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[Funkiest Monkey]

It's a really great FPS.

If I said that you only need to shoot tons of demons in this game, everyone would say "oh meh no strategy just shoot everything". No its not really like that, it's an awesome game. It has more enemy types than any FPS I have ever played. The levels are just awesome. There is even a site where a skilled photographer took pictures with his camera and made a whole site dedicated to it.

The weapons are awesome too. I am now gonna tell what kind of weapons there are in this game because they're to awesome to miss and are completely diferent and original than any other FPS.

So you start the game with weapon 'The Painkiller', I could explain it by two words - laser and chainsaw, but I'll get it all detailed technically. It's a metallic pipe with lots of spinning blades forming a circle at the end of the pipe, it can also fire out the blades. When it does fire them out it leaves a laser trace behind the blades which never disappears until a dumb enemy runs into the blades, then the lasers will stop ( the monsters are swarming out of every corner, it almost looks like teamwork when one runs into the blades that produce the laser line).

The second gun you get right after walking behind the wall in the first level is a freezer/shotgun. It's primary fire shoots out shotgun blasts and it's secondary fire shoots out freezer rounds. It freezes the enemy and when the enemy is frozen it can be killed with one shot from any gun.

The third weapon you get is just awesome. It's a stake gun/grenade launcher, the primary fire shoots out a stake (you know a stake that is nailed to a vampire's heart in films) that nails the enemies to walls and secondary fire shoots out grenades. Now if the stake flies a great distance it sets on fire (yeah, the guns are that awesome) and you can do a combo with this gun like shooting out a grenade then shoot a stake right at the grenade you shot and it will be an awesome projectile. Imagine a half grenade/half stake.

Now there's another one: Minigun, Rocket Launcher. Just a crossover of a Rocket Launcher and a Minigun, nothing unseen before.

The last gun you aquire is a shuriken/lightning shuriken gun. It's primary fire shoots shurikens which explode after they fly a long distance, it's secondary fire shoots electricity at enemies(when enemies die from electricity they twitch on the ground, it's awesome!). You can also shoot out this giant and very detailed shuriken powered with lighting, it's almost like a shield. If you shoot it near you all the enmies that go near the giant lightning shuriken get electrocuted.

There's also this demon gun. Every time you collect 66 souls from dead enemies you turn into a demon, and then you can kill everyone with the demon gun. One shot not only kills but when you shoot at someone they explode into pieces and then this blood rain rains on you from all the eviscerated enemies that have been blown to pieces.

That's all the guns.

Now the story is lame by average gamer standards, but remember the time when games could be fun and not have a good story; remember when games didn't even have a story but they were fun. I mean imagine Tetris or Pacman with a story. No, you can't imagine them with a story.

Okay so i just counted, there's 52 diferent enemies modeled very cleverly and creatively (counting the minibosses and bosses). There's 25 levels, every level introduces new enemies. Some have minibosses and there are 5 HUGE bosses. There are 24 skills(called black tarot cards). The cutscenes are awesome.

The hall game is downright awesome! Just go through the levels with your favorite weapons and blast the living hell out of stuff. There's also secrets, treasure, holy items and gold if you passed the levels already and you want to collect stuff for some reason.

So why so many people don't even know about the game? (What the fuck?)

For my interest im gonna add a poll to this post to find out how many people even heard about painkiller before my thread.

If you don't have the game I recommend you to buy it!

Unfortunately I couldn't fix everything. This was a challenge though, no doubt!

Ninja'd. I was right about to do this.

I guess I saved you the effort!

I corrected some things you missed

Why, thank you! I really couldn't be arsed to go through with a fine-toothed comb. Too much effort.

 

[Funkiest Monkey]

It's not that I haven't heard about it, it's just that there are 15 thousand other games that are way more fun to play. :/

Zing!

 

[TheComedown]

WALL O TEXT

Dear god man, use some punctuation, even Yahtzee uses that stuff when he writes.

The game is 6 years old. The devs were fairly unknown at the time (they are now with Epic) It wasn't a big main stream launch. But LOADS of people know about it, most of this site will know about it, between Yahtzees review and Furburt reinforcing its awesomeness every chance he gets, its hard to miss.

 

[Doclector]

Woah, wall of endless text.

