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Peak old-school FPS experience. They don’t make games like this anymore (except for the awesome DOOM games).

Basically it's a game of Hordes against you, from there I don't like it, subsequently I find that it's a game without identity or seriousness, it mixes so many themes (horror, comedy, I don't know Rick) but nevertheless it's "well done" in terms of visuals. But it doesn't create an atmosphere, it feels boring.

aah... that's the best game ever that played, thanks "people can fly" for such good game

a good enough clone of the serious sam games; with less weapon and even less enemy variety; the variety is in their looks; the graphics are done well; overall it's a varied experience - goes from great map design to absolutely meh; the boss fights are impressive but not fun to play;

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Прошёл знаменитый шутер painkiller. Это классический мясной аренный шутер (очевидно вдохновившийся серьёзным Сэмом) из той самой эпохи всеми забытой годноты (2004 год), ныне серия мертва и забыта. Играл в него когда-то, но дропнул пройдя четверть, почему-то мне painkiller показался чрезвычайно легкой игрой, сейчас я понимаю, что сложность тут абсолютно адекватная. В отличие от Сэма, тут есть порядочный сюжет с диалогами и сюжетными вставками, многим у этой игры бы поучиться, также завязка очень достойная, люблю христианскую тематику (в русской озвучке Гланц участвует кста). Очень достойно, на фоне четырех строчек текста, плывущих по экрану как в Сэме. Очень крутой рэгдол, очень задорно все летают по экрану, количество оружия большое, но где-то половину игры ты ходишь с 2-3 пушками, а учитывая, что импакт абсолютно от всего оружия ощущается максимально одинаково, это совсем невесело. Это кстати большая проблема, полезность всех пушек сведено к единому значению, и тебе становится не важно из какой стрелять, профит будет один и тот же, я считаю это минус. Последний босс олицетворение плохого геймдизайна, просто дрочево где ещё и не понятно наносишь ли ты урон или нет, очень плохо. Графика для своего времени очень достойная и в целом игра достаточно прогрессивная технически. В целом игра уважаемая, даже культовая, знаю несколько проектов которые изо всех сил пытались конкретно её пародировать, что показатель. Вполне себе 7/10, однако, игра заканчивается чем-то типо – продолжение следует, и мол играйте в аддон, я считаю это не уважение, тем более после этого аддона серия стала переходить из рук в руки, что очень плохой показатель и я не уверен что стоит играть в другие игры серии.

This game was quite advance for it's time. The physics and graphics were amazing back then. However, the most important is that the atmosphere and the gameplay were awesome.

Бодрый мясной боевичок из начала нулевых про чувачка, сражающегося с демонами в Аду. Сюжет максимально простой: мы попадаем в аварию и помираем, попадаем в Ад, откуда нам нужно выбраться, для этого надо завалить 5х генералов Люцифера, а потом его самого. Геймплей состоит из продвижения по локациям и отстрела всего живого на аренках, попутно можно обшаривать закутки в поисках секретов. Локаций много, каждая старается выделиться, но изза невыразительной графики и арт дизайна многие похожи друг на друга. Геймдизайн кривенький, не всегда понятно куда идти, ориентируешься чисто по красной метке сейва. Экшн бодренький, врагов много, оружия какбы не очень, но каждое имеет по два вида огня, разительно отличающееся друг от друга. Прокачка выполнена весьма оригинально - для каждого уровня доступно свое испытание, за выполнение которого получаешь карты Таро, дающие разные баффы, золотые это активный бафф на некоторое время, серебрянные пассивный на постоянку. Всего можно собрать по 3 карты каждого типа. Именно желание получить эти карты и побуждает проходить уровни по-разному. В общем-то продукт своего времени, сохранился средне.

This quake-engine game is a non-stop adrenaline rush with epic boss battles, intense gameplay, and a killer soundtrack.

Fast, old school shooter with not necessary, but interesting story. Variety of guns, enemies, maps, well balanced difficulty levels makes you play way more than once and try to do something better with another attempt. One of my best and most memorable FPS experiences,

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One of the best killthemall at that time. Beautiful graphics, driving gameplay, good atmosphere. Of the minuses, this is a very simple plot, and the second half of the game is frankly weaker than first.

Бодрый и дерзкий боевик, который дал старт целой плеяде игр с гордым наименованием "крепкий шутан из 2000-х". Ваши похождения в разнообразных увлекательных локациях (от заснеженного средневекового замка до глубин Ада) в которых вы козыряя распрыжкой под аккомпанемент тяжелого металла разносите орды противников априори не могут устареть и теплить душу еще долгие годы спустя. К сожалению, не обошли игру стороной многочисленные баги и неочевидный для нового поколения игроков геймдизайн, но на мой взгляд - это настолько ничтожные мелочи, что в глобальном плане они даже упоминания не достойны (все баги - не критичны для прохождения, а второму пункту можно пожелать лишь терпения). Оценка: 8.

