Painkiller

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GAME INFO
publisher: DreamCatcher
developer: People Can Fly
genre: Shooters

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
PIII 1000, 256MB RAM, 32MB Video Card, 1.2GB HD

ESRB rating: M
homepage:
www.painkillergame.com/

release date: Apr 09, 04 (released)

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Painkiller Screenshots

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Painkiller Files

DEMOS	size	date
single playable #3 demo	181.1MB	Oct 12, 04

multiplayer demo	137MB	Jul 14, 04

single playable #2 demo	157MB	Apr 07, 04

single playable demo	228MB	Feb 16, 04

PATCHES	size	date
v1.6.4 patch	6.4MB	Mar 29, 05

v1.6.2 patch	108MB	Feb 25, 05

v1.6.1 patch	339MB	Jan 28, 05

2 preview(s)

Painkiller Previews

»	Dec 24, 03 Painkiller Hands-On This is my second encounter with Painkiller this year (no pun intended, Croteam), and each time I play it the game appears better and more polished. That's a good sign... » MORE

»	Jul 10, 03 Painkiller Hands-On CroTeam achieved huge success with their FPS sensation Serious Sam. Its blend of simplistic, straight-up FPS gameplay with beautiful yet simple graphics caught on in a major way with FPS purists... » MORE

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Painkiller News

»	Sep 08, 2011 Mornin '11 The shooter Hard Reset is almost in stores. Until it arrives, you might want to download the 1GB demo, which was released yesterday. Just played the demo myself and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. » MORE

»	Jul 14, 2011 Hard Reset Announced for PC - Screens & Trailer Polish development studio Flying Wild Hog announced its first PC-only project - a dark sci-fi FPS called Hard Reset. The futuristic, urban setting puts players into a world where humanity is on the brink of extinction. » MORE

»	May 13, 2010 First Trailer for Epic's 'Bulletstorm' Arrives The first trailer for Bulletsorm Painkiller creator People Can Fly's shooter has just arrived. The video was seasoned with music from Nine Inch Nails. » MORE

»	May 03, 2010 First Shots From Epic's Bulletstorm Epic Games and People Can Fly (the guys responsible for the kick-ass shooter Painkiller) have released the first screens from their co-project - Bulletstorm. » MORE

Apr 12, 2010

Epic Games Announces 'Bulletstorm'
Gears of War developer and Painkiller developers People Can Fly officially announced Bulletstorm, a new original IP set to release in 2011. Bulletstorm brings "new furor to first-person shooter action with its signature ‘kill with skill’ gameplay, which is packed with blockbuster moments.

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»	Aug 15, 2008 Epic's New Game, Resi & No More Heroes Creators Cooperate Electronic Arts announced its efforts to invest in new work from development studios Epic Games and Grasshopper Manufacture, as part of the company's EA Partners program. » MORE

»	Oct 17, 2007 Painkiller: Overdose Demo We offer you a chance to download a 750MB demo for the upcoming shooter, Painkiller: Overdose. The demo includes two single-player and two multiplayer levels. » MORE

»	Aug 20, 2007 Epic Buys People Can Fly, Working on New IP Epic Games buys a majority stake in People Can Fly, a Polish game development studio who are known for their fast-paced shooter game, Painkiller. People Can Fly have also been working with Epic on the PC edition of Gears of War. » MORE

Aug 01, 2007

Painkiller Movie Rights Grabbed
Well, everyone's going on about this, so here it is. Variety is reporting that the movie rights to Painkiller, the widely acknowledged FPS, have been acquired by the Guy Walks Into a Bar -- no joke, that's what the company is called -- from Dreamcatcher Games.

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Jul 10, 2007

Painkiller: Overdose Goes Retail
What was announced as a mod for the popular shooter Painkiller, now turns into a retail release. Painkiller: Overdose is being developed by Mindware Studios and is described as a prequel that ties up some loose ends from the original This one should hit the market during October 2007.

