The Good:
Funny as hell, especially with friends
Crammed with cool stuff to discover
Replay lets you dissect each launch

The Bad:
Frustrating camera
Single-player only holds up so long
No way to save replays

For whatever base reason, there are few things in this world that are more purely hilarious than watching other human beings hurt themselves in spectacular ways. It's the reason we watch NASCAR crashes, gruesome skateboard wipeouts and reruns of Jackass. It's also the reason that PAIN, a downloadable PlayStation Network game about flinging yourself at high speeds against buildings, is so relentlessly entertaining.

The setup is simple: you've got one indestructible idiot, one giant slingshot and one city block filled with clockwork cars, trains, pedestrians and all kinds of destructible objects. Launch your idiot in any direction, and you'll score points by wrecking stuff and causing as much injury as possible to him and those around him.

If that sounds stupid, rest assured that it is. Very, very stupid. But it's also wildly addictive, endlessly hilarious and takes more strategy, planning and creativity than you might think. Granted, in "Paindemonium" - the game's default, single-player sandbox mode - you're free to aimlessly wreak havoc, reducing the city block to a ruin through multiple launches before resetting everything back to its pre-disaster state and starting over again. And if you play like that, you're guaranteed to get bored fast.