Max Payne
Tags: revenge, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence

Plot synopsis:
On a cold stormy winter night, an N.Y.P.D helicopter flys over the Hudson River towards the city, Two police cars drive to where the helicopter is heading: The Aesir Corporation Head-Quarters. A man is standing on the ledge with a sniper rifle in his hand, looking down on the nightmare that changed his life... His name is Max Payne.Max is a detective with the N.Y.P.D., Three years prior to the present, Max and his DEA friend, Alex Balder are talking in his office, Alex offers him an oppritunity to join the DEA but Max declines, choosing his family before work. On his way home, Max sees all the children playing on a hot summer evening. When Max enters his house, he calls out to his wife but there's no answer. Max walks through the entry way and notices a black "V" with a syringe going through it painted on the wall. The phone rings and Max answers, instructing the caller to dial 911, she hangs up. Max hears screaming and noises upstairs, When he reaches the top, two gun shots go off and his wife is screaming. When Max tries to go through the doorway in the bathroom but it's barricaded. Max decides to go through the baby's room but two men come out and Max kills them, He enters the room and sees his baby girl dead, on the floor. Max gains access to his bedroom and his wife is lying dead on their bed. As a result in loosing his family, Max decides to join the DEA where he goes on an undercover assignment to infiltrate the mafia.It is now present day and a winter storm has just began. Max is at a diner waiting to hear from his partner "B.B" who instructs him to meet with Alex at the Roscoe Street subway station. Max gets off the train and finds a dead security guard in a room, Max gets back to the platform and two mobsters are waiting for the next train to come. Max kills them and makes his way to the lower level of the Subway. Once their, Max seeks a "subway personnel" room and enters. He saves a technician from being killed off by a mobster. The technician takes Max to the upper level where he can call for help in the security office. The guard is killed and Max takes out the mobsters in the room. Max turns on an unused inspection car and uses it to go down a dark tunnel leading him to a closed off 1940's subway station. Once he gets there he feels a rumble and everything begins to shake for a couple of seconds. Max goes through the station until he finds a giant hole in the wall leading to the vault of the Roscoe Bank. A group of mobsters planned to take a large sum of money along with "Aesir Corporation" bonds. Max also finds some detonators on a table. He takes them and finds a door rigged with explosives. Max uses the detonators and the doors blows off it's hinges. Alex runs to a locked gate and Max meets up with him. Max tells Alex that it was a bank job and it was Jack Lupino's men. Before Alex can make another plan, he is shot to death in front of Max's eyes. With nothing to do to save his friend, Max leaves the subway and heads for Lupino's hotel.While sitting at the bar waiting for Lupino to show up, Max is greeted by the Finito brothers, Lupino's enforcers. They discover Max is a cop and try to kill him in their office, but Max is able to kill both of them. Before leaving the office, Max finds a letter to the Finito's written by Vinnie Gognitti, underboss to Don Angelo Punchinello. The letter explains that a "V" deal is going down at the hotel and the Finito's along with Chicago mobster Rico Meurte are to see the deal through. Max finds Meurte's room number written on the letter and he heads to his room. On the way, Max hears a newscast on the radio explaining he is wanted for the murder of Alex Balder. Max reaches Rico Meurte's room and finds a letter written by Don Punchinello asking him to back up the deal as a major favor repaid to him. Max heads down to the basement of the hotel making his way to the entry-hall.On his way their, Max seeks a hooker's hotel room with a diary entry recently written in her book. Max finds the room where the deal is taking place and kills the mobsters inside. Max finds a case of Valkyr on the table along with $5,000 in dirty money. Max goes to the bar and finds Rico Meurte getting a blow-job by the hooker, Candy Dawn. Max kills the both of them as they open fire on him. Before leaving the hotel, Max seeks a switchboard in the reception area, he overhears a conversation between a dying Meurte and Vinny Gognitti, the mafia is now aware Max is out and to be ready for anything.As Max leaves the hotel, a bomb goes off in one of Lupino's tenament buildings and a black volkswagon drives down the road, Max sees the man riding shot-gun is Vladimir Lem, the head of the russian mob and enemy of Don Punchinello. Max goes to the recently destroyed tenament building and looks for Vinnie Gognitti. Making his way through the building, a pay-phone rings and Max answers. The caller reveals himself as Alfred Woden and tells Max the police are on their way. Max guns it through what's left of the building until he reaches Gognitti's office. Gognitti grabs his gun and fires off a shot at Max and Max dodges and shoots Gognitti in the chest. Gognitt's men try to kill Max but don't succeed. Max chases Gognitti on foot over rooftops and alley ways until Gognitti reaches a dead end and Max fires another shot