Charging through beastie-filled levels grinding up skeletal warriors, spectral abominations, and crazier creatures is far from groundbreaking, but the brisk pace is satisfying in short bursts.
Your mission is the same as it has always been: blast and eviscerate your way through a freaky batch of fantasy environments annihilating everything that moves while scarfing down souls like they're Halloween candy.Ĭompared to its modern-day brethren, Hell & Damnation is a dramatically streamlined run-and-gun affair that nods heavily toward early FPS classics like Doom, Blood, and Duke Nukem 3D. Of course, he must collect 7,000 souls first.
This time around, Death himself recruits the troubled protagonist with promises of reuniting him with his wife, Catherine. Trapped in a hellish purgatory after dying in a car accident, Garner is desperate to escape his nightmarish prison. Though Hell & Damnation tells a tweaked story that's only loosely based on both the original game and the Battle Out of Hell expansion, it's a familiar theme to anyone who has delved into the Painkiller series. The absurd bloodbath of flying appendages that ensues jams a ton of craziness into a short-lived but pleasantly gruesome romp.ĭaniel Garner is once again back to his demon-slaying shenanigans. It gives you a toolbox of twisted weapons and throws massive swarms of unholy minions at you at every turn. Unflinchingly old-school, this remake of the gory original is fast-paced, campy as hell, and full of action. The return to the genre's primal roots is a welcome one, even if it feels like indulging in the gaming equivalent of a junk food binge. movement, looking, shooting/reloading and weapon scrolling.Harking back to a simpler era of first-person shooters, Painkiller: Hell & Damnation is far more concerned with body counts and blood spray than depth in the gameplay department. At the times when there are too many keys in the game I just assign the most important to the controller EG. After a bit of fiddling you can get most older pc games controlling very well. Its only in the last few years where PC games have started to have native controller support so in most cases a program like Xpadder or joy2key (the one i use) which basically lets you assign buttons to any of the keys/ mouse stuff.
Thanks! A bit late here but I have the same problem, I just simply prefer controllers for gaming in general. Saying that will prob have a go at giving out some 'wrath of god' the old fashioned way with this game - keyboard/mouse and find some other non-necessarily shooting games that do support control pads. I guess it should work on anything but maybe not with games that have a more extensive list of commands. Thank you for pointing me in the direction of xpadder. RadioGnome: Hmm Im really surprised to find out there is little support for controllers with fps games, I can understand why though when i think about it.
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