![]() A game from a company founded on demoscene roots, with music by one of my favorite musicians, Teque? What could be better? My expectations got only higher when I saw the absolutely fascinating Max Payne E3 demo from 1999 back then I couldn't have imagined anything more spectacular. There were several reasons: the first is Remedy's first product, the absolutely superb Death Rally the second is the use of the seemingly revolutionary MAXFX engine in demonstrations such as 3DMark 2000, 3DMark 2001 and XL-R8R from MadOnion. I admit, I had spectacularly high hopes for this game. A special meter indicates how much time the effect will last, and how long Max needs to wait until it can be activated again.Ĭutscenes in the game are presented as comic book-style graphical panels accompanied by voice-overs. Activating the Bullet Time slows down everything that happens around Max (including his own movements), allowing for slow, but precise performance of moves to take care of his enemies. A unique feature of the game is the usage of the so-called Bullet Time - a time-slowing ability that was popularized by the first Matrix movie. ![]() The weapons at his disposal range from baseball bats to Ingram sub-machine guns, grenades, Molotov cocktails, and others. Max can perform rolls and leaps to try and dodge enemy fire. Max Payne is a third person shooter stylistically influenced by film noir, "hardboiled" detective stories, and Hong-Kong action cinema. ![]() The only way out is with guns blazing, because he has nothing to lose. Now Max is all alone in the cold, snowy night of New York. Three years later, during a raid on a mafia compound that was reportedly trafficking Valkyr, his best friend and fellow DEA agent Alex is killed, and he becomes the prime suspect in his murder. After the tragedy, Max quit the police force and joined the Drug Enforcement Administration. On one terrible day, his wife and newborn daughter were killed by three junkies, who broke into his apartment after having ingested a new designer drug known as Valkyr. Max Payne was a police officer of the New York City police.
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