SamOThe Greatest Game You'll Ever Play
July 17th 2008 16:50
Well, maybe not the best, but certainly one of. Especially if you were as myself, oblivious to the Max Payne experience before playing the game. I remember looking at the box insert back in the day, and knew I needed to play this game. What an awesome experience it was.
The plot being the real shiner here, at first I hated the format in which the story was progressed, through comic panels with voice overs. But after a while it grows on you, to the point that you realize how awesome, and in a way epic, the story becomes. The telling is what you start to wait for in between bouts of shooting mayhem.
The plot started out so simple as well, with Max Payne's family having been murdered by an addict high on the new drug of choice that Max basically started a war against. From there everything turns awesome, with each confrontation becoming bigger and with much more spectacle each time as the game rolls on. And it's always entertaining.
Not to mention the concept of bullet-time, the slow down the world and blast fools concept, executed to perfection here.
Not to mention the trippy dream sequences that change the gameplay up completely. They actually freaked me out on my first play through, as the way the graphics change to accommodate the mood of actually being in a dream is brilliant. The hallways stretch to look as though they never end as you run down them, while the sights and sounds are all familiar but perverted to look unfriendly. Each with a different hue that gives you a discomfort inside, as a testament to how strange the realm you are in is.
But, it's of great importance to mention that the game should be played on either Xbox or PC, because the ps2 version is shockingly awful, because of the PS2's lack of graphic and processing power. Making both the Xbox version as well as PC far, far superior.
Also I wouldn't recommend playing Max Payne 2, as the sequel sort of lost it's way trying to go through the continuing storyline. Not to mention the amount of carnage burned through in the first Max Payne would make it impossible for any cop to return to the force, despite anything the game tries to use to continue the plot along those lines.
I'm all for suspension of disbelief, but c'mon.
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As the trailer and what i've read implies that Max will have to fight demons or some such monster. And that sort of defeats the concept of the games, and the drug doesn't it?
People as monsters was much more brilliant, and the drug making them better at it, was awesome.
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