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Shooter of the year. 2004, i think. I played this masterpiece all my childhood on my celeron, and i love this game ever since.

One of the best shooters, as time has shown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bland gameplay and level design. It is so repetitive with no change. Enemies are bullet sponge and it doesn't give you enough health kit.

Classic game. Amazing gameplay, amazing music, amazing levels, amazing monsters. Play this instead of the HD crap version from 2012. This one will always be the best Painkiller game. Pickens approves!

Painkiller is mostly a good game, but It just offers not enough content to be a great game and can get repetetive quickly.

A great old-school shooter that you enjoy playing even after many years, with the best soundtrack.

Эволюция механик заложенных серией Doom, орды монстров в преисподнем мире, стрейфись-стреляй или умрешь.

8.5 out of 10. Painkiller took not only gameplay from Doom but also hellish atmosphere. It also added physics and arsenal of interesting weapons with alternative fire modes for maximum carnage.

It's the best game of that time. It has an awesome gameplay and It is not boring to play the game

"Painkiller" - классный мясной шутер. С хорошей графикой для 2004 года, с интересным сюжетом , да даже с классными боссами! Вообщем это попросту ностальгия.. Жаль что серия потом превратилась в такой кал.

This is my first review on Metacritic, so here we go. As a kid, I always enjoyed Painkiller. Back when I first played it in 2006/2007 (maybe, IDK) I'd spent countless hours on the PC blasting away demons with the chaingun/rocket launcher, pinning zombies to the wall with a stakegun, and killing just about every monster this game had to offer with my trusty shotgun. All five chapters, each with unique settings and it's fair share of monsters. I enjoyed the hell out of the boss fights; fighting a huge monster in the Enclave, trying to take down Thor's hammer in Ruins, and destroying statues that gave Alastor some health. Some levels I enjoyed, some levels I didn't. Like Monastery, because that level gave me a hard time. Even though it was the constant process of going through checkpoint after checkpoint with doors closed, then blasting some monsters, and having the cycle to repeat itself over and over again, I still had lots of fun. If my dad hadn't showed me this game, I don't think I would've had the same childhood I had today.

This game feels like another version of serious sam. Killing tons of similar monster in every level got me bored even on the first chapter. But I played this game patiently till the end. Now when I think about this game I figured that the only moments I enjoyed about this game was the boss fights. I don't recommend this game if you are looking for quality game experience.

A rather Bible-esque version of Serious Sam, except where Serious Sam has decent weapons, this game has one over powered short range shotgun, then some ridiculous stake launcher, along with another op short range infinite ammo starter game weapon. Beyond that I wouldn't know as I gave up at World 1 Level Five - The Boss was untouchable with the Shotgun as it has such a short range and the Stake gun runs out of ammo, forcing you to enter the center of the map to gain more, whence you are insta killed by some silly tornado ability. Interestingly, it appears you do more ammo shooting the boss in the arse rather than Staking it in the head. Believe me, I can literally do some levels of Quake 2 either walking backwards or with my eyes shut, this is no 'spiritual sequel' to Q2, it is Serious Sam with a Seriously bad weapon load-out. Just Bad.

I recently got it on GoG and honestly I still can't understand why this game came out to be so successful and grew to be considered a "classic". The art design, sound assets and weapons are pretty neat, true, but the actual gameplay is just boring. I played it for the first time back in 2006 or so (I really don't remember, I'm sure I still have CDs put somewhere amogn my old things, though) and ditched it after the first boss (necrogiant). How bad that fight was, oh my. I get it, bosses in this game were collosal at the time this game came out. They were impressive, true. But did gameplay really benefit from that? I would say: no, not at all. It still just a huge arena with a boss that has a di**y set of moves (the necrogiant's tornado boiled its fight to being lucky with your positioning while the boss casts the tornado - more often than not it will be put right where you stand, killing you instantly). It's managable, of course, the fight itself is not hard, but the succes boils down how lucky you are. But that would be a minor disadvantage. The biggest problem in the vanilla PK are levels. It doesn't matter the game has wonderful weapons, interesting enemies and shooting itself feels ok, while it all happens in a boring mostly square-shaped arenas with little to no secrets at all. I'm half through the game now (I'm determined to finish it at last), and there is no alternative to "kill everything in a square room - process further to the next room". Serious Sam series at least varied your environments you fight in, mixing open arenas that have little to no environmental design with actual levels that consist from more that 2 corridors. Yeah, you have some gimmicks like cards, that help you a lot during boss fights, but they're not something I would call revolutionary or game changing. They're basically achievements with gameplay benefits. It's just a sub-par shooter. Still a real shooter, much, much more fun and demanding than your typical modern warfare BS, but a sub-par shooter nonetheless. The first add-on is better in level design aspect, it's a whole better game than the vanilla, but it's still nothing to write home about. Why was it so successful? Why is is considered a classic? It didn't bring anything new to the genre (its physics were quickly beaten up by HL2), it just recycled ages old schema and put it into mediocre frames.

