Pain Killer

I dont know about a lot of you, but Ive been following this game since I saw it on Xplay in november...Anyway, for those of you who dont know, the game is basically this...Your Daniel Garner. You died in a car crash...But instead of being sentence to enternal burning in Hell or Wonderful life in Heaven, you are sentenced to a life of pain in Purgatory, the place between Heaven and Hell. But, a you meet a few priest's who can send you to Heaven, IF, you can free their temple of the demonic enemies that haunt it :biggrin: .

Just watch This video, and you'll be cream`n for it. (You can find that same video ^, but in lower resolution Here.)

Quake + new story + new physics/graphics = painkiller.

Thats what it looks like to me . . . no crouch either if you noticed (I rather enjoy crouching in fps's).
However, I'm sure it has hours of mindless fun. The power-ups look pretty sweet.

But other then that it seems pretty average . . .

Meh. It's not bad... But the basis of the storyline sounds like something out of a cheap horror comic

"...Trapped in a dark and unwelcoming world between heaven and hell, you struggle to uncover the reasons why you?ve been denied entry into heaven. Awaiting your purification, you must fight through a seemingly endless number of demon soldiers as you attempt to stop an imminent unholy war..."

cough Spawn cough

And as we all know Spawn is crap. Story-wise anyway.

sounds more like doom than quake, which is fine to me since I didn't like 1player Quake much. that's why I'm worried about doom3, it doesn't sound much like 'doom' gameplay-wise :sad:

downloading the video now....

[edit] whoa, very nice. looks like what DOOM3 should be like. also, I noticed lots of real-time physics effects, just like Half-Life 2 is supposed to have... except this game will probably be out first now.

[edit2] looked on their site.. the screenie popups weren't working so I found the directory they were in to browse it and came across a gameplay video that wasn't linked to on the site:

http://www.painkillergame.com/gfx/screens/Painkiller_Atrium%20Complex_1.wmv

gotta say I love the 'stake-gun' or whatever it is, and the mix of slow-mo and physics looks like it would be fun as hell. does anyone know what game engine this runs on or is based off of?

ENGINE:
The proprietary PAIN Engine puts out 100X the polygons of the latest shooters, while adding increased texture quality and the latest lighting and shadowing techniques. Plug in the Havok 2.0 physics engine, and you get a realistic environment in a totally fantastical setting. The game features 24 single-player levels, each entirely unique with virtually no texture reuse between levels. The average level is 350,000 polygons, and also incorporates advanced vertex and pixel shaders, including water, glass, volumetric lights and fog, etc.

Thats the quote from the website. I believe the havoc physics engine is the same one used by valve in HL2.

was Havok developed by Valve or just something they licensed from someone else?

[edit] answered my own question:

Havok can be used with in-house graphics engines as well all third party graphics middleware solutions, including NDL Gamebryo, Renderware Graphics, the Unreal and Quake Engines.

http://www.havok.com

I thought this was a big selling point for HL2, but it sounds like every other game will have it soon anyway.

I have 56k, can't dl the vid

I saw a video a while back and was not impressed. Looked to me like a mindless shooter complete with rip-off bullet time for no apparent reason other than "its bullet time". HL2, Doom 3 and Halo 2 will be getting my hard-earn...no thats not right, hard-loaned cash :biggrin:

It might be another mindless shooter, but damn, it looks good. :biggrin:

ReNo said:
I saw a video a while back and was not impressed. Looked to me like a mindless shooter complete with rip-off bullet time for no apparent reason other than "its bullet time". HL2, Doom 3 and Halo 2 will be getting my hard-earn...no thats not right, hard-loaned cash :biggrin:

No Far Cry?

ReNo said:
I saw a video a while back and was not impressed. Looked to me like a mindless shooter complete with rip-off bullet time for no apparent reason other than "its bullet time". HL2, Doom 3 and Halo 2 will be getting my hard-earn...no thats not right, hard-loaned cash :biggrin:

I dunno, I don't mind 'mindless shooters' as long as they are fun. Trying to merge more story with shooters is nice when it works well, but sometimes I like a game that's just a -game-. Space Invaders wasn't exactly plot-driven!

or Quake for that matter.

Like I said, looks like a mindless shooter, but has new physics.

not on 56k, m8.

I do not believe Havok was devloped by valve... ahh er we go http://www.havok.com/

google anyone?

stuff that, UnrealTornament 2004 is coming out Febuary the 13th. It looks and plays very well. So I'll be thinking about getting a copy. Genious.

Hornpipe2 said:

ReNo said:
I saw a video a while back and was not impressed. Looked to me like a mindless shooter complete with rip-off bullet time for no apparent reason other than "its bullet time". HL2, Doom 3 and Halo 2 will be getting my hard-earn...no thats not right, hard-loaned cash :biggrin:

No Far Cry?

Speaking of far cry, they released a demo..Legit. Download Here (It works, I played it :biggrin: )

Doesn't work for MX cards. Fudge. (Geforce 4 MX 460 ffs)

Vash = LinkWhore :biggrin:

thanks, I'll take look. the screenies look great.

www.kemall.net/Images/farcry.jpg

Oh the mapping possibilities.

Vash said:
www.kemall.net/Images/farcry.jpg

Oh the mapping possibilities.

drooling I have slow slow slow slow SLOW internet so could any of you tell me if the demo and trailer is worth watching/downloading?.

And it's only eight million polygons.

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