Painkiller: Hell Wars

This long-delayed artifact of mindless twitch action just can't keep up with the more recent FPS genre darlings.

Genre: Shooter
Release date: Jul 24, 2006
Published by: DreamCatcher Interactive
Developed by: People Can Fly
Features: Dolby Digital 5.1
Multiplayer Modes:
Offline
8 player VS
Online
8 player VS
5 SO-SO
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Screenshots updated Aug 9, 2006
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Painkiller: Hell Wars
Certainly from the past, but not much of a blast
Xbox Review - Aug 9, 2006
Glimpse of pain
[Xbox] New videos from Painkiller: Hell Wars will devour your soul
Xbox News - Jul 18, 2006
Painkiller: Hell Wars goes goldN4G
DreamCatcher Interactive has announced that Painkiller: Hell Wars for the Xbox has gone gold and...
Xbox News from N4G - Jul 12, 2006
XBox - The Games of Summer 2006N4G
While Microsoft has forgotten about the Xbox and moved on to the 360, uber-publisher Electronic Arts...
Xbox News from N4G - Jun 8, 2006
Glimpse of pain
[Xbox] New videos from Painkiller: Hell Wars will devour your soul
Jul 18, 2006
Painkiller: Hell Wars goes gold N4G
DreamCatcher Interactive has announced that Painkiller: Hell Wars for the Xbox has gone gold and...
News from N4G Jul 12, 2006
XBox - The Games of Summer 2006 N4G
While Microsoft has forgotten about the Xbox and moved on to the 360, uber-publisher Electronic Arts...
News from N4G Jun 8, 2006
Painkiller delayed
[Xbox] We're all just going to have to wait longer for our anesthesia
Jun 1, 2006
Painkiller: Hell Wars Delayed N4G
DreamCatcher today announced that it is extending the development time for Painkiller: Hell Wars,...
News from N4G Jun 1, 2006
Painkiller: Hell Wars Delayed N4G
Long-awaited Xbox game is still on track but additional time will be spent making important...
News from N4G Jun 1, 2006
Painkiller: Hell Wars images from the inferno
New shots from none-too-cheerful-sounding Xbox shooter
Feb 25, 2006
See a cold, dark day in Hell Wars
Painkiller's Xbox sequel reveals more of the shades of Hades
Feb 15, 2006
It's been a while since the demonic first-person shooter Painkiller and its expansion pack landed on the PC, and though its endless waves of Hell's minions, enormous boss monsters and reactive physics might've been the bee's knees then, the intervening years have taken some of the fire out of the Xbox edition, Painkiller: Hell Wars. Our hero, unburdened with the trappings of personality, slaughters Lucifer's troops with weapons that sound more interesting than they are. Sure, pinning a goon ...
Painkiller: Hell Wars
Demolish a weird version of Purgatory in this super-speedy first-person shooter
Apr 24, 2006
Under a constant hail of putrified flesh gibs and congealed blood, Daniel Garner fends off an overwhelming horde of monstrous demons ... with a shotgun (among other blunt projectiles). Painkiller: Hell Wars slams you into a nightmarish world where you play as Daniel and attempt to claw your way out of Hell. Set in a strange sort of purgatory suffering from a plague of demonic beasts, Painkiller: Hell Wars hurls gore and zombie bits at an amazing pace. This game is alarmingly fast, and the Xbox ...   » Read Full Painkiller: Hell Wars preview
ESRB Rating
Painkiller: Hell Wars is rated:
Mature
Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity
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