Max Payne (2001)
Genres:Shooter
Themes:Action, Thriller
Game modes:Single player
Story:Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Max Payne is a relentless story-driven game about a man on the edge, fighting to clear his name while struggling to uncover the truth about his slain family amongst a myriad of plot-twists and twisted thugs in the gritty bowels of New York during the century's worst blizzard.
The groundbreaking original cinematic action-shooter, Max Payne introduced the concept of Bullet Time in videogames. Through its stylish slow-motion gunplay combined with a dark and twisted story, Max Payne redefined the action-shooter genre.Show more
Vote to bring this game to GOG and help preserve it.68 701
Yes the game is on pc, such as steam, but it is barely playable without workarounds. I’d hope that GOG would be able to make the game absolutely perfect for modern PCs. Hoping rockstar are smart enough to allow this game on GOG and the eventual Max Payne remakes
Obvioulsy the game had a great, heavy weight story like taken directly from Vertigo graphic novels. But I specifically remember two things. Bullet time shootouts... this thing just blew me away immediately and did not get boring over time. The other thing was graphics. Back then it felt almost as realistic as movie, despite the flat faces!
During my time in school, it was the topic! A hard game, for a mature audience, with bullet-time (like in Matrix) and a hard, dark story. There were even rumours, that the game will be not long available in my country. Of course, my mom bought the game!
I especially like the noir look, the comic cutscenes, the bullet-time and the really heavy atmosphere. Max was out for revenge, he had lost everything. Max was ready to kill and to die!
From my perspective now, it´s simply funny, that Sam Lake hasn´t just „played“ Max Payne. He has also involved his parents! Both are in the game. I heared, his mom is evil, in the game ;)
It would be nice, if there would be a special GoG Edition:
Max Payne 1 + 2 as original version, includling the remakes of both games in one big bundle.
I watched my brother play this game during my first state exam. Every day for two weeks I had to write 5 hour exams from 8 to 13 o'clock, would come home at 14 to my brother's and mine apartment, eat what my brother kindly prepared and then just watch him play to regenerate and relax. The dark noir atmosphere, the excellent music adding to that and the bullet time concept I first saw in action really took me in. This was punctured by some real cool self-aware humour. The memories of my loving brother taking care of me are strongly connected to this game, too, as is 9/11 which happened at the beginning of my second exam week. I always wanted to buy the game to play it myself one day, to relive those memories, but never got my hands on it.
The gameplay and the bullet-time mechanic was wonderfull, as well as the storytelling. Everything about this game merges in the best possible way two medias like movies and games.
I have a specific memory of playing Max Payne on the original Xbox and there being a train level and I was really into the bullet time shooting mechanic as a kid. It was awesome to dive and activate the bullet time and try to clear the area just in bullet time. I can't remember if I ever was able to clear it or not though.
I was a teenager when this game came to my hands, so the spectacular cinematics and the bullet-time just amazed me. That was one of the titles that made me fall in love with videogames.
Many of us grew up with this game, enjoying every shootout and immersing ourselves in the dark story of Max Payne. It would be amazing to be able to relive those moments on GOG, with the convenience of their platform and the assurance that the game will work on our current devices (plus support for the Spanish language).
I don't have to explain the greatness of this game. Max Payne was ahead of its time, and now still holds up very well.
Sadly, this game isn't playable on modern pc unless you install a bunch of patches, even for that one version sold on an steam. So i think it deserves a well done update and fix, in order that everyone can have easy access to it.
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