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The best game ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is unbelievable. The game has been hyped and hyped beyond imagination. I must tell you, after hours and hours of playing this game, it has lived up to all the hype in the world 10 fold. If you even slightly like action or shooters, you will ditch your own wife for this game. The controls are very simple. The graphics are just unbelievable. You will need a very fast (geforce 2 or better) video card to handle the game. Max Payne was actually accounting for 80% of the reason i bought a Geforce 3 video card. While i was playing, I was amazed at every instant. The sound is great, most things u can interact with and the explosions are the best I have ever seen (and i have had more then my share of games). The music is great (much applaud to whoever compiled this music), it keeps you into the game like no music ever has. While playing this game, true to their word, you actually feel like you want to shoot these people. The storyline is unbelievable,too, with twists and turns at every corner. You fight your way to find out why your family has been killed as the mob and the law are fast on your tail. This game is more then half life, duke nukem, unreal tournament, and deus ex put together. This isn't another Half-Life, this game is in a league of its own. No multiplayer is almost dust in the wind when you get such an action packed, unlimited replay value of a single player. This is well worth 45 or 50 or even 100 dollars. This game is too good to be compared to anything ever created. This game goes far beyond the hype. Shootdodging will make you drool after you have done it for the first time. Your jaw will drop after you've jumped from a corner and unloaded on 4 guys with double uzi's. You CANNOT be dissappointed by this game if you like action or shooters AT ALL. This game deserves a million stars. A+. Much applaud to the makers who spent years developing a great, great game. A Max Payne sequel would be the greatest thing since the discovery of electricity!

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3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When this game was first heard about, everyone and their mother it seemes was singing it's praises, glorifing it's name, and the like. it's a shoot em up game, nothing more. It's all about a cop's family that get killed by the mafia, and Mr. Payne goes on a rampage, killing all the mafia members he can, trying to get to the top boss. I played the demo, and while I do not have the game itself, I doubt I will buy it. I was disappointed; I was expecting more, but We all got a shoot em up game, and nothing very original.

max payne ... the downside

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Max Payne is a great maxtrix stlye game with only one down side. There is no Joystick or gamepad support so your stuck trying to play a fast paced action game with only a keyboard and mouse. If you have a X-Box or PS2 get Max Payne for it. If not, then flood rockstargames.com with complaints and see if there is some way us PC gamers can get joystick and gamepad support for our version of Max Payne.

Again, too much hype.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The first time I read about Max Payne was something about 3 years ago on a very old edition of PCGAMER. After reading about it, and looking at in-game shots, one could say I was one, very exciting small kid. Ok, enough of that nostalgy, the game is out, let's see how it really is. GRAPHICS - There's no doubt that Remedy have given us one of the best visually games available on the PC market. The textures are sharp and clean, the facial animation is also superb, all in all, T&L in all its glory. I have to mention to Bullet Time effect which is great, special, Kudos REMEDY! Audio - Once again, as the graphics in this game, the music is also excellent, really immersive and on straight line with the plot. The speech is also really cool, altough Max talks familiar (Mr. Nukem anyone?). Gameplay - Ok, the gameplay is good, but I see it as the downfall of this game. What this game lacks is a variety of movements. I truly believe a slow walking, belly walking, etc, would have made wonders to the somewhat shallow gameplay. The lack of tactical aspect is a shame too. A more complex gaming, other than just walk here - kill that guy - walk there - kill this guy is really imoportant our days. The story is great, but the gameplay, compared to it, is simple and nothing special. Another downfall in this area is the length of this game. The game is very short, and the end-user would probably finish it by a weekend or so - so don't expect a long gaming experince. Now don't get me wrong, Max Payne is a fantastic 3rd person action game, even one of the best currently offered on the PC, but after 4 years in the making, and so much hype around it, I really expected a revolution, something new, better and fresh, and Max Payne is not all that. But than again, I have always been a 1rd person dude, Unreal Tournament anyone?

best all around game!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I really did not think i would like this game. But, it is both challenging and fun. This is unlike any other game i have ever played. Worth buying most definetly.

Fun to play, but way too short for the price

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

This game is a regular shooter with one great twist. The "bullet-time" innovation is a great addition to the Third-person-shooter genre. It allows your character to overcome odds that are stacked against you without body armor or superhuman powers. You take out bad guys in slow motion with your uzis or twin berettas, watching bullets whiz past you while your shots find their home. The shots that miss hit the wall, producing splinters, or they hit bottles or mirrors, shattering them to pieces. Bullet time is the highlight of the game. It never gets old.

