Painkiller coming to the PSP

People Can Fly and DreamCatcher have announced that Painkiller, initially released on the PC some 2 years ago, is coming soon to the PSP and PlayStation 2.

The storyline of Painkiller is that you play as an unfortunate soul who has been killed in a car accident and then (for whatever reason) asked to repel an invasion of the forces of Hell. Painkiller was originally born out of the PAIN engine (a kind of Quake-mod-type engine), and basically let you run around at about a hundred miles an hour and reduce everything in your path in blobs. It was a first-person shooter, and came with the standard equipment, namely a shotgun, rocket launcher etc. but every weapon also had an alternative fire mode, so for instance, the rocket launcher doubles as a chain gun.

I personally think Painkiller has had its day, and the tired old Quake-mod-type engine isn’t nearly up to spec for what first-person shooters are these days (mind you the bosses in the original sure were huge!). Nonetheless it might be a bit of fun (or at least a time waster).

No release date has been set as yet.

People Can Fly and DreamCatcher have announced that Painkiller, initially released on the PC some 2 years ago, is coming soon to the PSP and PlayStation 2.

The storyline of Painkiller is that you play as an unfortunate soul who has been killed in a car accident and then (for whatever reason) asked to repel an invasion of the forces of Hell. Painkiller was originally born out of the PAIN engine (a kind of Quake-mod-type engine), and basically let you run around at about a hundred miles an hour and reduce everything in your path in blobs. It was a first-person shooter, and came with the standard equipment, namely a shotgun, rocket launcher etc. but every weapon also had an alternative fire mode, so for instance, the rocket launcher doubles as a chain gun.

I personally think Painkiller has had its day, and the tired old Quake-mod-type engine isn’t nearly up to spec for what first-person shooters are these days (mind you the bosses in the original sure were huge!). Nonetheless it might be a bit of fun (or at least a time waster).

No release date has been set as yet.