There are some new weapons, like a flamethrower and the always popular automatic stakegun (itâ€™s a sniper rifle, too it may also slice and dice), but itâ€™s mostly 10 levels of the same spectacularly violent action of the original. It could only be made better with ninjas, or ninja pirates.

Thereâ€™s even a Tomb Raider-styled â€œperpetually swinging things that repeatedly knock you off a platformâ€ area that follows a thoroughly annoying sequence of jump puzzles that are definitely out of character compared to the rest of the game.įor enemies, it has little kids with bags over their heads, stripper nurses, electrified clowns, and gigantic pirates. And who wouldnâ€™t want someone to try to write a narrative linking all of this weirdness together? They continue the original gameâ€™s absence of logic, moving from WWII to a Roman coliseum with no attempts at answering the question of, â€œWhy?â€. Most of the other levels feel like â€œdeleted scenes,â€ ones that really werenâ€™t good enough for the full game. It would be nearly impossible for any game to sustain that level of quality throughout, and sure enough, the rest of Battle Out of Hell is pretty dull in comparison. And the second level, set in a Clive Barker-esque theme park as if it was scored by Danny Elfman, is better than any of the original levels found in Painkiller.

Itâ€™s wrong on so many levels that itâ€™s exactly the sort of edgy â€œhellâ€ experience that you canâ€™t get with burning candles and pentagrams. Set in a haunted orphanage and full of little kids behaving badly (like lighting themselves on fire or attacking you with large knives). The first level of Battle Out of Hell, the expansion for Painkiller, is creepier and moodier than anything in DOOM 3. And the skewering of decapitated, splattering, vivisected corpses to the wall brought joy into the hearts of shooter fans everywhere.

You remember Painkiller, right? The goofy, gory first-person shooter that came out of nowhere? Okay, it came out of the Czech Republic, which is certainly not â€œnowhere,â€ but this preposterous rollercoaster ride through Purgatory surprised nearly everybody when it became, perhaps, Dreamcatcher Gamesâ€™ biggest coup.

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