Once People Can Fly left this franchise, it became stale and developed by nearly anyone willing to make more levels for the game that should of stayed as mods. That's great for community and publisher, but the problem is, any game after Battle Out Of Hell is pretty diabolical and full of bugs also, you never play as Daniel.

Wow, how mighty have fallen. Forced in co-op, no story, basically it is Painkiller in name and game to please shareholders by being multiplayer. Even for singleplayer you just do multiplayer with 2 bots. 9 levels, they feel same, nothing really is there to mix up gameplay enough to rival Director AI from Left 4 Dead, which gave that game long life. Also I didn't even know they were making this, players too, it has 82 concurrent players at max for last week, from 871 peak of all time, which is 19 days. Left 4 Dead has 25k concurrent right now and that is below 24h or week peaks. Like, if you ask me, if you were interested, just pick Vermintide 2 and you got better game. And if you are looking into boomer shooters, anything will do better job for singleplayer. I haven't followed genre as much, so I don't have recommendation, but Painkiller really missed the mark on what it was supposed to be. And now it is just a hollow skin that was in desperation stretched over new body that isn't Painkiller, but parades with its skin around trying to look favorable, when it looks like butchered monster.