Wait a minute... Gets killed by a truck? Gets sent to another world? Has to murder demon lords to escape this world? Is... is Painkiller an isekai story?
It's because FPSs are almost exclusively targeted towards Americans, and Americans like to fap over how awesome their military dudes are; ignoring the fact that most of them are high-school dropouts who are notorious amongst other countries for being incompetent and dangerous to their own allies!
Matrilwood Know what's funny? The American military values recruits from different countries more than it does American recruits. One big piece of this is that they give better benefits to soldiers recruited from Canada, who then take those benefits to go to American University's and then to go back home.
Should see the weapons that were added in the Battle out of Hell expansion! One is a sniper rifle that shoots 5 metal javelins with each shot. Its secondary fire is a row of 10 bouncing death spheres that totally wreck everyone's shit in a narrow corridor especially.
"It shoots shurikans and lightning. It could only be more awesome if it had tits and was on fire." "Let's take Half-life, Resistance 3, Serious Sam 3, Painkiller, those we'll call shooters. And for Call of Duty etc. we'll invent a new name, say spunkgargleweewee." That's it. That's the whole show.
I feel bad that he left out doom in that list of actual shooters. doom is great! interesting, cathartic, varied, mod friendly. people play doom one and two to this glorious fucking day!
I bought painkiller on last year's Halloween sale. It got me into the Halloween spirit more than any horror game I've played. It's the definitive Halloween game.
2:07 "There are over 50 distinct different design but they dont give me a stiffy that would be gay" Oh Yatzee for moments like these makes you the best reviewer ever
I wonder why the hell didn't this become game... oh wait, Painkiller came out the same year as Half-Life 2, Thats why painkiller did'nt become GOTY and spawn a sequel or two.
Actually Painkiller did spawn some sequels. "Painkiller: Overdose", "Painkiller: Ressurecion", etc. There even is some kind of HD-Remake of it. But as far as I know, the sequels are all pretty bad or at least worse than the original and the Remake has like 15 levels or so where the original (plus expansio) had 34.
GrayFalcony Those are not sequels. Those are map packs made by diffrent companies. :< The only "sequel" to the Painkiller is the first expansion set- Battle out of hell.
Radosław Hołdys There are a lot of titles that throw the good old increasing-number-strategy for sequels out of the window. The "Final Fantasy XIII"-trilogy jumps from "XIII" to "XIII-2" to "Lightning Returns". Or take a look at the Tomb Raider games. There was Tomb Raider 1 to 4 and after that we got Chronicles, Angel of Darkness, Legend, Underworld, which are still sequels. Or how about Harry Potter? The sequel to "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is not called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2", is it? ;)
Yahtzee: ... if you're American and fat. Me: *flips off screen* Also me: *realizes I am eating a cheeseburger in bed at 2 am and slowly lowers my hand in defeat*
Bought painkiller on steam the other day and played it for the first time last night. This game is fantastic. I've you ever played a game where you shot something and thought "I'd like to do that again" then buy painkiller.
in one of yahtzee 's interviews he said he got a letter from people can fly telling him that the game sales tripled an hour after this review was launched
I don't think I ever actually finished this game. It was a good time, it just got a bit repetitive. And I really hated how souls took so long to come out, and then disappeared before you could shamble over to them.
In didnt finish it because the game bugged the fuck out on Multiple occassions making it unplayable. Like one Boss became unkillable no Matter what and another Time i just Fell straight through the map... not Sure how the fuck that happened But yeah. It certainly pissed on my "murder the fuck out of everything ASAP" Parade...
3:45 "SOLD HIS SOUL TO SANTA" Why did I read that as "Satan?" xD Also, this game is barrel loads of fun. There are "spin-offs" on Steam, but the version Yahtzee reviews here is "Painkiller Black Edition" so that's the one you should look for. I won't say that the "spin-offs" are bad and I won't say they are good either. Why? Because I haven't played them. I did buy a bundle for extra cheap, so I guess I'll get around to playing them.
1:37 Does anyone else that watches these a lot get to this part and here the theme song in your head? To those who don't, this segment was used in an ad video for The Escapist and had the theme song running through several clips.
