Painkiller: Resurrection
The game's basic gameplay is the same as the original Painkiller. The player has to face off numerous enemies and defeats them, moving from one location to another. All the weapons have alternative fire…
Painkiller: Resurrection is a shooter developed by Homegrown Games, released 27 October 2009 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Painkiller: Resurrection is
Painkiller: Resurrection is a shooter game developed by Homegrown Games and released in 2009. It was published by DreamCatcher Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Havok.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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!
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Painkiller: Resurrection holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 9% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 17 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Painkiller: Resurrection launched on 27 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins and Left 4 Dead 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2.
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