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Painkiller PC Demo Debuts

Posted by simoniker on from the most-unpronounceable-boss-of-all-time dept.

Thanks to Blue's News for their story noting a single-player PC demo of DreamCatcher's FPS Painkiller is now available, with the 228MB trial version BitTorrent-able via GameTab and at AixGaming. According to the publisher: "The demo contains 3 Single Player levels including the never-before-seen Oriental Castle, the medieval town level and the Thor level where players will get 'hammered' with one of the biggest, meanest and downright scariest bosses of all time, Saphathoraél." There's a recent hands-on look at the title at C+VG which explains its style, suggesting: "Painkiller is usually likened to Doom or Serious Sam, and that's more or less spot-on, although this is Doom and Serious Sam utilising next-generation technology."

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  1. Torrent FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Direct Torrent

  2. 3DGamers by Synic · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've tried the GameTab torrents before and have had more success with the 3DGamers seeds.

    http://www.3dgamers.com/dlexit/torrent/games/pai nk iller/painkiller_sp_demo_setup.exe.html

    1. Re:3DGamers by Synic · · Score: 4, Informative

      Looks like a space got stuck in there, just erase it (between the k and i in painkiller subdirectory in the URL) to fix it.

      (first FP ever! wow)

    2. Re:3DGamers by AvitarX · · Score: 2, Informative

      FWIW

      use the anchor tag for links.

      slashdot inserts spaces in long URLs (or any long lines) so that you cannot make ultra wide posts.

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    3. Re:3DGamers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      http://www.3dgamers.com/dlexit/torrent/games/paink iller/painkiller_sp_demo_setup.exe.html

    4. Re:3DGamers by ksiddique · · Score: 2, Informative

      As an alternative to downloading from FTP and HTTP sites, I'd suggest checking out a newsgroup such as alt.binaries.games or something similar with your favourite newsreader. The alt.binaries groups usually have the latest demos. And (for me at least) it's a super fast download.

  3. Old School, indeed. by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can really see the ragdoll physics with the havok engine, the game is pure fun. Its evil and dark like Quake2, and the levels are big and detailed. I am really impressed, the end guy and whole demo is extremely fun. Plus lots of "hidden holy" items, and lots of hidden gold.

    Really is fun just trying to shoot the guys to watch them fly back with the impact of the weapons, havok really is impressive. After seeing and playing this demo, you can really see how havok is having an impact (pun) in games. HL2 is also using havok, very sweet.

    Demo is really worth grabbing for the few hours of gameplay,

  4. Best. FPS. This year. by Txiasaeia · · Score: 5, Informative
    Really fun demo! Brought back the good ol' days when I was a lowly marine on Phobos. Some highlights:

    -The main weapon, a wooden spear-gun, has a nice projectile arc to it. Haven't seen that in any FPS.
    -As other posters have mentioned, it's just plain FUN. No objectives, no stealth, just take your time and nail some corpses to the ground.
    -The system specs said that it required a 1.5 GHz machine, so I was a bit leery, but with my 2000+ Athlon, a GF 4200 128MB and 512MB DDR it ran perfectly smooth on 1024x768 maxxed. What a pleasant surprise!

    Really, really fun gameplay. I'm definitely a SP gamer, so this is a nice change from the last few days -- Onslaught in UT2004 :)

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