A painless experience

Over at Zero Punctuation this week, Yahtzee takes a break from all of the recent big hits, and decides to do a retrospective on a game from 2004 - the PC FPS Painkiller. I'll be honest, I know nothing about this title as I don't play PC games, but it really sounds like fun. Yes, once again it seems as though Yahtzee has picked a title he actually enjoyed, but I guess if you're going to review a game from a few years ago, it might as well be a good one. Forgetting about many of the things that muddy the experience in modern FPSs, such as story, stealth missions, and fetch quests - this one sounds like a pure shooter with one simple objective - kill everyone. To me though, this does sound like most every other shooter in recent memory, such as Halo 3 or Gears of War, as I couldn't tell you anything about the plot of those games except for the obvious - bad guys are in my way, and they must all die so I can get past. In fact, that's the exact same plot as about every shooter I've ever played, come to think of it! 

Anyway, here's the review - it's not the funniest as he doesn't have a lot to complain about but it's still worth a watch. As always it contains plenty of strong language and is definitely NSFW:

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