Little known fact: Many of the guns have a third type of shot. Hold the right trigger and pull the left trigger.. For the machinegun/flamethrower, it shoots a full gas canister which explodes in a gigantic explosion.. the painkiller itself allows you to shoot the blade out while it's spinning, killing everything it touches etc. etc. He didnt mention it in the reviewe so I figured I would
This is the kind of game yahtzee likes, a game that doesn't try to do everything, a game that is comfortable in its own skin (FPS, RPG, RTS, whatever), and just picks one of these and does it really really well
Did Yahtzee say that Painkiller compares to Doom and then 5 seconds later say there was no key hunting in Painkiller? I seem to remember a colored key card system in Doom.
Painkiller Black Edition, Painkiller Overdose, and Painkiller Resurrection. 1. Is the one in this review. 2. Features an entirely new character and weapons in a side story unrelated to the first. 3. Features an improved engine and stylized story. Has a much greater focus on puzzles and exploration. (Making it a black sheep of sorts.) Recurring Evil is the sequel to Resurrection. Redemption is the sequel to Overdose and Painkiller, and has a focus on mass slaughter.
Painkiller is more of a Arena Shooter kind of game. Doom-esque games are more about going through mazes shooting monsters (without Tom Hanks), Duke Nukem or Dark Forces for example. I figured I'd let you know in case you're looking for similar titles, like the Serious Sam games. (Serious Sam 3 is a good game to start with, by the way, since you get modern HD graphics, classic combat and a shit ton of things to slaughter, also 16 player coop; and it's a prequel, because it's serious). :P
Actually, theres plenty of thing up with the US that don't make us the bastion of hope. 1) We waste the most resources per capita 2) Our people are ignorant and un-invested in true politics and focus on moral/value based issues instead of real issues. 3) No one talks about the wars we've been fighting for the past 10 years. 4) We don't know much about current events outside of the US. 5) We believe in Capitalism, but demand that the government do something about the failing economy
Thank you Yahtzee. Thank you so much for introducing me to this game. I recently bought this game off Steam because of your recommendation. I had never really played a Doom-style shooter before, because I was born in 1994 and the first shooter I had ever played was Goldeneye. I would get around to half-life 2 much later, but I didn't find it quite as enthralling as I thought it would be. I dabbled in modern shooters until I saw this video, bought Painkiller, and didn't sleep cause it was so fun.
@tomaytemptation I'm talking about the arguments that Yahtzee used for both games. I've never even played any of them. Besides, the point still stands that Dead Space tries to be horrifying but Painkiller doesn't. He doesn't rip on Dead Space for not being horrifying, he rips on it for trying and utterly failing.
Finished the review, began eating chips, (or crisps if you're English and anorexic) nearly spat out said chips when I realized what the lyrics to the credits song are.
***** Miles Wright ***** 01superchunk "I could mention the hugely satisfying penis extension gun that pins baddies to walls with entire trees but all you really need to know is that there is a gun that shoots *shurikens and lightning.* I wish I could make something like that up, it shoots *shurikens and lightning;* it could only be more awesome if it had tits and was on fire." Probably the greatest praise Yahtzee has ever given anything ever. And he's 100% correct. The Electrodriver is one of the coolest guns ever conceived by the human race.
Did i really just see a Hitler Joke?? Yahtzee, you fucking sublime genius...i like it when there are controversial jokes well hidden within a review...i salute to you good sir
When I heard the song at the end I literally started laughing so hard and had such trouble breathing that my face turned the color of a red plum. I wish I was kidding, now my folks get worried if I so much as chuckle
2:37 How about a bazooka that's on fire and shoots screaming skulls that explode into pentagrams? Or a machine gun that shoots mutated tree saplings that when they land on an enemy, grow into giant trees, pushing their limbs apart?
I see Painkiller has had a remake recently: Painkiller - Hell and Damnation, supposed to bring the original up-to-date with graphics, and some multi-player. I'm curious about what Yahtzee will say. Will he come to terms with his hatred of remakes (and multi-player) and embrace the new Painkiller, or abandon Painkiller's newest rendition and not change his views? Or something in between? I'm genuinely intrigued how this one will play out. GO, YAHTZEE, GO!
At first I thought this game was a bit of a kind off fuzzy old shooter game like normal, or some kind of Unreal Tournament. Thanks, Yahtzee! Now I'm off to download Painkiller!
The game is meant to be a smorgasbord of mindless fun, a storm of bullets and ludicrous gibs, a symphony of blowing hordes upon hordes to bits in all kinds of ways until you get to the next checkpoint or the end of the level. If death stops coming from your guns and blood from the enemies it means that something's going wrong. But I see how this can't be everyone's cup of tea. What can afterall?
