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Generally favorable reviews- based on 35 Ratings

  • Summary: Picking up right where the game's story left off, Battle out of Hell includes an additional single-player chapter 10 levels, as well as new multiplayer modes, maps and models. It offers an amplified arsenal of un-deadly weapons, bigger and badder bosses and the map editor Software Development Kit. [DreamCatcher Games] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 36
  2. Negative: 1 out of 36
  1. 95
    If you own the original, not buying the extra levels would make you a sinner. Now, stop treating your body like a carnival ride.
  2. It's got the same flaws as Painkiller, as well as all its considerable merits.
  3. The biggest gripe anyone can have with an expansion pack is that it doesn't have enough content to justify the purchase. Battle out of Hell comes dangerously close to the edge of the cliff, but with the help of new bosses, optimized net code and added multiplayer facets, it manages to hold on by the skin of its teeth.
  4. Disaster. Despite a beefy visual upgrade, this insultingly short add-on plays like a skanky collection of deleted scenes from the original game. [Feb 2005, p.68]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. TheCreator
    10
    Just Fv.king Baaaad Azz.
  2. A stellar little expansion with even more crazier levels, crazier enemies, and some crazier weapons. A frantic shooter fan cannot be without this expansion pack. If you can't find it, get Painkiller Black Edition for Steam or a retail copy. It's worth every penny to expand the already spiritual and epic Painkiller experience! Expand
  3. Lokesz
    5
    Worthless expansion. It contains a few extra levels wich look good but lack in gameplay.
  4. Paolo
    0
    Boring.

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