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Painkiller Black Edition includes the expansion pack Battle Out of Hell, featuring 10 additional single-player levels and many new villains.
Painkiller: Black Edition is a gore, action and fps game
developed by People Can Fly
and published by Prime Matter.
Released on January 24th 2007 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, French, German and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 1,928 reviews of which 1,716 were positive and 212 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.67€ on K4G.
The Steam community has classified Painkiller: Black Edition into these genres:
Gore
Action
FPS
Classic
Shooter
Great Soundtrack
First-Person
Singleplayer
Demons
Arena Shooter
Horror
Atmospheric
Fast-Paced
Multiplayer
Gothic
Violent
Boomer Shooter
Zombies
Dark
Old School
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Painkiller: Black Edition:
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| English | |||
| German | |||
| French | |||
| Spanish - Spain |
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Windows
- OS *: Win 98/2000/Me/XP
- Processor: 1GHz
- Memory: 256 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirextX 9.0 64MB Video Card
- Storage: 3.4 GB available space
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Painkiller Black Edition: Pure Old-School Carnage Gunplay & Weapons: 9/10 The gunplay is extremely fast and energetic, with a really cool, speedy feel, at least if you play fast-paced like I do. Weapon combos don't get all that interesting, because this isn't like other DOOM-like games with very different mechanics. It's more limited and probably fits closer to the Quake side of things, but you can still pair two weapons nicely and get a lot of enjoyment out of it. There aren't many guns, but the ways of using them are varied, and each one has different modes that make them satisfying. Best of all, it isn't a game where every weapon is just stronger than the last and the old ones become useless. Even the first weapons are good sometimes, and all of them are actually useful. Combat Pacing & Enemy Variety: 7/10 The pacing and the enemy variety are repetitive, with almost the same rhythm from start to finish. You jump around, kill enemies with all kinds of weapons, and it doesn't need any special creativity. Still, some enemies show unusual behaviors that can be interesting, and the boss fights are a nice change of pace. Level Design & Atmosphere: 6.5/10 Honestly, the level design isn't strong. It's very repetitive, and the non-stop kill-everything loop can give you a headache and get tiring. The atmosphere is great though: dark, gothic and hellish. Even that gets repetitive, so don't expect big differences from one environment to the next. Campaign Content & Expansion Value: 7/10 The campaign content is fairly ordinary and simple. A lot of it feels like filler designed to give you more to play rather than real innovation or creativity. Still, it's a solid package overall, and the Black Edition gives you more to chew on than the base game alone. Difficulty & Progression: 7/10 The difficulty might be normal or even a lot for casual players, but for someone like me who has played plenty of fast-paced FPS and boomer shooters, it's easy and more of a warm-up. You may die once or twice on a boss fight, but that's about it. The game also doesn't give you much motivation to keep going. It's the kind of game you jump into when you're in the mood, shoot a bit, then close and leave. Story & Setting: 6/10 Unfortunately, the story is exactly an excuse for more shooting, and you could say the story and the gameplay don't really match. The story told in the cutscenes feels much deeper and far more interesting than what's actually going on in the game. Honestly, many players will be waiting for the next cutscene more than the gameplay itself, which can feel tiring and draining. Graphics & Visuals: 8/10 The graphics and visual effects weren't bad for their time. The old-school boomer shooter style is just like this, and you can't expect more from it. To judge it fairly, compare it to Quake or DOOM and not to modern games. Sound Design & Music: 9.5/10 The sound design is good and fits the genre well. I had no problems with it, and it gives you that hellish, gothic feeling. But the music is fantastic, and it's honestly the game's only trump card. It's real metal that rattles your head in the best way and fills you with energy. Killing demons and enemies to that soundtrack is pure joy, and it carried a lot of the game for me. Multiplayer & Community: 5.5/10 I didn't test the multiplayer, because there was nobody to play with. The community has released other versions of the game, and one of the versions included in the bundle was made by the community. I tried it for a little while, and it wasn't very interesting. Optimization & Performance: 8.5/10 There's no special optimization, and it doesn't need any, because it's a light, old game. It ran easily on my system, and my system is a modern one. Still, the optimization could have been a bit better so it wouldn't stay stuck in its old days. Bugs, Stability & Value: 9/10 I didn't see any special bugs. There isn't much content that could even have bugs, since it's a simple, linear game. The value is good because it's really cheap, and you won't find another game like this for that money. Buy it and give it a try, especially if you love this kind of shooter, but don't expect to be blown away. Final Thoughts Painkiller Black Edition is a fast, loud and brainless shooter that knows exactly what it wants to be. The gunplay is great, the weapons are all useful, the atmosphere is dark and gothic, and the metal soundtrack makes every fight feel better than it should. For the price, it's an easy game to try. But it wears out fast. The levels are repetitive, the enemies don't change much, and the non-stop kill loop becomes tiring. The story in the cutscenes is more interesting than the gameplay itself, and the game never really gave me a reason to keep going. I wasn't hooked and dropped it halfway through. If you love old-school boomer shooters, give it a try and you'll have a good time, but don't expect a big surprise. And if you want to play Painkiller, play this version. The later entries didn't impress me, and they feel more like different game modes than real successors. Final Score: 7.5/10 Verdict: Recommended A fast, cheap and loud old-school shooter with great guns and a killer metal soundtrack, but repetitive levels will probably stop you before the end.