Shurikens and Lightning
Very Very Frightening
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo Figaro!
+Betta66 Beelzebub's got a devil put aside for me...
Magnifica-a-ant
Edward Evans Actually, the line is "magnifico-o-o-o"
I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me. :'(
Seeing Yahtzee actually say something positive about a game is always a treat.
Wait a minute... Gets killed by a truck? Gets sent to another world? Has to murder demon lords to escape this world? Is... is Painkiller an isekai story?
God fucking damnit.
..t..Truck-kun?
Isn´t that the plot of Yu yu Hakusho?
Just like Brutal Legend, John Carpenter of Mars and the Chronicles of Narnia!
@@lexslate2476 "John Carpenter of Mars" sounds like an awesome mashup between John Carter of Mars and John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars.
Really sad because first-person shooters like painkiller were pretty common a decade ago, and now they are almost all military shooters.
It's because FPSs are almost exclusively targeted towards Americans, and Americans like to fap over how awesome their military dudes are; ignoring the fact that most of them are high-school dropouts who are notorious amongst other countries for being incompetent and dangerous to their own allies!
Matrilwood hey buddy thats not true thats just the south
Matrilwood Know what's funny? The American military values recruits from different countries more than it does American recruits. One big piece of this is that they give better benefits to soldiers recruited from Canada, who then take those benefits to go to American University's and then to go back home.
Matrilwood you do know games like cod some of the main guys are british right
***** Actually no I am not American. I consider you calling me American to be insulting, however I can understand the confusion.
Quote of the Century
"The best way to blow off steam, is to blow off someones nadjahs"
-Ben Yahtzee
It's spelt nadgers.
Fucking Non-British people trying to use British swears, fuck's sake.
+Tom Magennis
Fuck British people and their superiority complex over all things language, for fucks sake.
GunRecon 11 It's only because we're infinitely better at it than you.
GunRecon 11 See, an English person might have actually been able to say that in a way that made sense
+Tom Magennis Do translate oh wise one
Should see the weapons that were added in the Battle out of Hell expansion! One is a sniper rifle that shoots 5 metal javelins with each shot. Its secondary fire is a row of 10 bouncing death spheres that totally wreck everyone's shit in a narrow corridor especially.
"It shoots shurikans and lightning. It could only be more awesome if it had tits and was on fire."
"Let's take Half-life, Resistance 3, Serious Sam 3, Painkiller, those we'll call shooters. And for Call of Duty etc. we'll invent a new name, say spunkgargleweewee."
That's it. That's the whole show.
I feel bad that he left out doom in that list of actual shooters. doom is great! interesting, cathartic, varied, mod friendly. people play doom one and two to this glorious fucking day!
+Joshua Butts watch Yahtzee's review of COD: Warfighter & Doom 3, that's the one where he invents the term "spunkgargleweewee" lol.
+Pix-Elated I think you mean Medal of Honor: Warfighter, not COD.
+Josh Barrett Can we add Wolfenstein The New Order to the Shooter list?
+Pix-Elated I WAS referring to that.
surely the song you should be playing is Judas Priest's "Painkiller"...?
*insert Rob Halford doing his best impression of a demented cat*
Why cant I like that comment more than once? And on a side note, I'm wearing my Judas Priest Painkiller shirt right now!
Well, if you think that UA-cam's gonna take note, You've Got Another Thing Comin'.
x1StapleGun And if they are still on that copyright kick, they might think we are Breaking The Law.
well we can take their copyright and Ram It Down the toilet, can't we?
Shurikens and lightning, very, very frightening!
Doom, Doom II, Painkiller, Doom 2016 Reboot
- the ACTUAL Doom series!!
That awkward moment when I realise that I actually liked Doom 3
Serious Sam should be in there too. And maybe Quake 1.
Dunno who you are, but I will find you and shake your hand.
Loved this game. Can't believe it's been nearly 17 years since i got this game
I'm just playing it for the first time, it's amazing.
everyone remembers shurikens and lightning but no one remembers that the chaingun and the rocketlauncher were combined into one gun
I bought painkiller on last year's Halloween sale. It got me into the Halloween spirit more than any horror game I've played. It's the definitive Halloween game.
Detachable penis is hands-down the greatest song ever.
Damn right!
