Author: HQH
Released: August 4, 2001
Updated: N/A
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Here's the official storyline and the features Max Payne offers:
Three years back a young NYPD cop, Max Payne, came home one night to find his family senselessly slaughtered by a gang of
drug-crazed junkies, high on a previously unknown synthetic drug. Now that same drug, Valkyr, has spread through the whole New York
City like a nightmare plague, and Max Payne’s on a crusade for revenge, out to get even. To Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA,
this new drug was evil incarnate, to be stopped at any cost. Max's boss and best friend, the only one who knew his true identity,
has been murdered, and Max's been framed for the slaying. Everything ripped apart in a New York minute... Max Payne is a man with
nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, and now hunted by cops and the mob.
Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for a new breed of deep action game.
Prepare for pain...
Developed by Remedy Entertainment and produced by 3D Realms, Max Payne is a relentless story-driven game about a man on the
edge, fighting for his justice while uncovering plot-twists and twisted thugs in the gritty bowels of New York during the century's
worst blizzard.
Max Payne features:
FEEL THE PAIN -- "Story is the bedrock of Max Payne. Yeah, it's chock full of mind-blowing gunplay. But at every turn, a new and
clever piece of noir storytelling will motivate you forward and illuminate the action." -- PC Gamer
REALISM TO THE MAX -- A first in gaming. The first PC game with photo-digitized textures, radiosity lighting and hardware
T&L combined. All this tech talk just means game play never looked this real, nor frightening!
BULLET-TIME GAME PLAY -- A first in gaming. "Slo-mo gives you an inventive advantage over your opposition...[and] also happens
to be the most frickin' cool device ever employed in an action game." -- PC Gamer
PLAY IT YOUR WAY -- Auto-adjusting game play, another first in gaming. You want the action will be challenging and intense, but
not unfair and frustrating--the game's self-adjusting difficulty keeps you in the sweet spot of game play bliss.
MAKE YOUR OWN LEVELS -- The most powerful, easiest-to-use game editor ever released is in your creative hands, with
WYSIWYG-style editing. Even recreate your house or workplace!
MORE REALISM -- Painstaking attention to detail, bullets even modeled accurately resulting in realistic and cinematic game play
unlike anything you've seen. "Everything is destructible, and comes apart realistically. You've never played action sequences with
this level of demolition." -- PC Gamer
Max Payne is an original third-person 3D game based on the MAX-FX engine, and uses photo-digitized textures and radiosity
lighting, resulting in one of the most realistic looking games ever seen on the PC.
Now, onto my first impressions with the game.
First Impressions
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