Painkiller Resurrection announced

Released five years ago, the original Painkiller represented a revival of the old school FPS paradigm, offering pure run-n-gun gameplay in the spirit of Serious Sam and the original Doom.

The game was famous for having hordes of monsters, massive bosses, novel weapons, and an innovative tarot card system for powerups. The game was also notorious for placing secrets in plain sight that were almost impossible to get to.

Now a sequel has been announced and according to the preview, you’re a different character to the original protagonist, but the core gameplay and the basic story of being stuck in purgatory remain.

The game is using an updated version of the Pain engine that powered the original game and the screenshots look remarkably similar, right down the HUD. Here’s hoping they’ve put enough graphical updates into the engine so it doesn’t look dated at release.

You can read the full preview here.

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