2:07 "There are over 50 distinct different design but they dont give me a stiffy that would be gay" Oh Yatzee for moments like these makes you the best reviewer ever
The good ol' days when people don't throw a tantrum because of a gay joke
I wonder why the hell didn't this become game... oh wait, Painkiller came out the same year as Half-Life 2, Thats why painkiller did'nt become GOTY and spawn a sequel or two.
Actually Painkiller did spawn some sequels. "Painkiller: Overdose", "Painkiller: Ressurecion", etc. There even is some kind of HD-Remake of it. But as far as I know, the sequels are all pretty bad or at least worse than the original and the Remake has like 15 levels or so where the original (plus expansio) had 34.
GrayFalcony Those are not sequels. Those are map packs made by diffrent companies. :<
The only "sequel" to the Painkiller is the first expansion set- Battle out of hell.
MocnyBrowarek
Well, as far as I know those games continue the plot of Painkiller (although there barely is a plot), so they technically are sequels^^
GrayFalcony Ever seen a "2" at the end of their names? No?
Expansion.
Radosław Hołdys
There are a lot of titles that throw the good old increasing-number-strategy for sequels out of the window. The "Final Fantasy XIII"-trilogy jumps from "XIII" to "XIII-2" to "Lightning Returns".
Or take a look at the Tomb Raider games. There was Tomb Raider 1 to 4 and after that we got Chronicles, Angel of Darkness, Legend, Underworld, which are still sequels.
Or how about Harry Potter? The sequel to "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is not called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2", is it? ;)
You mentioned Dead Alive. This unlocked a core memory
Yahtzee: ... if you're American and fat.
Me: *flips off screen*
Also me: *realizes I am eating a cheeseburger in bed at 2 am and slowly lowers my hand in defeat*
Oh boy 2 am!
Bought painkiller on steam the other day and played it for the first time last night. This game is fantastic. I've you ever played a game where you shot something and thought "I'd like to do that again" then buy painkiller.
in one of yahtzee 's interviews he said he got a letter from people can fly telling him that the game sales tripled an hour after this review was launched
I don't think I ever actually finished this game. It was a good time, it just got a bit repetitive. And I really hated how souls took so long to come out, and then disappeared before you could shamble over to them.
Same here!
True FPS fans can finish the game.
Well you missed the coolest hell level ever in a video game.
In didnt finish it because the game bugged the fuck out on Multiple occassions making it unplayable. Like one Boss became unkillable no Matter what and another Time i just Fell straight through the map... not Sure how the fuck that happened But yeah. It certainly pissed on my "murder the fuck out of everything ASAP" Parade...
I wonder if he'll ever actually review Dizzy game. He keeps bringing it up.
Also, it had an all star voice cast, including legends like Cam Clarke and Jim Cummings!
Just passing through on a nostalgia kick, remembering what the Escapist once was.
Steam has the entire Painkiller pack on sale for $14.99 right now. Thanks for the review I am on this.
I sort of miss the old intros.
Ragmatical Rachel same
3:45 "SOLD HIS SOUL TO SANTA"
Why did I read that as "Satan?"
xD
Also, this game is barrel loads of fun. There are "spin-offs" on Steam, but the version Yahtzee reviews here is "Painkiller Black Edition" so that's the one you should look for. I won't say that the "spin-offs" are bad and I won't say they are good either. Why? Because I haven't played them. I did buy a bundle for extra cheap, so I guess I'll get around to playing them.
I only re-found this by googling "Shoots Shurikens and Lightening" and that made me thrillingly happy
Yes, killer soundtrack. And for those wondering the music from the Painkiller soundtrack is by the heavy metal band Mech.
1:37 Does anyone else that watches these a lot get to this part and here the theme song in your head? To those who don't, this segment was used in an ad video for The Escapist and had the theme song running through several clips.
It's a face photographed by an artist which was - according to Yahtzee - the best fit for 'emotionless' he'd ever seen in his life.
It shoots Shurikens and Lightning!
I SWEAR TO GOD I SAW THE SAME PICTURE FOR PAINKILLER IN GTA 5 IN ONE OF THE LIQUOR STORES!!!!
Best bloody comments I have ever heard for my favorite game.....
'No key hunting' (remembers looking for red, blue and yellow keys in Doom) :P
Hey Yahtzee, I just wanted to let you know that because of this review I bought Painkiller: Black Edition on Steam and you are right, this game rules!
