Painkiller: Overdose

BAT OUT OF HELL...

User Rating: 3 | Painkiller: Overdose PC

By deactivated-5efbb83eee5ef | Review Date: November 25, 2008

I really enjoyed the first Painpiller, sorry, "Painkiller" game. It was fast-paced, no real story, just FPS, nice graphics and some huge, huge foes that you could break down with your peashooter or arrow-thrower. Back in the day when "Serious Sam" was recommended for it's "easy" gameplay, "Painkiller" was just a similar game, where you could run around, shoot at things and go and eat dinner and return for some more "action"...

"Overdose" continues the same old game, however, as it is often in sequels, the graphics are really terrible, the sound just OK; the leveldesign childish and almost ancient. You feel trapped in a timewarp and wonder why the gamedesigner hasn't looked for inspiration elsewhere...

+ Nice DVD-cover...
+ Nice intro to the game...
+ Easy to uninstall...
+ Easy keyboard movement + mouse

- Well, most of the game actually...
- The bad leveldesign...
- Yet another game Evil Vs. Evil...

I would not recommend it, there is much better games out there...

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• Rating:6

  Overdose lacks in what made the original Painkiller so great.

  By ChristianKiss | Review Date: Apr 09, 2009 | PC

  It's still a cool old-school First-Person Shooter game, but Overdose (2007, Mindware Studios) isn't exactly a nice addition to the Painkiller series. It was originally made as a community mod for the first game, but due ... Read Full Review

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• Rating:5.5

  This game looks like Painkiller and plays like Painkiller, but it is not Painkiller!

  By Warpld | Review Date: Nov 07, 2007 | PC

  You know how sometimes something is just much more than the sum of its parts? That's what Dreamcatcher managed to do with its original Painkiller and suplemented it later with its magnificent expansion Battle Out of Hell... Read Full Review

  4 of 5 users found the following review helpful