Painkiller Black Edition includes Painkiller and the expansion pack Battle Out of Hell, featuring 10 additional single-player levels and many new villans.
Gothic Story, Frantic Gameplay. Painkiller is a first-person horror shooter, designed to satisfy a gamer's hunger for intense, fast-paced acti...
Painkiller Black Edition includes Painkiller and the expansion pack Battle Out of Hell, featuring 10 additional single-player levels and many new villans.
Gothic Story, Frantic Gameplay. Painkiller is a first-person horror shooter, designed to satisfy a gamer's hunger for intense, fast-paced action. It's an adrenaline addict's nightmare, where hellish monsters swarm in seemingly endless mobs.
Graphically, Painkiller is unmatched. The proprietary PAIN Engine puts out an unbelievably high polygon count, while adding increased texture quality and the latest lighting and shadowing techniques, including soft shadows, DOT3 bump mapping, water reflections, glass simulation, volumetric light and fog, and more. Plug in the Havok 2.0 physics engine, and you get a realistic environment in a totally fantastical setting.
Stranded in a place between Heaven and Hell, your time of judgment is at hand. The Underworld is on the verge of unholy war, and you are but a pawn in the infernal battle. As you fight for your purification, the truths behind the deceptions are revealed.
FEATURES
Combo weapons: All weapons come in pairs, with a primary and secondary fire.
Morphing: Your unholy pact gives you the power to morph into a powerful possessed creature with every 66 souls collected.
Lasting replay value: Painkiller features a standard single player campaign, with additional modes to encourage replay.
Physics Engine: Painkiller employs the Havok 2.0 physics engine, allowing for inverse kinematics ("rag-doll physics") and deformable, interactive environments.
Over 30 levels of fierce action, dozens of different enemies in completely unique and varied environments.
High adrenalin gameplay: non-stop action, hundreds of enemies to be decimated and gigantic bosses.
14 incredible weapons, including the famous stake-gun, and the mythical Painkiller.
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The game started out interesting enough, after the first several waves I had practically played the entire game,[spoilers] the first 2 bosses are literally the same enemy but the second being bigger.
In a game all about guns there doesn't seem to be much balance, when I got the spinning blade I really didnt need any other weapon since I could just hold the mouse button and have every enemy swarm to its doom. Needless to say that got old fast.
Don't get me wrong I like Doom and Quake, but this game lives nowhere near up to the standard those games put up.
And seems to run on Intel only graphics but the sound on the HP is horrid. Needs a subwoofer on your laptop for proper effect. Had to run this thru the Razer Booster to get it to run properly. Alot of graphics issues if I didn't. Always addictive. And how the metal music jumps around is fun :) They don't make games like they used to.
This game is old-school to a fault. It's good to tear armies of monster to shreds, but that's is literally all you will do. if that's what you're looking for, go for it. But for anyone that likes a little more to their FPS, you'll get bored very quickly.
The main gameplay involves killing enemies, then advancing to the next area. All well and good.
But when it comes to the boss fights... They are not well designed. Little room for error. Having to look up walkthroughs. Ruins the enjoyment.
Painkiller is one of the worst FPS games I have ever played. Gameplay isn't just generic, it's a poor imitation *of* generic FPS gameplay. Controls are imprecise and twitchy. Character and level design is dull and amateurish. Music is grating, repetitive loops of bland garage rock. Visuals are ugly with lots of pop-up.
Painkiller can be broken down like so: Kill enemies within a confined space, advance to next area, magic walls appear locking you into another confined space to kill more enemies. Rinse and repeat.
I've already wasted more time than I should have playing this game and writing this review, so I'll conclude by saying if you want to play an FPS that is actually fun with the challenging mechanics present in earlier titles, pick up one of the Doom or Serious Sam games instead of this utter garbage.
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