Painkiller Universe
Bring the Pain! Trapped in a dark an unwelcoming world awaiting your purification, you must fight your way through over 50 species of Hell's wildest incarnations as you attempt to stop the imminent unholy war…
Painkiller Universe is a shooter developed by DreamCatcher Interactive, released 20 March 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Painkiller Universe is
Painkiller Universe is a shooter game developed by DreamCatcher Interactive and released in 2008. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bring the Pain! Trapped in a dark an unwelcoming world awaiting your purification, you must fight your way through over 50 species of Hell's wildest incarnations as you attempt to stop the imminent unholy war. Painkiller and Painkiller Battle out of Hell took the world by storm, capturing the souls of FPS-fans and winning multiple Game of the Year awards. In Painkiller: Overdose, play as the tortured son of Heaven and Hell, Belial. This stand-alone expansion packs 17 single player levels, new weapons, lightning-fast multiplayer maps, more than 40 sickly-twisted monsters & gigantic bosses that will blow your mind!
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action.
Where it sits in the Painkiller series
Painkiller Universe is the second of 5 entries we hold in the Painkiller series. It arrived 3 years after Painkiller: Battle out of Hell. The next entry was Painkiller Pandemonium in 2010.
What it launched against
Painkiller Universe launched on 20 March 2008, within three weeks of God of War: Chains of Olympus, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, Mario Kart Wii and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2.
Released around the same time: God of War: Chains of Olympus, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, Mario Kart Wii, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2.
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