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You
are Belial, the only child of both Heaven and Hell. Locked
in the depths of purgatory for aeons, you finally achieve
your freedom and now you're looking for some pay back. Armed
to the teeth with demonic weaponry you must battle your way
through the hosts of Hell to gain your freedom...
Painkiller:
Overdose is the new game in the Painkiller franchise
whose first instalment came out in 2004. Let's get straight
to the point. The game lacks a lot of narrative structure,
but then this is not the point of it. It's a pure first person,
no frills, shooter which should appeal to gamers who don't
want to mess about solving puzzles when killing things with
bigger and better guns is a great way to spend your time.
If you have played the original Doom or Quake
then you know what you are looking at.
Installation
completed without any problems and surprisingly for a PC game
it worked straight away. There is a nice introduction movie
to give the game a context and your straight into your killing
spree.
Purgatory
appears to consist of seventeen environments which look a
lot like rundown versions of earthly places. The first environment
is a kind of Greco-Roman affair - lots of pillars covered
in flames. The next is a faux Japanese setting and the third
a desert. Each environment has its own particular monsters
and overall the single player game sports more than forty
different types of these beasts, as well as some monster bosses.
Whether
you like the game is really going to depend on how much you
like killing things. There has been a trend amongst games
to have a more involved script and Overdose has pretty
much no script at all. I personally did not find this a problem,
as you don't have to remember where you were in the game,
just crank it up and start killing things. However, I would
imagine that as an audience, people like myself, are a dwindling
number.
The
only really problematic thing is the loading times, which
are almost long enough to allow you to make a quick cup of
tea. This is fairly unforgivable of a modern game, especially
one as simple as this.
Charles
Packer
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