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Pain

It’s the funniest game in town! Load characters into a super-sized, ultra-powerful slingshot and launch them into an active, physics-controlled environment filled with precarious and humorous situations. Score…

78 29 November 2007

Pain is a sport developed by Idol Minds, released 29 November 2007 on PlayStation 3.

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What Pain is

Pain is a sport game developed by Idol Minds and released in 2007. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only. It runs on Havok.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pain is an action video game developed by Idol Minds and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It was released as a downloadable title on the PlayStation Store in North America on November 29, 2007 and in the PAL region on March 20, 2008. The game was released physically in June 2009 in Europe, Australia and the United Kingdom. By 2009, Pain had become the all-time most downloaded digital game on the PlayStation Store.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Pain holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Pain launched on 29 November 2007, within three weeks of Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Assassin's Creed and Crysis. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Assassin's Creed, Crysis.

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When did Pain come out?
Pain was released on 29 November 2007 for PlayStation 3.

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