Hell as a playground, one furious demon, and not much else.

The community verdict is blunt, and it is not kind. On gut feeling, when you just have to pick, Painkiller: Overdose comes dead last, ahead of no other game at all. And this time the detail does not rescue it. Art style clears only 3% of titles, the wish to rediscover it 7%, attachment 13%. Fun and controller feel, supposedly the whole promise of a shooter like this, sit ahead of just 19% of games. The one line that climbs a little, its soundtrack, ahead of 36%, changes nothing. There is no tension here between instinct and analysis: both say the same thing.

In the lineage of old-school arcade shooters, this spin-off arrives after a far better loved original, and it pays for it. No character to hold onto, no image that stays.

So, who is it for? For you if you want raw venting, waves of demons and nothing slowing you down. Much less so if you expect a game to leave you anything once the screen goes dark.