Little known fact:
Many of the guns have a third type of shot. Hold the right trigger and pull the left trigger.. For the machinegun/flamethrower, it shoots a full gas canister which explodes in a gigantic explosion.. the painkiller itself allows you to shoot the blade out while it's spinning, killing everything it touches
etc. etc.
He didnt mention it in the reviewe so I figured I would
Stairway to Heaven on the intro...
I see what you did there
This is the kind of game yahtzee likes, a game that doesn't try to do everything, a game that is comfortable in its own skin (FPS, RPG, RTS, whatever), and just picks one of these and does it really really well
I could have sworn the original Doom had key hunting.
The sales of Painkiller apparently tripled on Steam after this video came out
Did Yahtzee say that Painkiller compares to Doom and then 5 seconds later say there was no key hunting in Painkiller? I seem to remember a colored key card system in Doom.
drew081886 which is his point...
This is on sale on steam until Monday :)
XD getting called out on typing "your" instead of "you're" has made him change it even when it SHOULD be "your
Painkiller Black Edition, Painkiller Overdose, and Painkiller Resurrection.
1. Is the one in this review.
2. Features an entirely new character and weapons in a side story unrelated to the first.
3. Features an improved engine and stylized story. Has a much greater focus on puzzles and exploration. (Making it a black sheep of sorts.)
Recurring Evil is the sequel to Resurrection.
Redemption is the sequel to Overdose and Painkiller, and has a focus on mass slaughter.
Apparently, after this review, sales of this game tripled... The power of the internet...
They play it on the radio where I used to live. I miss that town.
I love how he is deadly blunt even with his favorite games. This man is the most unbiased bastard ive ever known =D
Excellent outro tune King Missile, Love you Yahtzee...
My friend just showed me this on Friday, it was a wonderful experience
That Stairway To Heaven solo will never not be orgasmic.
And the outro introduced me to one of the most hilarious songs I’ve ever heard.
that song at the end x3
Oh man, I found my old Painkiller game downstairs in my dark and depressing basement. Time for SHURIKENS AND LIGHTNING
Yahtzee seemed to forget that Doom 1 and 2 have a whole lot of keycard hunting!
Played it for the first time this week after putting it off for years. It didn't disappoint.
I'm loving the end song.
But Doom 1&2 _did_ have key quests.
Painkiller is more of a Arena Shooter kind of game. Doom-esque games are more about going through mazes shooting monsters (without Tom Hanks), Duke Nukem or Dark Forces for example. I figured I'd let you know in case you're looking for similar titles, like the Serious Sam games. (Serious Sam 3 is a good game to start with, by the way, since you get modern HD graphics, classic combat and a shit ton of things to slaughter, also 16 player coop; and it's a prequel, because it's serious). :P
Actually, theres plenty of thing up with the US that don't make us the bastion of hope.
1) We waste the most resources per capita
2) Our people are ignorant and un-invested in true politics and focus on moral/value based issues instead of real issues.
3) No one talks about the wars we've been fighting for the past 10 years.
4) We don't know much about current events outside of the US.
5) We believe in Capitalism, but demand that the government do something about the failing economy
-.- oh god. if this was 5 years ago, no wonder it got so extreme these days -.-
The nicest levels. The cathedral, the house on the hill and 'hell'.
I just wish I understood why I had yo goto a cathedral and a cemetary and a desserted city.
Guess thats what I get for skipping the awful cutscenes
I'm actually quite disappointed that he didn't use Judas Priest's "Painkiller" for either of the credits songs.
Thank you Yahtzee. Thank you so much for introducing me to this game. I recently bought this game off Steam because of your recommendation. I had never really played a Doom-style shooter before, because I was born in 1994 and the first shooter I had ever played was Goldeneye. I would get around to half-life 2 much later, but I didn't find it quite as enthralling as I thought it would be. I dabbled in modern shooters until I saw this video, bought Painkiller, and didn't sleep cause it was so fun.
Id software+3d realms+croa team+people can fly=perfect shooter developer
@tomaytemptation I'm talking about the arguments that Yahtzee used for both games. I've never even played any of them. Besides, the point still stands that Dead Space tries to be horrifying but Painkiller doesn't. He doesn't rip on Dead Space for not being horrifying, he rips on it for trying and utterly failing.
Finished the review, began eating chips, (or crisps if you're English and anorexic) nearly spat out said chips when I realized what the lyrics to the credits song are.
