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Summary: Max Payne, Hardware +
Review: Max Payne is one of my top 10 fav games of all time. If you are a first and/or third person game player, that loves a good story line that keeps you interested(like: Deus Ex); this is the game for you.
Max Payne is very graphic (blood/gore/violent), and REQUIRES high end componenets.
Do not try to play this game on a stock compaq computer, it will not run well at all.
This game when played on a "game machine" has awesome graphics and sound. Crank the settings to Max, see the leather wrinkles on the jacket, hear the bullets wiz by.
My system, Custom; Intel 800, 133 Bus, 7,500 RPM HDD, Win98SE, 16xDVD, ATI Rage Radeon 8500, 256 Megs RAM, and hords of other toys. If you meet a high end (recommended + quite a bit) hardware requirement on the box, purchase this game.
Played on a 400, with everything lowered to the hilt, including the use of a good voodoo 4 card, mx300 sound, this game completely lags and does not show it's stuff.
Game Play works in 3rd person, camera angle is mouse defined, point and click shooting, with a different angle to the game, the inclusion of a time stop/hour glass routine, that slows time down in the game for the enemy, but lets Max enjoy the benefit of acting on his whims during the period where time is standing still. There is a good bit of humour in the game, with plenty of dialogue between characters. The only cheesy part of the game would be the comic book sections, however, this addition to the game makes Max appear to be more like a comic book super hero right from the pages of a magazine rather than an immortal first person shooter that can take a few shots and survive. (If Max gets hit with bullets, he reacts like he's been shot) Hence, pain killers, widely available through the game to deaden the pain for Mr. Payne.Happy Game Playing!
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Summary: Push your graphics card to its limits
Review: For anyone who is looking for a first person shooter that really shows what the new generation of graphics cards can do...Max Payne is it. Mad Onion's 3d mark 2001 benchmarking software uses a hotel lobby scene from Max Payne as one of its measuring tools to test high end graphics cards. Max Payne is an amazing, entertaining game and with the invention of "bullet time" technology (ala the Matrix) a player can slow down the action and be treated to one of the true marvels in computer gameing in the last five years. I recomend this game to everyone but be forewarned....the game requires alot of computer power to run it.
Recommended requirements are 700 mhz amd or intel processor with 128 mb of ram and a 32 mb card. Buy this game!!!! and have fun!
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Summary: Max Payne
Review: This game is diffently worth the money, though i suggest going to cheat code site for the walk through & cheats. there was one spot I needed a cheat & 1 spot needed help getting through, without it i would not have made it passed or survived. i know a cheat site that works great if you want you can email me. it has full cheats & walk through. The cheat code area was tricky to start. if you email me put CHEAT CODE HELP as subject ill send it & how to turn on the cheats.
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Summary: AMAZING!
Review: WOW!!! This is definitely the best game of the year! With a new feature that allows you to go into Matrix-style slow-motion, it is the only game to employ such a feature. PC Gamer calls this feature, "Slo-mo gives you an inventive advantage over the opposition... and it also happens to be the most fricken' cool device ever employed in an action game." The graphics are truly stunning, the story is excellently written, and it has one of the best plots in an action game. The Mature label is correctly applied, since there is a lot of animated blood, violence and suggestive themes, such as a the player killing a devil-worshipping maniac. This third person shooter will replace Half-Life as the definitive action game!
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Summary: Clean the Streets!
Review: Hell Yeah! If you're looking for a gritty, no holds barred third- person shooter, this is the game for you!
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Summary: Great game, and NOT SHORT AT ALL!
Review: This game isn't short at all, 22 'episodes' of pure action... wonderufl graphics... very original game... and again not short at all! you all are just looking for a reason for this game to not be perfect, so you're saying that's it's short. it's not, trust me it's not. Wonderful game.
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Summary: Max Payne, much goods, few bads
Review: I'd say this is the only game actually worth the money in 2001, plus it comes with a nice case(like the ones for PS2 games) and a mousepad. What matters most is the difference it has from other games. It has "bullet-time", you'll figure out that it is a "matrix-like" slo-mo sequence you can play to get an advantage over your enemies. It also self-adjusts on difficulty level, if you are terrible and having a hard time, the game will make enemies less tough to kill, if you are whipping through with no problem, the game will make the enemies harder to kill. Realistic health, unlike other games, if you get shot, you really get damaged. It's not like you can get hit a dozen times and your health bar only goes down halfway. Instead, if you get hit right, your health will go down at least halfway. Like if you are onl about 5 feet away from an enemy and he shoots you with a sawed-off shotgun, your dead.
The Cons. There is a few unrealistic bad points. There is the matter of a guy your just shot, his hand will be going in a wall or object when he is laying in his dead position. Then, the only way to get health is painkiller pills, those are supposed to just ease the pain, not cure you. I'd prefer medic kits, which, to be most realistic, take time and show him trying to bandage himself. That brings me to another minor case of unrealisticness, you collect stuff just by walking over or going over to them, I'm a person who likes realism, so I'd prefer seeing him picking stuff up or emptying bullets out of unneeded guns. Then another minor thing, enemies the being the same, same clothes, same faces. I'd dont care about clothes, but it could be like Operation Flashpoint where the people have different faces.
Special FX. There are a lot of special effects. Flushing toilets, turning on sinks, shooting down pictures off the walls, breaking dishes and small boxes, shattering glass, busting TVs and snack machines, turning on vibrating beds. There are gas bottles you can bust the tops off of and they blow up, ones that lay on the floor go rocketing across the floor or start spinning around. Then there was this one time I was at Ragna Rock and guys were up on this stage, you can turn on the pyro controls and they will step right into a firework show.
Thats about it, sorry about the length of this thing but I was bored.
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Summary: Great Action Game
Review: The bullet time is the most impressive innovation ever added to any game. Makes it possible to defeat the impossible odds against you on this game. Great action, entertainment, keeps you goin for alot of time. There were a few minor glitches though, nothing that stopped or slowed the game, just some skipping frames every now and then. But i assure you that's the ONLY reason i gave it 4 instead of 5 Stars.
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Summary: My husband "LOVES" it!
Review: I got this game for my hubby for Christmas along with the Playstation 2 system. He absolutley loves it! It shows a lot of blood etc..the graphics are unreal, I guess that's why he likes it so much. I haven't gotten that much attention since Dec 2oo1. =)
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Summary: Repetitive, dull, cliche'd game is simply not that much fun
Review: Max Payne has been in development for approximately 4 years, and it took all that time to publish a [...] game that doesn't include a multiplayer mode, very, very few cut scenes, and one boring character who has the constant look of constipation or a reaction to "stinky feet" on his face 100% of the time, it's really very annoying. The whole game revolves around "Bullet time," a nifty idea that is great when it's simply another feature in a game, but to have the entire game built around it is simply boring. Max Payne consists of running into a dark room, shooting everybody, then moving on to the next room, wash, rinse and repeat, over and over and over. On top of that you get to read incredibly corny, "John Woo" style (whatever that is) dialogue (read: bad cliches) and cinematic flair. The story revolves around you finding your wife and child shot by someone and you go out for revenge as a renegade cop of sorts and uncover a large conspiracy. The characters are completely uninteresting, look much too similar, and the comic book style text which breaks things up are as boring and dull as an episode of NYPD Blue. Max Payne should've (been cheaper) for the game itself is only about 10 or so hours long, has little to-no extras, and limited replayability. Shooting people in slow motion simply isn't enough to knock my socks off I guess.
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