Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. has announced the launch of the downloadable title PAIN, available exclusively on PLAYSTATION Store for PLAYSTATION 3 owners. Developed by Idol Minds from Denver, PAIN is truly a unique title that focuses on cultural relevance to the teen market, including comedy, creativity, community and competition. Gamers in PAIN launch their character from a giant slingshot into a destructible downtown environment riddled with precarious obstacles and humorous situations. Points are earned by stringing together painful collisions and inducing mass chaos in the environment. Guess this goes down well with today’s angst ridden teen community.

Complete with various single player and multiplayer modes, PAIN is a highly creative, comedic experience that invites players to explore the environment on their own, play head-to-head with friends or compete with the masses via the online leaderboards. Additionally, PAIN offers a robust online community that allows players to communicate with the development team in-game and online (via http://www.PAINPS3.com) and provide real-time feedback of their game experience — which characters, real or fictional, they would like to launch, for example.

PAIN permits players to load one of several characters, each with their own unique personality and specific attributes, into an extreme launching device, a human-sized, ultra-powerful slingshot. Some of the characters initially available in PAIN are Jarvis, a Gen-X punk, and Ed, a cow mascot. These characters are launched into an active, physics-controlled environment filled with tongue-in-cheek humor as well as some treacherous and funny situations. The Havok powered physics model and lifelike ragdoll animations enforce PAIN’s replayability as gamers launch their characters into an environment always ripe for different forms of demolition. Furthermore, PAIN is designed to expand and additional content will be available for download regularly following the title’s launch on PLAYSTATION Network.

You can download PAIN from the PLAYSTATION Store for $9.99.

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