Pain-Killer Addict Ex-Cop is on the Run again. And he sure is looking to deliver maximum pain.
He keeps running around looking for Pain while consuming Painkillers almost constantly. And you can be so mean to civilians. Its just Great!
I find myself playing interesting passages again and again just to see in how many variations i could blast the enemies. The physics are just brilliant. Graphics and performance is doing nice. The weapons are great. The story sucks you in.. the molotovs look awesome, the grenades are a blast, the ammo crates lieing around and exploding like some tremendously powerful magnesium-flash style thingy are fascinating. And dont forget Bullet-Time, flying around akimbo style with double desert-eagles is devastating.
Thanks to Bullet-Time you can reload so extremely fast, while you start and finish reloading in BT your last elliminated foe can only slide along the beginning to the end of a 1m long, wall-mounted radiator. And then the fun starts off once again, with full magazines.
The only thing you need to watch out is not saving or running into an autosave while having low energy and few painkillers. The game is designed to use Painkillers constantly, but it works out fine in most cases.
I didnt like the passage playing as the woman though, they should have showed her perspective of the story in some cinematics and thats it. I prefer Max Payne, she's no real Painkiller-Narcotic anyway.
Conclusion: Sssssssssplendid!