Painkiller: Hell Wars [PSP - Cancelled]
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Loading ...Painkiller: Hell Wars is a cancelled FPS that was in development in 2006 by czech studio Mindware Studios (which also developed Painkiller: Overdose and a spiritual successor, Dreamkiller), that would have been published by DreamCatcher Interactive for the PSP. The original Painkiller was released in 2004 for PC and in 2006 a port titled “Hell Wars” was published for the Xbox, but the PSP one would have been different from the other versions. As we can read in a Gamespot preview from E3 2006:
The game’s content appears to be mostly new, with new monsters, weapons, and levels, as opposed to Hell Wars for the Xbox, which was mostly a port of existing PC content.
Sadly Painkiller Hell Wars was never released for the PSP: only few images and a trailer are available, but the ingame scenes dont seem to be from the PSP version. It’s currently unknown how much of the game was completed before its cancellation.
Thanks to Userdante and Jaxx for the contributions!
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11 Responses to Painkiller: Hell Wars [PSP - Cancelled]
Vicente
January 17th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
the game was also announced for ps2, but its as cancelled too, strangely gamespot says the game was released in september 2007 in europe.
matt
January 17th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Yeah it wasn’t though only the Xbox version was released in Europe.
On the subject of painkiller, seems like Painkiller: Resurrection on the Xb360 is pretty dead aswell.
Jaxx
January 18th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
It was not developed by People Can Fly but by a czech studio Mindware Studios, which also developed Painkiller: Overdose and a spiritual successor Dreamkiller.
monokoma
January 18th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Thanks for the info Jaxx! :) I’m going to update the post
Jaxx
January 18th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Hey no probs :)
Jaxx
January 18th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
One more thing, it was supposed to be on the PS2 too, but I don’t know if they made it past the paperworks. I heard a weird story from the lead designer of that studio, that they already worked on the assets, which were for PSP but also PS2.
Vicente
January 19th, 2010 at 12:40 am
jaxx, is true, the game was supposed to be released for the ps2, but for unknown reasons it was cancelled too, i guess it was because of painkiller overdose.
monokoma
January 19th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Interesting.. could it be possible to get again in contact with the lead designer to try to preserve more screens from the project?
Jaxx
January 19th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
I guess that since the got very bad relationship with Dreamcatcher right now (they screwed them off in financial terms), it would not be good for them to just release some screenshots of an unfinished game. He does not like to talk about it either.
Jaxx
January 19th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Vicente: well, the reasons are more complicated than that…
FIN
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Thx for the insight, Jaxx and monokoma!