Painkiller: Black Edition
People Can Fly · 2007 · Gore, Action, FPS, Classic, Shooter
PC
Very Positive90% · 1,908
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About Painkiller: Black Edition
Painkiller Black Edition includes Painkiller and the expansion pack Battle Out of Hell, featuring 10 additional single-player levels and many new villans.
Gothic Story, Frantic Gameplay. 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.
Graphically, Painkiller is unmatched. The proprietary PAIN Engine puts out an unbelievably high polygon count, while adding increased texture quality and the latest lighting and shadowing techniques, including soft shadows, DOT3 bump mapping, water reflections, glass simulation, volumetric light and fog, and more. Plug in the Havok 2.0 physics engine, and you get a realistic environment in a totally fantastical setting.
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.
Gothic Story, Frantic Gameplay. 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.
Graphically, Painkiller is unmatched. The proprietary PAIN Engine puts out an unbelievably high polygon count, while adding increased texture quality and the latest lighting and shadowing techniques, including soft shadows, DOT3 bump mapping, water reflections, glass simulation, volumetric light and fog, and more. Plug in the Havok 2.0 physics engine, and you get a realistic environment in a totally fantastical setting.
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.
FEATURES
- Combo weapons: All weapons come in pairs, with a primary and secondary fire.
- Morphing: Your unholy pact gives you the power to morph into a powerful possessed creature with every 66 souls collected.
- Lasting replay value: Painkiller features a standard single player campaign, with additional modes to encourage replay.
- Physics Engine: Painkiller employs the Havok 2.0 physics engine, allowing for inverse kinematics ("rag-doll physics") and deformable, interactive environments.
- Over 30 levels of fierce action, dozens of different enemies in completely unique and varied environments.
- High adrenalin gameplay: non-stop action, hundreds of enemies to be decimated and gigantic bosses.
- 14 incredible weapons, including the famous stake-gun, and the mythical Painkiller.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A quality classic.1 found this helpful
Fantastico e lindo
Game is old and even games in 2004 this seems to be a very low effort game. As a kid I remember this seemed like a cool game but playing it now is kind of annoying literally a cookie cutter game. Would not buy this game even for $1 as free to play and games from 1990 are better than this 2004 game. Dont waste your time and the boss fights are among the worst of almost any game i ever played.
This is a neutral review. Painkiller: Black Edition is a surprisingly genuine and entertaining retro FPS title. In my opinion, it's better then Quake and Doom because here you don't have to wonder around looking for the silver and golden keys and silver and golden doors. The maps are not labyrinths, but mostly linear (checkpoints system), which frees you to enjoy the combat more. It has a very thrilling supernatural (horror) atmosphere and interesting levels/locations, situated both in the afterlife (esoteric) world and in the material planet Earth (past and present). The story is minimalistic and oriented to religious fundamentalism but in FPS games the story is a secondary perk anyway, so I didn't mind. Combat is well done, I liked the selection of weapons and the difficulty which is (if you play on normal) not too easy and not too hard. Both the graphics and the sound are very modest but it's understandable since Painkiller is a 2004 game. There is a lot of ammo which for me it's very important to enjoy FPS games properly. The things I didn't like are: 1) you have to install some third-party programs in order to play (GameSpy Arcade), 2) it has some bugs and some…
Painkiller is a decent shooter that doesn't do anything particularly memorable. The game is a simple loop of moving forward until you find a checkpoint, and then defeat all the enemies before moving forward. It's very similar to Doom 2016 in terms of structure. The weapons are pretty good, and they all have alternate fire modes which effectively doubles the player's arsenal, but the enemies leave a lot to be desired. The aforementioned cast of foes is extremely varied, and I'm pretty sure that new ones are introduced in almost every stage, but most of them share the same behavior which makes them interchangeable with one another as a result. Furthermore, there's no common theme across Hell's army, and I can't help but think that they had a Halloween enemy asset pack lying around because that's what most enemies are: generic horror movie monsters. Enemies drop souls on death that heal you a little bit and charge a demon form that makes you invincible for a short period, but they have an annoying delay after the enemy dies and realistically you are only using the power once per level so I didn't bother to collect them after a while. The other form of collectible are coins that can be…
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