Naturally, the single player experience is only half of the appeal of the Painkiller series. The original game was selected as the 2005 shooter for the Cyberathlete's Professional League and benefited tremendously from the PK++ mod developed by Dr. Steven Wilkins (known as "blowfish" to the Painkiller community). The new mod added a number of enhanced features to the game, including competition friendly elements like spectator mode and bots. Fortunately, all of those improvements are being included in Painkiller: Resurrection right out of the box

Perhaps the best thing about multiplayer, however, is that the game will, for the first time in the series' history, feature an entirely cooperative campaign. Players will now be able to fight their way through Purgatory with a friend by their side. (Although if it's anything like our Left 4 Dead matches around the office, most of the time your friends are going to be shooting you in the face and laughing as you writhe in the grip of some unholy creature's freakishly long tongue.)