Posted February 02, 2009
Painkiller is a re-visit to the good ol’ days – the days where circle-strafing, bunny-hoping, creativity, and fun were the main ingredients. Painkiller is a nod towards classic FPS’es such as Quake, Serious Sam, Doom. and Unreal Tournament. You’ve got a health bar, several creative and bloody guns, and a ton of bad dudes that need to slayed – to put it shortly this game doesn’t aim for sophistication – it aims for classic shooting action.
You’ll fly through the air whilst heavy metal blasts through your speakers, and you’ll possibly end up screaming “hell yeah bitch” and other more serious obscenities as you perversely kill anything that stands in your way. If you thought modern rehashed shooters were fun – then think again.
People Can Fly (the developers) managed to make the very core the biggest strength; the shooting. Along the massive and beautiful levels, you’ll find weapons that are so unusual and fun to utilize that you’ll wonder why they have never been seen in any other game. With these guns you’ll run through these massive levels that are simply gorgeous, and shoot/slash/burn/zap/etc through hordes of undead. And when I say hordes, I mean it.
Painkiller has an impressive broad selection of dudes to kill.
And you can be assured that several levels have enormous bosses which aren’t like anything you’ve seen before. Often accompanying all this fun is the music; several hard/heavy metal which has an consistent pace. It will make your adrenalin pump.
Remarkably for a game by a new studio, Painkiller suffers from very few problems, but they are still present: Story-lovers will be disappointed; the story is decent but the emphasis is always on the shooting. Cutscenes are far and afew, and often cheesy or outright mediocre.
The second problem is that the pacing can get a little awkward towards the end. You'll often have to clear out a zone before you can move on, and the enemies will sometimes be hard to spot. Luckily you've got an compass that pin-points their location.
In the end, Painkiller stands as a game which does so many things rightly, and so few things wrong. And for a mere 10 bucks you’ll have yourself a lengthy, classic, arcade shooter that simply oozes of fun.
A must buy for any person who would like to call himself an fps gamer.
You’ll fly through the air whilst heavy metal blasts through your speakers, and you’ll possibly end up screaming “hell yeah bitch” and other more serious obscenities as you perversely kill anything that stands in your way. If you thought modern rehashed shooters were fun – then think again.
People Can Fly (the developers) managed to make the very core the biggest strength; the shooting. Along the massive and beautiful levels, you’ll find weapons that are so unusual and fun to utilize that you’ll wonder why they have never been seen in any other game. With these guns you’ll run through these massive levels that are simply gorgeous, and shoot/slash/burn/zap/etc through hordes of undead. And when I say hordes, I mean it.
Painkiller has an impressive broad selection of dudes to kill.
And you can be assured that several levels have enormous bosses which aren’t like anything you’ve seen before. Often accompanying all this fun is the music; several hard/heavy metal which has an consistent pace. It will make your adrenalin pump.
Remarkably for a game by a new studio, Painkiller suffers from very few problems, but they are still present: Story-lovers will be disappointed; the story is decent but the emphasis is always on the shooting. Cutscenes are far and afew, and often cheesy or outright mediocre.
The second problem is that the pacing can get a little awkward towards the end. You'll often have to clear out a zone before you can move on, and the enemies will sometimes be hard to spot. Luckily you've got an compass that pin-points their location.
In the end, Painkiller stands as a game which does so many things rightly, and so few things wrong. And for a mere 10 bucks you’ll have yourself a lengthy, classic, arcade shooter that simply oozes of fun.
A must buy for any person who would like to call himself an fps gamer.