I'd say it's because it's a PC game. Hear me out before you lynch me! Fact is, sad or not, the majority of gamers don't use their PC for gaming much. I'd say it has alot to do with the complicated-ness of the PC compared to a console. A disc in a console will work if it's the right gen, and in not too bad a shape, of course, taking xbox 360's backwards backwards-compatibility out of the equation. Whereas a PC needs the right technical upgrades, it sometimes needs the right basic program (for example, games that only work on vista) and as much as getting patched more is a blessing, not playing a game for ages then firing it up to find up to a day's download worth of patches (true story, happened to one of my PC-playing friends) is somewhat off-putting.

Woah, I actually got carried away about that. Guess I just really don't want to be lynched without first stating my case. To summarise (sp?) being a PC game doesn't guarantee fading into obscurity, but it does make it harder to make a mark.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I, like a ton of people here, probably heard about it from Yahtzee's review. I have all 4 of the Painkiller games...

 

[Dorby5826and360]

I have played the game Painkiller, it is a fantastic shooter. Painkiller is addicting because it is a hectic arcade style game where you run around killing demons. The game reminds me of the gameplay from the Serious Sam games, it has the same type of run and gun concept.

 

[TheComedown]

Woah, wall of endless text.

I'd say it's because it's a PC game. Hear me out before you lynch me! Fact is, sad or not, the majority of gamers don't use their PC for gaming much.

Except for maybe, I don't know... 100% of PC gamers. The PC gaming community is a hell of a lot bigger then you make it out to be.

It also had a sweet MP mode and actually was used in a few gaming tournaments back when the game was new.

It wasn't so much the fact that it was a PC exclusive (I doubt the company could have afforded the time money and effort required to get it to consoles) than the fact that it flew under the flag at its launch and failed to receive any hype in its day.

 

[Something Amyss]

I'd heard about it, but don't know much about it. May I suggest clearing up your post a bit? Grammar and paragraphs will help put your point across in a more clear manner.

Really. I mean, I'd heard of the game, but a giant wall of text that's hard to read isn't going to help sell me on actually playing it any.

Though I'm tempted to try anything that shares a name with a Judas Priest song.

 

[HillDragon]

Yeah, I think most people were to busy studying proper English to play it... But alas, TLR (even with the updated text).

 

[Judgement101]

First off, I bet almost no one read that colossus of text.
Second, Why so much people don't even know? Isn't that "Why so many"?
Third, it was a pc exclusive which a lot of people didn't really buy so its understandable
and Forth, grammer and punctuation do matter on this website.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Its a 'Zero Punctuation' review

I think it's a 'negative punctuation' review. It has so little punctuation, it creates a void, drawing in grammar from the posts around it.

OT: Painkillers are fun! The game's alright too.

 

[newfiegirl 110]

I'm not much of a fps game, but my man is. I know we don't own it, so maybe I'll keep a lookout at the stores for a copy, since most of you all seemed to enjoy it.

As the grammatical problem....Dude... I majored in English in university, and I make stupid mistakes all the time. But for the love of all mankind, please add simple stuff like periods at the end of sentences.

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

Wait, is that ALL one sentence?

 

[Kelthurin]

Wait, is that ALL one sentence?

Olympic diver. No need for breathing.

 

[Antiparticle]

I bought Painkiller before I saw Yahtzee's review. It's a pretty fun game! Reminded me a lot of the original DOOM games. Only it's not as good, of course. Still, it's too bad I can't play it anymore now, it doesn't work on the Xbox 360... dammit Microsoft...

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

I used to own Painkiller, great game that.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Fucking hell, you make longer sentences than Steven Heck (Point for anyone who gets that reference)

I heard about it a long time ago. Was watching a Let's Play of Dead Space and the guy doing the commentary said that the Ripper reminded him of the Painkiller.

Looked the game up, seemed fun, never bothered to try it.

 

[Rattler5150]

I heard of painkiller, I bought it as soon as I heard about it when it came out, I played it for about a month or so, then doom3 was released and I forgot about PK. After I finished d3, I returned to Painkiller, and played it all the way through. its a great game, Huge levels, lots of different locations, Cathedrals, Train stations, industrial areas, that huge bridge. I loved all of it.

its truly an under appreciated classic game, and like yahtzee said "there is a gun that shoots shurkins and lightning, it couldn't be cooler if it had tits and was on fire"