Extreme PaintBrawl

Extreme PaintBrawl
Developer(s)Creative Carnage
Publisher(s)Head Games Publishing
Designer(s)Carlos Cuello, Andre Lowe, Joe Wilcox
Composer(s)Todd Duane
EngineBuild
Platform(s)Windows, MS-DOS
Release
  • NA: October 20, 1998
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Extreme PaintBrawl is a paintball video game released for DOS/Windows on October 20, 1998. The game is considered to be one of the worst video games ever made. Extreme PaintBrawl was developed in two weeks using the Build engine; its soundtrack was composed by musician Todd Duane, who sent his demo tracks to Head Games. The game was followed by Extreme PaintBrawl 2 in 1999, Ultimate PaintBrawl 3 in 2000, and Extreme PaintBrawl 4 in 2002, all of which were met with negative reviews.

Despite being "distinguished as the first non-violent 3D shooter" by the Philadelphia Daily News, prior examples of non-violent first-person shooters have existed on the market a few years before Extreme PaintBrawl was released, namely Super 3D Noah's Ark by Christian video game developer Wisdom Tree and Chex Quest, an advergame total conversion of Doom for children.