Publishers JoWood and its subsidiary Dreamcatcher Games have been promoting their just released first person shooter Painkiller Resurrection as having co-op support for the single player game. But is that totally true? A post on the game's official message boards by a JoWood community manager reveals that the "co-op support" isn't quite as advertised.

The message states, "To play a coop game you have to start a dedicated server with the tool provided together with your game. Pull in the campaign maps from C9L01 to C9L06, choose FFA and start the game. You can also add / remove bots accompanying you there." Obviously most people think of setting up a co-op mode in a game via other means. The message adds, "We will add a more convenient ingame coop menu with the next update " So if you were expecting a normal co-op mode out of the box, this is just a heads-up.

Other people on the message boards have complained about other aspects of the game (filled with bugs, only six levels, price differences between Steam version and retail version) but those issues are really for reviewers to pounce on. However we felt the issue with the advertised co-op support should be addressed in a news article as an FYI to consumers.

[Thanks Matthew D]

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