I deliberated for ages about whether to buy this. I wondered if it would look old. However it looks fine and the gameplay is great. Score 7.5/10 The video options have the 1920x1080 resolution settings, which was a good start. I was disappointed that the opening cutscenes froze. I hit ctr-alt-del and 'start task manger', then clicked the icon on the task bar. This unfroze it, but brought it to the main menu, so I could play on. Other cut scenes froze too, but I was able to get past them with this 'fix'. This brought the game back up and running. Ctr-alt-del also cleared a graphical glitch I met. These bugs aside the game is fine. The weapons rock. The atmosphere in fairly unique, and this sets it aside from many games. It has a demonic feel to many of the enemies. To be honest a couple of the levels were boring and a very few maps were quite plain. However it's strengths lay in its otherworld persona. Really though it doesn't look too bad at all. I mean it's not the Crysis 3 engine, but for a ten year old game it's brilliant - no question. [Release date April 12, 2004.] I added 32x anti-aliasing in the nvidia control panel so all the lines are straight, with no jagged edges. The game itself opened well, then soon I thought 'hmm a little mindless', then it got going. It feels more like getting from A-B than just mindless areas of enemies. I mean there is a flow and a progression. Getting some of the secrets is fun, some are just way too tricky to spend ages trying to get. Overall - so glad I bought it. Great stuff. N.B. Bug right at the end after I killed the last boss. Can't finish it. Hope this doesn't affect Battle Out of Hell. Without the bugs - easy 9/10.

Painkiller is a solid FPS game with one very simple premise: shoot, shoot and shoot. The game style is very basic as there are no keys, no real switches, or cut scenes in levels. You merely make your way through seemingly unconnected levels, killing every enemy in your sight. If you like endless shooting, the game does provide no-nonsense fun, but if you want a game with interesting characters and an intriguing plot I would suggest something like Half-Life.

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This is a great game. It has such good gameplay. It is more satisfying than any modern shooter like Call of duty or battlefield. This is the demonic love child of old school shooters like doom, quake and serious Sam, mixed with the graphics of 2004. Admittedly, I can't get past the first level of the demo, but I'm not that great at shooters, so don't think the game is too hard. If you liked games like serious Sam, you will love this game, The only complaints are the story is bad and, this isn't a complaint, I just think it's a bit difficult, but that's just me. A great game, and well worth your time and money.

If there is any Painkiller game in the series that holds its water, it is this one and the expansion Battle out of Hell. The original more or less gets the formula right with plenty of action, ambiance when not battling and massive bosses. Recommended if new to the series.

Over the top FPS in the style of DOOM. Don't bother with the sequels/expansions; this is the best one of the series. Crazy weapons (a gun that shoots shurikens AND lightning), great old-school level design that encourages exploration and rewards completionists, and some semblance of a plot to keep pushing you forward. There's a "black tarot" system where you unlock cards to give yourself active & passive powerups by performing certain tasks in levels. You equip these between maps and they give you unique boosts such as increasing your base health, faster movement speed, and temporary invincibility. Not many games can competently pull off the old school style of FPS and I think the is one of the better ones.

Painkiller doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is- its a level based mob combat FPS in the spiritual vein of Doom or Serious Sam. The plot is incomprehensible- and what little sense it does make has little to do with the enemies and levels it throws at you. But as a pure mindless shooter it is an awful lot of fun. The levels are varied and well designed. The weapons are distinctive and well implemented- especially the eponymous

FPS the way it should be! At least according to old-school fans.... Considered by many to be more deserving of the name "Doom 3" than the actual one, this game takes everything that made up the classics, and pushes them to 11! ___Extremely vast choice of weapons, each of them more impressive and satisfying to use (that is, slaughter with). Also, impressive architecture, but just as the "no punctuation" review says, if you spend longer than 30 seconds without shooting, you're doing it wrong.