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»	Apr 26, 2007 JoWooD to Invade Next-Gen Consoles JoWooD in their infinite wisdom has announced plans to port a bunch of their games, or rather to bring a bunch of their "commercially successful" properties to the next-gen consoles, the 360, PS3 and Wii. » MORE

»	Apr 02, 2007 NecroVision Announced And another first-person shooter surfaces (well actually, it was revealed last summer). Anyways, Cenega Publishing announces plans to publish NecroVision, which is apparently powered by the Painkiller-engine. » MORE

»	Mar 02, 2007 THQ Ditches 'Painkiller' Another thing that FiringSquad has picked up on at the THQ event is that the publisher has axed their plans to release the next Painkiller game together with People Can Fly. » MORE

»	Jan 25, 2007 Ritual Snatched by MumboJumbo Publisher/developer MumboJumbo announced that they have acquired Ritual Entertainment, saying the company wants to strengthen its development in the casual genre. » MORE

»	Aug 25, 2005 Painkiller Black ships Painkiller Black has shipped. Following the game's PC debut and expansion, DreamCatcher Games issued word today announcing that it has shipped Painkiller: Black to retail outlets across North America for the PC. » MORE

»	Feb 25, 2005 Painkiller and Battle Out of Hell Patch DreamCatcher and People Can Fly have released the latest patch for Painkiller and the expansion Battle Out of Hell. The file weighs in at a generous 108MB. » MORE

Jan 26, 2005

China Bans a Bunch of Games
China is pretty pissed about games I guess. Particularly Vietnam games it seems. Bannage! Among the 50 illegal games, 26 are pirated game software including Age of Mythology: the Titans, The Sims 2, Manhunt, FIFA 2005, Battlefield Vietnam and Painkiller: Battle out of Hell.

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»	Dec 07, 2004 Mornin' What's with all the add-ons to games everyone has either forgotten or have never cared for in the first place? When I heard about the Söldner expansion being in the works I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. » MORE

Dec 01, 2004

'Painkiller: Battle out of Hell is Now In-Stores'
DreamCatcher sends word that their Painkiller expansion, Battle out of Hell, has shipped to stores across the US and Canada. Painkiller: Battle Out Of Hell offers numerous features to intensify enjoyment of this critically acclaimed shooter.

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Nov 12, 2004

Painkiller: Battle of Out of Hell Slight Delay
DreamCatcher has announced a slight delay for the upcoming Painkiller expansion pack, Battle Out of Hell. The game is now set to ship on November 22. Man, this is NOT a good time of the year to be releasing expansions to modestly entertaining FPS games with a fairly modest marketing budget.

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»	Nov 08, 2004 Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell Gone Gold People Can Fly announces that Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell has gone gold and will ship to stores across the US on November 11 and in Europe shortly after that. » MORE

»	Oct 27, 2004 Painkiller Chat Tonight There's a neat chat thing with the Painkiller people tonight, and your very own Jackson "Smapdey" Johns will be there, covering it for all of his loyal fans. » MORE

Oct 12, 2004

Painkiller SP Demo (Another One)
Dreamcatcher has released another playable single-player demo of their demon-bashing shooter Painkiller. The file weighs in at a fairly modest 181MB. Here's the lowdown from the press release we got from them: The demo features the latest version of the PAIN Engine and with it, the latest enhancements from the 1.

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»	Aug 19, 2004 Painkiller Expansion Delayed 2lions saw this and started crying. He's under his bed now, in one of his "black moods". Painkiller: Battle out of Hell has been delayed from October 13th to November 10th, the day after St. » MORE

»	Aug 06, 2004 Painkiller: Battle out of Hell Shots Dreamcatcher has sent us a bunch of new shots from their upcoming Painkiller expansion, Battle out of Hell. Like that Meatloaf song you know... kind of. » MORE

»	Jul 15, 2004 New Downloads on AT FILES Time to catch up with some of the more interesting files that were released yesterday: New The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth movie Need For Speed Underground 2 movie (nice shiny cars. » MORE

»	Jul 14, 2004 Painkiller Multiplayer Demo Hey guys, we're now hosting a new Painkiller multiplayer demo weighing in at a fairly modest 137MB. The demo features 2 maps from the retail version (DM_ cursed & DM_Sacred) and 2 gameplay modes (Free For All and The Light Bearer). » MORE

»	Jul 07, 2004 Painkiller 1.3 Update DreamCatcher has released a patch for Max Payne's favorite game, Painkiller. You can check out what's new and what bugs have been squashed as well as download the patch here. » MORE

»	Jun 25, 2004 Painkiller Expansion Announced What the hell (no pun intended)? I mean Painkiller wasn't a bad game, but was it really that good that they should release an expansion "well in time for the holidays?" Companies will milk any franchise dry these days. » MORE

»	Jun 11, 2004 Painkiller Patch As planned, Dreamcatcher unleashed an 86MB patch for their first-person shooter, Painkiller (developed by People Can Fly). The patch upgrades the game to version 1. » MORE