at him. Max interrogates Gognitti on where to find Jack Lupino and Gognitti gives up and tells Max he's at Ragna Rock, a gothic night club owned by Lupino.Max drives to Ragna Rock and takes on the mobsters hiding out in the club. Max gathers clues as to discover Lupino's true form. He finds a book that is about the world coming to an end, and over hears conversations of mobsters explaining Lupino's violent behavior. Max reaches the backstage area leading to Lupino's hideout. Max finds a letter with bloody fingerprints on them addressed to Lupino from Punchinello telling him to get his act together or "The Trio" will pay him a visit. Max reliazes the Trio is the Don's most violent infamous henchmen. Max finds papers on Lupino's table with lists of demons and dark gods of the underworld, along with a journal entry of a dark sermon Lupino preaches. Max finally meets Lupino eye to eye and is ready for a final showdown. Lupino is loaded with Valkyr and is functioning unstably. Max is able to kill him and unloads clips of ammo into the body for the murder of his family. A woman comes out from the curtains and draws a gun at Max.Max aims back and learns the woman is Mona Sax, the twin sister of Lisa Punchinello, Don Punchinello's wife. Mona tells Max that it was Punchinello who had Alex killed and not Lupino. Max and Mona lower their guns and she offer him and drink. Max downs the whisky and passes out on the floor.After Max has a horrible dream showing him killing his wife, he wakes up tied to a chair with a man holding a baseball bat. The man introduces himself as Frankie "The Bat" Niagra. With no way to escape, Max gets Niagra irratated with a remark about his name, as a result Max is hit across the head three times with the bat. Frankie remarks that he's gonna take a break and get something to drink. After he leaves, Max breaks free out of the chair and goes through the basement looking for his weapons to continue his quest. Max reaches the first floor of the hotel and makes his way to the bar where Frankie is. The bar had been taped off and secured. Before Max continues to the bar, he overhears a mobster talking on the phone regarding Mona and The Trio. Max kills the man and hears a radio broadcast explaining his body was found by "reliable sources" and finds a note written to Frankie by Punchinello to take care of him good. Max goes to the bar and sees Frankie having a beer. They go through a fierce gun fight with Frankie having his last swing at bat for good. Max leaves the hotel and sees that he's being tailed by Vladimir. Max gets an offer from Vladimir in return that he'll get help going after Punchinello, Max hears him out.Vladimir's cargo ship "Charon" is taken under siege by Boris Dime, working for Punchinello. The ship is loaded with guns, ammo and hardware. If Max can retake the ship and take out Dime, the guns are his and he'll be ready for the fight against Punchinello and his men. Max agrees to the offer and they drive to the docks where the ship is located. Max goes through the dock killing off any of Dime's crew until he reaches the ship. When Max boards the ship, Punchinello calls for Dime on the phone in the ship. Max answers and suggests they should get together for a talk which infuriates Punchinello. Max goes to the lower deck of the ship and finds Dime waiting for him armed with a shotgun. Max kills him and goes to the Stock room and takes all the ammo and guns he needs. He then meets up with Vladimir who offers to help him but Max declines his request.While walking down a street. Max spots a pay-phone and calls Punchinello who wants to have a meeting. Punchinello tells Max to meet with him at his restaurant in one hour. Max gets to the restaurant but no ones there. A match is thrown onto the floor of the restaurant and the place is engulfed in flames, trapping Max inside. He goes through the back ways towards the kitchen until he reaches the sewer entrance and escapes to the street. Vladimir picks him up and drops him off at the Punchinello Manor.Max arrives at the Manor, and makes his way to the basement entrance in the back. The door had already been unlocked and Max thinks Mona is there. He then finds a room with a body on the table with a knife through his chest. Max makes his way to the kitchen where Pilot Providence, third member of the trio and his men are waiting for Max. He sucessfully kills them all and continues through the Manor. Max reaches the entry way and finds the second member of the trio, Joe "Dead-Pan" Salem waiting for him, Max kills him and heads for Punchinello's bedroom. Max sees the body of a woman on Punchinello's bed, He is unable to tell whether it's Mona or her sister because the body was badily tortured. Leaving the bedroom, Max answers a ringing telephone. The caller is Alfred Woden who warns Max that a helicopter has landed on the Manor grounds and that he must escape. Max isn't leaving until he finds Punchinello. However Vince Minonauno, first and last member of the Trio tries to kill Max but is unsucessful. Max hears Punchinello on the phone in his locked office begging for help. Max kicks down the door and Punchinello begs him not to kill him. Suddenly three suited men carrying assualt rifles enters Punchinello's office and kills Punchinello while Max fights off the hitmen. Max leaves the Don's office but runs into a group of suited men aiming their rifles at him. A