Get ready for a crude sens of humor and a gory adventure as you play as The Punisha..

User Rating: 8 | The Punisher PC
The Punisher is a decent third person action shooter that gives you a lot of guilty pleasure and is a fun way to unleash your anger. The plot goes back a few days before the protagonist, Frank Castle, AKA The Punisher deliberately let himself get captured to meet his long time arch rival in prison.

Upon his debriefing, Agent Soap asks him about the mischievous punishments Frank has made subsequently before his captivity. That is where the first mission starts. You get to venture out as The Punisher and judge those free roaming street thugs, Yakuzas, and other sons of guns out there like the infamous Gnucci Family and its hired goons. When you are able to grab one of your poor victims in a chokehold ala hostage taker kind of position, this is where the devious mind comes to play. If there are special kill markers nearby, you could drag him their and enjoy the macabre sight of your victims' misery. OR You could chuck him out of a 10 story building if you're lucky enough to be on the rooftops or near an open window during the encounter. If you're a paragon player, you could just knock 'em out cold and get on with the rest of them.

Another thing featured in this game is the interrogation. Similar to the special kill markers, there are also markers which feature special interrogation methods like stuffing their face into a rhinoceros' cage, plunging their face in a toilet bowl full of crap, the jail warden's favorite contraption- the electric chair, and many others. When you successfully coerce them to talk, answers vary. They could give important infos, make Frank visualize random flashbacks from his bitter past, or just plain old unmanly excuses. Forcing the interrogation to much leads to yet another gruesome death of your helpless friend.

Whatever the choice of killing you prefer, every kill is recorded as points and these accumulated babies lets you unlock goodies like new weapons, added weapon features and other bonus contents. Getting a killing spree w/o being hit grants you a point multiplier and increases as you kill and kill flawlessly, giving you second thoughts of quick killing every enemy you see like some crazed manhunter but study the environment first and plan your assault.

Overall, a solid packed action-shooting game with a nasty sense of humor.