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- Platform: Windows 2000 / 98 / NT / Me / XP
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Painkiller is a first-person shooter. Painkiller contains 19 unique single-player levels. The levels are illuminated through both static and dynamic lighting, including accurate real-world light using a light distribution model that creates photorealistic ambient lighting and separate real-time lights for enemies, objects and weapons. All the levels also incorporate advanced vertex and pixel shaders, including water, glass, volumetric lights and fog.
Painkiller allows players to shoot anything that moves and, once killed, the souls of enemy monsters can be consumed to increase player health. Once shot to pieces, monsters and objects leave gold coins behind, which allow players to upgrade speed and weapons as well as maps and numerous other power-ups between levels.
Painkiller features 20 different enemy monsters, each with their own unique behavioural patterns and attacks. Painkiller's weapon system has been designed specifically to avoid weapon overkill, by providing the ideal number of weapons, with primary and secondary modes, so that each is truly useful. For advanced Painkiller players, primary and secondary weapons can be used in spectacular "combo" attacks.
Finally, Painkiller's adrenaline-numbing effects give an extra punch in multi-player mode. Up to 32 players have been allowed for across five multi-player modes including Deathmatch, where the player takes on the world; Team Deathmatch; People Can Fly, a modification of Deathmatch One on One with rocket launchers; Voosh, where all players have the same weapon and The Light Bearer, which assumes that Quad damage never wears off. The multi-player modes really are hardcore.
Manufacturer's Description
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.
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.
Graphically, Painkiller is unmatched. Played out over more than 20 completely unique and different levels, the proprietary 3-D "PAIN Engine" puts out 100 times the polygons of the latest shooters, while adding increased texture quality and the latest lighting and shadowing techniques.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Painkiller has been dubbed an 'old skool 3rd person shooter' in some circles, and that is exactly what it is. Although the game uses the latest graphics technology, faster processing power and video cut scenes, all of which are available to modern computers it is strongly based around the early 3D shooters such as Doom and wolfenstein. Its rules are simple - enter a series of game maps and kill everything that moves.
This is a concept that could have gone badly wrong, but what makes the game so cool is the implementation. Although the game is a straight shooter, it has just the right blend of superb graphics and physics, good level design, frenetic action, puzzles, humour and storyline to keep it interesting.
Only downpoint is that some of the levels dont really connect to each other (there is no interlinking cut scene between many of the levels, so you just 'appear' at the start of the level and work to the end) so I sometimes felt that I was going through a set of seperate levels rather than a single seamless game (but I suppose thats just one side effect of being based on the old skool!)... in any case, thats the reason for 4 insttead of 5 stars. If you dont mind the disjoints (to be honest, they dont affect gameplay, but perhaps weaken storyline a little) them award the game a 5.
All in all a good antidote to some of the other games available at the moment(such as Splinter cell or hidden and dangerous 2). Less of the cerebral, more of the visceral and hilarously over the top violence. It remains to be seen if Painkiller will still stack up with some of the other shooters soon to appear (the HL and Doom sequels). At the momnt though, its in a class of its own.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Kezza
I feel sorry for all the people who bought this game to be a competitor to Far Cry and the like as you clearly didn't read any of the pre-release reviews.
This game was never created to be one of fantastic AI or mind-numbingly complex missions. It was created in the vein of Serious Sam and the original FPS games, pure mindless violence.
It is a great game for escapism, you dont need to think, you just need to point and click, a lot. If you want a very enjoyable game with fantastic graphics as well as great physics without having to spend hours creeping around before you see your first enemy then this is definitely the game for you.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By VX
short and simple... Doom 3 is a dissapointment, and compared to doom 3 painkiller is the better game by far! So far its taken me 4 days to play this game and im almost at the end, ive had absolutely no problems installing it, no problems running it, ive had no bugs, freezes or crashes, the game runs smoothly at top specification. As for entertainment value, Kill, Kill and kill some more, sounds bad but this is probably the most enjoyable game i have ever played, its fast paced and graphically impressive. This game should have recieved game of the year award or something - its that good. What ya w8ing for... go buy it!
Im not sure why people are experiencing problems playing the game, but if its any help to you my system spec is: P4 2.6ghz, 1 gig ram, radeon 9800 pro, with fully updated drivers and windows service pack 2 etc. Enjoy... now for the expansion pack.... mwuahahahahaha.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By Dave Button
I really can't believe what some of the reviewers have said about this game - it's fantastic! Sure, it's no Call of Duty or Max Payne 2, but it doesn't purport to be.
