A generic, boring, repetitive Painkiller clone.

User Rating: 4 | Dreamkiller PC
There is not much to say. If you have played any Painkiller games you know what to expect. Hundreds of enemies and gigantic bosses. Yeah, only that the game is far worse than Painkiller...

So, the graphics are very yesterday. Very 5 years ago to be exact. Nothing special, but the game still manages to lag and crash alot. This gets us to another point:

The game is so unstable. It crashes very often, lags a lot even when your computer is 5 times better than this needs. Savegames get corrupted and it didn't save a thing when i finished the game, except that it unlocked the bonus modes... WTF?

The gameplay is very repetitive and gets boring a lot. At least it is very generous with the lives, 3 times you can respawn on the spot, after that you need to start from the checkpoint. And your lives get replenished every time you pass a checkpoint. The boss battles in PK were epic. In here, you only need to blast your shotgun in some big guy's face and you're cool. You only need to do any thinking once in the game, where you have to destroy a beehive instead. Weapons are weird too. The only weapons worth a d**n are the shotgun and the minigun. The others are so weak. The enemies get recycled through the whole game, one level has about 5 different enemies and you have to kill each type about 100 times. In one level i got into a situation where first i entered room 1. Killed a bunch of guys, went to room 2. Killed some more, back to room 1. Then to room 2. Room 1. Room 2. Room 1 and finally over. Of course you need to kill hundreds of enemies between rooms. It gets boring very fast. Not fun at all.

Sound is repetitive and boring. explosions are dull and all monsters make some kind of a roar. Ever heard bees roar like that? I thought the bees were possessing an unlucky patient but it seems that the bees need an exorcism.

I personally like the story of Dreamkiller, where some chick has an ability to enter peoples' minds to destroy their bad dreams better than some half-angel half-demon who is not welcome anywhere, not in hell, not in heaven. I think a good devteam could have made an awesome game with that storyline. The game feels so rushed and has this "been there done that" feeling to it. Check your bargain bin if you ever would like to play it.