Some of the locales are bizarre, the enemy designs intriguingly odd, and there's always heavy metal music raging during battle. Settling into Painkiller's groove over the first few stages is entertaining. Whenever players collect 33 souls from fallen enemies, this inconvenience can be bypassed momentarily, as players enter an invulnerable demon mode where every enemy can be dismembered with a flux of dimensional fabric. It's a minor inconvenience, but aggravating nonetheless as it interrupts the otherwise fast-paced shooting action. To access any other weapons, it's necessary to hit the black button, reassign D-pad hotkeys, and head back into the action. Instead of simply being able to cycle through each with the D-Pad, the game forces only two to be assigned at a time. Choosing between them, however, is a pain. Proving more than adequate for dismantling demons, there really weren't any issues with the game's weapon abilities. Equipped with an alternate freeze ray, it proves especially deadly since most of the game's combat takes place at very close range. The shotgun, acquired early in the game, proves to be the most effective against both grunt soldiers and bosses. Another weds an electrical discharge and a different kind of machine gun. One armament, for instance, combines a machine gun and a flamethrower. Each has two fire modes, generally unrelated to each other. Aside from the melee Painkiller buzzsaw, five weapons are eventually made available. Brutally butchering every last enemy in a stage is the only way to advance, and for this players have a number of options. The levels are split up into five chapters, each culminating in a boss battle. Having a story in a game like this is certainly a nice perk, but it does little to assuage the boredom that will eventually overcome players as they blast through the rest of Painkiller. Told through grainy cinematic sequences, Garner greets a few demonic and heavenly characters that point him in the right direction. The reasons for his presence there soon become clear: he must do away with all Lucifer's generals to gain entrance into heaven and meet up again with his wife. Ripped violently from the mortal plane by a car crash, Daniel Garner is tossed inexplicably into a purgatorial dimension. Though it's far from epic, there is a storyline mashed into the frantic shooting.
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