Polish developer People can Fly announces the completion of development on
Painkiller: Battle Out of
Hell, saying the first expansion for their first-person shooter will be
available in the U.S. this week and in Europe shortly thereafter:
Paris,
France - November 8, 2004 - DreamCatcher Games today 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 are 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.