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Personally, I think that Nishi probably cleared several times before his death, because:
1. Nishi had been a Gantz member for over a year before Kei arrived. Oku (the author) stated in the afterword to the 7th book that there had always been a mission every 12 days until the timing changed after the Tanaka mission. Nishi had survived at least 30 missions. He said that "Nishi died just before receiving 100 points", but the statement was ambiguous because he hadn't yet revealed that there were more options besides freedom when a player receives 100 points.
2. Nishi loves to see things die. Chapter 28, page 12 shows that he gets a "boner" from killing a cat, and is powering up his weapon while thinking that he needs to kill something bigger, which means he is planning to kill the kids who found the cat, when the Gantz mission signal surprises him and he walks away, ominously saying "Tonight".
3. At the end of the first mission, Nishi was surprised that so many people survived; he said that it had been a long time since anybody lived. That meant that he probably cleared at least 5 or 6 missions in a row all by himself. If he had just let the timers run out, Gantz would have killed him, just like he threatened to kill Kei after he let a timer run out.
4. At the beginning, Nishi did have a custom suit. He just pressed a button to cycle through several weapons before the first mission. Kei noticed the big rifle appearing in his hand mid-transfer before the mission began. http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/5/03/
He also used it to get the pistol to shoot the thug who had just shot him before the Tanaka mission.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/33/06/
He was evidently trying to get the suit to work when he jumped into the sewer. The title of the issue was even "partial functionality".
5. At the end of the first hunt, Nishi captured the big onion alien easily, and was willing to give Kei the points. He didn't care about getting to 100 points faster, especially when he was so close to having 100, or he wouldn't have done that. He also thought that Kei was a natural born killer like him; he described how much that he enjoyed killing things, and seeing dead things.
Nishi does have a little humanity left, though. Not much, but more than some people give him credit for.
1. Nishi did tell the first group some useful information. They were all going to just go home, which would have meant that Gantz would have killed them as soon as they left the fight zone. When Nishi told them that it was a TV show and they could win 10 million yen, he gave them an incentive to stay within the area. He told them what they needed to do, that they needed to capture or kill the alien. They wouldn't have believed the truth, so he told them a plausible lie, but it did give them a better chance to live than they would have had otherwise.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/5/13/
He also warned Kei and Katou not to tell anybody about Gantz.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/21/18/
2. If you look at the fight with the vampires, Nishi and Izumi both turned invisible simultaneously, and their moves were perfectly timed; he can be a team player.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/230/04/
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/230/07/
Notice that they hit the vampires simultaneously. The next page shows the corresponding vampire body parts flying off at the same time, despite the pistol's delay. By the way, why doesn't Nishi use a sword? He obviously knew about them from the start, and they are great for short-range combat.
3. After they killed the first two vampires and he told Izumi that it wasn't his fight and Izumi could deal with them, and Izumi said that's what he intended, Nishi didn't leave; he just laid down on the floor in the middle of the aisle. It looks like he's even fluffing up a pillow behind his head. If he had thought that there was any chance that Izumi couldn't handle the vampires, it would have made sense for him to have at least stealthed or walked out the door instead of getting ready to take a nap. He knew exactly what Izumi was going to do and was just getting out of the way.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/230/11/
If Izumi had gotten into real trouble, Nishi would have been able to re-join the fight.
4. Nishi does care a little about Izumi; he did try to warn the team that Izumi needed help. http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/231/08/ He just warned the wrong team member.
5. Nishi and Izumi both used the new players as bait, used stealth and wore their suits all the time. They seemed to be used to fighting together as a team. From the similarities between them, Nishi could have been Izumi's mentor at one time.
Nishi loves the hunt, and especially the kill.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/18/05/
He's a cruel bastard, too, though.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/21/03/
Nishi is the closest thing to a purely evil character in the whole manga. He is a natural born killer, a sociopath who gets his kicks out of hunting, stalking his prey, and seeing sentient beings tortured and dead, and is generally pretty much universally hated. However, he isn't a coward. His death scene was meant to show that even the most hardened and bloodthirsty warrior will cry out for his mother and feel fear at the moment of death.
