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Save your $$..... second thought review.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I added a review when I first got this game... and as a previous gamer mentioned and I think he was right.. I gave this game 5 stars but I was still in my 10 hour honeymoon with the game. Its a great game don't get me wrong... just once you finish it it doesn't have that much replayability to it. You will probably end up putting it aside once you finish it .. which only takes several hours. I suggest you should wait till it hits the bargain bin .. like the previous gamer mentioned in his review... and get a good online game.. they are the best! I recommend .. operation flashpoint if you like stategic warefare games... WW2 online will be a great game as soon as they get the bugs all out.. i would wait on that one for at least 6 months.. cause they charge ya 10 bucks now to play. Fighter ace 2 at the gaming zone is a great fighter pilot game... with a big online community as well.. for also 10 bucks a month... but worth the $$. I would keep an eye out for return to wolfienstien and Alien vs . predator 2 and medal of honor 2 - allied assault. Game on !!

Great technology...but.....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Okay....the bullet-time stuff is awesome, but it can get old after a while. With all of the realism in this game, you think they would have made the bullet hits more real. Shoot someone in the back of the head with a shotgun....sure there's some blood, but the head is still intact. I guess I was expecting to see a little more of "soldier of fortune taken to the next level" type of action. I'm also bothered by the third person perspective, which is really required for the bullet-time feature, but it would have been nice to have a first person option (a la Hitman). When I aim at a bad guy, the site line is blocked by Max. Just very difficult to move around and avoid the bad guys.....other than that, the weapons, the sound and the scenery is great. The story's okay...just a little to linear for me.

Okay, but a total ripoff

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 23
Date: October 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game ripped-off the Matrix, just like everything else. Bullet-time is so over-used it's become nothing but a fad. besides, Max Payne doesn't technically even use bullet time at all. Bullet Time is more than just slow motion while a camera swirls around a person and bullets have ripple effects. Bullet time is a camera technique. (catch that part, that means a game with computer generated graphics can not use it, because it doesn't require the use of a camer), anyways, its a technigues in which dozens of cameras, still and motion picture, are set in a particular layout, then each camera takes a picture simultaneously, or in succession in a rapid order. then the images from each of these cameras is peiced together to great a moving image that seems to move in a circle around an event. I lvoe how Enter the Matrix doesn't call it "bullet time", they refer to it as "Focus" cuz that's what it is. It's not "bullet-time" because bullet-time is simply a camera technique.

A little bit overrated

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Yes, i played the whole game, twice. For about the first hour, it was the greatest game ever, but by the time I got to the second chapter, it got a little repetitive. Max Payne isn't the first game to have bullet time, and it has a pretty run of the mill plot. Guy loses family, goes out for revenge, discovers a large plot by an evil corporation to rule the world... What's new? If you've played one action game you've played them all. Once you figure out how to kill one bad guy, you can kill them all. I don't see why everyone thinks this is the greatest game ever, its been done before.

Too much story, not enough action

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: August 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I can see why some people might be excited over this game. It's got good graphics and I can see that alot of time was obviously spent on the storyline and accompanying graphics. However, for my part I like games that concentrate on the action versus the cutscenes. It seems like you kill three enemies, find some ammo and painkillers and then have to wait through another cutscene. Yeah, the graphics are good, my compliments. But I'd rather have a game that's more fun to play versus worrying about how many bullets and shell casings get drawn in a particular room.

Should have finished it and released it in 1999

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: February 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Back when the game was started and developed, it was technologically way ahead of its time. Too bad that by the time it came out, other games with game engines like Max Payne's or even better were already out and dampened the already losing popularity. On top of it, the story finishes in a New York Minute so darn fast and then the interest in giving it another play is all sapped out. Would have been better if the story had been more dynamic rather than linear ! And don't count on the sequel to be any better as it copies another game engine to soup itself up barely !

Started out ok and did get some traction but when the game's over, so is the fun

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 15
Date: November 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I didn't find myself coming back to the game as it got more boring after the first time. The tougher levels were not all that difficult either so I don't regret having bought a cheap and used copy and will be happy to sell mine and put this crap behind. Overall, the game's not worth the money and neither is the sequel. Don't let the liars and hypers mislead you on how really great either of the Max Paynes are. Get it cheap and used and see for yourself.

Warning - dumps to desktop

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Game worked well all through part 1, but dumps to desktop everytime while loading chapter 1 of part two (Rmemory error) the website lists this as a known issue, but the link to the patch (presumably to fix it) doesnt exist. Very annoying having invested several hours to get this far into the plot just to find you cannot complete the story.

help

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: November 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my son for his birthday and we can't even load it, we tried on two different computers and both times got a 'not enough memory ' message, a huge dissapointment to say the least, he has friends with lower memory computers and they have had no problems.
My computer runs at 500 mhz and my sons is a brand new computer at 600 mhz, any ideas anyone?

Shoot-em-up with no incentive

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: October 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Okay, the game isn't horribly bad. It ran fine on my computer. No problems with instal or starting or anything like that. Default controls are weird but changeable. My major drawback to this game was what was the point? The graphic novel would have been interesteting if it was something you get at the comic shop. I feel cheated by lack of movies. The novel could have been made into movies and lasted a little longer. It was short. The weapons were cool but the bullet-time, should just have stayed in the Matrix. The graphics were great but for a first-person shooter the game was not all that good. When its in the [price] bin, get it. But other than that save your money.

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