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Summary: THIS GAME ROCKS
Review: MAX PAYNE IS ONE OF THE BEST GAMES I HAD EVER PLAYED. I BEAT THE GAME. THE END COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER. THE COMICS WERE KINDA CHEESEY...
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Summary: Oh my gosh......
Review: Your a renegade cop infiltrating the worst gang in town.... need I say more? My only dislike was the Boss was a bit on the easy side. But the mini bosses were unstoppable.
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Summary: The Best Game ever.
Review: I have play many great video games such as Grand Theft Audo 3, and one of my favorites, Red Faction. But nothing can get any better than Max Payne. It has awsome Graphics, Great sound, and a great story plot. The game it also famous for its slow motion bullet time. This game is fun. however the game does not last long. There is only 6-8 hours worth of gameplay. I like this game. But I don't speak for every person. Some people might have different opinions about this game. Well, what are you waiting for? Play this game!
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Summary: Style over substance, resulting in insurmountable problems.
Review: Max Payne is like an exaggerated version of a typical no-brains action movie. On one hand, the heightened action, the thrilling "bullet-time" innovation, and arsenal of weapons get your adrenalin pumping; on the other, incredibly bad stylistic choices prevented me from enjoying this game to the max.First, the plusses. I am a *big* fan of John Woo's action movies, and Max Payne's action gameplay evokes them very well. I had been suspicious of the "bullet-time" technique before playing the game, but it turned out to be pretty easy to use, and yes, it does look dead gorgeous. Control of the character is pretty fluid, and your control over your jumps feels quite snug. Just the look of the surroundings and the characters in-game is great, with beautiful lighting effects, explosions, and good detail. And now on to the problems... For a game that champions its stylistic conceits so vocally, Max Payne fails disastrously in the area of aesthetics. True, the explosions and gunfights look good (though pretty damned violent), but why, oh why did they not bother to cast proper actors to play the characters? When the characters are just drawn in computer, they look fine. But whenever they use photo captures, such as during the drop-dead boring "graphic novel" sequences, all the characters look like they are either played by people in the development team and their friends, or they had found actors so bad, so thoroughly incapable of dramatic expression, that they look like people in a game development team. Either way, Max Payne features the worst acting I've ever seen even in video games, and their image is equally atrocious: "Mona" looks like a twentysomething neighbour rather than a mob hitwoman, and Max himself looks so much the dolt that it's a real drag playing as him. Not to mention the fact that he CAN'T SHUT UP. The comic-book aspect of the game's style is easily the worst idea they had. By translating comic-book-style writing into direct voice-over, Max Payne shows just how bad comic-book writing is as a whole. This stuff was never meant to be said out loud. Of course, the writers (if you could call them that) were so enamoured with every syllable they had written, they used everything -- serving to bog down the one element of this game that works, which is the action. And the graphic novel parts look just ridiculous, but take up about 30% of your gametime if you let them play out. Comic books are very hard to take seriously, and when you try to mix this style with the melodramatic, dead-serious style of the John Woo movies this game emulates, you have an absolute stylistic disaster. This was why when Max encounters his dead baby and wife, I actually burst out laughing. The terrible acting and writing, served up in Hong Kong melodrama style, entirely sabotaged any engagement I might have had in Max's situation. The two "drug sequences" were actually a pretty neat idea, but they screwed it up by designing mazes and long, arduous "puzzles" that would make your eyes glue up, so unengaging and drawn out are they. This game is very weak on the puzzle front. Where games like Syphon Filter and Medal of Honor keep you interested by making sure you always know what your objectives are at any given point, in Max Payne, it's usually a matter of walking through the level and trying to use/shoot everything in sight in a trial-and-error attempt to find what the game developers want you to do next. Sometimes you can find the right door, but you have to wait for the pesky enemies to open it for you. And in terms of level design, you end up having to go back to old places so often that it's drop-dead tiresome. I enjoyed the action portions of this game immensely. But it seems to me this development team only succeeded in creating half a good game. If Max Payne were as "gritty" as some reviewers called it, and if they had bothered to hire real actors rather than cast everyone they know, and if they had good writers who were dramatists rather than comic-book doodlers, they probably would've had an absolute classic on their hands. As it is, Max Payne is a technical breakthrough, but its aesthetics are so twisted around that it's impossible not to deride its shortcomings.
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Summary: Payne to the Maxxx!!!!!!
Review: Man, this game almost blew me away the first time i played it. It's one of the most entertaining games I've played in a long time. It has a compelling storyline about a New York cop who has nothing to lose after mobsters high on a new drug "valkyr", and has been framed for killing his cop buddy.
But the best part about this game is bullet time, which allows you to move in slow motion while you take out baddies with your dual berettas or whatever other weapon you posess. But this game ain't for the small fry either. In hotel bathrooms, you see junkies nodding off, getting their fix of valkyr, some disturbing images when Payne gets hallucinations about his wife and toddler's death, and of course, lots of gunplay and violence. The only complaint is the two levels where Payne hallucinates and you have to go through this horrid dream trying to follow a trail of blood, with his wife screaming inthe background as if she is being raped or something, and is not fun at all. Other than that, Max Payne is an extremely addictive game that no gaming tick of any kind should miss.
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Summary: A clasic
Review: This is simply a great game, personaly I enjoyed it very much. The best part was the bullit time feature, without it the game would be just another trashy shooter. The only thing I do not quite understand is that the system requierments called for a 16mega byte graphic card, yet it ran perfectly on my 8mega byte.........
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Summary: Without Question, Best Out
Review: I love the graphics. I love the blood. I love the pace. I love the whacky moves. I love the goofy theme. This game Rocks!
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Summary: Revenge is Sweet for Max Payne
Review: I love FPS video games, I love action movies, and I'm from New York with an attitude. And that's why Max Payne ROCKS! This is the only game that successfully integrates a great script with game playing since Half Life. When Max Payne finds his family killed in cold blood by corrupt government forces he goes ballistic. With his [bad] attitude he aggressively goes after those corrupt underworld
... who took away his humanity. Unlike other games this is not senseless shooting - its justified shooting. Blowing up the bad guys is the only thing left that Max enjoys. The dark dismal snowy scenery throughout the game adds beautifully to the hellish situation Max is in. And there is two main things in the game that adds mucho points to the tilt factor: bullet time, and the scenes when Max is drugged up. You probably read about the Matrixlike bullet time so I won't describe it more than that. I loved using the sniper rifle. It switches to bullet prospective on the last shot - very cool. And when Max is drugged up in two of the game scenes its gets pretty intense. The dark distorted environment, with long fishbowl like hallways adds quite a lot Max's nightmare. For playability its awesome. I have not gotten frustrated because I'm stuck and don't know where to go. The games moves at a perfect pace. The only complaint is that the game does get a bit repetitive. He's going through buildings most of the time. Perhaps if there is a sequel the game the designers can use real New York City scenery: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, Empire State Building, Chinatown, Times Square, etc. So buy the game .. you'll enjoy
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Summary: Wonderful game!
Review: This is a fun, action packed game. If you want shoot-em'-up style action, then buy this game. I was blown away by the sound, graphics and the intense action. You can put parts of the game in slow motion and see bullets wiz by you and fragments from bullets fly all over the place. It's the matrix and a John Woo movie mixed into one! Try this game out. It's definitely worth the money.
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Summary: Max Payne is Sweeet!
Review: I beat Max Payne in three days.The end is very confusing but easy the second time.I mostly use bullet time because it makes you survive more longer.I can`t promise you youl beat the game in three days but i can promise you will love the game.I hope you enjoy Max Payne,by the way DEATH IS BRUTLE
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