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One of the Best Video Games EVER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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!!!

Psychological

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game has some good psychological aspects that make it an interesting game to play. The graphics are probably not as good as you would prefer but the story line makes it worth it. The controls aren't too bad but seem a little awkward at times. From what I've heard, the PC version is better but I have no complaints for the PS2 version.

One of the Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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).

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

the first game i ever beat

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game is very good
it jsut sucks u in and u cant quit, and before u know it, it is done

The WORST voice acting ever in a videogame...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I will begin by saying that this game is COOL SLOW-MO ACTION PACKED!!! Just imagine a mix of the movie Payback, Hard Boiled, Die Hard and Matrix and put them on a videogame. This gameplay is like Metal Gear Solid but fast and with so-so graphics.

The voice acting is HORRIBLE AND SILLY but funny at the same time. Max's voice is a cheap rip-off from Mel Gibson's voice and the game say stufs like this:

"OH!! NO! NO! PLEASE GOD NO!!! OHHH BABY!!!", "NOOO PLEASE MAX!!! I JUST NEED YOU!!!", "YOU WILL DYEEEAR!", "COOL ACTION MOVIES AND I TALKING ABOUT THE COOLEST OF THE COOL", "I don't know about angels but is fear that gives men wings", "I made like Chow Yun Fat", "OHH HUHUHUHU!!!! I FELL THE WRATH OF THE FALLEN ANGEL!!", "Maxy, Maxy, Maxy, come out wherever you are!", "I didn't like the way the show started, they gave me the best sit in the house"

I hope you laught! soo ADIOS!

Great with a few flaws

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I throughly enjoyed this game. The voice acting may not be the greatest, but I think the gameplay is really well done and the atmospheres are fantastic. The controls take some getting used too and are not for everyone. They are a problem and could have been better to control, surprisenly I can do it very well. The major problem I have is that as the game progresses it gives you less times to save, so you have to go through almost an entire level (though short) and complete it WITHOUT saving once. That is so stupid because if you die at the end you have to do the entire level over again, that is the dumbest thing ever in a video game. I just feel it's unfair for the game makers to make a fairly difficult level then make you do it over and over if you slip and die toward the end. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
The levels can be a bit difficult if you're not one to be quick on the trigger. And as much I gripe on the camera angles, they're useful in stopping Max at the end a hall, swing the camera around and see if an enemy is around the corner, waiting on the steps, right inside the next room, etc. It gives you a heads up and makes it easier to stay alive.
However, I still really liked it. I didn't enjoy MP2 as much, but MP3 (which should end the series I think) should, (re: SHOULD) be much better. I'm looking forward to it.

The PS2 might sell more, but its limitations hurt this version of Max Payne.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

While the PS2 version is not really bad, it is horrible next to the near perfect versions on the Xbox and PC. The PS2's sound and music to Max Payne is uneven and really scatchy when the narrative scenes are on. The gameplay is still good, even though some areas are cut off do to the PS2's limitations but that doesn't hurt the gameplay too much.

Graphics are also very scratchy, and so are the characters, even though all the versions of Max Payne don't have great character models, the PS2 version looks even more out of order.

But the controls are better for PS2, the smaller controller the PS2 has really helps compared the Xbox controller and a keyboard.

Still highly enjoyable, the game is still an intense action game with a lot of violence. If you can't get your hands on any other version, then the PS2 is perfect for you.

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