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Summary: SO SAD ENDING!!!! :'(
Review: I completet the game and it is AWSOME!!!!!!!!! so cool improved gfx and the bt 2.0 is so cool but the bt is a little to fast and you get to play 2 diffrent people.BUT THE ENDING is so SAD!!!! :'( WHY didnt they make it a happy ending?
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Summary: The best game of 2003, 2004 and likely 2005! Period.
Review: Holy smoke, this game is simply awesome! Without a doubt the best game ever made so far!!! (running you of exclamation marks) Seriously, MP2 expands on everything that I loved in MP1. The graphics blow your mind away, the story is top-notch, the game play is the most polished ever and Bullet Time 2.0 rocks your socks off. Games don't get better than this! Stop reading now and buy your copy you dummy!
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Summary: Good Game!! BUT BUGGY!!!
Review: Well I Got the game from bestbuy and got it home the 15th.I installed it, played it and got to chapter 7. then it froze while i was at the splash screen loading the next chapter, i could not get out of it so i had to hard reboot it. i came back tried to load the level i last played no go. so i disabled the startup group items, rebooted and tried again with nothing running in my sys tray, same thing would not load, so i went to a previouse saved game and it loaded. ok thought maybe it was a bad save..played to the chap 7 again would not load. deleted saved games started over..same thing.uninstalled reinstalled the game, nope same issue. I now cant get passed the 4th chapter and it freezes. all my other games work of course.i even tried it on low setttings. no go. i am tired of hard booting my compupter. so i bet they will have a new big patch hopefully to fix this issue. otherwise i will be selling it here soon. other than that the game is a blast to play, it is one of the best games i have played all year..but battlefield was buggy too in the beginning so i will give them a week otherwise i am selling it.....maybe some day in the future after they fix this i can buy it again... i have a amd 2200+ win xp home 512mb pc2700 266 fsb with geforce 4 ti 4600 128 agp x8.......all other games run fine..even halo..!
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Summary: Been There, Done that...
Review: From what I have played, not much has changed. The plot is relatively the same, (although much less involved as the first.) It is still just basically getting revenge for the murder of your family, legally this time. It has the all to familiar been there done that feel to it.
Bullet Time is better, but not that much better. If you've played the first Max Payne and accidentally played Enter The Matrix, it is also a been there done that experience.
The Graphics engine is much improved. Max does not have the stinky feet (or constipated) expression that we had to suffer through in the first game. He looks a lot better along with the other characters models. The environments look quite realistic and the partical effects when bullets hit surfaces are pretty.
The A.I is another great improvement. The enemies will use much better tactics and will not just walk around a corner to get mowed down. They will use tactics and flanking maneuvers along with throwing grenades if the conditions are right. After all these improvements, it is not that much better or different than the original. It is a been there done that experience. It seems like a 50$ expansion pack with better graphics.
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Summary: Dear Lord
Review: One of the most outstanding games I've ever played. The graphics engine is revamped, and the new bullet time 2.0 is AWESOME. The plot is way better than Max Payne 1, even though Max Payne 1 was revolutionary in it's time. The plot is much more part of the game, rather than just running around and wacking the bad guys. This was also true in MP1, plot driven action is taken to the next level in this latest incarnation.
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Summary: RE: 14-year olds shouldn't write reviews...
Review: Excuse us sir but people have a right to give as many stars to a product as they want. There's nothing wrong in pointing out the flaws of a product as much as you guys want to desperately hype a product so that it sells big even though the quality actually stinks. If you want to criticize truth tellers as 14 year olds, then keep it up. Likewise we can easily counter your baloney by saying that 4 year olds like yourself who knowingly lie to the public about a product and give it 5 stars shouldn't be writing reviews either. Just look at how far down in price Max Payne 2 has fallen, from $50 to $20, more so after more dissatisfied customers posted honest reviews of the game to counter all that false hype earlier. As an ex-MP2 customer who bought the game, played it, and then sold it on ebay because it was no better than the first game, I actually agree with those who gave 1-3 stars on this game. Having said that, yes it's a noir love story all right. Unlike the first game, Max Payne makes himself look more guilty even though he was actually doing the right things in Max Payne 2. There's no nightmare levels unlike the first game but there are more slow moving levels not to mention a level where you just go through a simple maze without any enemies. Unlike the first game where only twice you lose your weapons, in this game you end up losing your weapons all the time even though you can probably make do without them up to a point. As for Mona also playing, at first it looks interesting but after playing one level of it, you realize that playing Mona is no alternative to Max himself except that she gets the Dragonuv instead of the Sniper Rifle and that she has fewer weapons than Max himself. It would have been nice if the developers would have actually designed Mona to able to punch and kick (kung foo anyone?) enemies in addition to using guns alone. As for the audio, at first the speeches are fun to listen to. However, as you progress through the game, the audio is redundant from background music to speeches from your opponents. Like the first game, Max Payne talks to himself more often than not although you can start up a dialog with certain characters in the game other than your opponents of course. To say that this game is flawless is to believe that fool's gold is real gold. If you liked the first Max Payne, you may or may not like Max Payne 2. However, as some have honestly pointed out earlier, if you did not or now do not like the first Max Payne, don't expect much from Max Payne 2.
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Summary: Max is back and better than ever!
