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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Rockstar Games
EAN: 0710425270864
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Label: Rockstar Games
Manufacturer: Rockstar Games
Model: P2T2I 710425270864
Platform: PlayStation2
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Release Date: November 29, 2002
Sales Rank: 7488
Studio: Rockstar Games

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Product Description:
Max Payne is the game where your life has fallen apart in a New York minute, and you have to get revenge before you can move on. Dark and gritty just went to a whole new level!

Amazon.com Review:
Max Payne's wife and baby daughter were slain by junkies hopped up on a dangerous new synthetic drug. For three years, Max has worked undercover to find the source of these drugs, and, just when he's almost got it figured out, somebody ices his superior and pins the murder on him. Now it's payback time as Max faces off against the Mob, the police, and much, much worse. Max Payne has jumped from the computer screen to the PlayStation2 and there's going to be hell to pay.

Max Payne uses extremely realistic graphics to showcase a gritty film-noir-inspired New York City. Payne stalks subways, tenements, nightclubs, and even government installations as he takes his vengeance out on a horde of gun-toting bad guys. Taking a page from the visual style of famed director John Woo, as well as The Matrix, Max Payne lets the player launch into a slow-motion mode generally known as "bullet time," which makes dodging enemy fire and dishing out your own return fire a breeze, all while leaping side to side. While this looks extremely cool to do, it also evens the odds and can only be used for limited amounts of time, making it a strategic as well as aesthetic option.

And speaking of aesthetics, the game is packed with exciting moments, weapons, and locations, even if the enemies get a little redundant after a while. The level design ranges from inspired (a multilevel parking garage) to humdrum (a warehouse) and several levels actually take place in the twisted wonderland of the hero's warped psyche. The graphics are state of the art, though admittedly the PlayStation2 doesn't have the power to render them as well as the Xbox or PC, but most people won't notice the difference. The introduction scenes consist of painted photos presented in graphic-novel style, which is a stylistic choice that pays dividends, even though the writing is hilariously bad and the voice acting is, if possible, even worse.

Needless to say, all this is violent, disturbing, and not at all for the kids. Pay attention to the Mature rating; it's not there for decoration. --Bob Andrews

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Amazon.com Product Description:
Max Payne is a stylish, urban, revenge-driven action game based in New York City's grimy underground. A groundbreaking rendering engine allows for heart-stopping, photorealistic visuals and breathtaking movie-quality effects as Max Payne fights his way to uncover the truth. The game combines elements from Hollywood action thrillers with the latest in video game technology to deliver a highly original gameplay experience.



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Great game, but not for kids by any means
I am not the biggest fan of 1st person shooter games. The only two games of this nature that have interested me has been Rainbow Six and Max Payne. With that being said, I must say Rainbow Six is a way up there in the ranking and Max Payne is by no means number 2.

The rating for this game needs to be taken extremely seriously. Although they show Max Payne (player) being holed up in an impossible situation (thus what he does can probably be viewed as ethical), he is required to get out of a violent battle between mafia groups and politicians. A lot of drug and sex reference in the game. Obviously, not a game for kids in my opinion.

The game is very much fun to play, the story is great and justice is served in the end, as is revealed at the beginning of Max Payne 2. This game will not work in Vista because of issues with drivers for sound cards that Vista does not have. Unless you get those drivers first, don't even think of getting this game. This game is currently not supported in 64-bit systems. So, watch out.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Frustrating At Times, But Still One Of The Best Games Out There!!
I bought this came for the computer when it came out in '91, just because it looked cool. It ran sluggish on my computer, so I gave up after a while. Then it came out for Playstation 2 and I was all over it!

So much has been written about this game that I'll just give my perspective on it.

The Good: The graphics are top-notch, especially for the time when it came out. Despite what others have said, the storyline, writing, and voice acting are superbly executed!! I love the graphic novel feel of the game, especially Max's dialogue. I love the new twists taken by an action game, really pulling you into each scene. Deaths are realistic, as well as the explosions that happen all over the place. Grenades come out of nowhere, bullets take you down quickly, and you can't fall too far without dying...which brings me to the bad parts of the game.

The Bad: The controls on the PS2 were shoddy at best. I found it EXTREMELY frustrating to manuever across the rooftops and during the dream sequence (I guarantee you'll die at LEAST 50x's during that part), and the aiming was frustratingly way off! In the early stages the health were in short supply, but the later stages I found crates of health (or pills) when I didn't really need it. Maybe I was just getting better at not dying. I don't know. But the more you die, chances are you'll have to watch cutscenes over and over again with no way to skip them (except for the graphic novel parts), but at least you don't have a certain number of lives; you just keep trying until you beat the level.

Despite these few points, the game is really fun to play. The release of the movie inspired me to play the game again, and NOT to go see the movie. I just don't see Marky Mark as Max Payne at all; he's too beefy, to much muscle. Max is slick, slender, almost boney. They should have used Same Lake, who was the writer of the game and also played Max in the graphic novel cutscenes. Or they could have used Dean Winters (Ryan O'Reilly) from Oz, or Peter Krause (Nate) from Six Feet Under. I MIGHT rent it when it comes out, but that's it.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - max payne
max payne is a third person shooter that's a lot of fun the games best feature it the bullet time that allow player to slow down time i would recommend this game very fun and great story


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Great Game.... for PC
Max Payne is a great in every sense of the word. The engaging twisting storyline, and combat, the music, the graphics (for '01). Everything.
But the controls suck.
Never have I played a game with such bad controls that it made me depressed. Do NOT buy this for PS2. Buy it for PC.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Dive right in with Guns Blazing!!!
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B.L.Morgan

4 1/2 Stars

I gotta get this out of the way right at the very beginning. I bought Max Payne because the box cover and pictures on the back reminded me of my own anti-hero detective John Dark. After I played the game, he still reminds me of my boy.

That said, I can now get on to the review.

If you like gritty, old-fashioned, hard-boiled detective novels or movies, the two-fisted kind that Mickey Spillane used to write, then you'll love Max Payne. This game is tough and as gritty as back-alley gravel.

It's got a hero that's out for revenge and down on his luck in a big way. This game has got all kinds of gunfights and fist-fights. It's extremely heavy on action. I also do want to say that Max Payne is a heavily adult game too. There's quite a few four letter words sprinkled throughout the dialogue and sexual behavior (I should say misbehavior) is the norm in Max Payne's world. To tell you the truth, I didn't mind that one bit.

The atmosphere during the entire game is classic noir. You'll feel as though you are living through an old time hard-boiled movie where no one can ever be trusted. The action takes place in rundown hotels, dirty rainy city streets and all kinds of places you normally avoid in the real world.

But this isn't the real world. This is a game so dive right on in with guns blazing.

The one thing that knocked a point off the score was that the controls were sometimes a bit too stiff and sometimes the animation was a little blocky. But even with those flaws this is a fully immersive video game that hard-boiled fans will love.

I highly recommend Max Payne. I had a blast playing it and so will anyone who likes good old-fashioned shoot-em-up detective stories.

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