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Co-op: No | Multiplayer: No |
Description
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.
Storyline
In December 2001, as New York City is enduring the tail end of the worst snow blizzard in the history of the city, Max Payne, a renegade DEA agent and former NYPD detective, is standing at the top of a skyscraper with a sniper rifle in his hands, smiling, as police units arrive on the scene to arrest him. He then experiences flashbacks from three years ago and the last two days he experienced. Three years earlier, on August 22nd 1998, Max was working as a regular NYPD detective, having just finished his day's work. His longtime friend and DEA agent, Alex Balder, invites him to transfer into the DEA, but Max declines the offer, wanting to focus on his full-time life with his wife, Michelle, and their newborn daughter, Rose. As he returns to his house in New Jersey, he finds that a trio of junkies had broken into his house, all addicted on a brand new designer drug, Valkyr. Max receives a call from a mysterious woman who seems pleased at the trouble in the house and refuses to call for help. Max rushes to aid his family and kill the junkies, but is too late as he finds his wife shot dead, and his daughter slaughtered. After his family's funeral, Payne accepts Alex's offer, and transfers to the DEA at his own request to stop the spreading of the drugs.System Requirements
Processor | 450MHz AMD / Intel Processor |
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Memory | 96 MB RAM (128 MB RAM or greater recommended) |
Operating System | Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP (only) |
Video Card | 16MB Direct3D Compatible Graphics Card |
Action
Addiction
Anti-Hero
Baby
Banter During Gameplay
Blunt Weapons
Breakable Glass
Breaking the Fourth Wall
British Academy Video Game Awards
Bullet Time
Camera Following Projectile
Character Models Based on Actual People
Cheat Code
Comic Book Cutscene
Crime
Crime Fighting
Crooked Cop
Crosshair
Crying Babies
Cults
Cutscene
Cutscene Menu
Death
Developer Avatar
Digital Distribution
Direct2Drive
Disorientation
Double Entendre in Game Names
Dream Sequence
Dreams
Drug Enforcement Agency
Drugs
Dual Wielding
Dynamic Difficulty
Dynamic Narration
E3 1997
E3 1999
E3 2000
E3 2001
Easter Egg
Elevator Music
Enemy Reaction
Experiments Gone Awry
Exploding Barrel
Exploring Yourself
Family Man
Fate
Femme Fatale
Film Noir
Fire
Flash Forward
Framing
Functional Faucet
Functional Mirrors
Functional Toilets
Game Over
Game Reference
Games on Demand
Games on Which Movies are Based
Ghost Baby
Greatest Hits
Heads Up Display
Headshot
Health
Helicopter Boss
Hitscan
In Medias Res
Infinite Pockets
Insanity
Interactive Environments
Inventory Loss
Jump
Killing Rats
Launch Titles
Light Up Crosshair
Male Protagonists
Melee
Meme Origin
Metafictional
Murder
My Father's Sword
neo noir
New York City Police Department
noir
Non-Linear Storytelling
Non-Player Character
Novint Falcon Support
One-Man Army
Original Soundtrack Release
PC to Console Port
Persistent Bullet Holes
PlayStation Plus
Police
Polygonal 3D
Profanity
Protagonist's Name in the Title
PS2 Classics
Quickloading
Quicksaving
Raining Blood
Real-Time Combat
Realistic Ballistics
Record Breakers
Revenge
Rock Concert Showdown
Rogue Cop
Russian Accent
Satanism
Single-player
Slow Motion
Smoking
Sniping
Snow
Steam
Story Bullet
Strafing
Substance Abuse Benefit
Text Bubble
The Mafia
The Mob
Third-Person Perspective
Thriller
Torture
Tragic Hero
Trilogy
Unreliable Narrator
Vigilante
Visual Novel
Voice Acting
Waking Up Captured
Watching TV
White Noise
Wilhelm Scream
Xbox 360 Backwards Compatibility
Xbox Originals
Xfire