Max Payne 2 feels a bit more linear, the game lasting much more quicker that the original. Memorable levels because of excellent use of cinematic cut scenes and highly detailed and varied scenario designs such as Mona’s hideout or Captain Baseball Bat Vinnie’s manor plus Max’s famous playable nightmares.Īfter completing the game a couple of times, you get “Dead man walking mode” - a selection of maps where you have to survive as long as you can as more and more enemies continuously re-spawn - an intense addictive addition to the game. The game characters are based and animated from real actors and uses befitting voiceovers, which brings a great deal of personality and greater interest in those people’s storyline. More body physics are added for maximum satisfying killing effect bodies flying down stairways, over scaffolding in dramatic wowing style. The graphics are a much bigger improvement from the original and the explosion, fire and facial effects are great.

The “ Noir Love” affair between Max and Mona is intense, absorbing and used to it’s full potential throughout the whole game You get to play Mona Sax and use her personal favourite weapons like the Dragunov sniper gun, her storyline intertwining with Max’s, you switching to each of their stories in-game.

Graphic novel artwork style is different from the first game but still very attractive to look at.

You get to fight alongside Mona Sax and a couple of other NPC’s which adds a bit of interesting unscripted battle outcomes when facing large groups of baddies. Still loads of gun killing spree frenzy and violence galore with smooth playability control. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne has a slightly different feeling compared to the classic original, more focused on the love relationship between him and Mona Sax, with new added gaming features.īullet time mode is more sleeker and you now get the advantage of your enemies slowing down but Max able to shoot/react in normal movement and he also does a cool 360 degrees camera view spin if you kill loads of enemies in bullet time mode.

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