The thought of killing everything that moves at point blank range with a shotgun sounds monotonous and boring, but there is simply no time to lose interest between the tirades of mace-wielding creatures. The protagonist will go through Purgatory and Hell to fight the hordes of demons and eventually. I played a lot of Painkiller back on a 4:3 display, so when I bought Black Edition on Steam. Painkiller is a game about the adventures in the afterlife. Bosses occasionally add a welcome change and are highly impressive, towering high and destroying all around. Post subject: Painkiller: Black Edition Widescreen HUD Fix. Levels are all too similar and so there is little variety in the game play. Luckily, you are equipped with the standard range of weaponry, such as a chain gun, shot gun, and of course, a rocket launcher. This is not due to clever AI - it is simply a result of the sheer number of brain dead zombies and creatures that come running at you.
Gameplay is fast-paced to say the least - if you stop moving, you die. Most of the action happens in abandoned monasteries, churches and catacombs, but there are also some urban maps. Trapped in a dark and unwelcoming world, awaiting purification for your earthly sins, you must fight through an endless number of enemy warriors, as you attempt to stop the imminent Unholy War and overthrow Lucifer. Painkiller does have a storyline as told in overly long cut scenes, but it is largely window dressing. Painkiller: Black Edition (c) People Can Fly / Nordic Games. The aim of the game is to get to the end of all those corridors - using your trusty gun. It sticks to a strict formula: corridor after corridor is filled with various monsters.
It has no fancy gimmicks or mini-games, but is instead reminiscent of older shoot-em-ups. This level is inhabited mostly by arabian warriors and knights. The tower is set somewhere in desert and has front courtyard with stairs that leads to the tower. This level is set as the name implies in Biblical Tower of Babel. Since then an expansion pack has been released with extra levels, and now the two have been fused together into the Black Edition.ĭespite the emergence of bestsellers such as Halo, Painkiller is by no means a complex game. Babel is the third level of Painkiller Hell & Damnation DLC chapter. When released last year it was hailed as the new “Doom”. (Pocket-lint) - Painkiller is a little like a FPS stripped down to its bare essentials - zombies, guns and lots of gore.