oH, i was looking at the scores for Recurring Evil at Metacritic. That's the one that had low scores. Hell and Damnation looks good, it's another of those games that got a High Def Re-do.
Yup, this is basically Painkiller HD. Of the non-official expansions, only Overdose is good.
The rest are crap – they completely miss the fine balance of combat and exploration that the original game did so well.
I like mindless shooting too but serious sam is a hell of a lot better.
The painkiller levels are always cramped, usually boring, and collecting those stupid coins & souls is way more trouble than its worth. Have also never seen the massive open levels and hordes of enemies serious sam is famous for.
I don't agree there, and I’d rank Painkiller as good as Serious Sam. Painkiller’s secrets are satisfying to find, and the coins allow you to equip cards which makes you more powerful. Then you can go back and unlock more cards with your new abilities.
It’s a completely different game once you start using cards and trying to unlock all of them, and trying to find all of the secrets too.
As for wide open areas, Painkiller had quite a few (e.g. military base, refinery, train station, opera house, etc).