***** Miles Wright ***** 01superchunk
"I could mention the hugely satisfying penis extension gun that pins baddies to walls with entire trees but all you really need to know is that there is a gun that shoots *shurikens and lightning.* I wish I could make something like that up, it shoots *shurikens and lightning;* it could only be more awesome if it had tits and was on fire."
Probably the greatest praise Yahtzee has ever given anything ever.
And he's 100% correct.
The Electrodriver is one of the coolest guns ever conceived by the human race.
I can beat that.
Tara Strong French Maid gun.
Emily Ratajkowski French Maid Gun.
FTFY
The Matryoshka from the Doom 2 mod 'Russian Overkill'
It's a minigun that fires fucking bomber jets.
@@novaseer Where the fuck do i sign
Take a gander at 1:02. "Pick up milk" is one of the missions in Postal 2.
I appreciate how he says "Pure Genocidal fun" and then puts on a Hitler mustache while saying "Jawhol".
Yahtzee does such a wonderful job extolling the virtues of a game. It`s a nice refreshing change every once in a blue moon
No. The song is actually called that. It says so in the credits.
Did i really just see a Hitler Joke?? Yahtzee, you fucking sublime genius...i like it when there are controversial jokes well hidden within a review...i salute to you good sir
Shurikens and lightning very very frightning
Did you hear the song in the beginning? It's very awesome to me.
congrats, you made me want to play the game.
1:44
Shadows of mordor in a few seconds.
I love your reviews and how honest you are about how you see that game!!
When I heard the song at the end I literally started laughing so hard and had such trouble breathing that my face turned the color of a red plum. I wish I was kidding, now my folks get worried if I so much as chuckle
and that's why we love him
And Painkiller Recurring Evil, which just came out this year.
I can't wait to try this.......Bodies don't fade away, do they?
They become souls you absorb for health. Allthough on trauma difficulty they just dissapear.
jernej tojersu Rats. Oh, well. I'll still get it.
James Reid You should...if you're gonna get it get the black edition. It's 9.99 on steam right now.
jernej tojersu Got it. Thanks for the tip!
2:37
How about a bazooka that's on fire and shoots screaming skulls that explode into pentagrams?
Or a machine gun that shoots mutated tree saplings that when they land on an enemy, grow into giant trees, pushing their limbs apart?
painkiller is on sale on steam!
Also....awesome soundtrack!!
Best. intro music. ever. of all time.
I see Painkiller has had a remake recently: Painkiller - Hell and Damnation, supposed to bring the original up-to-date with graphics, and some multi-player.
I'm curious about what Yahtzee will say. Will he come to terms with his hatred of remakes (and multi-player) and embrace the new Painkiller, or abandon Painkiller's newest rendition and not change his views? Or something in between?
I'm genuinely intrigued how this one will play out. GO, YAHTZEE, GO!
I just looked up when this game came out and it's been almost 20 spunk chugging years.
3:46 "Sold his soul to Santa"...
lol
It came out in 5/28/2008
Check the video description for all the new episodes.
This game made my childhood awesome
It's just one of 'DE' Best games I've ever come across!
10/10
-random Non-reviewer...
Yes Painkiller: Black Edition is the one Mr Croshaw is talking about. Good game - as he says, it doesn't particularly challenge the mind!
Guys This game is on sale on steam now till November 9 2015 Buy it now!!!
+Bradley Mallard Way ahead of you, bought the whole pack
same
He needs to review Painkiller Redemption and Resurrection.
Would love to see him tear those a new one.
At first I thought this game was a bit of a kind off fuzzy old shooter game like normal, or some kind of Unreal Tournament. Thanks, Yahtzee! Now I'm off to download Painkiller!
Just bought the game, skipped the second half of the opening cinematic, and was very, very happy with the default melee weapon. :D
he forgot to mention that it can also shoot a disc of electrified shuriken that shocks all your foes for a bit
The game is meant to be a smorgasbord of mindless fun, a storm of bullets and ludicrous gibs, a symphony of blowing hordes upon hordes to bits in all kinds of ways until you get to the next checkpoint or the end of the level. If death stops coming from your guns and blood from the enemies it means that something's going wrong.
But I see how this can't be everyone's cup of tea. What can afterall?
Dat ending song.
My favorite level/challenge combo is when you go the the asylum and you ca only use the painkiller
I took his advice on this one and tried out Painkiller's demo. That was 5 hours ago. That shit DOES NOT disappoint!!