveinabin]

No! It's fun! I've had a copy for a long while now and it's good, clean, sick, twisted fun.

Yeah, it's not what you might call a REAL fighter - It's not going to have Virtua Fighter worried, but it's just a good multiplayer laugh.
Still, releasing it now is a bit of an odd move - it IS a bit old.
I suppose they're going to have to finish up some end-game movies for the characters now (there are only 2 on the copy I have)

[DeV0]

Its more than just fun, its fricken excellent, When i 1st played it i was really hyped and somewhat thrilled when the heartbeat started as the time ran out. I love this game and it should be officially released. This game plays like a real gem. It needs alot more skill than say,, the street fighter games and once you start to master it and have friends over? So it has no manual. I say work it out and get into it,,

[Numan]

Ze-ro, the game is one not to be taken seriously. I am not a hardcore fighter gamer, I was looking for something entertaining and TK is it.

[liveinabin]

Yeah. Fighting game fans will be dissapointed. People (like me) just looking for a silly knock-about with a few friends will love it, just don't expect to be playing it in a couple of months time:)

[Foxy Cleopatra]

We've had Thrill Kill for years and when we first had it we played it constantly until we did all the specials and now it's collecting dust. But while we played it it sure was fun(ny!)