Painkiller: Overdose is a throwback of sorts, to a time when the phrase "first-person shooter" meant only that - the shooting of stuff from a first-person perspective. No confusing rules, no weirdo storylines, no RPG or adventure elements. Just tons of demons and/or monsters, almost as many forms of weapons, buckets of good old-fashioned blood, and more severed body parts than a chop shop. Like Doom, Quake and all those other straight-up shooters before it, Overdose is all about high-speed mouse skill, twitch reflexes, and inherent aggression. Though it feels a bit more dated than its Painkiller predecessors - the series began in 2004 - the latest installment nevertheless manages to crank out a gory, fast-paced good time that should please anyone with a strong distaste for murderous beasts from hell.
Overall score: 7/10
"The Painkiller Complete Pack is 70% off a GamersGate, taking it’s price down to £5.40!
The pack contains:
-Painkiller Black Edition
-Painkiller Overdose
-Painkiller: Resurrection
-Painkiller Redemption"
Join forces with Daniel Garner and Belial once again to vanquish hordes of monsters in the never-ending battle between Good and Evil. The brand-new add-on, called Painkiller: Redemption, will be released on February 25th, 2011 as a downloadable game, and promises few hours of fun and engaging gameplay.
Once People Can Fly left this franchise, it became stale and developed by nearly anyone willing to make more levels for the game that should of stayed as mods. That's great for community and publisher, but the problem is, any game after Battle Out Of Hell is pretty diabolical and full of bugs also, you never play as Daniel.
Charismatic stallion Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw skyrocketed to fame with his hilariously degrading reviews of some of the most industry's most popular games, which tend to unknowingly provide him crappy gameplay joke material. NewTeeVee, intrigued by the Yahtzee's popularity, studied sales data for both Painkiller and Xbox Live Arcade's Braid, two titles reviewed positively by Yahtzee, to see if his videos affected game sales.
"I don't see any real case for Zero Punctuation increasing sales by a lot," stated Braid creator Jonathan Blow on the lack of a Yahtzee-created increase in sales of his downloadable game. "There definitely isn't a visible sales spike or anything like that."
I hope not. At first he was funny but now it seems like he's trying to hate every game as much as he can and talk only about the bad stuff.
I think it's ok to do this with games like MoH or Turok or Heavenly Sword or Army of Two, but hating on games like MGS4 is just wrong
i thought he was doing that from day one. the guy doesnt enjoy games, why play them?, more importantly, why review them?
Well... yeah you're right, actually.
The only games he didn't hate were Half-Life 2, SotC and Bioshock. They're great games, absolutely great, but his hatred towards ANYTHING ELSE is getting annoying
you might as well ask does bad reviews of wii music affect the game sales also.
personally no.
just because it is for entertainment, and is really really awesome.
and it makes it even better when you own or have played the game ha
he is actually..
incredible.
anybody who takes it as anything more than a funny negative opinion,
is a c*nt.
I wouldn't recommend this game to any fans of the single player of the original Painkiller. Your main character is absolutely demented looking, especially once you see his arm, in-game. The weapon design was awesome in the original. You started with a weapon (the painkiller gun) that both looked, sounded, and performed pretty badass. You were only tempted to switch away from it when the going got tough. Now it's just some stupid cube that breaks up and spirals at people. While most of the guns are pretty much the same for damage, rate of fire, etc... they're all incredibly dumb looking and sounding now. IE the shotgun is some boney looking thing that shoots shards of bone fragments at people. Your starting weapons is just some random severed demon head in your hands that you turn towards the enemy and it magically shoots a completely straight red laser.
Even though the game went through some visual enhancements (bloom, other post-processing effects) it's not a vast improvement over the original. This is disappointing because your frames will make it feel like it should be. I half wonder if this is even made by the same people who made Painkiller.
WTF?
Overdose absolutely rocks.
Stop whining because you don't have the stake gun, or because you don't like the new weapons. Different characters (Belial instead of Daniel who's dead anyways...), different weapons, different monsters.
Overdose is different from Painkiller in many aspects, but it's got the same recipe for uber fun: fast paced mindless crazy action.
The only gripe I have with this game is the long loading time, which hasn't changed from previous version. Compared to Crysis which requires much greater resources but the respawn is quasi-instantaneous...
PAINKILLER ROCKS !!!!!!!!!