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Painkiller: Resurrection

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4.3 User Score:

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Based on 11 critic reviews
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Game Info

Publisher: DreamCatcher Interactive

Developer: Homegrown Games

Genre(s): First-Person Shooter

Players: 2

ESRB Rating: M (Mature)

Release Date: October 27, 2009

Summary

William "Wild Bill" Sherman, an ex CIA Agent and specialist for dangerous missions in the Black Ops Special Unit has a big problem: during his last job, he has managed to not only kill the head of an illegal drug operation and a slew of innocent civilians, but himself in a fatal mistake. Trapped in a hostile place between heaven and hell, his soul flickers between the millions of faceless infidels and good and evil forces start to use Wild Bill for their own needs. But, it turns out that nothing is as it seemed at the beginning - solve the mystery and give the equilibrium between heaven and hell a little flip! [DreamCatcher]

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What The Critics Said

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GameStar

The fourth part of the Painkiller series plays just like the other ones. Using weapons like the painkiller you're fighting lots of weird opponents like axe-wielding monks or pirate zombies. As usual they act dumb, there is no AI to speak of. It's a game to play casually for 30 minutes now and then and doesn't aspire to be anything else.

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PC Gamer UK

Makes a one-man war against the armies of hell quite depressingly dull. [Christmas 2009, p.116]

Vandal Online

Although it is simple, direct and fun, it still doesn't live up for the absolute lack of polish of other aspects.

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LEVEL (Czech Republic)

The third standalone add-on can be described by a single word – amateurism. Originally it was planned as a mod and it should of stayed as a mod permanently. [Dec 2009]

Everyeye.it

You need an extra dose of Painkillers, to play Resurrection without headache.

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Meristation

Quotation forthcoming.

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GameSpot

Painkiller: Resurrection is a buggy trip into hell.

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Absolute Games

Glitchy scripts, three-minute loading times, broken saves, crashes to desktop and the abundance of blur make this game a nerve-wracking challenge.

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Multiplayer.it

Painkiller: Resurrection is a bugfest. It is technically outdated and the co-op mode is hidden between the menus. There is no way to make this multiplayer mode work well.

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IGN

It's a repulsive cocktail of inconvenience, design missteps and frustration that fails to entertain on any level. Quite simply, if you buy this game, you are wasting your money.

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PC Zone UK

Painful in so many ways. [Jan 2010, p.74]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 4.3 (out of 10) based on 34 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Juan José V gave it a3:
A group of gamers should play games and maybe comment them out. But if you are neither a designer nor a programmer, don't try to earn money selling games like this one. Does not worth the try to pay more than 1€ for it.

Benji G gave it a3:
The first Painkiller and the Battle out of hell was very great games and the whole thing is a fantastic idea. For that time. But it starts with Overdose that the game was not stable and the loading times was to long. And somewhere on a level the game was crasht allways and to find update patches, the search to a trustfull contact, nothing at all. I got angry and so i had to stop the game with the hope the future will bring innovations and improvements. But nothing about. The Ressurrection is the same, long loading times, exept the fast loads, there is a message for an update but, as bevore, nobody knows where to get. What a pity, its still a good game and i hope they will not stop with it, but there must be a hand of professionals to intend and then i will hope to the next.

Mike gave it a1:
Simply Awful. Fails in every aspect you could judge it on. Not worth anything let alone the asking price. Bottom line: not fun.

E G gave it a2:
I loved the first Painkiller, and Battle out of Hell was even better. I saw screenshots and honestly was expecting (and looking forward to) more of the same, but DAMN.. The engine has not been improved at all in five years except for adding a poor bloom, there is little to no new content (I recognize nearly every enemy and every weapon from the first game, and one or two from Overdose), and the level designs are buggy -- many, many surfaces without a texture and in one of the levels you can very easily leave the entire level area. The second level has some cool environments like the ones I loved in the first game, but it's the only one. They tried making the levels less linear and more open, which would work in any other kind of game, but anyone who's played Painkiller knows how poorly that would work in it. In short, looks, feels and plays like a mod. The only reason I bought it was because if I preordered through Steam, it was $27 for it, Overdose and Painkiller -- $9 a game, not too bad. Still, I almost regret it.

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