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Wish I Could Rate It !

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: August 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was so busy trying to get my hands on this game that I neglected to read the requierments. You have to have at least 96MB of ram in order to run. I have only 64. Now I am probably stuck with a game I can't play until I upgrade my computer. My question is why would a game so long in development need RAM that was not even heard of at the time? Or where they waiting for computers to advance that much in order to run it? Piece of advice to potential buyers. Don't make the same mistake I did and read the requierments carefully!!!!!!

Good game...Good wait 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 30
Date: June 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Another year for max payne As i finley see a relese date but of course i cant belive it...they say july 18th but yet everyone else just says when its done so i dont belive it they said that in 1999 or whatever to...I allso heard something about the rateing within 30 days they get to relase it? dunno if thats true but if this was like another hitman game....Count me out But As for buying the game...Count me in Just for the gameplay Looks like a great game to play For many hours, Mabye outlive halflife wich still stands undusty on my shelf unlike hitman dusty untouchd in years whell whenever it came out something about that plain bald head n cartoony figger I just hope this game will beat my rest of boreing games whnever it comes out

If only Max was playable...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: January 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I wanted this game from the moment I read the PC Gamer Preview/Review of it. It looks awesome and probably is. I received Max Payne for Xmas and installed it immediately.

The reason this game to me is rated ONE STAR is because I can not play it. In the game you can run, walk, shoot, jump, everything else, but you can NOT TURN LEFT or RIGHT at ALL! Not without the use of the mouse. In the options settings for the movement controls, many things are missing. The most important of these is the TURN LEFT and TURN RIGHT commands. Without this, all players are forced to use the mouse. There is no way to use a game pad or a joystick or any other device to play games with because the game will not allow for custom settings to turn facing another direction. Players are restricted to a STRAFE (walk sideways left or right).

Until a patch is available to fix this (I have emailed the game developer) I can not play Max Payne. I tried for over three hours straight to play and re-orient my fingers to the controls but failed miserably because having to switch from mouse to keyboard to do combination moves does not help.

Hope an update comes soon...

Max Payne

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: July 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Max PAyne has been talked about by all major gaming magazines and they all agree it looks amazing. You will be Max Payne, undercover cop with nothing to loose. You are looking the killers of your family. The graphics are amazing. You can blow anything apart even money. But the mOSt important thing the slow-mo. You will be able to jump, duck and shot MAtrix style.The game could definetly be perfect, the A.I is just amazing. The only worry I have is that the slow-mo could be annoying especially multiplayer. CAn they pull it off? I sure hope so.

Too Difficult

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: November 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

There should be a very easy setting. The game is much too difficult for me which makes it unplayable.

Its Realistic(Duh)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: May 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Max Payne is, in a word, a great game. It is basicaly the creator of its genre, Story-Telling. As scary as "story telling" May sound to older gamers, it has a great meaning in Max Payne. Every event is scripted upon what you do in the game, fire a gun, choose a hallway to walk through. You start out in the beginning as a police officer named Max Payne, and pretty much all you do is run over to your wife and kid, when ALL OF A SUDDEN, they get shot. Poor, poor Max. Well, the game extends from here. As you open your eyes from the surprise of the graphics that this game has, you find yourself an employee of the Drug Enforcement Association to try to track down the murderers of your loved ones, the ones who were the creators of the new designer drug Valkyr. But just as things were looking up, things go down. Heads go zoom. THINGS BLOW UP. You here over the radio that you are wanted for the murder of one of your buddies at the DEA, when ALL OF A SUDDEN, that dude's head gets penetrated by a sniper's bullet. Well, I certainly don't know about you all, but I am preordering that thing like it was already out. Washington, the caisons have hit bedrock.

I Havnt Played it yet but......

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: June 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Even though i havnt played it yet i have been waiting for this game for two years now. In June of 99 i bought a Comp magazine w/ a video demo of this game when it was supposed to be released in 99. From what the demo says it is based around Max Payne (duh!) and a drug called "VALKIR" (im not sure if this has changed for the 2001 release). I give it a five because in the demo you get to shoot up a really fat guy with a machine gun ( who doesnt like that!!!) I hope everyone that likes shoot em' ups will buy this graphically stunning game!

The Worst Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 30
Date: July 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game stinks. Don't buy it, or you will be bored to death.

Repetitive and overrated

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: August 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Max Payne has been dubbed as revolutionary and innovative by video game critics and fans alike, but guess what? It's neither. When I first played this game, I was drawn in by the graphics, which is one of the few things I like about this game. The story is pretty confusing and uninteresting, and was illustrated in a hard-on-the-eyes comic-book style, where it was layed out in frames and word bubbles and drawn in an unusual fashion. The main drawback of this game is how repetitive it gets. This is the general flow of this game:

Go into a room. Do some bullet time. Kill some guys. Repeat.
MAYBE a cutscene.

Boring? Yep. Repetitive? Yep. Revolutionary? Nope. I barely got halfway through the game before getting tired of the grind of Max Payne, but I heard jumping off the twin towers and trying to hit parked cars is fun, but I never got that far into the game. If you like first-person shooters, stick with Half-Life or Battlefield 1942, or even Halo. This game is overrated as hell, and bored me to tears. Go home Max Payne.

Impressive at first but considering price, gets old quick

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you are a PC gamer that does not enjoy linear games I would not recommend this title. In other words, this is a game that involves little decision making and depends on a storyline to keep you hooked from chapter to chapter. The storyline is a comic book tale about a cop become a vigilante to combat the evil drug dealers. The in-between segments are even displayed as comic book panels and the main character, Max Payne, has a load of corny metaphors to go with every chapter.

Some of the creative features put into this game stand out at first. Perhaps the most impressive feature is the bullet time option that allows you to slow down time and gun down your enemies in a dramatic fashion. If you've seen "The Matrix," bullet time is the exact same thing in that movie. It's new and interesting at first but not entertaining enough to keep you captivated throughout the game.

No problem solving is required in this game. The chapters are shoot 'em up segments from one to the next. Even extra ammunition and health capsules are easy to find as you only need to open up a cabinet, shelf, etc. to find them. The game allows you to interact with your environment by turning on faucets, blowing up television screens and other aspects that are entertaining at first but really have no point other than to "oooh and awe" you.

If you shy away from violence or have kids to watch out for this game is not recommended. The beginning sequence of the game shows Max Payne examining his murdered infant which I have to say was one of the few moments I thought a PC game overdid the violence in a game. Some of the sub-bosses are slowed down and zoomed into as they are killed and falling to the ground. I think critics of media violence often miss the point and are hypocritical but I have to say that this is one game that I could see justifiable reaction to the violence portrayed.

An added bonus to this game is an online community that has created mods, skins and other programs to enhance your gaming experience with Max Payne. (Mods are alterations to the game that add extra levels, villains, etc.) I've seen stand-alone games with much more to offer in the mod department but the game does support it. There is an online demo available that allows you to play the first part of the game. Keep in mind that most of the game follows the same format as the demo which will allow you to decide if you'd like to purchase the game. In my opinion, it's a game that is fun for younger players but is boring for the older PC gaming audience. There are some unique gameplay aspects in Max Payne but not enough to make it worthwhile until the price drops.

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