Windows

Painkiller

Description

Painkiller is a "bullet hell" first-person shooter with a gothic storyline and frantic gameplay.

Players are cast as Daniel Garner, a regular guy who gets killed in a horrific car crash while taking his wife out for her birthday. She, being the saintly woman she is, gets admitted to Heaven. Daniel, due to his shady past, does not. He finds himself in Purgatory -- a place somewhere between Heaven and Hell. It isn't long before Daniel is recruited by his "caseworker for the dead" to fight the minions of Hell. Lucifer is plotting to overthrow Heaven, and is using Purgatory as a staging ground. The offer is simple: stop Lucifer's armies and earn Daniel's heavenly reward.

Alternate Titles

• "恐惧杀手" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "PK" -- Abbreviated title
• "Painkiller: Крещеный Кровью" -- Russian spelling
• "Painkiller: Verega Ristitud" -- Estonian title

Part of the Following Groups

• 3D Engine: PAIN
• BPjS / BPjM indexed games
• Painkiller series
• Physics Engine: Havok

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User Reviews

Return of old-school FPS	vicrabb (7017)
The gimmick is not really one after all.	dreamstealer (146)
A new incarnation of Quake...or not quite?	Kuv (75)
Have some Quake with your Serious Sam.	Zovni (9425)

The Press Says

GameZone	Apr 07, 2004	8.6 out of 10	86
Armchair Empire, The	Apr 25, 2004	8.5 out of 10	85
Gameinatrix	May 26, 2004	B+	83
Game Informer Magazine	Jun, 2004	8.25 out of 10	82
Withingames	Apr 30, 2004	4 out of 5	80
ActionTrip	Apr 14, 2004	79 out of 100	79
Gamekult	Apr 08, 2004	7 out of 10	70
IGN	Apr 12, 2004	7 out of 10	70
Joystick (French)	May, 2004	7 out of 10	70
Fragland.net	Sep 02, 2004	61 out of 100	61

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Trivia

Painkiller is one of the few games I know that doesn't force real-time rendering for it's video display. Usually whenever a game or program has a graphic load that exceeds the hardware's performance it starts to "skip" the rendering of certain frames in order to mantain the timing of the animations as intended. This results in the familiar "frame-skipping" or "jumping" that we known so well.

Another alternative to this problem is to forget about trying to mantain real-time animation and draw every frame at the speed the hardware can manage, however this is hardly used for videogames and usually only appears as an option on 3D rendering programs. The reason for this can be seen on Painkiller and that's because if you play it on a machine that's below the reccomended specs, the game will be actually easier to play! As whenever the cpu load gets too high (which starts to happen when many enemies appear) the game goes into slo-mo!