Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
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Video Game Reviews of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Customer Review: A nonstop action ride, better than the original!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Max Payne series will be always remembered as the game series that forever revolutionized gaming. With cinematic cutscenes, brilliant graphics and a realistic physics engine, Max Payne 2 capitalizes on the success that characterized its prequel. The new and improved bullet time lets you get into larger firefights, new weapons make gunfights more entertaining and also bring in an element of strategy into the game.
What steals the show is the storyline though. Although it could be called more compact that the original storyline, the new plot is darker, more engaging and has more twists than one could imagine.
Max Payne 2 lets yop play in Max's dreams, and also as Mona Sax, which refreshes the gameplay somewhat. Enemy AI is more advanced, and they can damage you as much as you can damage them.
All in all, Max Payne 2 is one of the finest action games ever made, one that actually makes you able to feel the anguish of the protaginst; it is a must buy for all gamers.
Customer Review: Kissing the kips of a dead game....
Summary: 1 Stars
Let me check my thesaurus: "Atrocious, lousy, terrible, very bad, vile."
"Max Payne 1" was written in a one-step-past-melodrama cheesy noir; overblown and operatic, but at least entertaining to some extent. You knew what you were getting from the first level. The writers of "Max Payne 2" replaced what little good writing there was and replaced it with turgid, flat, dead prose; relentlessly bad and histrionic.
I threw the game away after playing one level.
Buy Mickey Spillane's "I, the Jury" or rent "The Maltese Falcon" DVD instead and see how the masters did it.
Customer Review: One Of The Greatest Action Games Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
The first Max Payne, made the third-person shooter famous. Max Payne 2 is basically very similar to the first game. Graphics are very improved, bullet-time is improved, and is very well done is this game. Unlike the first game, you needed the bullet-time every now and then, but for Max Payne 2, you really don't need but it is always fun to use. James McCaffrey returns as the voice of Max Payne, which is a relief, because only a few of the original voice and picture cast return to for this game, the character model of Max Payne is different, and besides James McCaffrey, almost the whole voice cast is different but they are better at voice acting which is what makes this game very unique.
Again, gameplay is very similar, but the fun part is, you can do a little more wondering around in this game in certain levels. The story is told the same way the first game was, very comic book like. Playing this game is almost watching a full blown movie, with the voice acting, the pictures, and the gameplay. The game is a little shorter, but with the cinematic scenes, it feels longer. Some really well crafted levels in this game, i love the level where Max Payne is trying to get out of a burning building, that was really good.
There are your occasional errors, especially on the PS2 version, which does limit a lot of the rooms you can go into. The Xbox and PC version are the better versions, but if you want the best version, go for the PC version.
Also, there is an error on the very first line of the game, and i'm sure i'm not the only one who noticed. The character Mona Sax says, "God, how did i become such a damsel in distress", that voice is Julia K.Murney, who was the voice for Mona in the first game. Wendy Hoopes takes over the role for the rest of the game. I don't know why Murney didn't do the rest of the game.
Overall, 10 out of 10, Max Payne 2 is just a brilliantly designed game that was worth the wait and the delays, even though many games have tried to copy its bullet-time, only the Max Payne games can do it right. Can't wait until Max Payne 3 which is now in the works.
Customer Review: Max Payne 2 The Fall Of Max Payne
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent continuation of game one. The only game that I have yet tired of playing. Please follow up with another Max.Customer Review: Max Payne 2- The Fall Of Max Payne
Summary: 4 Stars
Max Payne 2, The Fall Of Max Payne is a great game. dispite the fact that the levels arent too long enough. This games has really good graphics and has a good view of a third-person action. The storyline was a bit of a problem. The storyline wasnt too dramamtic and was not as fun as it is. gameplay was indeed good and i am impressed with this game. I give Max Payne a 4 out of 5
some technical features of this game from the max payne website:
FEATURES INCLUDE:
- Storyline - a violent, Film Noir love story between a cop and a femme fatale murder suspect, between Max Payne and Mona Sax. Dark, tragic and intense, the story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations.
- Max Payne's signature slow motion gunplay has been improved on every level. Get ready for Bullet Time 2.0.
- New guns and new moves make action more cinematic and intense than ever before.
- Fully integrated Havok physics engine allows for interactive environments creating incredible combat scenes. Ragdoll characters and physics in slow motion create breath-taking combat scenes.
- All new AI - cooperative NPC's fight with Max and more believable enemies create tension and more interesting and varied challenge.
- A stunning level of detail: Extremely detailed environments with photorealistic textures, highly enhanced radiosity lighting and extremely lifelike characters (including facial animations & lip synchronization) provide a visually staggering cinematic experience.
- Massive production values - including a motion picture stunt crew, professional talent for voice acting and graphic novels, motion capture and authentic digital source material from New York City.