I only played the 2 max payne games for the graphics and bullet time (2 had ragdolls but that was a weak gimmick) and never cared about the story because they were about killing thousands of people and nothing else

Max Payne's story was definitely above the cut, but I wouldn't exactly call it art...

max payne is actually a better game, like most games, if you ignore the story. i have trouble doing this though, i feel guilty

i played it for mowing down hordes in bullet time.

hey it looks like a max payne game without any of the things that i ever liked about max payne games

yawn

It kinda looks like one of those games where you play as a bald, tough spacemarine, shooting faggots left and right, except you don't have your cybertech 3000 battlesuit on.

I read in a mag. about this and they compared the look and the Direction it's takes to Uncharted: Drake's Fortune but it was trying to be funny when it said this.

this got me playing 1 and 2 again

great games..........they scare the shit outta me tho

I have re-played MP2 more then the first one, because the hallucination levels are a lot less annoying then the "try to land on the thin red line and make sure you get closer to the looped baby scream" from the first, but I had a bunch of mods on my old computer for the first one, including a Punisher one and a Hard Boiled one that were a total blast.

For some reason, I'm on a Hellraiser kick right now, and I just watched Inferno. Parts of it reminded me of the Max Payne mythos a little bit, even down to a scene at the end where the cop is confronting the "killer" he's been chasing, only to find out it is himself - It reminded me so much of a couple of the hallucinations from the Max Payne games. Hell, one hallway scene is almost identical. He's even dressed the same way as Max. There's an idea for a Max Payne mod... add Cenobites to all the hallucinations, especially Chatterer!

oh hey it uses the same engine as GTA IV so i guess the whole thing will be in bullet time LOL

gta 4 used the same engine as the ping pong game


wasn't that pretty good in terms of gfx and not too laggy

First one was amazing apart from the weird expression Max sported throughout the game. Second was more polished but otherwise the same. Still great games and looking forward to a 3rd

did they have a secret code in Max Payne 2 where you could revert him back to the old-school max with the photo of some guy's face pasted on and frozen in the same expression whether he's happy sad horny etc.

seriously the original max payne model is about as ubiquitous to me as the original mario sprite

either you don't know what ubiquitous means or you hang out in a max payne fan club

yeah I kind of messed up

I meant it more like how they changed Sub-Zero's appearance 2 or 3 times and he was like a robot once and then he was just this guy in a blue outfit and nobody will remember any of these when they're old they'll just remember the guy in the ninja suit that very well might've been a discount halloween costume

I probably could've just said 'classic' but that doesn't cut it either, maybe iconic but that seems kind of weird too

Edit: I guess iconic is the word I'm looking for

i'm pretty sure for the first one they just digitized pictures of the staff. you can tell, their photos just give off that gamer geek vibe - even in a full leather trench-coat

well, max's assface in the first one is the digitized picture of the guy who wrote the story, iirc

I still think when they had that Game Informer editor in Perfect Dark it was awesome

I miss the days when games had so much accidental shit. Not that max payne face was accidental, I guess I mean when games had shitty graphics no matter what and people tried to do things to make the game look better like digitized faces and they just look so hokey today

Edit: I guess I mean everything's so planned now. Like by this generation of console they should be able to pull off any reasonable game idea they want. And really the game looks ok as in polished (at least compared to GOLDENEYE) but it's kind of like same reason Hollywood sucks, they probably spend about a half a million dollars filming a single scene in a bathroom and they try to make it look as much like an authentic bathroom as they can when nobody would ever notice if something was off except for the lead bathroom designer for the movie. Actually this metaphor works well for Goldeneye didn't the bathrooms in Goldeneye not even have toilet lids or something like that but yeah nobody cared it was just so awesome to have bathrooms in a game although first-person shooters do have an obsession with this