women walks by the men and shows Max a syringe full of Valkyr and injects him with it until he falls down unconsious.The men and their leader leave after commanding them "Take Me to Cold Steel!" Max has another horrible dream, even worse than the last one. When he wakes up, Max is sick and throws up and is finally able to climb back to his feet. Max remembers the women's last words before storming out of the manor, and remember's Cold Steel being a factory outside New York. Max drives out there to find out whats going on. He infiltrates the factory dodging fire from patrolling guards. The women's men take over the base and initate the Self-Destruct protocol. With nothing more to go on, Max finds a computer explaining "Project Valhalla". The project was a top-secret operation to save Aesir Corporation during the Gulf War. Max's research shows that the project was involved in the use of Valkyr and went through three phases. The last phase was to be iniated at his home address, three years ago. Max also remembers his wife telling him that she found files under the name Valhalla while working at the D.A's office. With the self-destruct countdown winding down fast, Max is able to escape and heads back to the city.Max goes to an all night diner drinking coffee to replenish his energy when he gets a call from "B.B" to meet him at the Choir Communications garage at 2:30 AM.Max takes the time reliaze that with the murder of Alex and the frame-up that it had to been an inside job. Max shows up seeing "B.B" waiting for him, and Max accuses him of being a corrupt cop who sold out Alex and had him killed. B.B's car drives fastly towards Max as he dodges the car. B.B gets in the car and tries to escape the garage. His men go after Max and a long fire fight goes on in the garage. Max reaches the fourth level of the garage and B.B's car crashes into a van, leaving B.B and Max to have a final standoff. Max kills B.B and then answers a ringing pay-phone. The caller is once again Alfred Woden who instructs Max to meet him at the Asguard Building right away.Max arrives and sees Alfred Woden waiting for him. They enter the building and Woden introduces Max to "The Inner Circle". Woden tells Max that they can help him with unknown information about the Valhalla project and how they want to exploit the project's evidence to the government. While the meeting continues. Woden shows Max a picture of the woman at the Punchinello Manor known as "Nicole Horne" the CEO founder of Aesir Corporation and the leader of the Valhalla project. Woden makes a deal with Max that if he takes Horne out, the charges against him will be dropped. Suddenly Horne's men storm in and kill the members of The Inner Circle. Max escapes through a window and fights his way towards the security office where on a video monitor, he sees Alfred Woden stand up after supposidly being dead. Max heads to Woden's office and finds a video tape on the desk. The tape came from Nicole Horne showing Candy Dawn with Woden. Max takes it for blackmail against Woden if the deal was back-fired. After a big gun battle in the building's lobby, Max escapes.While driving around the city, Max builds up his rage and gets ready for what he has to do. He finally drives to Aesir Corporation Towers and begins the last part of his mission. Max runs into Mona in an elevator guns pointed at each other. Horne comes over the loudspeaker and instructs Mona to kill Max. She refuses and decides to team up with Max when suddenly, Horne's men show up and kill Mona. Max retailiates and kills them all. After Max call for the elevator and it comes down, Mona's body has vanished with only blood laying on the floor. Max takes the elevator up to the penthouse where Horne's hiding. While in the elevator, Max loads his weapons and takes the time to think about his wife and daughter before making the kill. The elevator doors open on the floor and Horne is looking out the window with a gun in her hands waiting for Max. She orders another group of men to take him out while she makes a run for it. Max takes them out and then a helicopter shows up and sweeps the floor, missing Max. Max makes his way up towards the top floors of the building until he finds Horne at the top of the stairs of the roof. She throws a grenade at him to stop him from coming after her. Max reaches the roof and sees Horne getting into the helicopter behind a locked gate. With less than a minute before take-off, Max must think of a way to kill her before she escapes, Max sees that the large antenna of the building has snapped two cables because of the harsh stormy winds. With the other two cables holding it up, Max shoots out the cables with a sniper rifle. The Antenna becomes loose and Max shoots it down with a grenade launcher. The Antenna snaps off the roof and comes crashing down on the helicopter. The platform the helicopter was resting on falls apart and Horne and the helicopter come falling down forty-five stories to the ground below. Max stands at the edge looking down at the wreckage with a grin look on his face as SWAT members surround him.A police helicopter circles the roof and is instructed to drop his weapons and surrender. Max is taken into custody and before being pushed into a police car, he sees Alfred Woden standing in the crowd of on-lookers with a smug grin on his face as Max is pushed into the car. Max grins in the same manor.

