Painkiller: Black Edition is an adventure developed by People Can Fly, released 12 April 2004 on PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 21 hrs to finish.
What Painkiller: Black Edition is
Painkiller: Black Edition is an adventure game developed by People Can Fly and released in 2004. It was published by Nordic Games Publishing. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game revolves around a young man named Daniel Garner, who is happily married to his wife Catherine. 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. While Catherine manages to make it to Heaven and lives in harmony, Daniel is trapped in Purgatory. One day meeting an accomplice called Samael, he is told that in order to receive purification, he has to kill four of Lucifer's generals in order to prevent a…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Painkiller: Black Edition holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 21 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 29 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1GHz, 256 MB RAM and DirextX 9.0 64MB Video Card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB.
What it launched against
Painkiller: Black Edition launched on 12 April 2004, within three weeks of Far Cry, Syberia 2, Pikmin 2 and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Far Cry, Syberia 2, Pikmin 2, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Painkiller: Black Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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