Posted on: June 18, 2014
SADevil
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One of the best classic shooters
Original Painkiller is in my TOP ten of favourite games. At first I thought that it's just a Serious Sam'esqe game, but after playing it I don't even think to play Serious Sam ever again. Painkiller is much more... serious... and not cartoony. Why I love this game: * It has great levels, varying in scale and theme (gothic, industrial, medieval and may be others). Each non-boss level has several secrets, some of them are pretty hard to even find, not saying about reach; * Solid visual style and enemy design which is consistent from the beggining to the end of the game (I'm talking about original game, not the addon); * Giant bosses that can be pretty hard to kill; * impressive ambient and battle music. The latter was performed by Polish metal band Mech and is one of the most special thing about the game; * Fun physics and dismembering. I was one the first games that had physics on such a level (ragdoll, destroyable objects). For me it was the first such game before Half-Life 2 came out later in same year. And Painkiller is much better nevertheless. * Not too many weapons, and they all are useful, even the first one (Painkiller). There are five weapons (I don't count any other games in series), each has two firing modes, practically making of them two weapons. But don't even try to play addon included in Black Edition (and, on that matter, any other Painkiller game). Even if it was made by the same studio, it's obvius that it was created by other people. It becomes apperent then you see some freak instead of Daniel in it's cutscenes, plain bad and amature enemy design, and absolutely incosistent with original game visual and gameplay style. So I think original team that worked on Painkiller is what made it so great. So I'm afraid that we will never see a sequel worth of the first Painkiller. But at least we have this excellent game that still holds up. I just hope that developers (or who's there) will release source code as was made with Serious Sam recently.
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