Review: Max Payne is like a tribute to such Hollywood action icons, such as The Matrix (1999) and director John Woo. This is one of the best video games I have played in a long time.
Never in a video game have I seen such good graphics, great dialogue, and intense action.At best, a game like Max Payne runs like a television marathon series.
The game is separated into three chapters with at least seven parts each, including the amazing graphic novels.The game has a promising premise: DEA agent Max Payne is framed for the murder of his partner, Alex Balder, during a robbery in a New York subway station.
For Payne, it's going to be a long night in New York, during the city's snowstorm blizzard of the century.Max Payne is a dark video game, and the title hero is also the narrator of the story, and while Payne doesn't seem confident in his storytelling, at times, he provides humor during the narration.
may be responsible for his family's death.Payne must also battle a trail of mobsters, security agents, and black ops operatives, who all want him dead.What makes Max Payne a great video game is the graphics, which uses New York locations we've probably never seen before, such as a run-down night club called Ragna Rock, and an old seaport.There is even a great chase sequence where Payne chases a mobster from buildings to a construction site, and to the rooftops of New York apartment buildings (Not in that order).Payne is also given a cache of weapons, such as handguns, grenade launchers, and machine guns.
There is even a feature known as bullet time (reminiscent of the action styles seen in the John Woo movies), in which Max is able to slow down time and get a better advantage over his enemies.
And if you're a hardcore John Woo fan, you'll notice that Payne is also able to do that familiar double handgun leap in the air.And while Max Payne is such a good game, it does have its minimal flaws, which is its lack of character variety; the mobsters (who resemble Joe Pesci wise-guys), and agents all look essentially the same.
The style by which the story is told  graphic comic strip narrated by the hard-boiled Payne is also perfect and adds much to the game's style an atmosphere.The much-hyped slow motion aspect of the game is simply the icing on the cake.
This helps retain the gritty realism the makers were striving for."Max Payne" is derivate of a lot of works and is quite clichéd, but it is executed with style, atmosphere and an immense level of game-making professionalism that makes it an experience unlike any other.
With a great plot to follow, shown with comic graphic novels, realistic gritty surroundings, bullet time-a slow-mo matrix kind of effect- and weapons, revenge and more, MAX PAYNE delivers to the hard core gamers out there.
If you like games such as Grand Theft Auto 3, you'll love Max Payne .
MP is a super-cool actiontitle that uses the so-called bullet-time effect to create extremely stylish shoot-outs where the main character Max Payne constantly dives into bloody gun-fights.
From the involving story, the terrific direction, and awesome action and game-play this one has it all.Max Payne is a cop infiltrating a drug ring and just about everything goes wrong.
The graphics and story just place you in the moment and you push through the gauntlet of pain and bad guys with sympathies for the character.There are a few limitations, this is a game after all, like the bad guys have basically one tactic, and some of the action scenes are way over the top, but hey...
The year is 2001 the world trade centers are attacked and diney  releases some crappy movies but what caught the eye of every video  gamer was a small company called Remedy interactive that had  just released Max Payne.
With its sharp graphics Noir storyline and Graphic novel comic to  advance the story, and it is the very first game to implement bullet  time.
And before you say "heh they stole that from the matrix" The  Matrix was released in 1999 Max payne was in development since  1996.{for a side note John Woo is the man who invented bullet time} Now  for the story: Max Payne the average Nypd cop is having the time of his  life hes young Married has a beautiful baby girl and has a well paying  and fairly easy job.
There is  also many great one liners in hear examples: "Vinnie Gotti the man I've  bin killing to see"  "I put a few more bullets in his head to make sure he stayed that way"  The body count in the game though is ridiculously high not that it makes  it worse {it makes it better} but i estimate that you kill over 500  people in this.
So in closing if you like Third Person Shooters,Noir  Films,Violence,Bullet time and one hell of a story check out Max Payne  you wont regret it.
I'd suggest him to give up acting and start a new career in the PC games industry :)I just can't wait for Max Payne 2!.
It has great gameplay, long replay value, nice graphics, and everything else a gamer who likes a shooting game or even if you have played a shooting game in your life you will love this game.
