Now that same drug, Valkyr, has spread through the whole New York City like a nightmare plague, and Max Payne s on a crusade for revenge, out to get even. The drug hit the city like a bad dream, turning it into a hell on earth. More corpses lie in the streets than there are demons in the real thing, and hordes of Valkyr-head junkies are on an insane killing spree, their eyes burning with mad green fire. To Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, this new drug was evil incarnate, to be stopped at any cost. They infiltrated an undercover agent into the ranks a NY Mafia family that appears to be behind the distribution of the drug.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Max Payne, now a DEA special agent, is a man with nothing to lose, he s the man for the job. He goes to work undercover among the dirtiest mobster murderers in this city gone bad. Now Max s boss and best friend, the only one who knew his true identity, has been murdered, and Max s been framed for the slaying. Now the cops think Max is a cop killer, and suddenly the mobsters know all about him being a fed. Both are out to get him, and the heat s coming down like nothing before.