Painkiller
Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Apr 12, 2004
Painkiller is a fast-paced first-person-shooter that hearkens back to the early years of shooters. Telling a hellish story about a man fighting his way out of Purgatory and foregoing modern conventions of realism, Painkiller brings back the over-the-top twitch gameplay that is quickly becoming a thing of the past.
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5 (2) 4 (6) 3 (0) 2 (0) 1 (0) 4.3 starsAverage score of 8 user reviews
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Viceral, action-based entertainment 0
Visceral, action-based entertainment will always have a warm place in my heart, way down there with the original Doom and Quake, etc. Games which don’t bother much with plot, but just give you hours upon hours of action. While I enjoy a game with a large arcing plot line, sometimes you just want to get elbows deep in gore and action with little need for a complex story. Painkiller is a game that gives you a double-barreled blast of action delivered point-blank to your face, whether you like it o...
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Painkiller is a refreshing return to the basics. 0
The background story.. not important. All you need to know is you are trapped in Hell and the only thing that can redeem you is by turning everything in your path into a red puddle of goo. Painkiller is a full on, all out, balls to the wall FPS where stealth and strategy is for big girls who wear lots of makeup. Enemies have no sense of self preservation, they charge at you in groups all eager to tear something off your body.. and perferably something you are fond of. But fear not! For you are ...
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Sometimes the most simple things are the most perfect... 0
Firstly, let me tell you what Painkiller game isn't about. It is not about pretensions, it is not about ambition, it is not about cliches. It is not about "complex environment" or unscripted AI. It is not about main missions, sub-missions and sub-sub-missions. It is not about "revolutionary graphics", "revolutionary game play" or revolutionary anything. And it is definitely not about the sells and the end-of-the-year figures. It is all about the fun - plain and simple. It is about atmosphere, it...
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One of the absolute greats ! 0
Another overlooked and underrated shooter that dosent take itself to seriously and that has the guts to go back to the roots of shooters and as always I applaud them. You have to battle your way through hells greatest generals (wich are some of the biggest bosses in shooter history) and their hordes of demons to see your girlfriend again who is waiting for you in heaven where you are not allowed to go before you do "god" this one last favour with Eve (yes that eve) by your side. The weapondesign...
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A solid appearance from a new Developer, People Can Fly 0
Released April 9th of 2004, a first person shooter, looking like the games of old, like Quake or Doom touched down upon the shelves of game stores. The Developers known as "People Can Fly" (PCF) brought into play what a lot of deathmatch fans have been waiting for.Painkiller is a simple game in itself. Kill everything that comes in front of you. Anything and everything you see moving, shoot to kill. Why you ask? Because if you don't, it will waste no time ripping you apart. Giving the player 5 w...
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As simple as first person shooters can get 0
Painkiller is really about as simple as it gets. All the game throws you from level to level, occasionally leaving you there to fill the blanks as to why you are there in the first place, and slaughtering hordes and hordes of any poor legion of hell unfortunate enough to be in your way.Painkiller is a good game, but with some design flaws really made it difficult for me to give it a score above an 8. For example, the game has black tarot cards, items that will be unlocked when you complete certa...
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Painkiller Review 0
Cutting a long review short, 2 words to sumerise. FRIGIN AMAZING! ...
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In Painkiller, you will shoot a lot of dudes in the face. 0
Painkiller Review Now here’s a game intended for the old-school crowd. This game doesn’t try to be anything it’s not, which is great because what it tries to be is an over the top, action packed shooter that doesn’t let up on the action from the minute you begin the game until the end. In Painkiller you play as a man who is denied entrance to heaven until he eliminates Lucifer’s generals (yeah, you read that right) and must fight your way through levels filled with hundreds of undesirable demon...
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