Ibuprofen - Full Pack of low quality medicine 🟡Painkiller is an arena shooter that is heavily relies on bunny hopping. With obnoxious Boss Fights and a disgusting secret hunting. 🟢You are stuck in Purgatory and the only way to Heaven for you - is to kill 4 Generals of Hell. 💚The game is rich in terms of content - both for levels and monsters variety. Although, it feels like devs woke up one night and thought - lets just make a ton of cool ideas and yank them all together. There are cemeteries, churches, burning plague cities, castles, Babylon, modern theatres, military bases, circus, orphanage, asylums and god knows what else. Heck, Im surprised they havent included a space level somewhere out there (though, I think there is actually a space level in one of the addons). Then there's monsters - from sword wielding skeletorns and zombies to Literal Tanks: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3777975892 🟢It has cool music. But only in the original game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRILh-7yuXg&list=RDDRILh-7yuXg&start_radio=1 💔but the replay value is simply abyssmal and here's why: Long list of technical problems The game is old but not THAT old. Yet still: 1)No V-Sync 2)No FPS lock 3)No Widescreen 4)You need to choose Sound Device Emulation bruh 5)It doesnt like modern CPUs 6)It gonna crash 7)Physics engine is jank and relies on your FPS counter to work. If its too low or too high - the game gonna break in some way or another 8)Stutters 9)FPS drops when you get hit 🗣💨After you've done fixing this game to work properly on your machine, its time to decide whether you want to beat this game casually - which is just to have fun and shoot monsters Or beat it properly - with all secrets, Tarot Card Challenges AND on Trauma And boy do I pity you if you decide the latter: Painkiller? More like - Cockblocker - the ultimate completionist nightmare of a game 🔴As I've said earlier - bunny hopping - this game loves it. Its pretty much the only way of mobility in this game, fast traversal and its also used for a ton of secret hunting and some of the boss fights. Some levels literally require from you to drop physics props and various objects in a certain angle to get their secrets. Then there's literal wall-running, wall-climbing, bunny hopping from one wall to another, bunny hopping on vines, bunny hoping on columns, BUNNY HOPS ARE EVERYWHERE. One of the bosses has multiple phases that involve taking damage from fall damage after each phase and the only way to decrease taken damage - you guessed it - BUNNY HOPPING 🔴Then there's Tarot Cards - which are basically legal cheats that could help you beat the game faster and make it easier. To unlock them - there are various challenges across all levels like: -kill all enemies -Use only one weapon -Get all secrets etc,etc The problem is that some of those challenges are conflicting with the game In Town - you gotta use melee weapon to do "Cart Jumping" (dont ask) but YOU CANT USE IT since the challenge demands it If you play on Trauma - there are no Souls To Collect - and yet the challenge clearly says - grab 300 souls or something like that And in on the next levels - dont take any souls like wtf game 💢Then there's Content Locked Behind Difficulty levels: You cant use Tarot Cards on Easy Mode Check this out - if you play on ANYTHING below Trauma - you gonna miss out on 3 levels (Prison, Factory and Forest) BUT - if you play on Trauma - you gonna be locked from an entire chapter, quick saving, Demon Mode and Soul Collecting. Instead you will get an alternative ending where you basically go to heaven. So basically - You Are Pure Only If You Dont Do Save Scumming 😂Imagine the face of a dude who played this game on Trauma first, hated the game for being Way Too Hard and then he learns that there's an entire 5-th Chapter with another ending AND you could actually heal yourself and get Demon Powers. Funny thing is - that the game actually makes an auto save for 5-th chapter on Trauma, but you cant use it. And if you mod the game to unlock all levels regardless of the game's "rules" - its not that hard to beat those levels on Trauma. And the game doesnt even soft locks you on final boss fight. Bruh, why making another case of Doom3's Nightmare Mode when you could just balance the game properly? The Struggle Out Of Jank ❗The addon adds 10 levels, 2 weapons (to existing 5 ones), a bunch of new monsters and new varieties of existing monsters. And also 2 bosses. Also one of the Boss Fights is Difficulty Locked. Again. 