Review: What a terrific game. Excellent graphics, solid sound, great story, and great characters. You lead Max through his next mystery through many levesl of very intense and very difficult action. On a routine check of a warehouse, shots are fired. As Max investigates, he comes across a cleaning company whose only cleaning is cleaning people out of their weapons. A woman from his past he thought dead (I believe she is from the first Max game) is very much alive. There are many players dealing in weapons. Max doesn't know who to trust. Not his co-workers, friends, and this woman. As the story gets deeper and deeper, you reveal the mystery and solve a few other things from your past. All of this leads up to a few surprises and very challenging final battle. Bullet time is back and there are a few new moves that happen when you activate this. It's very cool seeing the bullets whizzing by you. There are quite a few new weapons and many levels that give you hours of game play plus you have some very strange levels as Max battles his innerself. And once you beat the Detective level (which is pretty hard itself), you open up the other play options like beating the levels before the time runs out and a deathmatch type gameplay where you try to stay alive as long as possible. The longer you stay alive the more bad guys show up to kill you. Every kill adds 2seconds to your score and saves your best times on 5 or 6 different levels. Plus you have even tougher gameplay levels where the enemies skills are even better. WHEW! This all adds up to a great game that you will not regret playing.
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Summary: Kissing the lips of your dead love
Review: "Home sweet home. Something in the night felt like a door had been opened, an echo of the past, an old monster snapping its eyes open in the depths of my brain. Closing your eyes forces you to look at the darkness inside. I hadn't slept in a long time. When I did, my dreams were nightmares." --Detective Max Payne
The hard, film noir deadpan voice of Max Payne drones out his tale; depressive, tragic, shot through with miseries beyond counting. A man of sorrows holding on by a thread. Death follows him; his hands are cascades of dripping crimson. In dreams, he falls apart: demented, delusional, paralyzed by remorse. His wife and infant child had been brutally, graphically murdered and he'd been framed for those acts. But much blood has flowed under the bridge since then and more tragedies have befallen him. He is a shell, an empty husk of humanity going through the motions of life. Life or death, he is indifferent. Yet someone emerges, gives him a glimpse of hope, of light, of some meaning and reason to go on. Mona Sax, a woman he thought was dead. Mona Sax, with the keys to the questions that haunt him.
Noir York City. Landscapes viciously scrawled in urban decay. Crumbling buildings. Graffiti. Drugs. Prostitution. The Mob. Police corruption. Conspiracies. The answers Max needs are out there, yet an army of underworld thugs stands between him and the truth. The rain falls like a blunt instrument, piercing the cloudy, storm-drenched night like a dagger. Someone is behind the scenes, playing puppetmaster, pulling strings. Detective Payne pushes forward, bound by the strings, drawn by the threads of inevitability.
The world of Max Payne 2 is etched in the finest detail; even the most disturbing dreams and cityscapes are somehow darkly beautiful, enchanting, unsettling in a very real way. Visual bells and whistles are abundant and uniformly impressive. The physics engine is natural and incorporated seamlessly: most objects in rooms-chairs, trash cans, etc.-can be knocked around to some extent by the main character. The devil is in the details, and the devil is everywhere in this game.
One cello weeps out its melancholy, haunting notes; they seem to hover in mid-air, leaving tangible residue and creating murky atmosphere. You'll encounter TVs playing in many locales and there's a multitude of varying programs playing on them: all very entertaining in their own way-humor, commercials, satire, action, drama, twisted horror-reminding one somewhat of the multiple radio stations the Grand Theft Auto titles. Explosions thud and resound from the subwoofer, vibrating the floor. Rain pounds into the roof overhead. Bullet time-the slow motion Matrix-like effect that offers the player the opportunity to slow gameplay to a crawl whilst still enabling him the ability to fire weapons in real time-has never looked or worked more effectively. The basic gameplay remains simple in structure, but it never gets old-partially due to the fact that Max Payne 2 is such a short game. But it's so stylistically impressive and cinematic and the storyline so gripping that it's difficult to complain. The story of Max and Mona is intriguing and heartfelt and it actually draws you in and makes you feel something like concern about the characters and their potential fates. But the story of Max's damaged psyche is nothing less than fascinating-and you, the game player, get to live it with him.
Beginning about halfway through the game, the language takes a turn towards "very adult" and stays there. Plain and simple, this game is for adults only. It's brutal, it's dark, it's serious (melodramatic film noir, if you can dig it) and it's unapologetically bloody. It's not for kids. Brought to you by Grand Theft Auto series publisher Rockstar, Max Payne 2 definitely incorporates the seedier elements of that world and then some. And while the experience of Max Payne 2 is much more linear than the wide-open structure of recent Grand Theft Auto games, in some ways-when taking in to account the movie-like story arc-it's a more satisfying experience.
"The past is a gaping hole. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it's like kissing the lips of your dead love, darkness waiting in the hole of her mouth." --Detective Max Payne
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Summary: Dark, enjoyable and sexy game
Review: This game sequel is darker and more bitter than the previous game. You get to play Max Payne and Mona Sax (a femme fatal assassin) in different scenarios. The atmosphere, music and gameplay are similar to Max Payne 1. You can jump sideways while shooting at your enemies and do all the movie like stunts (roll over and more) like before.
This game is very much like watching a movie. It has a great plot that really hooks you in. I played this game so intensively it was over too soon...
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Summary: Too much emphasis on emotions
Review: Unlike the first game where Max Payne had at least a can do fighting attitude, in this sequel, he's always in conceding mode until the end of course and even then it ain't always so. Sure, the bullettime and graphics are souped up a bit but storywise and gameplay-wise, this game lacks much of both. It was annoying enough that in the first game Max had to walk through a couple of dark mazes but what's worse in this sequel is that in at least 3 or 4 levels of this game, Max walks through while talking to himself in a more groaning manner which is even more annoying. Also, too much emphasis is placed on Max's desperate love for Mona. Yes, there is supposed to be love noir crap in this sequel but how much emphasis can you really afford to put on emotions until you make the game all sappy !?!?! Too easy and too boring if you ever want to play it again. Get it for a few bucks at ebay for what it's worth !
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