DreamCatcher Games
announced Painkiller: Battle Out Of Hell has reached gold status. The Expansion Pack for the
award-winning Windows FPS, Painkiller, will begin shipping to North American retailers on
November 11th and will begin releasing across Europe on November 24th.
Picking up
where the game's story left off, Painkiller: Battle Out Of Hell offers multiple features to
extend enjoyment of this spectacular shooter. Using code from the 1.5 update, the Expansion
Pack includes an additional single-player chapter with 10 levels, as well as new multiplayer
modes, maps and models. It will also offer an amplified arsenal of un-deadly weapons, bigger
and badder bosses and the map editor Software Development Kit.
Painkiller fans re
going to be very happy with Battle Out Of Hell, said Richard Wah Kan, DreamCatcher's CEO
and President. The levels are bigger, the gameplay is more intense, and if you can believe
it, the monsters are even more terrifying.
A shooter in its purest form, Painkiller
boasts truly inspired graphics and some of the most intimidating level bosses ever seen.
Utilizing the Havok 2.0 physics engine, the game continues to achieve new heights of
physics-based game play while the latest version of the PAIN Engine cranks out an
unbelievably high polygon count, and exciting new features like heat and haze distortion,
light blooms, spectacular pixel mapping, new shader effects, tweaks for the latest video
cards and an improved networking
core.
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