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The Best Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 23
Date: November 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OK, to start this off, if you haven't played the 1st Payne game you'd be lost. Second everything is like Matrix ish and is the sweetest graphics imaginable. The story is even more complex than the original which is totally awsome. The endind is swet alos
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Max Payne is AWESOME. BUY THIS TODAY!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Awesome sequel to a great game. BUY IT FOR CHRISTMAS!
Bullet-time has a new spin that will amaze you. Graphics are truly awesome ( especially on Xbox ). Music and sound effects will emerse you into this game for hours. Don't beleive the nonsense about it being too short or easy. The cut scenes are shorter from the 1st one, so the action is less interupted and makes the game much smoother to play. PLese buy this game. You won't be disappointed.
Also, Parents will be happy that this game has less sex and profanity so they won't have to worry about buying this for thier kids. Pick it up for a Christmas gift. The kids will love you for it.

Even better than the first!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Wow, even though i just started playing this game, I love it more and more. If you thought that the first Max Payne was good, this is incredible. Max Payne looks better, and his stupid grin is gone. Instead, he has lots of differnt facial expressions. It also has a feature where you can have two differnt weapons at the same time, like a regular gun and a grenade. The graphics are great too. Instead of everything being bolted down, when you run into a chair, it falls over, or a table. Like in real life. And the bullet-time is so much better. He does spins and rolls while in bullet time. And killing more enemys in bullet-time makes his adrenaline go up even more and the enemys slow down even more.If you have a Play Station 2 and don't have this game yet, but it now!

Amazing Graphics

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I noticed alot of the reviews left on here complain about choppyness. I do not see how you can grade a game just because your computer is to slow to run it. Rockstar Games has spent alot of time creating extremely detailed enviroments, where just about anything is a useable object. Cut scenes and cinematics have also been placed throughout the game to present an indepth and often funny story line. The textures and graphic designs are amazing, along with a few new weapon upgrades. Just like the first Max Payne, this game is VERY addicting and I strongly recommend those who appreciate extremely detailed enviroments to purchase this game.

Almost as great as the first!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Pros: Great guns, great graphics, great sound, great level design, and easy to pick up, play, and save games.
Cons: Only half as good as the first game (But that's still a great game!). Story is rough and the dream sequences are just a break in the action and not as good as the blood trail levels in the first one.

Other than that, there's not much to complain about in this game. Some gamers may think it's too easy, but the harder levels are unlocked after you do the first run through, which is fine by me. What the game lacks in AI, it more than makes up in quantity of action packed levels with tons of bad guys to shoot at. Game was very addictive and I had a hard time putting the controller down. Even for a violent game, this was the perfect early x-mas present.

This is a masterpiece one of it's kind.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is an awesome great game I like it because it's more challenging than the first 1 being with out no cheats or any thing for it. The themes for each of the levels pretty much fit right in to what they say chapter by chapter, prolauge by prolauge. The somalirties between this and Enter The Matrix overall this is the one thats better Max Payne 2. This game is a lot easier with the players guide so I may strongly suggest that you buy the players guide along with this game for an easier under standing for a sucessfull defeat. And remember this is a product of Rock Star games one of the greatest companies out there for your gaming convience great game! This deserve an award!

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Even if you haven't played Max Payne 1, you need this game. Its easily one of my top 3 favorite games ever. It is pretty short, but that didn't really bother me. The graphics, sound, gameplay, story, everything is top notch. At times I felt myself only playing so I could see what happens next in the story. It grabs you like a movie.

Its a pretty challenging game too, even if you do quicksave a lot.

TRULY AMAZING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Pick it up for a Christmas gift. The kids will love you for it.
Awesome graphics. Very emersive gameplay. AI and music are very well. Nice weapon selection. Better than the 1st one. BUy it today.

This is the best game ever and now it's your turn to see.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

To all of you whom is game freaks or out of control gamers like me.Try Max Payne 2: Fall of Max Payne, Its a great mod and sispence climate that will make you play the game for houres. I'd tried the game and i've got to tell you i've give it a 5 star game and also the greatest story ever. This is one of the games that you have to tell your friends and other's. I'd don't want to be a drag about it but, however it's the greatest game that was invented in the Game world. so go ahead and try this game and parents whom is reading this and trying to game the best game for your child or teenager/adult.teen this is one of them. Again go ahead and try this new game you know your missing it. I hope i wasnot a drag.

Stylishly Honorable to the Action Platform

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is merely an expectation that the PS2 will undoubtedly astound gamers as the PC version has done to me.

I was foreign to the world of Max Payne. Because I was not exposed to the frenzy of the detective's game back in 2001, I felt nonchalant towards the coming sequel. Now that I have experienced the sequel, I must profess that I have been stunned, then mesmerized, and all the more thrilled to have this game land on my laptop. Max Payne 2: The fall of Max Payne is a barrage of devilish quality saturating all through the game and then some. From the gutsy gameplay to the direction of the story, this game falls into a certain pizzazz of stylish coolness.

I can crack the code as to why the first game ignited a stir. An action game has never felt so empowered to be reckoned as the high octave blast that is Max Payne 2. Playing as a pessimistic detective, you must blaze through he dark, gritty streets of New York city. The story alone is topnotch suspense bundled with extraordinary twists and turns that'll have you gasping throughout your day. Driven by the story, the game's focal highlight is the gameplay's Bullet Time implementation. Heck, Max Payne is one of those games that is truly augmented by the graphics and sheer physics of the environment. With eye-candy in every so direction, it's a joy to shoot baddies with a multitude of weapons. Further adding to the bountiful fun, is the Havok engine which has the environment fully interactive. There's also rag-doll effects where spectacular combat scenes are distilled in slow-motion scenes and the best part is your in control. The gist of Max Payne 2 is the more baddies you gun down, the faster Payne is in a slow-motioned surrounding. With the environment flinging all over the screen and the slow motion of the game setting in, it's a delight to control this gem again and again.

Payne romps through New York City at its absolute darkest. As you go guns-a-blazing, you'll notice the graphical powerhouse. Each nook and cranny in the game is a stellar high point. What hit's the stride even more is the detailed photo realistic textures and the maw-gaping lighting effects. Like the story, the graphics stand on its own. A spectacular soundtrack kicks in to add to the already fascinating atmosphere. There are plenty of compulsive tracks, but the best part of the audio derives from the firefights where the signature sound of Payne's heart gallops as enemy gunfire sounds distorted. Plus, the voiceovers are good and suit the personality of Payne. The gritty comic book scenes heavily attribute to the overall atmosphere of the astounding game. You can easily tell that the makers of the game, have put sweat and effort into this wet-dream-come-true production.

The first game has been known to be very short, and the second one follows suit. Under the circumstances, its honest to say that fans of this game will not go out aching. This game is really something, but does leave the gamer wanting much more. Aside from that quibble, the stunning action warrants a purchase. Max Payne 2: the Fall of Max Payne is stylishly honorable to the action gaming platform.

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