PAIN // PS3 / PSN
PAIN is kinda like the crashing bit in Burnout 3, only with a man and not a car. And you know what, that’s brilliant, as I miss the crashing bit from Burnout 3, now it’s been replaced by the seemingly inferior ‘Showtime’ (more on that another time).
Anyway, to play PAIN you’ve basically got to catapult a man from an ultra-powerful slingshot into an active environment. Not just any environment, but one filled with precarious and potentially ‘humorous’ objects and danger. By doing this catapulting, and subsequently stringing together collisions (that should result in chaos descending upon the initially peaceful environments), you score points.
And what do points make?
Well, there are multiple (unlockable) characters and modes, such as Spank the Monkey, Mime Toss, PAIN Bowling, Fun With Explosives, with more to come via PSN. Plus there’s the obligatory online community that enables you to compete with other players around the world or, more importantly, track your friend’s scores.
PAIN is a funny, uber-playful, addictive and brilliant multiplayer game, that I am loving. It’s not perfect, but at £4.99, it’s well worth its relatively tiny pricetag.
If you have a PS3 download it, tell me, and I’ll try beat your scores.
Bet you can’t guess what my profile name is…
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