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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A perfect throwback to the classic first-person shooter., March 22, 2006
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Let me say this upfront: I love Painkiller. It's fast, furious fun that reminds me of what first-person shooters are supposed to be. My only gripe is that is does not natively support joysticks or gamepads (which is not a problem for some gamers). Regardless of that, in this age of Doom 3, Half-Life 2 and the rest Painkiller holds its own and stands tall as an instant classic.
The premise is simple: you play a character who dies in a car crash and must do battle for Heaven's sake if you want to be reunited with your wife, who is on the other side. The weapons are a tasty assortment of oldie-but-goodies (shotgun, chaingun, etc) but each one has an alternate fire mode. This makes them doubly effective against the hordes of enemies seeking to put your head out.
Painkiller Black ships on a single DVD making installation fast and painless (no pun intended). Three patches are available (1.61, 1.62, and 1.64) that add Shader Model 3.0 support for Nvidia's GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs as well ATI's latest. You must install the patches in the order of 1.61, 1.62, and 1.64 or "bad things may happen", at least that's what the readme text says. All things considered Painkiller Black is a blast to play. System requirements call for a DVD-ROM drive with a Pentium 4 class processor or AMD equivalent. Recommended specs are a CPU clocked at 2.4GHz, 2.6GB of hard drive space, and a GeForce FX-class video card. EAX is also supported (and sounds great) so those with Soundblaster Live! or later audio cards will be in for a real treat. Given the overall value this game is a steal for the price. I own two copies myself!!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
What a blast. A little convoluted sometimes, but massive FUN, April 13, 2006
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Well, like most, I play them all. Didn't know what to make of Painkiller when it first came out, was obsessed with Half Life 2 at the time. When I finally got to purchasing this game, I got the black DVD edition. Boy, I'll tell you. This is great fun. I see why so many gamer gamers love this game. Totally mindless killing of some of the wierdest bad guys ever. Cooky weapons, basically rag-tag type of stuff.
What a blast though. This is one game I could imagine I would never really get sick of. There are though, some very painful (no pun intended!!) passages, where you can spend hours, literally days sometimes (I know, cuz I did) trying to figure out what to do. Some of the hidden secrets and doors are well, TOO hidden for my taste, and commit the worst video game sin, causing massive frustration. But there are enough walkthroughs and Painkiller sites now to help you get through this game the first time. The next time through should be less frustrating. And worst of all, many of these frustrating parts are JUMPING parts, which I HATE worst of all. You jump and jump and jump and fall, for hours on end. Its why I bagged the original Half Life without finishing it half way through. Can't stand all that jumping and dying.
All in all though, fantastic FUN, if you can get past some of the ridiculous parts where you are totally lost.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Old school and delicious, February 21, 2006
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
I just bought it today after talking about it elsewhere... I finished the first chapter on normal difficulty, and I have to say it's pretty nuts so far. Lots of old-school shooter monster slaughtering, with rediculous weapons that you don't need to reload or anything silly like that. The physics are really impressive for a game that came out two years ago, and they're still better than the physics in the majority of current FPSs that I've played.
The game was designed to make sure you always have plenty of ammo, and there is always a room swarming with monsters every corner you turn. Blood splatters everywhere and the corpses pile up with plenty of gibs to go around when using the more powerful weapons. The variety of monsters is really good so far, with at least one or two new ones popping up per level. I don't know if it's going to stay that way throughout the whole game, but I can hope. The bosses are also rediculous, the first one is on the scale of the Colossi from Shadow of the Colossus.
I may just be biased towards the rediculous shooters, and I haven't really played it long enough to get a chance to be sick of it, but this is a really satisfying game so far. None of the using cover, aiming down the sights, or minding the size of your clip garbage. If you don't care about realism and just want to dig in to some carnage, you should check this game out.
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