Max Payne 1 & 2

There was something disturbingly familiar about the note on the bar desk. The handwriting was all pretty curves.

"You're in a Stinger Topic, Max!"

The truth was a burning green crack through my brain.


Everything I done is being talked about in text box after text box. Words and Emoticons and Videos being posted to discuss about the gameplay mechanics. All in a topic that can never be archived populated by 24 users and the occasional guests. I was in a Stinger Topic. Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.

Anyway, Max Payne is a third-person shooter that has debuted on PC in 2001. A year later it has been released on Xbox and PS2. A year after that it has been released on the Game Boy Advance. The same year when the GBA version was out, the sequel Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne was also out. One of the main factors of the series is Bullet Time.

The opening post was a reference to the 4th wall break of the original Max Payne. In terms of console I highly recommend the Xbox version. I don't know if the PS4 made any improvements.

I played the first game around release, but don't remember much other than bullet time, and chasing some guy. I think the chase included a train or running on the top of one. My little brother really liked it.

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I also loathe the red tightwalk segments. I'm glad I have the XBOX version even though it is scratched now.

It was fixed but I wonder how DOA (Dead On Arrival) difficulty is on PS2. On Xbox, it's on hard but you have limited saving.

Just wanted to share this.

One of the things I really liked about the original is that it had its own tutorial level with an enemy dispenser.