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Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Max Payne is a relentless story-driven game about a man on the edge, fighting to clear his name while struggling to uncover the truth about his slain family amongst a myriad of plot-twists and twisted thugs in the gritty bowels of New York during the century's worst blizzard. The groundbreaking original cinematic action-shooter, Max Payne introduced the concept of Bullet Time in videogames. Through its stylish slow-motion gunplay combined with a dark and twisted story, Max Payne redefined the action-shooter genre.

Name

Max Payne

Companies

Westlake Interactive, Remedy Entertainment

Released

7/23/2001

Platforms

Android, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360, iOS

Engines

MAX-FX

Type

Shooter

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Top 10 Favorite Games: Red Dead Redemption 2, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Max Payne, Hitman: Absolution, Grand Theft Auto V, Mafia II, Max Payne 3, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

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Friday, February 16, 2024 6:01:21 AM

13 Steam users votes up

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Steam user

While the technical hoops I had to jump through to get this game working weren't horrible, it is worth noting that without doing so you will face bugs, have missing cutscenes, audio issues, and frequent crashes. This Steam release is not optimized or stable for modern systems and it shows. If you don't want to deal with it, I'd recommend going elsewhere.
That said, it wasn't awful (unlike some old/retro Steam games...) to fix and patch but I can't deny being a bit perturbed that Steam sells games in this state. Out of principle, I do not recommend buying it here unless steeply discounted and you are prepared to troubleshoot the game and research what bugs exist that need to be patched.
If you buy it and get past the patching/fixes, then what you have is one of the finest bullet-time shooters to ever be released. Possibly the first notable game to use bullet time ever and it is still a total treat to play and experience. The voice acting is stellar if not downright iconic along with the writing and comic book-like dialogue windows. This game is absolutely primed for a remake/remaster for modern systems with the latest graphical touches. I would (as long as the reviews support it) pay full price for that.
This game is nothing short of incredible in its entirety and I recommend any gaming enthusiast find a way to play a quality, stable version of it. I don't think this Steam version is the best on the block but it does the trick.
I highly, highly recommend Max Payne. I'm very hesitant to recommend this Steam version.

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Storyline

In December 2001, as New York City is enduring the tail end of the worst snow blizzard in the history of the city, Max Payne, a renegade DEA agent and former NYPD detective, is standing at the top of a skyscraper with a sniper rifle in his hands, smiling, as police units arrive on the scene to arrest him. He then experiences flashbacks from three years ago and the last two days he experienced. Three years earlier, on August 22nd 1998, Max was working as a regular NYPD detective, having just finished his day's work. His longtime friend and DEA agent, Alex Balder, invites him to transfer into the DEA, but Max declines the offer, wanting to focus on his full-time life with his wife, Michelle, and their newborn daughter, Rose. As he returns to his house in New Jersey, he finds that a trio of junkies had broken into his house, all addicted on a brand new designer drug, Valkyr. Max receives a call from a mysterious woman who seems pleased at the trouble in the house and refuses to call for help. Max rushes to aid his family and kill the junkies, but is too late as he finds his wife shot dead, and his daughter slaughtered. After his family's funeral, Payne accepts Alex's offer, and transfers to the DEA at his own request to stop the spreading of the drugs.

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