It's a HELL of a game, but...

User Rating: 8.1 | Painkiller: Hell Wars XBOX
By sardax | Review Date:
Straight forward action-packed first person shooter with a horrific degree. Similar with Serious Sam, but with less opponents at a time. The end bosses are quite a challenge though... I have played the game till the last level, but I can't make any sense of it! The place looks like a stilled time frame of a nuclear disaster (atomic bomb impact). I wander around with a bunch of almost invisible axe-man running after me. I shoot them but they just keep coming! And then I suddenly become transported in a huge arena with Lucifer but all what I do, shooting him with all what I've got, his health-meter just won't budge!!! After a few asteroid bombing, I find myself back with those low life beings with an axe which makes no point to shoot them, because they will always re-appear...
This is REAL HELL indeed! And no fun anymore, they are hardly to see and there are no souls to collect to replenish my health... But to keep the game running and the hope that I will overcome this challenge, I keep shooting them bastards... And AGAIN I become transported into the wonderful arena with happy Lucifer... Wasting my ammo with no effect... And then I die, because everytime when I am transported from one place to the other, I loose health... But taking it overall? It's a good game to waste your own frustrations of the REAL world, but the fact that I can't beat Lucifer... Brings frustrations in this gaming world and keep the excisting frustrations in the real world...
I hope that JUST CAUSE (another game) will give me another satisfying feeling in my guts, because this game is over... (untill I find a way to blast Lucifer to kingdom come...)

My greeting to the world,
Sardax a.k. VANTAZZY (it's a shame I can't rename my nickname in gamespot, because VANTAZZY is the nickname I use for all over the world)

UPDATE:
When I saw the cheats here in gamespot, I couldn't resist to take a look at this game again... Well, now I am satisfied... I saw the ending... :-) Playing in INSOMNIA wasn't a good idea I think to kill Lucifer with only 100 points of health... The cheatcode for GODMODE made all difference!
But still... I cheated, so I haven't played this last level by myself, so no real victory on my side... :-( But it was well worth it!!! Whahahaha :-D Now I can sleep good tonight!!!!

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