I haven't had so much outright FUN playing an FPS since the original DOOM, a game which Painkiller actually reminds me of in that it's pure 'move and fire' mayhem! It makes a nice change not to have to think too much about where to go and what to do next, just BLAST tons of great monsters.
For pure frenzied gameplay, great atmospherics, and trigger happy shooting this game is tops! And the power-ups are absolutely insane!
The only downside is that it needs a beast of a system for the graphics to really shine - I've been running it with a 128 mb NVidea card, 512mb RAM and 2.4 Ghz processor and can't have the settings higher than the so-called 'Standard' presets without crashing, but hey, with a game this fast-paced after a while you're too busy trying to survive to notice the difference!
Highly recommended.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Karma
I do not think I have ever had so much hassle installing a game ! I was a split second away from emailing for a refund when the installation.exe file FINALLY decided to respond and install the damn thing. I'm not the first here to have mentioned such issues with the game. It's a shame, as the game is otherwise superb.
So I start with the downside of Painkiller. The original version 1.0 ( which is what is still being sent as 'new' ) is....to put it politely....buggy. Especially on Windows XP. It also tends to crash far too often.
Now for the GOOD news ! If you go to [...] ( the manufacturer's web site ), you can download a patch that takes you to version 1.3.5. Oh blessed relief - almost all of the bugs are then gone ! And you even get an extra level to play !
And then when you finally get down to playing the game......it is just sheer brilliance ! Yes...it's unashamedly a ' blast anything that moves ' gore fest. I'm not sure why some reviewers have found that a problem, as the game reminds me somewhat of the original Doom....which so many look back on with fond reminiscence. If I want smart AI, I've got Far Cry and Half Life 2 for that. If I get home from a bad day at the office, I'd far rather play Painkiller !!
The graphics in Painkiller are superb. Maybe not the utter realism of Half Life 2, but they have that same excellent quality and lighting effect that one finds in, for example, games by Konami ( who make the 'Silent Hill' series of games ). Painkiller also has a range of monsters that I think probably exceeds that of any other FPS.
Some have commented on the 'limited' weapons. Whilst it is the case that you 'only' get 5 weapons......they all have amazing dual functions that are very innovative, so your arsenal is actually pretty impressive.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Simple but it works
Whilst the story can go throw itself the canal, the rest of Painkiller presents itself rather well. Enemies are unique and challenging, environments though often nonsensical and... Read more
Published on 31 July 2008 by Sir Squidshaker
2.0 out of 5 stars
Frustrating!
After playing the free Painkiller demo, I thought I'd go the whole hog and play the complete package. Read more
Published on 6 Mar 2007 by Richard Montgomery
3.0 out of 5 stars
An inbetween game
When Painkiller came out it was well reviewed and well regarded. It has been used as a tournament deathmatch game, the visuals were, for the time, great, it was polished, it was... Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2007 by Blackheart
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Unadulterated Slaying Fun!
This is an unpretentious shoot-em-up fest which is great fun to play and I heartily recommend! Looks good, sounds good and plays good!
Published on 12 July 2005
5.0 out of 5 stars
What Doom 3 should have3 been!
If you were disappointed with Doom 3, if you loved the early Quake and Doom genre, this is the game for you. Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2005 by Barks
1.0 out of 5 stars
Tedious in the extreme
I bought this thinking that it would be an atmospheric game with good action, what I got was a boring repetitive game with no plot or sense. Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2005
5.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific Monster Slaying mayhem...
Many games in the FPS genre tend to introduce amazing levels with great texture engines and jaw dropping graphics, painkiller does all this but boasts so much more as a game in... Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2004 by "manoj2k57"
5.0 out of 5 stars
brainless fun
brainless fun. this game is much closer in some ways to the original doom games then doom3 is.just lots of monsters and very big bosses. Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2004 by L. simpson
5.0 out of 5 stars
best fps
Painkiller is great fun. it brings back the sort of gameplay from doom. It's also a good break from spending time on tactics. the weapons are also great. Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2004 by H
4.0 out of 5 stars
Horror shooter
Painkiller is a first-person horror shooter, designed to satisfy a gamer's hunger for intense, fast-paced action. Read more
Published on 27 July 2004
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