Posted on: November 28, 2022
Good4Games2019
Games: Reviews: 19
A classic FPS game? Not for me.
First of all, I´m a huge fan of most classic FPS games of the 90s and early 2000s, e. g.: Blood I, Duke 3D (and most of the other Build engine games), Quake I+II, Unreal I, Half-Life and so on. I also have played a lot of the so-called Boomer shooters (Dusk, Amid Evil, Hrot, Turbo Overkill, Wrath, Ion Fury, just to name a few). Of course, I also have played through all (main) Serious Sam titles, so there should be enough classic FPS experience here. So, having all these games in mind, I came to Painkiller, a game which I totally missed out in the early 2000s. Now, is there a good game? Can it be considered a classic FPS, like to aforementioned ones? Sorry, I don´t think so. There are so many things here that just annoyed me: -The checkpoint system - implementation is just terrible - story is completely cheesy but tries to take itself serious somehow - You have only 3 (!) weapons in episode 1. That must be a joke. They also broke the "golden rule" in any FPS game which says: The shotgun is NOT the weapon you should start with. - The physics are totally garbage, e. g. jumping on platforms or boxes is a chore - Gameplay is repetitive and flat. I have nothing against horde shooters (like Serious Sam) but Painkiller just lacks all the tactical aspects that Serious Sam brought up Although I liked the fact that the overall aesthetics somehow reminded me of Quake I / Blood I, there simply isn´t a good game beneath. I quit the game after episode 1 on nightmare difficulty. Even the boss fight was totally boring and annoying. Just a huge bullet sponge. Just play one of the games I mentioned above - any of these is better - and leave out Painkiller - it´s simply not worth your time. If you want to have "Quake I vibes", look at the following boomer shooters: Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, Hrot or Incision. And forget about Painkiller.
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