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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Overall: Judging by the previews and numerous claims - Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne was to be twice the game the original Max Payne was? November, quite simply, didn?t come soon enough ? or did it?Gameplay: Despite the major graphic update all around, Max Payne 2's game play remains unchanged for the most part. The game begins right where the first left off, with Max (the NYPD pig anti hero) back on the force and trying to deal with the events of the last game. A murder investigation at a warehouse re-introduces him to Mona Sax. Remember her? The over sexed hit-woman from the last game? Max just can?t seem to stay away from her? like a bad case of herpes, she just won?t go away. Caught in the middle of his love for Mona and his pig sense of duties and responsibilities, Max finds himself once again walking the thin line between cops and robbers.
The game's 21 stages put Max in all sorts of sticky situations, from navigating the rooftops around his apartment building to protecting allies from enemy attacks. (There are some "dream" stages again, but they aren't as superfluous and annoying as before.) Bullet time is also back, of course, and this time you've got two different types: a shoot-dodge move that slows down time while you've diving in any direction, and a new function that slows everything in the game except for Max. This new ability doesn't seem like much, but it actually makes Max Payne 2 play a fair bit differently from the original -- there isn't as much impetus to take a strategic approach, carefully planning out your moves in each room. Instead, the process is more along the lines of "turn on bullet time, enter a room, kill everyone, turn off bullet time, go to next room" -- not a very graceful approach, but it does serve to make the game much more fast-paced than before. The quick save and quick load functions are back, too, ensuring that almost none of the six hours you'll spend on Max Payne 2 are mired in replaying scenes.
Despite it?s relentlessly "noir" (French for "melodramatic," I guess) storyline, Max Payne 2 does an even better job of pulling players into the game than even its predecessor -- and that's saying something.
I beat the game on default dificulty in 5 hours and 23 minutes. Making this a better rental than a purchase.
Graphics: Max Payne 2 looks great. You can almost smell the dirtiness and gritiness of the NY underworld due to the amazing graphics. Thanks the the power of the XBOX, Max Payne is presented in full visual glory as the grimy, sexy, lady killer real women swoon for...
Audio: The sound alternates between atmospheric and jarring, and the bullet-time effects (which repaint the game screen in sepia tones and make Max's heartbeat audible) are just as memorable as they were in the first game. warning: The audio is pact full of profanity, sexual inuendo and all the other adult things Rock Star is now famous for...
Suggestions: Yes, Longer gameplay! 20hrs of a Max Payne title would be down right dreamy...
Overall Score: 7.0 / 10