🤦♂️This one is just hard and unpolished. But at least secret hunting is easier here (until 2 Mining Levels, ugh) Check this out - Orphanage - the objective is to not to take damage at all and the very first secret requires you to bunny hop through poisonous swamp - its kinda hard to avoid damage - but its doable Enemies hit harder (I really hate clowns, Leningrad enemies and Bone Pirates) - its just way too much shooting in your direction for a game like this 💥And when I beat 9 levels, the final one just wont unlock from me, so I had to download yet another fix for this game and beat the new final boss in 1 minute. *Sigh* TL;DR: 6/10 - its alright Despite LOTS of complaints I have for this game - I cant deny that its: 🟢Fun To Play Casually - I really needed a dumb fun game like that But 🔴Absolute Nightmare To Play Seriously - I Regret doing 100% run 💔Plus a lot of technical jank and VERY bad game design ideas - I hate physics in this game and some of the boss fights require an IQ Too High.
This game was pretty popular back in the mid 2000s, but a series of shoddy budget sequels (thinly disguised expansions, in reality) pretty much killed long-term good faith towards the series. However, Black Edition is still an amazing time, and is one of the best FPSes of its decade. Great graphics and performance, killer soundtrack, fun arcade/boomer shooter style gameplay all combine to make this a lost gem of the genre.
When I hear the word "Painkiller", normally my brain goes two ways. One is the absolute best heavy metal album ever made, and the other is a classic shooter from 2004 made by People Can Fly (A studio I love dearly) that got stuck in my head for decades. With the release of the recent Painkiller game, I decided to go back to a nostalgia trip and play/replay the old Painkiller games, starting with the original and the only one I have played previously, Painkiller: Black Edition. Funnily enough, this game is exactly as I remember. This is not the standard, normally games look way worse, but no, this is exactly what I played over 15 years ago, traumas included, hehe. Since I already played more than half of it when I was a teenager, I decided to give it a go on the Nightmare difficulty, and as expected, that was a brutal experience. Enemies inflict a ton of damage, and explosions/fall damage are certified deaths. The game has few weapons, but all of them have alt fire modes and some even secret fire modes. The Stake Gun is an absolute CLASSIC, in my opinion, it overshadows even the Painkiller weapon. That thing can nail enemies to walls, and it's just so much fun to use. The levels are pretty good too. Although the levels really don't make any sense storywise, for example, you will go through Asylums, Cities, Monasteries, a Military Base, an Opera House (??), and a lot of other shenanigans. I hope the game designers had fun making them. While this is all good and all, there are aspects of this game that got really old. Particularly the bosses. Bro, those are the most annoying bosses ever made. Also, some of the levels are really questionable (I am looking at you, Snowy Bridge), and the game crashed MULTIPLE times, especially when ALT-TABBING. But that's it, that's all the critique I have. Painkiller is the definition of a solid boomer shooter, it is in my hall of fame of boomer shooters, and I recommend it easily. Battle out of Hell: As for the DLC, the levels are less entertaining, and the boss fights continue to be annoying, but it's more painkiller with very creative new weapons. The ending is… Interesting. WINGS… OF… STEEL, PAINKILLER! DEADLY… WHEELS, PAINKILLER! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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Painkiller: Black Edition is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
No, Painkiller: Black Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Painkiller: Black Edition received 1,716 positive votes out of a total of 1,928 achieving a rating of 8.50.
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Painkiller: Black Edition was developed by People Can Fly and published by Prime Matter.
Yes, Painkiller: Black Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Painkiller: Black Edition is not playable on MacOS.
No, Painkiller: Black Edition is not playable on Linux.
No, Painkiller: Black Edition is not playable on Steam Deck.
No, Painkiller: Black Edition is not playable on Steam Machine.
No, Painkiller: Black Edition does not support VR.
No, Painkiller: Black Edition does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Painkiller: Black Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Painkiller: Black Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Painkiller: Black Edition is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Online players
13
Developer
People Can Fly
Publisher
Prime Matter
Release
24 Jan 2007
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