Painkiller (game)
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| Developer(s) | People Can Fly |
| Publisher(s) | DreamCatcher Interactive |
| Director(s) | Adrian Chmielarz |
| Designer(s) | Adrian Chmielarz |
| Programmer(s) | Bartek Sokolowski |
| Writer(s) | Adrian Chmielarz Jeremy Bell Russell Challenger Brian Gladman |
| Composer(s) | Adam Skorupa Marcin Czartynski |
| Engine | PainEngine with Havok physics |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows Xbox (as Painkiller: Hell Wars) Android and iOS (as Painkiller: Purgatory HD) |
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Painkiller is a first-person shooter video game released on April 12, 2004. It was developed by Polish game studio People Can Fly and published by DreamCatcher Interactive. It is notable for using the Havok 2.0 physics engine extensively. The single player campaign gameplay involves killing large numbers of monsters. The game was particularly well received for its multiplayer experience. Painkiller was featured for two seasons on the Cyberathlete Professional League's World Tour.
The game is inspired by such classic titles as Quake, DOOM and Serious Sam, with the emphasis on killing large numbers of monsters. The game is divided into five chapters, each about five levels long. The player's objective is to get through each level, from start to finish, by slaughtering hundreds of monsters. One of the game's most important aspects is its diversity. Each level presents a new location with various themes and graphic styles. The levels include castles, monasteries, an opera house, Venice, graveyards, and more. Monsters are also very different, with new ones almost every level. There are five "boss" levels where the player fights a boss. The game presents an option to complete a special task each level, which results in the player getting a "tarot card", a rare, hard-to-obtain bonus. Each equipped card provides different bonuses for a small amount of time, like powered-up weapons or slow motion. The game features multiplayer, which includes classic modes like Deathmatch and Capture-the-Flag.
The game revolves around a young man named Daniel Garner (Cam Clarke), who is happily married to his wife Catherine (Vanessa Marshall). At the start of the game, Daniel is about to take Catherine out for a birthday meal. As they drive towards their destination at high speed, in the pouring rain, Daniel takes his eyes off the road to look at his wife and while his attention is diverted, he ploughs their car into a truck. Both of them are killed instantly in the crash.
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