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Painkiller: Hell Wars

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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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Latest Stories

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 gold

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 2006

While Microsoft has forgotten about the Xbox and moved on to the 360, uber-publisher Electronic Arts...

Xbox News from N4G - Jun 8, 2006

News

Glimpse of pain

[Xbox] New videos from Painkiller: Hell Wars will devour your soul

Jul 18, 2006

Painkiller: Hell Wars goes gold

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

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

DreamCatcher today announced that it is extending the development time for Painkiller: Hell Wars,...

News from N4G Jun 1, 2006

Painkiller: Hell Wars Delayed

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

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Review

Certainly from the past, but not much of a blast

Aug 9, 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 ...

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Previews

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

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