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Two guns up!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 17
Date: April 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is amazing! It's different from any first person shooter game I ever played. And that's what I like about it. The sound and graphics are great. Big levels to wander. And the violence is strong perfet for all you die hard fans. But a nuff about what I think, let me tell you about the plot. The game begins when you enter your house and you notice that your furniture is toppled and torn and your pictures are knoked down. Not to mention your dead wife and kid. Vengeful Max goes to see his only friend at the subway. But as soon as you get there and meet him your friend gets a brain wheggie before you can say "hi pal". Now you have the mob and the Feds after you. Cool aint it! Well that pretty much it and the rest you'll have to find out for your self.

PS= If you liked this review I'm doing one on Clive Barker's Undying soon. It's a cool game for all you action-science fiction gamers. Be sure to check it out.

Truly a unique, balls-out action adventure!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: May 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What can I say, the game of the year without question. It's a third-person, story-driven crime/conspiracy adventure like the gaming world has never seen. The game is full of firsts, like giving the player the ability to activate slow-motion ("bullet time") gun fights that are both hair-raising and beautiful -- imagine if John Woo had directed The Matrix, and you'll get the idea!

Max Payne himself is the next great game character. He's not beefy tough like a Duke Nukem, but a down-to-earth good guy put in an extraordinarily tough situation...framed for murder, hunted by the mob, wanted by police. As the PR for the game says, Max is a man with nothing to lose...the most dangerous kinda of man there is, like a cornered tiger.

On top of everything else, this has got to be the most realistic and amazing looking game, 3D or otherwise, I've ever seen (and I see them all).

Do yourself a big favor and get this game -- it's the next Half-Life, and I'm not half-kidding.

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.

A game that breaks the barrier.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: June 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Even though this game is not out yet, there are many things to say about it. This game, simply put, is going to cross boundaries never crossed when it comes to technology and gameplay. The graphics are absolutely stunning, and the attention to detail is just jaw-dropping. The storyline is strong and is carried out well through the use of ingame cutscenes and comics. This game will be a classic, everyone should experience it.

A revolutionary game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: June 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is set to become as revolutionary as Halflife or Doom. The leap in graphics is stunning. My jaw dropped when I first loaded up the beta. You start talking to your best friend on the subway. When I looked out the subway window I could see fully rendered walls with bill boards and paint. But the real fun came when I go a handgun. Bullet and gore effects are more stunning and are more realistically portrayed than SOF or Rn 6.My only complaint at first was the way enimys died. They seem to tumble when shotin the arm. After a while though I got used to the strange non SOF death sequences. The weapons feel real.... really real. I only got four, handgun, shotgun, bar, and some type of rifle. New York city is quite simply photo realistic. After I crused through the museam of art, I also beheld the empire state building and battery Park. I was amazad also at the way you interact with the environment. everything moved and operated. I cant wait to buy the full game when it comes out and I feel sorry for everyone else who hasnt had the opportunity to play the exclusive demo! so long suckas.

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!

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

Would have gotten 5 stars but............

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 18
Date: July 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am going to love this game (i played the demo) The reason I gave this game 4 stars is how they die, if you shoot them with your double Uzis they do almost a backflip. I hope this is corrected in the full release. Otherwise this game is truly amazing, you can even slow down time like in the matrix so you can dodge bullets otherwise called Shoot-Dodging.

Max Payne

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Max payne is one of the best games i have ever played. Unfortunatly it is very short and has no multiplayer, But it has a great replay value. It is the closest you will ever get to starring in a John woo movie. The slow-motion bullet time does not remind me of the matrix. It remindes me of an 80's B movie called "TRANCERS" a clone of the terminator, Starring Helen Hunt. In that film the bad guy fires his gun at helen hunt and the hero (i dont remember who) presses a button in his watch and it slows down time, Then he pushes helen hunt before the bullet reaches her, You could see the bullet go past her. The guy is from the future to save helen hunt from getting killed before she saves the future, Just like the terminator. His watch could give him a long second, One second takes one minuite to pass through only for him. This movie came much before the matrix. It must have inspired the bullet sence in the matrix too.

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.

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