Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
- October 08, 2003 16:06 PM PST
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The night was dark like a shadow of darkness when Max Payne 2 stepped in to brighten things up.
By the time you read this, there?s a good chance you?ll be shoot-dodging and popping virtual painkillers like an expert, but for those of you who don?t know, Max Payne is returning to the PS2 and Xbox. PC owners, however, get a two-month head start.The original Max Payne was a gaming-noir gem, filled with charmingly over-the-top narration, stylish comic-book-like story scenes, and vein-exploding combat scenes. When the game hit the scene, people were saying, ?This is the game people will be copying for the next couple of years,? and they were right. You can?t count the games that ripped off Payne?s bullet-time effect on both hands. Go ahead, try it.
Max Payne 2 sets out to tell a film noir love story with all the intensity and tragedy you?d expect. Of course, there will be tons and tons of violence, and this time the sensational bullet time will go alongside the ubiquitous Havok physics engine to create even more awesome combat sequences.
If these things come together, Max Payne 2 could be the title that unseats its own predecessor?something no other third-person action game has yet managed to do.
