Painkiller: Hell & Damnation

Painkiller: Hell & Damnation is a shooter game developed by The Farm 51 and released in 2012. It was published by Nordic Games Publishing. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 107 achievements to unlock.

Painkiller: Hell & Damnation holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 16% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points below the year average.

The main story runs about 32 hrs.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 equivalent, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600XT (256 MB). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Painkiller: Hell & Damnation launched on 31 October 2012, within three weeks of Hotline Miami, Assassin's Creed III, Halo 4 and Euro Truck Simulator 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Hotline Miami, Assassin's Creed III, Halo 4, Euro Truck Simulator 2.