I liked the dialogue, the intense action, the graphics, and the locations it used. I liked the original Max Payne (2001), which was released in 2001, and I thought it was the benchmark of action-packed video games. The mob war subplot may sound unnecessary, but it's crucial to what happens in the story. There is even a subplot involving a Mob war between Vladimir Lem and Vinnie Gognitti (who, this time, resembles a foul-mouthed Joe Pesci character). Jim Bravura, Max's boss at the NYPD, and Alfred Woden, a dying senator and a member of the Inner Circle. We are also introduced to several characters from the original, including Lt. A sniper hits Max's apartment, and Mona escapes, with Payne setting out to find the person who wants him dead. Payne learns turn too late when Mona warns him that they are both in danger.
He stumbles upon Mona Sax, a femme fatale presumed dead after the events in the original. One night, Payne responds a hostage situation in a gun workshop run by men in jumpsuits. He also shows a "survivor's guilt." Having taken his revenge in the first game, Max is not satisfied with what he has-due to what he sees as his "crime" (surviving) going unpunished, and due to the fact that, even though he has claimed his revenge, his family is still dead, and he is still alive. Here is a man so cheerless, that he doesn't even form a smile, and we can understand why.
Max Payne is not the typical cardboard cutout action hero. The message of film noir is that there are no real heroes. By now he's a brooding cop, and he has every right to be one, since his wife and baby child were killed in the original. Max Payne no longer has that "constipated grin" on his face, but a face that is filled is with all the loss and anger that he once suffered in the past. This "film noir love story" is a better improvement over the original, and the characters, the plot, and the setting are better this time around. Instead of giving us a straightforward action game, it successfully builds mystery.
The pieces aren't in the right place, which leaves the game player to figure it out. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003) is like a puzzle waiting to be solved.
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