While the plot of the game feels good enough for any film-noir it is the unique atmosphere that separates it from the rest.While most people will probably remember the game for the revolutionary bullet-time that allows the protagonist to move in glorious slow motion, there is I must say a whole lot more to the game.Take for instance the movie references; The code for a passageway is "John Woo" while at a certain point Max dryly comments before attempting to take out some terrorists: "I played Chow Yun Fat..." Max Payne also has an awareness of itself in the game, whereby he accounts that "I feel like being in a computer game..."All in all I must say that Max Payne is the greatest film-noir game and you surely must try it to experience it!.
Basically, the graphics are fantastic; I've never seen better in a PC game.But that's not all that makes Max Payne so remarkable.
The story is really intriguing, and I think calling it cliched is missing the point; it's supposed to have that film noir, crime novel feeling, and it pulls it off creatively through the graphic novel scenes that pop up throughout the game.
Max Payne uses the better aspects of movies (ie plot twists, character depth) to set it apart from the thousands of other "shoot 'em up" games out there.
With tons of intertextuality, humor and great voice-acting (unlike Hitman for example) it developed into a story unlike I had never experienced neither in a computer game, a movie or a TV-series before...Way to go Remedy!
This game puts you in the shoes of Max Payne, a New York undercover cop who lost his wife and kids to some gangsters high on a new drug called "V", so he decides to go undercover.
If some still thinks that computer games are just for fun that means full of nothing,here stands one of the best piece of art of this generation.I am not afraid including 'MAX PAYNE' into art because if cinema is an art, this is standing above most of it.
'MAX PAYNE' uses the film-noir genre.Even in the scenes of action,you can feel the sadness of the hero.The music is so strong and the 'bullet-time' technical makes the action scenes more than just firing guns,shooting bullets.With the screenplay,this technical holds this piece of work into the level of cinema.
Speaking of screenplay,it's very suitable for this kind of games.It can be short but the details like playing Payne's nightmare make it easier to build a connection between you and the hero.The time is short but it leaves a taste in your mouth that will make you wait till the second one.Also it's not hard to play comparing with the most of these kind of games.The enemies are not so tough but most of the time you're dealing with 2 or 3 of them and the places you play make it harder for you.Besides there are a lot of surprises so after every man you kill you have to save the game.And the controls are easy to play and make sudden moves.
The screenplay is also so successful about creating a strong character.'MAX PAYNE' is a anti-hero film-noir classic.He is a cop who lost his family in the hands of killers and after a couple of years in a investigation he finds some evidences going back to the death of his family.So we find ourselves in the middle of a conspiracy.Also until the end of the game we learn some points of his past and will reflect into his future;second game.In addition in some points it builds a connection with the player that a movie can do hardly.And also there are plenty of dialogs and speeches you can't forget.
Writing about this one,I really feel like I'm writing about a film.It feels like they planned and put it into the game world as thinking like they're shooting a movie.With its second part it becomes more complicated and seems like it will be a series whose parts will be connected to each other.And I think we should see 'MAX PAYNE' in the big screen but in the hands of masters.It will be a huge classic.What am I saying?
This game has great graphics and a plot line like the best Hollywood actionmovie you've ever seen.
And ever since Matrix I have screamed after a game that uses "bullet time" - and Max Payne does!
Max Payne is a framed cop after finding the people who had one night killed his loved ones, nows he's out for revenge...
Max Payne the action/crime video game is by far the best game i have played ever!I picked up this game after I played the demo and soon after that I went out and bought it!The best part about this game is that you can put it in slow motion and do some wicked tricks.The game follows a great plot line as well,Max Payne is about a man whose wife and baby have been killed by some men on a drug named "Valkyr" and now filled with rage Max Payne must now try to find the people who was behind it all.With stunning graphics and wicked gameplay Max Payne is a great game.
Rated M for Violence,Blood,Language and Some Sexual Content.I thought that 2001 was a great year for video games we had Grand Theft Auto 3(I have not played it but I did play Vice City and San Andreas and both were excellent).There was Halo one of the best first person shooter games in recent years and then we have Max Payne.An excellent video game with great graphics,awesome gameplay and a good story.Max Payne is a gritty crime story about a cop who seeks revenge against the thugs who murdered his wife and child while also being framed for the murder of his friend.He must find and get revenge on the people who killed his family and clear his name.Max Payne introduces something new in a video game.That is Bullettime.Most of us saw the movie The Matrix which invented bullettime.Bullettime is basically a slow motion gun battle.In Max Payne you can kill people in slow motion.Max Payne is a very fun and good game with great graphics and gameplay and a good story to back the game up.Max Payne 2 The Fall Of Max Payne in my opinion is just as good as this one.10/10.
