The Punisher: No Mercy frags PSN on July 2 for $9.99

by David Hinkle { Jun 23rd 2009 at 11:00AM }

Courtesy of the PlayStation Blog, we now know that Frank Castle's Unreal Engine-powered, arena-style FPS, The Punisher: No Mercy, will blast its way to PSN on July 2 for a cool $9.99. Aside from multiplayer gameplay that allows up to eight different vigilantes and famous Punisher faces to go at it, there'll be a single-player mode rife with unlockable content. Let's hope that doesn't include Thomas Jane skins.

Gallery: Punisher: No Mercy

Tags: psn, punisher-no-mercy, scea, sony, the-punisher, the-punisher-no-mercy, zen-studios

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Heavytoka @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:04AM

I have low Expectations for this, but I hope it's good because I'm sure I'll buy it.

Bigg Bozz @ Jun 24th 2009 12:28AM

I'm not buying this or any game online because it gives Microsoft and Sony more incentive to move toward digital distribution and make disc games obsolete. If that happens then us gamers get shafted because we wouldn't be able to trade games or resell them on ebay. Don't know about you guys but when I buy something I don't want Microsoft or Sony limiting my options on a property I own.

iFester @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:09AM

Okay, not to flame bait, but for that price you can't go wrong. I haven't seen XBLA games with graphics like that for $10. Well, provided the gameplay is good on Punisher. ;)

The Alex @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:09AM

Not sure about Joystiq's "Thomas Jane skins" comment - I thought his Punisher movie was fantastic. Not as violent and action packed as the recent Punisher:Warzone, but it was still great.

As for this game, I'm thinkin' it's actually worth the 10 bucks... I really hope they offer a demo though, I can't purchase it without one.

Billop @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:11AM

Woo, i sent this in :)

The Dark Wayne @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:12AM

WTF hinkle. Thomas Jane's punisher was great, way better than War Zone, which really could have been any character's movie, they just painted a skull on the guy. Jane's was a lot deeper and frankly, much better

Billop @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:14AM

I agree. I never understood the hate for Thomas Jane's Punisher movie. i really loved it, i'd rate it in my top 20 movies of all time. Anywho, the news of a Single Player mode to this has made it a day 1 buy for me :D

Temidien @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:19AM

Enjoyed the Thomas Jane film a lot more than the new one. I was really disappointed when I heard he wasn't being included XP

CJLopez @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:44AM

i hadn't seen the new one, but man, the first one is magic!!!

That interrogation method, with the burning meat and the ice cream pop??? GENIUS!!!!

i'M USING IT IN MY NEXT INTERROGATORY, xDDDDD

That my favorite scene from the movie (that and the car explosion forming the skull in fire)

Gregorius @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:35PM

It's seems that no one remembers the 80's Punisher Dolph Lundgren. It might not have been the best Punisher, but you have to include it with the others. I don't think that the Punisher has ever got the justice he deserves in a movie.

Man on Fire felt like the closest thing to a Punisher movie for me.

mezzanine @ Jun 23rd 2009 4:23PM

I also really loved Thomas Jane's Punisher. I loved War Zone too, but I can see why a lot of people aren't into it, but the fact that the 2004 version is consistently shat upon is mind boggling.

knilzero @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:12AM

Thomas Jane IS AWESOME!

Heyyou27 @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:44AM

I just want my kids back!

WREturns @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:55PM

Look, you're sweet, but I'm Thomas Jane.

Viglin @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:22AM

Sent this in as well...as been waiting for news on the game for ages.
And ll take a Thomas Jane skin...especially if it looks like what he had at the end of the movie.
Single player, multiplayer, co-op...for 10 dollars...thats hard to beat.

ExoDose @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:27AM

sounds good..

saito ps3 @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:28AM

i dunno. the graphics are great for a psn game, but im not sure how good the gameplay will be. ill have to watch some reviews on it.

Kill a mans jiro @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:29AM

Some more gameplay clips? id prefer to see more before i spend n e thing on it.

Viglin @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:33AM

They mention more "exclusive content" comming to their webpage for it soon, so ld assume we will see more clips etc.
Maybe a demo before it releases.

Kill a mans jiro @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:12PM

kool

Gemini Ace @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:33AM

Why the Thomas Jane hate? Better than the last guy.

John @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:06PM

You're high, the last movie was great!! it was even true to the origin story instead of that John Travolta bullshit.

Plus watch Rome if you want to see that guy in all his awesomeness.

Gemini Ace @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:23PM

You have one part right. I am high.

modok @ Jul 3rd 2009 1:40PM

War Zone was so so. Ray is a good actor, Rome was awesome, but Lexi Alexander didn't blow my mind with this one. And they made Frank such a pussy, weeping like a lil girl. WWAAHHHHH my family got killed. But seriously, just have Garth Ennis write a script and get a quality director, and cast an unknown actor who will keep quite and wear the damn Skull proud! Why do they always have to hide it?

