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DreamCatcher’s Painkiller: Battle Out Of Hell Goes Gold on November 08, 2004.
Hell for the Holidays...
Toronto, Canada - 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.
Developed by People Can Fly, Painkiller: Battle out of Hell is rated ‘M’ for Mature in
North America and has a “16+ PEGI” rating in Europe. Players will need the original
version of Painkiller to play Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell. Download the Painkiller
demo at www.PainkillerGame.com. Painkiller is the Official tournament game of the
CPL $1,000,000 2005 World Tour.
About DreamCatcher Games:
DreamCatcher Games is a fast-growing worldwide publisher and distributor of
interactive entertainment software committed to release action, strategy and RPG
games on Windows®, PlayStation®2 and Xbox® gaming systems. Its large portfolio
of games includes the critically acclaimed title Painkiller, a popular and best-selling
action shooter game.
More information about DreamCatcher Games and its products can be found at
http://www.dreamcatchergames.com
Source: Dreamcatcher Interactive
Reported by Joseph Bennett. |
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