But that's where the "greatness" ends. The storyline is mediocre. You just mow down the bosses lackeys, moving progressively on up the food chain until you kill the "big boss" at the end. The game has good action but it has nothing besides that. There is only one way to solve every problem and most rooms have only one exit. Go to room A, clear out the bad guys. Go to room B, clear out the bad guys, etc, etc, etc. There is no stealth whatsoever in this game. The enemy AI has one setting -- "always aware".

Worst of all, this is one of the shortest games that I have ever played - 12 hours, tops. Replayability is almost nonexistent. Each time that you replay the game, every item and enemy is in the same place. (Too bad that this game is making all of the "game of the year" lists. That means that all you have to do from now on is churn out 12-hour games with nice graphics and you have a blockbuster on your hands)

My recommendation? Wait until this one comes out in a jewel case.

Payne to the Max: Windows 95/98/2000/ME

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Don't but this game if you are running Windows XP Professional. I am running it on my machine and whenever I try to install it I am met with a frozen computer and no Max Payne. I thought it was just my CD rom until I tried installing it on another XP Pro machine and got the same problem. Believe me I have played and beaten this game. Its one of my favourites but save your money if you Run XP Pro.

One of the most original games of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I'd like to say that one of the most important characteristics of a great computer game is having an awesome main character (with some exception, i.e. Battlefield 1942). Max Payne embodies every possible side of being awesome that anyone could ever comprehend.

The plot is as follows: Max Payne is a cop whose wife and baby are murdered by some junkies. In his campaign of violent and ultimately holy justice, Max targets various nemeses, from low-level thugs to mob bosses, finally linking the death of his loved ones to a government figure. Instead of using traditional animation videos in which the computer characters interact to tell the storyline, the plot of Max Payne is told using comic strips in which the voices and background sounds are also heard. I heard that this approach was used because it was a lot more cost-efficient, but instead of simply choosing a cheaper story medium, the writers and designers stumbled onto one of the most brilliant plot presentations of any game ever.

Of course one can't talk about Max Payne without mentioning bullet-time, the slow motion fighting style that was made popular by the Matrix. Though bullet-time is definitely the most dazzling aspect of the gameplay, I find it is also almost necessary to win many fights. The game can be fairly difficult, so being able to have an edge in the shoot-outs is definitely a plus.

Max Payne - Payne to the Max for other Games!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Max Payne has got to be one of my all time favorites. For those people who love John Woo action shoot them up with two pistols, The Matrix type action with Oozies or Sincity/Frank Miller Comic Books - this game is just that! With a brilliant Frank Miller type storyline and action that makes many action movies look bad, this game is a must own for any die hard action fan. This is a third person view type game though, but it does makes sense in that it would be the only way to see all the action in a cinematic movie viewpoint. This is the first game to introduce the new concept of bullet time. Bullet time is the idea where when the action gets so involved and gritty that the motion of the battles goes into slow motion mode (example: Neo in Matrix when he dodges bullets in slow motion) You actually see the bullets fly passed you as you jump back with two pistols blazing and scraping the enemy just as his bullets carves away paint on the walls. The graphics for this game surpasses any other game - even surpasses games such as Half-Life and Alice. There were several instances during gameplay that I forgot that everything wasn't real and that it was 3D sculpted. Perhaps most of the graphics are created in 3D Studio Max - which gives the game its realistic Hollywood movie look. Gameplay is excellent and there are many weapons to choose from (Single and twin Baretta's, single and twin Ingram Oozies, Pump action shotgun, Sawed-off shotgun, Sniper rifle, grenade launcher, molotov bottles, grenades, machine gun rifles, baseball bat, etc...) The game even features mods that you can make yourself and levels that can be designed by you. I believe there was a mod at (website address) that has a Face/Off level with speeding boats and face off shootouts in churches; and another mod with the Matrix lobby shootout with Neo and Trinity blasting away guards. This mod has even twice more the weapons than the game ordinarily has - including a kung-fu feature where you can do Backflip kicks, kung-fu roundhouses and kicks, and jump kicks all while holding your weapon. For people who are thinking - "but this is a third person view type game like Resident Evil!," think again - there is a mod that can be downloaded that enables you to play in first person view/shooter much like that of quake and unreal (You can even have picture in picture of both views at once) This game is definitely for people who cannot get enough of cool John Woo and Matrix type action movies. If you even thought about taking on the entire mafia mob all by yourself - Max Payne does just that! Buy it!!!!!
Gameplay = 9/10
Graphics = 9/10
Sound = 8/10
Value = 8/10

THE PERFECT GAME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I gotta say. I didn't think too much of it when I looked at the back of the box in the store. I bought it, and took it home. I was blown away! This game is non stop fun. It doesn't get frusterating like a lot of other games i've played. The difficulty is up there but it isn't bad at all. There's nothing like using the bullet time feature to do some cool stunts to kill your enemies. I highly recommend this game. YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED!

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