Painkiller Resurrection demo released
A playable demo for DreamCatcher Games’ Painkiller Resurrection is now available for download, giving players a slight taste of the game that is set for release on Tuesday, Oct. 27 in North America. Based on the 2004 first-person shooter from People Can Fly, this new game tells the story of William ‘Wild Bill’ Sherman, an ex CIA Agent who managed to get himself and many innocent civilians killed in his final mission on the plane of the living. Now trapped in Purgatory, Sherman finds himself fighting in the eternal war between heaven and hell.
Painkiller Resurrection promises a new coop multiplayer campaign mode, new levels, new monsters and a whole new storyline. Other incidental features include improved shadows and texture resolution, moveable light sources, post processing, motion blur, ambient occlusion and lots of physics-based action that made the original such a hit.
Painkiller Resurrection will retail for $19.99 USD and has an ESRB rating of M for Mature. Find out more about the demo by visiting www.dreamcatchergames.com.
Painkiller: Resurrection gold, in stores Oct. 27
JoWooD Productions and DreamCatcher Games announced that the horror themed action shooter sequel, Painkiller: Resurrection, has gone gold. The Austrian development studio Homegrown Games has just completed production on the latest title in the Painkiller series and the game is set to hit stores across North America on October 27.
In Painkiller Resurrection players take on the role of ‘Wild Bill’ Sherman as he once again tackles the denizens of purgatory who are a notoriously unfriendly lot for obvious reasons. The game promises new levels, new monsters, new bosses, a new story, improved shadows, a higher resolutions, moveable light sources, post processing, motion blur, ambient occlusion, a new cooperative multiplayer campaign mode and more.
JoWooD will publish the game in Europe.
Painkiller gets Resurrected
Be prepared for another descent into the world between Heaven and Hell.
JoWood and Dreamcatcher have signed on small Austrian developer Homegrown Games to produce another Painkiller game, Painkiller: Resurrection. The new team will be using an upgraded version of the original game’s engine, and will be adding a co-op multiplayer mode, created by Dr. Steven Wilkins and known by the name Blowfish in the Painkiller community. It was Wilkins who came up with the PK++ mode that added competition-style elements to the original game.
As with the original, the hero (antihero?) gets caught in Purgatory after he kills a few bad guys and a few innocents along with them. The game again revolve around the quick, in-your-face action style of DOOM and Quake, while the main character is used as a pawn by the forces of Heaven and Hell.
The game is planned for late this year, and IGN is reporting that an Xbox 360 version may come out sometime after that.
It will be interesting to see how this develops, literally. I played through the original and thoroughly enjoyed the action. I’m hoping they can come up with enough new gameplay to keep it fresh. Some games that have successfully capitalized on the old-school action have fallen flat in the sequel.Serious Sam 2 pulled off a good sequel, so we know it can be done.
