The first and the best game in its series. It features a lot of mindless but fun shooting the killing like the Serious Sam series. The weapon and monster design are very creative, and the boss fights are very memorable. You'll have a lot of fun if you like the old school shooters--running and gunning.

Well, like most, I play them all. Didn't know what to make of Painkiller when it first came out, was obsessed with Half Life 2 at the time. When I finally got to purchasing this game, I got the Black Edition. Boy, I'll tell you. This is great fun. I see why so many gamer gamers love this game. Totally mindless killing of some of the wierdest bad guys ever. Cooky weapons, basically rag-tag type of stuff.

What a blast though. This is one game I could imagine I would never really get sick of. There are though, some very painful (no pun intended!!) passages, where you can spend hours, literally days sometimes (I know, cuz I did) trying to figure out what to do. Some of the hidden secrets and doors are well, TOO hidden for my taste, and commit the worst video game sin, causing massive frustration. But there are enough walkthroughs and Painkiller sites now to help you get through this game the first time. The next time through should be less frustrating. And worst of all, many of these frustrating parts are JUMPING parts, which I HATE worst of all. You jump and jump and jump and fall, for hours on end. Its why I bagged the original Half Life without finishing it half way through. Can't stand all that jumping and dying.

All in all though, fantastic FUN, if you can get past some of the ridiculous parts where you are totally lost.

This is a crazy fun game, frantic, and fast paced. Holding back and being cautious doesn't work, but to dive fully into the fray, since the monsters usually just run towards you. I've only soloed the 1st 2 difficulty skill levels and it was intense. Haven't tried multi-player yet.

I thought some of the boss levels were lame, at least the ones that required a trick that needed to be figured out, but that's really a minor point given how much fun the rest of the game is.

Where the game shines is in the atmosphere, levels, and graphics. Once I've cleared an area I find I tend to wander around admiring the detail that went into the design of the levels.

Painkiller, like Serious Sam, is a throwback to the days of Doom and Quake in that the main objective is to get through each stage and kill everything that moves. Weapons are pretty varied, such as the stakegun that, well, shoots stakes and your default weapon, a weedwhacker that can grapple and shred enemies to gibs. Plot is optional but decent enough for this kind of game. In a world with too much focus on tacticool shooting and ultra realism, it's nice to find an FPS like this.

Painkiller Black is jsut a pure old-school game that gets everything right. Sharp graphics that still hold up today, waves of undead that range from standard to the insane. Highly recommended!

Painkiller belonging to one of my favorite Fps-games.Mobility goes smoothly through the entire game combined with real heavy metal music.Real monster-slaughtering promised!

Black edition consists of orginal Painkiller as well as 10 new single player levels that really rocks!

So if you liked Painkiller,you will not be disappointed when you play this.

The only negative would be that when you complete the 10 new levels so that remains is the orginal that you probably already have played.

But wonderful is short sometimes...