Article: Retrospective: Painkiller
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Before the Bulletstorm.
A chap called Daniel Garner accidentally drives into a truck on his wife’s birthday and they both die. For a game that’s heavy on spearing zombies to walls through the face and giggling, it’s all a bit melodramatic. Trapped in purgatory, the only way to rejoin his wife in heaven is to become an agent of various angelic and demonic creatures – one of whom has her boobs half out. His mission? To kill wave after wave of the hell creatures marauding towards him, then to move forward a bit and trigger another spawn. It’s the sort of … Continue Reading