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Painkiller Universe | 
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| From: Dreamcatcher Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $16.41
You Save: $3.58 (18%)
New (6) Used (2) from $13.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1546
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.8
MPN: DVD59342AC
Model: 625904593429
UPC: 625904593429
EAN: 0625904593429
ASIN: B001AZTU28
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | Contains full versions of Painkiller, Painkiller: Battle out of Hell and Painkiller: Overdose | | • | Frantic single-player action! More than 50 otherworldly levels populated by more than 100 of hells minions. |
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Product Description
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!Features:Contains full versions of Painkiller Painkiller: Battle out of Hell and Painkiller: Overdose as well as a Making of Painkiller DVD documentary and the Official Soundtrack!Frantic single-player action! More than 50 otherworldly levels populated by more than 100 of hell s minions. The proprietary PAIN Engine coupled with Havok Physics creates environments still unmatched in First Person Shooters.Intense multiplayer! Painkiller was the single-player game in the CPL $1000000 shootout. Play on the same maps dominated by e-sports legends like V00 and Fatal1tyFormat: WIN 2000XPVISTA Genre: ENTERTAINMENT Rating: M UPC: 625904593429 Manufacturer No: DVD-59342-AC
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| Customer Reviews:
 Old School "Run & Gun" August 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The first two chapters of the Painkiller Universe pack are the story of a man and his wife who get into a car accident and die. The wife goes to heaven, the man to limbo. There he is contacted by an angel and told there is a way for him to earn his way into heaven to be with his wife: Be God's hitman.
Apparently there is a coup in the works in Hell and assassinations are required to maintain the balance of order. The man agrees to this task for the sake of love. The angel says "awesome", hands him a weapon that's a blade on a stick and says, "Get to work".
Or at least that's pretty much what happens. Hell is made up of several areas which present themselves as alternate versions of earthly locations. There are monastaries, forests, middle eastern temples and even a military base. All these carry different aspects of their dark sides and are appropriately twisted by the demon who resides in them. The base is rusted and industrial with lots of spikes and dread. The forest is really dark and spooky with plenty of things rusltling throughout.
The gameplay itself is standard running around and killing lots and lots of things. It's not bad by any means, it's just really high action. For anyone looking for a grittier version of "Serious Sam" or something that harkens back to the days when a body count was the point, this will be a welcome return. There is a story set up and the scenery and motivation are all properly there, but it's about ending existences.
The weapons are very cool and multi function. You get the blade on the stick (Named the Painkiller) that fires and recalls the blade as a secondary attack. A steak driver with a grenade launcher secondary. If you fire both together you can launch a grenade on a stake. There's a gun that shoots shurikens..../and/ Lightning!...and if you fire together?... A lightning charged shuriken. There are several more like chaingun and such and there is a system of placable backup abilities called "The Black Tarot" that gives you the chance to add things like points multipliers, status effects and extra damage. As a perk of the job the hitman even receives the ability to transform into a demonic/hybrid form and just tear through things, but it's based on a number of kills and can go off at the wrong times.
The "Battle out of Hell" expansion continues the main story and the "Overdose" pack follows a demon on much the same quest with his own array of funky weapons.
I had a 4 star time with this. It isn't high art or an attempt to tell the great American novel in game form, but there is plenty of enjoyment to be had here. The set up was intriguing and you get plenty of heavy firepower and lots and lots of enemies to use it on. I gave it the extra star because it is all three chapters for a very low price.
 Never received game. August 9, 2008
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
This game was sent to my old address and returned to Amazon without my ever seeing it. I wrote to you and you said you could not send the order to me and would credit my credit card for it. I would like the order but I feel your company did not try to find a way to get the order to me but took the easy way out of crediting my payment. I may order this in the future but as of now I will not.
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