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May 22nd, 2008 | Category: Gaming

Yesterday’s Zero Punctuation featured Painkiller, a first-person shooter from 2004 that somehow flew under my radar. He seemed highly appreciative of the fact that it was an FPS cut from the same mold as Doom, Doom II and Serious Sam, with the shooting action being its primary focus. It certainly sounded appealing to me, so I made a note to check it out at some point.

Today, I logged onto the Steam website and beheld the following:

Well, I guess that’s a far better endorsement than anything the major gaming websites could dream up :D

2 Comments so far

  1. Tardzilla May 23rd, 2008 2:48 am

    The funnier thing is thing is that apparently Yahtzee was emailed by Gabe Newell himself, and he told him how his review of Painkiller tripled the sales of the game in four hours.

    i would be one of those people who bought the game if i had the money right now. :(

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    sonictempest replied on May 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 am:

    Get the demo off Steam! It’s actually fairly long. And you get to use the gun that shoots shurikens and lightning in the second level :D

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