»	May 05, 2004 Painkiller Patch Released Between pulling his pants down and rubbing his little raisin sack on a cold pane of glass for the new AT music video we're making (I'm semi-glad that we live on different continents), 2lions told me he posted the Painkiller Patch. » MORE

»	Apr 15, 2004 Pixel Shader 3.0 Games List NVIDIA's new GeForce 6800 Ultra card is all the rage of PC gaming at the moment, and if you don't own one you're more pathetic than the guy cleaning peep show booths and we don't want to hang out with you. » MORE

»	Apr 13, 2004 Mornin' Jesus Christ I need an Aspirin every time I give Painkiller a break. Not getting any sleep and playing Painkiller for reviewing purposes is like sucking on an exhaust pipe with your nuts salted and dipped in lemon acid. » MORE

»	Apr 12, 2004 Painkiller Already Available Yep, monsters are screeching and the shotgun is bursting and pumping away, as 2lions marches through the murky surroundings of DreamCatcher's FPS, Painkiller. » MORE

Apr 09, 2004

Painkiller in Stores, CD Copy-Protection Issues
This is both funny and sad. Apparently, the stores have started selling People Can Fly's Painkiller a bit earlier than expected, but it turns out there's a problem with the game's copy-protection scheme and a number of CD-ROM drives.

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»	Mar 29, 2004 Dungeon Lords Announced The folks at DreamCatcher are busy signing new games. Hot on the heels of their announcement that PainKiller has gone gold, they send word about a new combat RPG coming to the PC this fall, Dungeon Lords. » MORE

»	Mar 25, 2004 GDC 2004 Updates As you're probably well aware the Game Developers Conference (GDC - held every year in San Jose, California) started this week and is ending tomorrow. » MORE

»	Mar 23, 2004 Mornin' I was chatting with our U.S. Editor Vince “Moesha” Massa yesterday about how ActionTrip should usher in a whole new wave of demotivational speaking engagements. » MORE

»	Feb 16, 2004 PAINKILLER DEMO! DreamCatcher and Peopele can fly have released the single-player demo for Painkiller, their upcoming fast-paced, early-id-work-inspired FPS game scheduled to hit retail in North America on April 12. » MORE

Feb 12, 2004

Painkiller Demo on Monday
It seems that someone has hacked into our goddamn mail server and is using it to send spam mail. The lazy ass bastards that are the tech support guys from our hosting company are still thinking about whether or not they should get up off their pasty, white asses and do something about it.

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»	Jan 05, 2004 Three Major Game Leakages? Bummer! The news just reached us that an alpha version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R has been leaked. According to several reports, it has been available for quite a while. » MORE

Dec 24, 2003

Mornin'
Oh yeah, baby! Now's the time to do Jolie! I bought me a Radeon 9800XT 256MB DDR yesterday. Well, I got it through some shady compensation deal really, but ya know, it's in my PC now!!! Yeah baby, I'll be posting news faster than ever now!! Is she about to do what I think she's about to do?

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»	Oct 15, 2003 Painkiller Video! Boners for everyone! There's a new Painkiller video. This game gave 2lions and I both boners or whatever the hell he gets, I don't care to ask or know or whatever, it involves butter though. » MORE

»	Sep 30, 2003 Painkiller Delayed Goddamn, this is not good news. Dreamcatcher has pushed back the release of their upcoming Quake 2-style FPS, Painkiller, to March 2004. That's a long ways off. » MORE

»	Sep 18, 2003 Painkiller Movie The folks at Dreamcatcher have released a very cool in-game movie from their upcoming Quake-style FPS, Painkiller. Read our hands-on preview, dammit! The movie runs for about one minute and it shows off a slice of action from the Atrium Complex level. » MORE

»	Sep 03, 2003 New Painkiller Shots I thought you might like to see some nice eye candy this morning, so here's a batch of the latest screenshots from DreamCatcher's upcoming excellent arcade FPS, Painkiller. » MORE

»	Sep 01, 2003 Painkiller Shots There's loads and loads of new Painkiller shots over here at NoFrag (I hope you can read French). I can't wait for this game, it looks pretty damn cool. » MORE

»	Jul 10, 2003 Mornin' Man, I just played Painkiller - and dayom! What a fucking homage to Quake, Doom and id Software's work in general! They even have strafe-jumping in there! Badass! And the music. » MORE

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