Painkiller : Black Edition
Release Date: April 12, 2004

Strengths:
-Interesting campaign and story
-Excellent music and level design
-Excellent graphics for its time and still hold up
-Challenging fights with large hordes of demons especially in the nightmare mode
-Large number of weapons with dual fire option for every weapon
-Great diversity in enemies and bosses

Limitations:
-Gameplay is just shoot, shoot, shoot...reload...shoot, shoot, shoot..., and is highly repetitive.
-Dead Multiplayer

Conclusion:
Painkiller was launched in 2004 and probably had the best graphics at the time for a FPS game. I completed this game’s non-steam version. The gameplay is simple and fast. You confront large hordes of enemies (demons or zombies) and have to survive each wave to proceed to next stage. The most distinguishable aspect of the game is its superb graphics (that still hold up), background rock music and weapons. Each level is beautiful and carefully designed keeping the story and atmosphere in view. There are a large roster of weapons, with each weapon having two fire modes and even more weapons added with the expansion pack “Battle out of Hell” which is included in the “Black” edition of the game. You can play both the original “Painkiller” and “Battle out of Hell” campaigns in the Black Edition. You also have access to tarot cards that provide you bonuses to improve your survivability in difficult game modes. This game is one of the few games that reached FPS excellence with immersive gameplay, legendary boss fights and well-knit story. The game is all about your reflexes and reaction time. You have to kill lots of monsters and kill them fast. This gets very challenging if you set the game at top difficulty mode. It’s repetitive, yes, but different level design, good graphics, different enemies and large number of weapons make it interesting to play. It’s one of those games that entertain you when you are bored and just want to shoot the heck out of something . It’s online multiplayer is dead now, but you can probably play it over LAN if you want to. But it’s still worth purchasing because of its great single player campaign. Just take the pill !

Graphics: 8/10 , 10/10 for 2004
Gameplay: 9/10
Replayability: 9/10
Story: 8/10
Sound: 8/10
Level Design: 8/10

Overall rating is 8.3/10, 8.7/10 for 2004

-High2k

Painkiller : Black Edition Release Date: April 12, 2004 Strengths: -Interesting campaign and story -Excellent music and level design -Excellent graphics for its time and still hold up -Challenging fights with large hordes of demons especially in the nightmare mode -Large number of weapons with dual fire option for every weapon -Great diversity in enemies and bosses Limitations: -Gameplay is just shoot, shoot, shoot...reload...shoot, shoot, shoot..., and is highly repetitive. -Dead Multiplayer Conclusion: Painkiller was launched in 2004 and probably had the best graphics at the time for a FPS game. I completed this game’s non-steam version. The gameplay is simple and fast. You confront large hordes of enemies (demons or zombies) and have to survive each wave to proceed to next stage. The most distinguishable aspect of the game is its superb graphics (that still hold up), background rock music and weapons. Each level is beautiful and carefully designed keeping the story and atmosphere in view. There are a large roster of weapons, with each weapon having two fire modes and even more weapons added with the expansion pack “Battle out of Hell” which is included in the “Black” edition of the game. You can play both the original “Painkiller” and “Battle out of Hell” campaigns in the Black Edition. You also have access to tarot cards that provide you bonuses to improve your survivability in difficult game modes. This game is one of the few games that reached FPS excellence with immersive gameplay, legendary boss fights and well-knit story. The game is all about your reflexes and reaction time. You have to kill lots of monsters and kill them fast. This gets very challenging if you set the game at top difficulty mode. It’s repetitive, yes, but different level design, good graphics, different enemies and large number of weapons make it interesting to play. It’s one of those games that entertain you when you are bored and just want to shoot the heck out of something . It’s online multiplayer is dead now, but you can probably play it over LAN if you want to. But it’s still worth purchasing because of its great single player campaign. Just take the pill ! Graphics: 8/10 , 10/10 for 2004 Gameplay: 9/10 Replayability: 9/10 Story: 8/10 Sound: 8/10 Level Design: 8/10 Overall rating is 8.3/10, 8.7/10 for 2004 -High2k