Max Payne
Main game
4.09 average rating based on 3120 ratings
- Developers
- Remedy Entertainment
- Publishers
- 3D Realms, Feral Interactive, Gathering of Developers, MacSoft Games, Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive
- Franchises
- Max Payne
- Series
- Max Payne
- Platforms
- Android, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iOS
- Genres
- Shooter
- Themes
- Action, Thriller
- Steam
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whyboder's review of Max Payne
4.1/5
Max Payne: [narrating] Life was good. The sun setting on a sweet summer's day. The smell of freshly mowed lawns, the sounds of children playing. A house across the river on the Jersey side. A beautiful wife and a baby girl. The American Dream come true.
Max Payne: Honey, I'm home!
2nd game is better.
Since this is the first game in the franchise, some gameplay elements and level design choices are rough. Enemies always ambush you and the game's difficulty adapts to you, meaning enemies will take more hits to kill if you keep playing well. Vice-versa, if you keep dying, enemies will be easier to kill. There's one major flaw in this argument. You HAVE TO spam Quicksave and Quickload if you want to have a decent time in this game. That means deaths won't be registered and the difficulty will just keep on going up.
There's also no sense of accuracy on any weapon except the sniper rifle, which is because, duh, it's a sniper rifle. You just aim in the general direction of your enemy and hope to RNGesus that your shot will connect. This is especially a problem on longer range battles where you just get sniped by the aimbotting enemies using Ingrams.
I much prefer the second game but this game is a nice entry to the franchise. Makes you appreciate the improvements in Max Payne 2 even more.
James McCaffrey, The Voice Of Max Payne And Alex Casey, Has Passed Away At 65
My brothers had the game lying around and I decided to give it a try, what a cool game I will play the sequels
Another game gets a remake because the AAA game industry still doesn't respect game preservation. Port the old games, stop delisting them and maybe people will play the originals. Stop giving us boring by-the-numbers remakes with "mOaR gRaPhIcS."
The sun went down with practiced bravado. Twilight crawled across the sky, laden with foreboding
This game, always. What a brilliant way to set the tone, I could play the prologue "American Dream" forever...
As I'm thoroughly enjoying RDR2 at the moment, I've gotten increasingly curious about all the Rockstar games that I'm yet to have played (which is most of them).
I picked this up in the Rockstar Games Humble Bundle back in February 2018, and finally installed it today, modded with the Max Payne 1 (Complete) Fix Pack, v1.2020.2 by darkje (default settings) as recommended on PCGamingWiki. My wife was a fan of this game back when it was first released (almost twenty years ago!), but I missed it, having been primarily a Dreamcast & Gamecube user who wasn't much into shooters at the time.
Looking forward to delving into this on an appropriate evening this week!
This was a really fantastic game. I may not be the best judge of a game like this since I barely ever played shooter games until recently, but from a casual/amateur perspective I guess, I really enjoyed it. Of course being nearly 20 years old, the graphics are that wonky early 2000s deal that makes you cringe and laugh a little, but as far as gameplay there was a good mix of action and problem-solving and I liked exploring the environments in each stage (albeit mostly in my desperate searches for painkillers to heal with).
I was happy with the range of weapons and the plot was decent, nothing to blow you away but the comic-strip style cut scenes were charming. I had a lot of unanswered questions at the end but I'm planning on playing the sequel next so maybe they will be answered. Lastly, the slow-motion dodging mechanic was kind of cool but I didn't end up using it much. But maybe that's just me not being very tactical.
It may not be perfect but it did have me coming back every day because I genuinely enjoyed playing it, unlike other games I just trudge through because I …
This was a really fantastic game. I may not be the best judge of a game like this since I barely ever played shooter games until recently, but from a casual/amateur perspective I guess, I really enjoyed it. Of course being nearly 20 years old, the graphics are that wonky early 2000s deal that makes you cringe and laugh a little, but as far as gameplay there was a good mix of action and problem-solving and I liked exploring the environments in each stage (albeit mostly in my desperate searches for painkillers to heal with).
I was happy with the range of weapons and the plot was decent, nothing to blow you away but the comic-strip style cut scenes were charming. I had a lot of unanswered questions at the end but I'm planning on playing the sequel next so maybe they will be answered. Lastly, the slow-motion dodging mechanic was kind of cool but I didn't end up using it much. But maybe that's just me not being very tactical.
It may not be perfect but it did have me coming back every day because I genuinely enjoyed playing it, unlike other games I just trudge through because I feel like I want to finish what I've started. I also feel motivated to get more out of it with the extra parts I unlocked by finishing the story mode. I'd probably give it a little more than 4 stars if I could but I want to reserve my 5s for the games that are really mind-blowingly good or close to my heart lol.
So I've been playing Max Payne a lot, and one of the reasons was because I've never played the franchise, despite it being fairly well received, but I REALLY loved Alan Wake and I knew Sam Lake wrote both of them, so I wanted more of his writing to chew on. Well, throughout the first act of Max Payne I was thinking to myself "Jesus this is...so...regular. Hard to imagine these came from the same guy..."
And then act 1 ends with a potentially demonic cult being involved and act 2 starts with you in a horrifying maze like House of Leavesesque dream sequence where you can hear your baby crying and wife screaming and you're following a trail of blood through absolute darkness.
And suddenly I thought, "Ah, THERE it is. THERE'S the Sam Lake I know and love."
