Max Payne | 
 enlarge | From: Rockstar Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  205 reviews
Sales Rank: 3396
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 17 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: PS2TK227086
Model: P2T2I 710425270864
UPC: 710425270864
EAN: 0710425270864
ASIN: B00005OLX1
Release Date: November 29, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Experience a relentless, story-driven game as Max fights for justice while uncovering plot twists and twisted thugs in the gritty bowels of New York during the century’s worst blizzard | | • | Photo-digitized textures, radiosity lighting, hardware T&L and painstaking detail combine to create super-realism | | • | Play It Your Own Way puts the most powerful, easy-to-use game editor ever released in your creative hands | | • | Blood and violence |
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Amazon.com Review
Max Payne's wife and baby daughter were slain by junkies hopped up on a dangerous new synthetic drug. For three years, Max has worked undercover to find the source of these drugs, and, just when he's almost got it figured out, somebody ices his superior and pins the murder on him. Now it's payback time as Max faces off against the Mob, the police, and much, much worse. Max Payne has jumped from the computer screen to the PlayStation2 and there's going to be hell to pay. Max Payne uses extremely realistic graphics to showcase a gritty film-noir-inspired New York City. Payne stalks subways, tenements, nightclubs, and even government installations as he takes his vengeance out on a horde of gun-toting bad guys. Taking a page from the visual style of famed director John Woo, as well as The Matrix, Max Payne lets the player launch into a slow-motion mode generally known as "bullet time," which makes dodging enemy fire and dishing out your own return fire a breeze, all while leaping side to side. While this looks extremely cool to do, it also evens the odds and can only be used for limited amounts of time, making it a strategic as well as aesthetic option. And speaking of aesthetics, the game is packed with exciting moments, weapons, and locations, even if the enemies get a little redundant after a while. The level design ranges from inspired (a multilevel parking garage) to humdrum (a warehouse) and several levels actually take place in the twisted wonderland of the hero's warped psyche. The graphics are state of the art, though admittedly the PlayStation2 doesn't have the power to render them as well as the Xbox or PC, but most people won't notice the difference. The introduction scenes consist of painted photos presented in graphic-novel style, which is a stylistic choice that pays dividends, even though the writing is hilariously bad and the voice acting is, if possible, even worse. Needless to say, all this is violent, disturbing, and not at all for the kids. Pay attention to the Mature rating; it's not there for decoration. --Bob Andrews Pros: - Photorealistic graphics
- Fantastic cinematic action
Cons: - Terrible writing
- Even worse voice acting
Amazon.com Product Description
Max Payne is a stylish, urban, revenge-driven action game based in New York City's grimy underground. A groundbreaking rendering engine allows for heart-stopping, photorealistic visuals and breathtaking movie-quality effects as Max Payne fights his way to uncover the truth. The game combines elements from Hollywood action thrillers with the latest in video game technology to deliver a highly original gameplay experience.
Product Description
Going Greatest Hit On 11-15-02 And Pricing Will Be $16.00
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| Customer Reviews: Read 200 more reviews...
 One of the Best Video Games EVER!!! August 26, 2008
This a really awesome video game! It has the best plot, best action, best voices. Max Payne had the American Dream; friends, house, beautiful wife, baby daughter, but one night, all that is taken away! His wife and baby were murdered by junkies on a drug called Valkyr. After three years of being undercover, he finally has a lead on a dark night and NY is having the worst snow storm ever! Max is supposed to meet Alex Balder at Roscoe Street Station. When Alex is shot, Max is framed for murder. Max must avoid the police and the Mafia in order to survive the night and get the revenge he deserves! If you love action, you'll love MAX PAYNE!!!
p.s. I can't wait to see the movie!!!
One of the Best April 19, 2008
A classic, an absolute classic. It's like playing within a Mickey Spillane novel: great action, great story, and great babes (well, I think there's one babe, but she's hot). A must-have for third-person shooter lovers.
great game January 28, 2008
this is a very good game, im a female and i got into ps2 because of this game, my boyfriend was playing it and while watching him play, i got caught up in the story, pretty soon i wanted to play, i couldnt help myself, its soooo much fun, max payne is cool, now im a gamer for life, my boyfriend is ecstatic of course, lol!!!!
Great action with an awesome story!! January 2, 2008
This is easily one of my favorite games ever. The story in so good it could be a movie. Max's wife is murdered and while trying to find out why he is framed for murder of a cop. The who game is about him taking revenge for his wifes death and signlehandedly dismantling a drug empire. all of the lines are so clever and funny and wity. the guns are awesome and plentiful. my favorite is the dual ingrams. bullettime makes the game so much fun esspecialy when jumping out from corners and slow motion slaughtering badguys. the game is challenging in that there are parts where you have to interact with the environment to complete a level. there are tons of levels in the game too. there are three parts whth about 14 chapters each with 3-5 levels per chapter. this game is all around fun, challenging and extremely well writen. i could not more strongly recomend it. really gets your heart pounding!!!
You have never played a game like this before(unless you played max payne 2 already). March 17, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a game about max payne and how his life got all screwed up.
It is a short game. The action is not all that exciting. The graphics are so-so.
The high point of this game is the way it presents the story too you. If you are a movie lover like me, you will definitely be into the way they give you the story. It's like a really cool comic book with pretty good voice acting, not great, but better than any kungfu movie dub. You will really get into the story, I guarantee it. I found judt sitting back and watching the game is better than playing.
Another wierd thing about this game is pretty much everything is more fun in the game than actually shooting people. For instance, a t.v. will be on and you can sit and watch a whole 5 minute episode of a stupid made-up soap opera. There is always a phone ringing, and it is always interesting when you pick it up.
Also this game really deserves it's mature rating, I have to say that it was a good little movie thriller inside of a game.
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