Though it has its bugs and frustrations, I really can't say enough good things about Painkiller. At least the first two, and Overdose (included in Black Edition) is awfully cool too, but lacks some of the charm of the first. It's probably still my favorite after five years and countless other games. The fighting is insanely cool, though a bit repetitive. But mostly, its atmosphere and creep factor can't be beat. Incredible, awe-inspiring maps. Pretty darned creepy monsters. Finding secrets is quite an interesting challenge as well. It scares you. It thrills you. It awes you. Wish the subsequent sequels lived up to the original. But alas, Painkiller was a landmark - and still seminal and stand-alone in the horror world. Plenty of good sci fi games. Only one good horror one - and that's PK

Serious sam-like with less open spaces and less crowds of monsters. Great levels atmosphere (switching between medieval, cemetery, churches, city, Asylum, etc), great bestiary, hilarious physic engine (monster literaly flying when you shoot them), epic bosses. On the less shining side, the scenario and cut scene are so lame it's embarassing (but who cares in this type of game really), some really bad design at some point (you can't guess what to do without watching solution on the internet). All in all a really decent game, especially after work when you want some brainless entertainment.

This is one of the two games that Yahtzee or Zero Punctuation likes over at the Escapists means it's actually good. To quote him "The story can go **** itself... (more problems with the game) ... But any criticism I find is immediatly squashed when I remember there is a gun that shoots Shurigans and Lightning. The way I felt about it.

Genial música, fÃsica muy buena. Me encanta ver como despedazo a los monstruos. Un buen surtido de armas, cada una con sus pros y contras. Jefes finales... cinematicas....Esta traducido a varios idiomas incluido las voces. Para mi es un FPS 10.

A game that isn't ashamed to be what it is. A really simple, over the top deathathon, with great and varied weapons. A flashback to the good old days, and I applaud it for that.

Fast paced, Voilent, and above all good mindless fun, I found myself yelling warcries at the enmies as they flew across my monitor like meat filled water balloons. Will not thrill you if you're looking for a story driven game, but it makes up for that by being just plain good. Given the choice get this and 'battle out of hell' but not any of the other expansions or additions as this is the best it gets.

A rather unusual mix of horror and fast action gameplay, Painkiller is gory and atmospheric, but really all it is is just action. The Purgatory setting and in fact the idea of fighting demons is very great. However the idea itself simply is not enough. It requires the correct execution and a plot, and that was where Painkiller fell down. Still though, as an FPS game, it is forgiveable if it has a weak story, which is why I still found the game fun. Painkiller features a big variety of areas, but I felt that only about half of them were breathtaking, whilst the other half were boring. Areas such as Asylum and Town were fantastic due to being incredibly atmospheric and actually scary in a very twisted way. Likewise there were areas which simply had beautiful locations and were a pleasure to travel through, areas such as Train Station, Military Base, The Palace and City on Water. However most of the other maps were rather repetitive and boring. The game allows the player to use 5 weapons, but each one of these weapons has 2 very different modes of fire, so in a way the game has 10 different weapons. The weapons are very original and enjoyable to use. This was perhaps the strongest aspect of the game. The enemies, well they were nothing special. Although most were demons in various disguises, it was uninteresting how at times they just looked like people, for example in the level Docks, which was perhaps one of the worst stages in the game. The boss fights were terrible. It was impossible to know what the hell you were supposed to do to defeat most of them. For one of them you had to attack the boss' hammer rather than him. How would you know to do that? You wouldn't. The final boss fight was a huge disappointment too and really ruined the game for me. Just terrible. Lastly the cinematics and cut scenes in between some of the missions were pretty good, although I wish some of those characters were developed in greater depth. Painkiller has some really great features and it has some very strong weaknesses. If only Painkiller didn't have some of these weaknesses, it could've been a fantastic game. But for now I think a score of 7 is appropriate. I can't give it any more than that.

Intelligent beautiful and bloody, hell...

It's a fairly fun game, though since it's basically a celebration of what gaming lost when it made the transition from the fast and competitive/challenging gameplay-centric Deathmatch to the slower, realistic plot-centric FPS games, it certainly doesn't innovate much. It's fairly fun, though the target audience will probably still prefer the original Quake.

There are already enough positive reviews here to already mirror what I am going to say. Another classic that somehow still has it's appeal to this day; the spiritual story, the mysteriously fantastical areas, the crazy enemies, special abilities, myriad of treasures or secret areas, and the crazy weapons. It's enough to make any lover of Quake or frantic shooters drool. I for one, don't think this game deserves such a high score like a 9 or a 10; but, it comes close to being a classic which will withstand the test of time!

Bloody massacre coupled with unusual weapons. One of the first big titles with Havok physics. This is most unexpected game which rightfully earned AAA status in gamers' minds shortly after release.