1. Nishi had been a Gantz member for over a year before Kei arrived. Oku (the author) stated in the afterword to the 7th book that there had always been a mission every 12 days until the timing changed after the Tanaka mission. Nishi had survived at least 30 missions. He said that "Nishi died just before receiving 100 points", but the statement was ambiguous because he hadn't yet revealed that there were more options besides freedom when a player receives 100 points.
2. Nishi loves to see things die. Chapter 28, page 12 shows that he gets a "boner" from killing a cat, and is powering up his weapon while thinking that he needs to kill something bigger, which means he is planning to kill the kids who found the cat, when the Gantz mission signal surprises him and he walks away, ominously saying "Tonight".
3. At the end of the first mission, Nishi was surprised that so many people survived; he said that it had been a long time since anybody lived. That meant that he probably cleared at least 5 or 6 missions in a row all by himself. If he had just let the timers run out, Gantz would have killed him, just like he threatened to kill Kei after he let a timer run out.
4. At the beginning, Nishi did have a custom suit. He just pressed a button to cycle through several weapons before the first mission. Kei noticed the big rifle appearing in his hand mid-transfer before the mission began. http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/5/03/
He also used it to get the pistol to shoot the thug who had just shot him before the Tanaka mission.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/33/06/
He was evidently trying to get the suit to work when he jumped into the sewer. The title of the issue was even "partial functionality".
5. At the end of the first hunt, Nishi captured the big onion alien easily, and was willing to give Kei the points. He didn't care about getting to 100 points faster, especially when he was so close to having 100, or he wouldn't have done that. He also thought that Kei was a natural born killer like him; he described how much that he enjoyed killing things, and seeing dead things.
Nishi does have a little humanity left, though. Not much, but more than some people give him credit for.
1. Nishi did tell the first group some useful information. They were all going to just go home, which would have meant that Gantz would have killed them as soon as they left the fight zone. When Nishi told them that it was a TV show and they could win 10 million yen, he gave them an incentive to stay within the area. He told them what they needed to do, that they needed to capture or kill the alien. They wouldn't have believed the truth, so he told them a plausible lie, but it did give them a better chance to live than they would have had otherwise.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/5/13/
He also warned Kei and Katou not to tell anybody about Gantz.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/21/18/
2. If you look at the fight with the vampires, Nishi and Izumi both turned invisible simultaneously, and their moves were perfectly timed; he can be a team player.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/230/04/
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/230/07/
Notice that they hit the vampires simultaneously. The next page shows the corresponding vampire body parts flying off at the same time, despite the pistol's delay. By the way, why doesn't Nishi use a sword? He obviously knew about them from the start, and they are great for short-range combat.
3. After they killed the first two vampires and he told Izumi that it wasn't his fight and Izumi could deal with them, and Izumi said that's what he intended, Nishi didn't leave; he just laid down on the floor in the middle of the aisle. It looks like he's even fluffing up a pillow behind his head. If he had thought that there was any chance that Izumi couldn't handle the vampires, it would have made sense for him to have at least stealthed or walked out the door instead of getting ready to take a nap. He knew exactly what Izumi was going to do and was just getting out of the way.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/230/11/
If Izumi had gotten into real trouble, Nishi would have been able to re-join the fight.
4. Nishi does care a little about Izumi; he did try to warn the team that Izumi needed help. http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/231/08/ He just warned the wrong team member.
5. Nishi and Izumi both used the new players as bait, used stealth and wore their suits all the time. They seemed to be used to fighting together as a team. From the similarities between them, Nishi could have been Izumi's mentor at one time.
Nishi loves the hunt, and especially the kill.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/18/05/
He's a cruel bastard, too, though.
http://www.onemanga.com/Gantz/21/03/
Nishi is the closest thing to a purely evil character in the whole manga. He is a natural born killer, a sociopath who gets his kicks out of hunting, stalking his prey, and seeing sentient beings tortured and dead, and is generally pretty much universally hated. However, he isn't a coward. His death scene was meant to show that even the most hardened and bloodthirsty warrior will cry out for his mother and feel fear at the moment of death.
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