I always thought of Painkiller as a Serious Sam clone, which is ironic because Serious Sam prided itself of being a clone of (oh sorry, “heavily influenced by”) the straightforward FPSs of yore… specifically Doom/Quake. Games where story mattered...
By Gaming Age onPainkiller is a relic from years gone by, a holdover from the days when circle-strafing and mindless gore ruled the PC first-person shooter market. Fans still have fond memories of using their stakethrower to pin their enemies to the wall and messing...
By Cheat Code Central onThey don’t make games like Painkiller: Hell & Damnation anymore. On a personal level I like to think there’s a good reason for that, but whilst playing this game it really is like looking through a window to the past, which is funny because the...
By Strategy Informer onPainkiller: Hell & Damnation is a slick first-person shooter remake soaked in...
By CNET Australia onExpectations. Every game has them coming out of the gate, but remakes and reboots have it even worse. In the case of Painkiller: Hell & Damnation, a reboot of the original Painkiller and its expansion Battle out of Hell, it's less about these small...
By GameSpy onWhen a retro title is retro itself, is it still fun?The number one concern with any new Painkiller title is how far it strays from the legacy title – after becoming shorthand for overtly simplistic rehashing of a core principle, recent entries to the...
By Yet Another Review Site onDespite the fact that franchises the likes of Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Borderlands have made massive attempts to evolve the FPS genre, some developers are content with leaving it as it once was. Games like Serious Sam 3: BFE and Rage are more old...
By GameZone onFans of the first person shooter genre even if they haven't played them know games like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and, after it failed so badly, even non-FPS gamers (and non-gamers) know Duke Nukem 3D which wasn't much different from it's massively...
By GamingShogun onPainkiller: Hell & Damnation é um FPS que não busca bater de frente com os poderosos título do gênero. Pelo contrário, aposta em elementos simples, porém nostálgicos, para os jogadores mais experientes que sentem falta de um desafio no melhor estilo FPS...
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Bei der Wertung zu Painkiller Hell & Damnation hatte ich so meine Schwierigkeiten. Auf der einen Seite konnte mich das flotte und unkomplizierte Gameplay überzeugen. Auf der anderen Seite war ich aber über den abgespeckten Umfang verärgert. Schon nach...
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