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Painkiller Black Edition

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Painkiller Black Edition
Description
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...
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4.3/5

( 216 Reviews )

4.3

216 Reviews

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2005, People Can Fly, ...
System requirements
Windows 10, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c, 1.2 GB HDD...
Time to beat
10 hMain
15.5 h Main + Sides
18.5 h Completionist
12.5 h All Styles
Description

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.

Prime Matter is a division of Koch Media GmbH, Austria. Prime Matter and its respective logos are trademarks of Koch Media GmbH

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manual (40 pages) artworks soundtrack avatars HD wallpapers manual (French) manual (Spanish)
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This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Frequent Violence or Gore, General Mature Content

This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Frequent Violence or Gore, General Mature Content

Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
10 hMain
15.5 h Main + Sides
18.5 h Completionist
12.5 h All Styles
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Works on:
Windows (10, 11)
Release date:
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Size:
3.7 GB

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Posted on: June 28, 2013

eli2

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Games: 778 Reviews: 2

The missing Quickload

The game does not even try to be fair. Okay, I do not necessarily have a problem with that itself. I like a challenge. But if you die as many times as in Painkiller, at least a quicksave / quickload option should have been integrated. Alas, the so-called "quickload" is not quick at all. Expect to wait more than a minute for the "quickload", probably even much longer. The Windows Experience Index (WEI)) of my PC (win8-64) is 7,9 for all components except the HD (7,9). The game is installed on an SSD, complete RAM is 16 GB, with a RamDisk of 4 GB. At some points in the game, be prepared to fill one hour of "gaming" with 55 minutes of waiting. But is it worth waiting (or gaming)? Honestly: No. The whole thing gets repetitive very fast. Levels are boring, enemies are boring, weapons are boring, "story" is - well, you get the picture. With a quicload option, you might get some mindless fun nevertheless for a few minutes during a coffee break. I cannot recommend Painkiller.


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Posted on: May 24, 2025

nix_gucci

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Games: 12 Reviews: 1

Ain't worth to be rated a score 80/100.

I can see why this game was worth only $1.99.


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Posted on: April 14, 2021

fairsquare

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Games: 209 Reviews: 20

Uninspiring

Go into room, door closes, enemies spawn in all directions, endlessly - so you are left hopping through the arena finding a place to shield yourself from them while shooting mindlessly. Unlike doom 3, where when enemies spawn behind you, you get a clear indication of it through audio cues - this game has an annoying soundtrack playing when enemies are present, while not giving an indication of their direction. I mean its best to assume they are everywhere, not just behind you. It is very much comparable to doom 1 & 2, but clearly the level design is far worse, and those games were made in 1995.


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Posted on: December 19, 2021

tajson85

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Games: 239 Reviews: 1

Great classic shooter...

...but unplayable on modern systems due to very long loading of levels..


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Posted on: April 5, 2018

LePeureux

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Games: 102 Reviews: 40

Garbage that doesnt belong on GoG

Possibly the worst FPS one can buy on GoG. Arcadey condole shit, kill everything and move to the next level.


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