Painkiller Hell and Damnation

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Painkiller Hell and Damnation is a remaster of two old-school PC shooter classics, Painkiller and its expansion Battle Out of Hell, rebuilt on Unreal Engine 3 and reworked into a single package by The Farm 51. You play Daniel Garner, a man stuck fighting his way through Purgatory for reasons that get explained as you go, and the whole game is built around one simple promise: huge numbers of demons on screen, a nasty arsenal to thin them out with, and almost nothing else getting in the way.

How it plays

This is a corridor shooter in the truest, most unapologetic sense. You move through fifteen levels, including boss fights and a Halloween-themed stage, mowing down waves of enemies with weapons designed to feel over the top rather than realistic. There’s no regenerating health to lean on and no killstreak gimmicks or scripted airstrikes padding things out, so survival comes down to positioning, ammo management, and actually being good with the weapons you’re carrying. The campaign supports co-op as well as solo play, and there are PvP and PvE multiplayer modes on top of that if you want to take the chaos online. A metal soundtrack runs under all of it, which fits the tone: this isn’t a game trying to make a subtle point, it’s trying to keep your heart rate up for as long as you’re playing.

Who it’s for

If you grew up on Painkiller, Serious Sam, or the original Doom games and miss shooters that don’t ask you to crouch behind cover every ten seconds, this is squarely aimed at you. It rewards reflexes and crowd control over tactics or story investment. People who want a slower, more methodical shooter, or who need a strong narrative to stay engaged, are going to bounce off it fast, since the plot here is mostly an excuse to keep throwing monsters at you. It’s also worth knowing going in that this is a 2012 remaster of a mid-2000s game, so the level design and pacing reflect that era rather than anything more modern.

Is it worth it?

For what it is, a focused, no-frills demon shooter with a co-op campaign and some multiplayer modes attached, it delivers exactly what it says on the box without overstaying its welcome. It’s not going to convert anyone who wasn’t already interested in the genre, but if you know you like this kind of run-and-gun carnage, there’s a real amount of content here between the campaign, the boss fights, and the multiplayer side. This is exactly the kind of title that makes more sense as a sale pickup than a full-price impulse buy: it’s a known quantity from over a decade ago, not a new release chasing hype, so there’s little reason to pay top dollar when patience gets you the same fifteen levels of demon-killing for less.

Quick facts

Genre: Action. Developer: The Farm 51. Publisher: Prime Matter. Platform: PC (Steam). Release date: October 31, 2012.