WINterfang @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:42AM

for me moment I though this was a screenhot of Bioshock.

Billop @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:47AM

Me too. I guess thats just a testament to the graphics of Punisher, lol

CJLopez @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:44AM

for 10 bucks??? This'll be my first PSN i'll be getting. Just gotta see if my CC can get through the psn. If no, i'll have to wait for it to reach the mexican psn

Isak Isakoski @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:50AM

I thought Thomas Jane's Punisher was ALOT better than Ray Stevenson's portrayal. Punisher warzone honestly sucked.

stilin @ Jun 23rd 2009 11:59AM

The Punisher sucked because of terrible story, and an incredibly boring villain. Thomas Jane did the best he could I guess.

Billop @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:10PM

Why should anyone take you seriously? Your obviously a child. Telling everyone to "Kill yourselves" if we hated the 2nd movie (which was utter Bile) and calling everyone "rtards" is very immature. When you grow up, people will listen.

John @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:14PM

I was banned because I was a jerk.

Paul @ Jun 23rd 2009 7:07PM

OK - so all year I withhold from purchasing items from psn because I know every spring, 4th of july and christmas , PSN holds a sale on all games with almost 50% off. Does anyone know if there will be a 4th of July sale this year? sometimes they like to trick folks.

WREturns @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:56PM

You can't misspell "retard" and then call someone a moron.

LordToastington @ Jun 23rd 2009 1:23PM

More support for John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/

rells009 @ Jun 23rd 2009 1:28PM

Bah! Thomas Jane worked with what he was given. If you'd read any interviews with the guy in the pre-production stage to Warzone you'd know he was passionate about the source. He went back to the Ennis stuff to reacquaint himself with the character.

Unfortunately, the suits at the studio didn't agree with his vision of what the Punisher should have been and so we ended up with Stevenson in the last film.

John @ Jun 23rd 2009 2:16PM

I'm sure he did, but the movie sucked. The second one was actually true to the source and these idiots here want to act like it was an affront to all things holy. Hence, they are RTards

John @ Jun 23rd 2009 2:14PM

I meant to spell it Rtard fool. besides typing on a netbook makes you more prone tpo typos, but keep grammar policing, it makes you seems SOOO much more intelligent on a video game blog.

John @ Jun 23rd 2009 2:18PM

and lord Tardington, a key component to the all so original penny arcade internet dickwad theory is anonymity, I post under my own name and you have the private profile...

dickwad

Rhamsey @ Jun 23rd 2009 2:36PM

oh, a punisher game... well if someone else buys it, and im hanging out with them, i might try it, but no chance that i would buy this myself. unless it ends up being amazing, which i highly doubt.

The Dark Wayne @ Jun 23rd 2009 2:43PM

you should pick up a comic too, John, maybe, Welcome Back Frank, you know, the ONE THE MOVIE WAS FUCKING BASED ON!

The Dark Wayne @ Jun 23rd 2009 2:47PM

saying you post under your name, but only having "John" and no other information is still anonymous

John @ Jun 23rd 2009 2:49PM

Sorry, I stopped reading comics in the 90's after I moved out, got a real job and got married.

So last Punisher origin I saw was the one in the warzone movie. Which was awesome, not the touchy feelie bullshit marvels been pushing on you saps the last 10 years.

Fucking characters unmasking themselves, registering their powers....

Real shit been coming out of there from what I hear.

the Sawyer family @ Jun 23rd 2009 2:49PM

i love the Punisher can't wait to play this. oh and about the movies, just think about them as comic books you don't have to read, they all had good stories. Punisher: Dark Reign, Punisher talking on super villains instead of mobsters is a breath of fresh air. if you guys really like the Punisher, you gotta check out this comic book.

John @ Jun 23rd 2009 2:57PM

Hell the Dolf Lundgren Punisher was better than Thomas Jane

KeyserSoze @ Jun 23rd 2009 4:36PM

Any chance this game won't suck?

Grimcicle @ Jun 23rd 2009 4:59PM

Finally. I was getting worried for a while there that this game was falling off the radar.

Autobot @ Jun 23rd 2009 6:56PM

I thought this was a retail release. Thank god it isn't, Ps3 disk drive broke.

WREturns @ Jun 23rd 2009 8:49PM

Sure thing, pal. Just so you know, though, nobody believes your bullshit cover story and we all think that you're a fucking retard that can't spell AND has no sense of irony. Like, it's ironic that you're so proud of not having time to read comics because you have a "real job" and a wife, yet you have time to comment on a video game blog. Twat.

LordToastington @ Jun 23rd 2009 10:48PM

Fucking children.

John @ Jun 24th 2009 1:33AM

Love it, I'm a child to the people argueing about a fucking Comic book movie.

People who think correcting someone's spelling on the internet is important.

You are such a bunch of easily riled up losers that I feel sorry for your family that has to put up with you in real life.

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