Painkiller
- Intense gameplay – The player will be constantly outnumbered, fighting against seemingly insurmountable odds
- 3D PAIN Engine capable of pumping out 100X the polygons of some of the latest shooters
- Minimum System Requirements – Windows 98\ME\2000\XP; 1 GHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor; 256 MB RAM; CD-ROM or DVD-ROM speed – 4x; Hard Drive space – 1.2 GB available; Video – 32 MB Direct 3D compatible video card; DirectX 8.1b or better compatible sound card
- Play with keyboard and mouse
Product Description
Painkiller is a first-person horror shooter designed to satisfy the gamer’s hunger for intense fast-paced action. You are Painkiller a mercenary for hire charged with cleaning out nests of the undead. But an unholy pact with a demon unknowingly puts you square in the middle of a fight for control of the underworld… with the future of humanity hanging in the balance.System Requirements:OS: Windows 98\ME\2000\XP CPU: 1 GHz Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor … More >>
Before you can fight monsters, you have got to fight all the bugs in just installing this stupid game. It took me 6 trys because of freezes and having to reboot. About a hour latter when I got it loaded. AfterI down loading a giant 49 mb patch to get it to work. Now when I try to start it, I getting the same error. “cd/dvd emulation software has been detected. Please disable all cd/dvd emulation software and re-start game” After disableing clone cd I still get this error. What a crap. This may be a cool game if I could get it to work. My advice: ONLY BUY THIS GAME IF YOU CAN RETURN IT EASY WHEN IT DOES NOT WORK!!!!!!!! If you are a sucker, buy it from me off of ebay (I got it as a gift) plus I am a sucker for asking for Dreamcatcher’s inferior software.
Rating: 1 / 5
ok. Most of us expect some cliches when playing a FPS. It’s part of the genre, fair enough, but there is no excuse for unispired level design, creatures, lame enemy A.I. and boring game play. Do the graphics look nice? Sure. Is the sound decent? It’s ok. It won’t scare the wits out of you like System Shock 2 or Doom, but it’ll do. Is it fun? Absloutely not. Most of the attacks can be avoided by side stepping (strafing). The enemy is far from engaging and the levels have a rehashed “boring been there done that” feel to them …
Rating: 1 / 5
[Boot-Crash,Boot-Crash...] Its the Painkiller Polka!
That’s what happened after I installed this mess. I knew that I was in trouble when the package contained 3 CDs and there was a message on the box stating: “Whoops, we messed up, use CD #3 to start the game, not #1…Duh.” Uh-Oh!!
And of course, after installing this game, then downloading the patch (ALREADY, the developers have a patch? Why does’nt Dreamcatcher just finish testing the game before they start selling it??) the darned thing still does’nt work.Worse yet, its an exception that is not handled since there is no error message: Just “Boot” then “Crash”!
I know what you are thinking: “Well, you must have a bad system, it works fine on my machine.” First, I have over 300 games loaded on my PC – from Microsoft Pinball to Dead Man’s Hand – and they all work. I have the latest version of DirectX loaded and my video card is an 128 MB ATI 9000 series, my sound card is an Audigy 2 and my computer has a Gig of RAM and it is a P4 2.5 Ghz.
But that really is’nt the point. I expect a complete game when I plunk down some serious $$ for one; not some patched-up mess. I should’nt have to rebuild my entire PC to run this game when over 300 others (including games released in the same month as “Painkiller”) work perfectly.
This is just a sloppily slapped-together piece of code. Don’t waste your time on it until they fix ALL the bugs.
Rating: 1 / 5
Alright I haven’t played this game for more than two hours, but felt the need to save some others some money and put my opinion in for what it’s worth.
Good news: if you STILL play doom 1 and 2, then THIS is your game! You’ll probley think it’s game of the year material.
Bad news: if your not in the doom 1 and 2 group, you’re probley gonna HATE this game. I’m in the hate group.
There is no great gameplay here, no AI, no inspiring level design, it’s not scary. There’s enough pretty graphics to make nice screenshots to sell the game. Mainly it’s just shoot collect stuff and move on to next area gameplay. Boring. The monsters just spawn then run at you. You just run upto them and take them out point blank with a shotgun. It’s hard to even get hurt in this game, the main thing that will hurt you is the collaterial damage from the explosives that “just happen” to be laying around the map right in your projectile path.
My recommendation is download the demo, and if you think the demo is the most awesome gameplay you’ve seen they buy it. But don’t buy this game without trying the demo!
This game ran at top speed on my system: AMD 2800+, Radeon 9800 PRO 256, 512 Ram. There’s nothing spectacular to look at, so my guess is it will probley run at top speed on a majority of systems out there.
Rating: 2 / 5
I downloaded THE DEMO and played it for the first 30 minutes absorbing pleasant physics engine good visuals and STEAK GUN which is just plain fun but that all the fun went away and levels became a drag(…). Why? Because they are big and you cant save!YOu cant? Yes you cant it better be a demo glitch or something or i am not going near this one. Fighting is repatative and tiring all you basicly need is a button to run backwards and a firing button. Yep demo is good at FIRST, game beter get on the right track and have some release dates pushed back or its perfect recepie for disaster.
Lets hope it is not going to suck!
Rating: 3 / 5