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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. My university... by krs-one · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Somewhat OT, but it annoys the crap outta me that my university blocks the ports for BitTorrent (at least I think it does). I get, at most, 4kbps now, whereas when I first came here, it was 400-500kbps. It annoys me that BitTorrent ports are severely restricted for legitimate uses.

    *sigh*

    -Vic

    1. Re:My university... by Deraj+DeZine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I consider you lucky to get 4 kb/s. I'm not sure of the reason, but I have trouble getting over 900 bits per second. I download about 1,000 times faster through HTTP...

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      True story.
    2. Re:My university... by paradesign · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Same here, everytime i bring it up to the NA he says that he opens up more bandwidth for it, but the fastest transfer ive had is 3kdown and 4kup. This is after 3 years of being able to get things off of FTPs at 2-300k, and that was when everyone was on kazaa and limewire. Now even http trafic maxes out around 60k.

      What did the NA tell me to do about it? "Get Comcast to wire up your dorm." Because i dont pay enough through my exorbitant housing "IT" fees to pay for my bandwidth. Bullshit.

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      I want 2D games back.