Most things were already written, so, what to say? If you are on the hunt to find a simple arcade type shooter game with swarm of enemies, well, than this is it. You found it.
You go from one room to another, kill all the enemies and go to the next room until you end the level. There are different themes (medieval, WWI, hospital/
Painkiller is not Doom, Quake etc., it is somehow similar to Serious Sam, however SS has much bigger almost "open-world" level. Painkiller doesn't.
The most similar 2D and 3D games to Painkiller on this site are:
- Tower of Guns
- The Chaos Engine
- Ziggurat (however that one has much more RPG elements)
- Firestarter
- Crimsonland
- Alien Shooter/Zombie Shooter series
- Lichdom: Battlemage (with more RPG elements)
Anyway. If you play it with big breaks, it can be fun. Like playing the real pinball, that you don't play hours long.
The graphics are still nice in 2016 (yes, I know there is a HD remake out there, but who cares) and it works flawlessly even on modern week computers with Integrated graphics (Celeron, Atom).
Four stars from me.