Max Payne

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Any one else been in the shoes of Max Payne yet. Damn, I love this game, the whole slowmotion effect when you dive in and the old detective movie setting. And the graphics, I'm blown away....


Just thought I'd share this with you so that any other FPS fans out there actually buy this great game

 

That game looks awesome. Its a little high right now for me, and I don't have enough time, and my PC probably isn't good enough anyway, but I hear its incredible. Cool.

 

Extremely cool game. It's almost more like reading a novel than playing a game. I'm still in part one and so far I'm impressed.

 

I am actually thinking of upgrading everything on my computer to get the best possible graphics....

 

takes a 64 meg 3d card for that... who can afford it?

Anyway, I love max payne, apart from the extremely lousy, cliche story.. obviously, it's 3d realms, creators of duke nukem and all, but personally I can't help but think what a game with this engine, these controls and all could be like if it was a bit more realistic, and had a more interesting plot. It's really like being the star of some awful action movie, like Death Wish 14 or something, but still it's strangely addictive.

 

That's what I like about it, haven't you ever seen one of those old detective movies from the 50's or something(Sam Spade and all that)

I don't think they ment the story to be taken that seriosly, I think they were laughing alot when they made that game and all his comments

 

Ok I haven't played the game yet so can't say if it is any good or not. I have been following its development over the last few years though and have been gettng pretty excited at its release. So much so that I nearly bought it this weekend especially after seeing the 95% review it recieved.

Still I held back as I have had a few concerns about the third person mode, which I have never liked for combat. Then on Sunday I saw another review that really slagged the game complaining that it was ameteurish, too short and lacking in any real innovation. it gave it 1.5 out of 5 (30%)

Based on thast my advice is to wait for the demo (you might also wonder why they have held back a demo until after release). One other things that worries me with it is that there is no multi-player. They claim that it would be too difficult to use bullet time in multi-player but why not just disable it for multi-player games? At least they should have given us the choice.

Anyway if you want to find out more and chase some links, go here:
http://www.maturegamer.net/News/NewsPages/MaxPayne.html

 

I played it and really liked it. As for the shortness, I'm guessing it's about 20 hours so it's no BG2. But, I loved every minute of this game and I know I will be going back to play it again. Personally I'd rather play a good short game than a bad long game so the length isn't an issue for me. The game looks great and the bullet time isn't just a gimick, it's a needed survival skill in this game.

 

Really cool game. Only real problem is that it's pretty linear and fairly short. Otherwise it rocks.