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Painkiller franchise resurrected, Painkiller: Resurrection revealed

by Griffin McElroy on Apr 11th 2009 1:30PM

If you played the original Painkiller, a 2004 FPS which won Joystiq's coveted "Best Game of Every Year, Ever" award™ for its inclusion of the electric shuriken gun, you'll be pleased to know that publisher JoWood Productions and developer Homegrown Games are teaming up to crank out another installment in the Hell-fightin' franchise, titled Painkiller: Resurrection.

This time around, you'll be playing as Wild Bill Sherman, a CIA assassin whose brutal line of work garners him a one-way ticket to Purgatory, where he'll likely adhere demons to flat surfaces with stakes, which he will probably shoot from a gun. The game will include the same multiplayer modes as previous Painkiller titles while adding a co-op campaign, allowing for electric shuriken griefing. For more details, we suggest checking out IGN's preview.

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Tags: homegrown-games, jowood-productions, painkiller, painkiller-resurrection

Reader Comments (18)

I loved the first game, not so much for the story but for the awesome action and weapon selection. This is definitely one of the cases where I want more of the same.

That's not the original publisher OR developer... at least, as far as memory serves me... wtf?

Yeah, the original dev was "People Can Fly", and they were bought out by Epic.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/20/epic-believes-people-can-fly-acquires-majority-stake/

Wow. Way to use the most overused subtitle in subtitle history.

Does it still have a gun that shoots shurikens and lightening?

The franchise is basically dead. Painkiller (the original) was great at the time but hasn't aged well at all. It's less than half the age of Half-Life and yet that game is way more accessible to today's gamers.

So to take that aged gameplay formula and 'resurrect' it by hiring some random team of devs to squeeze it out like the muddy brown turd that the game will be, seems like not only a failed idea to make money, but it won't be fun for the rest of us to play either.

couldn't be more well said.

more first person shooters? really? do we really need anymore? developers, stop making these mediocre games (meaning, all first person shooters). we don't want them or need them. first person shooters are soooooo played out.

Not all FPSes are bad. Case in point: Bioshock. The Darkness. TF2. HL2.

Yes, please no more FPS. Pet simulators and exercise games are the wave of the future! Make more of those!

Last year seemed pretty dry for FPSes.

Besides CoD5, which I refused to pay above normal price for (apparently having Call of Duty on the box makes you worth £10 more than every other game), Crysis Warhead and L4D were the only ones I played and enjoyed.

Wow, I wonder how much Yahtzee had to do with this.

Everything - that would be my guess.

Can't say i remember anyone ever mentioning this game before the yahtzee review... now i rarely visit a site that doesn't have some post about shurikens and lightning.

I've been meaning to pick it up on GOG or Steam if they have a sale...

Painkiller was "Best Game of Every Year, Ever"
gee some1 here like didn't play but a handful of games...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/cornelious/SarcasmMotherfucker.jpg?t=1239483194

Awesome.

I'm excited! Sure the target audience will be small. But I enjoyed it for what it was ... killing a sh*t load of bad guys with lots of awesome guns and explosions.

If that's not your cup of tea, then f*ck you!

I loved the fist one and the expansion for the PC. Never really liked the 2nd one.

THIS.......IS...............THE PAINKILLER!

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