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What a blast. A little convoluted sometimes, but massive FUN

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: April 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

A perfect throwback to the classic first-person shooter.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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!!

No pain From This mostly killer game set

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: September 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I waited for this DVD Special Edition of the game + it's expansion. I think it is a great value at this price. The visuals and weapons are top notch for the run and shoot type game that this is. The enemies are very well rounded and have a scary look and feel to them. This is more of a stright forward move, shoot, find item, fight boss game than Doom 3. The story is kind of weak, but it never really interferes with the fun involved. If you like run and shoot style games, this game is fun. The fact it's on DVD is a plus. It's nothing new, but the visuals and weapons make it very enjoyable. The multiplayer is standard fare. Overall it's well worth the 30 smackers.

Old school and delicious

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

Outstanding graphics in harmony with world of game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First person shooter with outstanding impresion of thematic level the game has own design scoring system for measuring excelence of player which was very addictive. Every levels with could meet different emeny creatures with different bechavior for complication of that there is some limits bases on scoring (completion on time, finding all secrets, kill without pain, etc.).
The strong thing in game is that every level looks different and is filled by different monsters - not like doom. Horror themes are really nice from skeletons, army soldiers, orphan children, arabian knight through vampires and samurai.
The best thing that is pure first person shooter with some new innovative scoring elements making much more fun than doom.

The rules are easy but exellence is hard :) and need much fun!

Mindless, endless killing of legions of undead...Yawn

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The title sums up my feelings for this game.

There is no let up in the hordes of undead coming at you from the moment you step into a new area until all enemies are vanquished (at which point an exit is made available to you to do it all over again on a new level); this basically is the entire game. On each level (once cleared) you can go hunting for ammo, shields, power ups etc. After two levels of this I was bored, bored, bored and couldn't even bother to continue with this game.

On the positive side, the graphics were very good and the atmosphere had a spooky ambiance to it; however, these attributes were not enough to make me want to keep going.

Gamers that liked the original, old fashioned, run and gun FPSs will probably like this game. However, I've gotten to the point in my FPS gaming of wanting a plot or at least some situations that require some thought; challenges that make you consider your surroundings, skills and weaponry etc. instead of just blindly plodding on while continually squeezing the trigger.

All in all, a game that is the new definition of the word "tedious"; it offers nothing more than monotonous, endless killing and little else. 2 Stars.

Not the best demonic shotter out there

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game doesn't stand up against Doom 3, maybe is more fun but not that original and why buy the Black Ed. while the Gold Ed. has the same content? except that it came on 6 cd's. Different media doesn't justify the added value.

quite fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a rip-roaring, run and gun, shoot em up hard core style first person shooter which requires only a few brain cells to operate, then crack open a red bull and prepare for a night of mindless fun. No real strategy is needed. Just good old fashioned point and shoot.

painkiller black edition

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Game did not load. Contacted tech and was told to clean boot my system. This will eliminate some programs when you follow microsoft's clean boot directions . In order to recover these programs one has to undo the clean boot and reboot. This game is not worth the trouble. It would be nice if we were pre-warned.

Painkiller Black Edition Overview

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game itself is an excellent addition to your software collection; there are plenty of reviews that tell how great the game is.

However, the extra "Development of Painkiller" does not reflect the quality of a dev video I expect. One would learn, literally, nothing after watching it, and one would have to sit through the whole video without the option of selecting specific portions they were interested in (e.g. Software Design, Graphics, Engine, Marketing). Even if they removed the scenes of Daniel killing all the programmers, it would make the dev video far better.

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