Compared to Max Payne 3, this game is quite better.
Of course, Max Payne 3 has multi-player, better graphics and all new story, but this Max Payne has a very good story, very nice game-play for those years, and more!
"Max Payne" can be described as an interactive cinematic action noir graphic novel.
Max Payne's formula is so downright perfect, that no game to this day has nailed the "bullet-time" style game-play on the same level (except its sequel); "Enter the Matrix" was shallow at best, and the recent "Stranglehold" is absent of any thought level design choices, making it the shooter equivalent of a "hack and slash".Games don't get any better than "Max Payne", its smart narrative, audacious aesthetic and its perfect game-play all come together in one solid game.
if any of the person who have not yet played this game try to play at least once in your life and this game will sure fulfill you and you will feel like "keanu reeves" of matrix or you will feel yourself like the one of the best action film maker john woo.
This game has a good story, which draws you in, and make you feel more for the evergoing journey of Max Payne.
And on top of this, we have a splendid gameplay, graphics (for its time), and story that can involve anyone to the Max ;).Max Payne was a groundbreaking game.
Max Payne is to this day one of the best video games I have ever played, I always see myself coming back to it from time to time, I never get tired of it.
A lot of people know Max Payne as the game that perfected bullet time in games but the game achieved much more than that, this game has some of the best storytelling I have ever seen in the medium, Sam Lake did a brilliant job writing the story of this game.
The gameplay is also extremely addictive, not just because of the bullet time mechanic, but also because of the shooting mechanics, they're a lot of fun, I also love the cinematics, they're done with comic book panels, making the game feel like a hybrid between a video game and a graphic novel, I also just love the neo-noir tone and style of the game, all this elements made Max Payne a game easy to identify and it has become one of the best examples of how games can tell truly amazing stories, sometimes even better than movies.
The game-play, style, story, voice acting, all out of this world and is up there with the likes of Metal Gear Solid and The Last Of UsMax Payne, a fugitive cop on the run who has been framed for the murder of his partner and is trying to track down the people responsible for the death of his family and has to take on the worst of the criminal underworld of New York in order to do it.
It's tragic, it's a compelling mystery story, a great psychological thriller about a man who may or not be insane in the case of Max as well as being a great revenge action game Gameplay is also very exciting, shooting people in slow motion never gets old, you'd think it would've but the game find ways to keep things fresh with the brilliant level design.
If you love Film Noir, if you love John Woo movies, if you like comics then you owe it to yourself to play this gameIf you're gonna play this game, PC version all the way.
That's the only gripe I have with this game; other than that, Max Payne is one of the best action games I've ever had the pleasure of playing for the first time in years.
If you want a game that blends Hong Kong action with a gritty storyline with excellent graphics, then Max Payne is the game to get..
Rockstar really knew what they were doing when they made this awesome action shooter game.The premise of the game follows max payne as he sets out to find answers to the drug Valkaer V and kill anyone in his way, By that I mean you get to kill a lot of people in this game which is more than 600!
This is one of my favorite games, non-stop action and bloody shootouts.....like a John Woo movie !The first time i played Max Payne, it was on PS2, i borrowed the game from a friend, but a few months later, i bought a low-budget version on for PC, i can't say the differences between the PS2 version and PC, i played the PS2 version like 5 years ago.Max Payne had something new in action games, you can use the "bullet time", basically you go "slow motion" and you can dodge bullets, after Max Payne was released, many other game studios tried to capitalize the success of Max Payne by creating other games with this feature."Cutscenes" are replaced with "graphic novel" sequences, that's cool and stylish.
The voice acting is great, nothing much to say about it.Even if the game is full of action, there is a lot of plot development, with many characters to discover.If you get "tired" of this game, you can download tons of mods, total conversions and new levels (at least with the PC version).It's a must play, highly recommended !.
The fact about Max Payne is that it is original than most games and offers a unique gameplay and the guns almost feel different and yet so perfect.
Good film-noir action game, but way too hard and too repetitive game-play.
The game has you controlling Max Payne, an ex-cop with good cause to seek revenge.
I've played quite a few video games in my lifetime, but none have grabbed me half as much as the Max Payne games.
This game has to offer a good story like in Alan Wake and also a much better game play than Alan Wake could have ever offered.The Story: Max Payne's family gets murdered by druggies, Three years later he is transferred to the DEA and gets framed for murder for one of his friends named Alex Balder.