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Max Payne 2 is...
It seems that these days I play fewer and fewer games with Half-Life 2 taking up the majority of my time when I can be bothered. With Far Cry, Hidden and Dangerous 2 and Rome: Total War sat barely played I was starting to think I was losing interest. Rather than moping around I decided to crack open Max Payne 2 again and before long I was back enjoying a game, really enjoying it.
When it was released I played it to death, must have finished it half a dozen times across the different difficulties yet as with the first, I'm still not bored of playing it.
The story, characters, level design and gunplay are pretty much unsurpassed in any game I have ever played. Everything feels stylish only without the cheesy Hollywood gloss, which has spoilt so many games before it. The story is completely over the top and 'cliched' yet at the same time so bloody well done and fun to follow.
I can't really explain what it is that keeps drawing me back to play it but as a series on the whole it is so bloody addictive.
On that note, anyone got any decent mod sites for Max Payne 2? I tried the Matrix style bullet time mod where you can see the ripple around the bullet as it goes through the air but I was looking for some maps for the time trial shooting sections or something similar.
Oh and to finish on a good note, Max Payne 3 is set to be confirmed within the next week or so despite being a working title at the moment there is talk that Remedy won't be developing it. More on that this week by all accounts, I hope Take Two don't f**k it up!
It seems that these days I play fewer and fewer games with Half-Life 2 taking up the majority of my time when I can be bothered. With Far Cry, Hidden and Dangerous 2 and Rome: Total War sat barely played I was starting to think I was losing interest. Rather than moping around I decided to crack open Max Payne 2 again and before long I was back enjoying a game, really enjoying it.
When it was released I played it to death, must have finished it half a dozen times across the different difficulties yet as with the first, I'm still not bored of playing it.
The story, characters, level design and gunplay are pretty much unsurpassed in any game I have ever played. Everything feels stylish only without the cheesy Hollywood gloss, which has spoilt so many games before it. The story is completely over the top and 'cliched' yet at the same time so bloody well done and fun to follow.
I can't really explain what it is that keeps drawing me back to play it but as a series on the whole it is so bloody addictive.
On that note, anyone got any decent mod sites for Max Payne 2? I tried the Matrix style bullet time mod where you can see the ripple around the bullet as it goes through the air but I was looking for some maps for the time trial shooting sections or something similar.
Oh and to finish on a good note, Max Payne 3 is set to be confirmed within the next week or so despite being a working title at the moment there is talk that Remedy won't be developing it. More on that this week by all accounts, I hope Take Two don't f**k it up!
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Max Payne 2 is...
It seems that these days I play fewer and fewer games with Half-Life 2 taking up the majority of my time when I can be bothered. With Far Cry, Hidden and Dangerous 2 and Rome: Total War sat barely played I was starting to think I was losing interest. Rather than moping around I decided to crack open Max Payne 2 again and before long I was back enjoying a game, really enjoying it.
When it was released I played it to death, must have finished it half a dozen times across the different difficulties yet as with the first, I'm still not bored of playing it.
The story, characters, level design and gunplay are pretty much unsurpassed in any game I have ever played. Everything feels stylish only without the cheesy Hollywood gloss, which has spoilt so many games before it. The story is completely over the top and 'cliched' yet at the same time so bloody well done and fun to follow.
I can't really explain what it is that keeps drawing me back to play it but as a series on the whole it is so bloody addictive.
On that note, anyone got any decent mod sites for Max Payne 2? I tried the Matrix style bullet time mod where you can see the ripple around the bullet as it goes through the air but I was looking for some maps for the time trial shooting sections or something similar.
Oh and to finish on a good note, Max Payne 3 is set to be confirmed within the next week or so despite being a working title at the moment there is talk that Remedy won't be developing it. More on that this week by all accounts, I hope Take Two don't f**k it up!
It seems that these days I play fewer and fewer games with Half-Life 2 taking up the majority of my time when I can be bothered. With Far Cry, Hidden and Dangerous 2 and Rome: Total War sat barely played I was starting to think I was losing interest. Rather than moping around I decided to crack open Max Payne 2 again and before long I was back enjoying a game, really enjoying it.
When it was released I played it to death, must have finished it half a dozen times across the different difficulties yet as with the first, I'm still not bored of playing it.
The story, characters, level design and gunplay are pretty much unsurpassed in any game I have ever played. Everything feels stylish only without the cheesy Hollywood gloss, which has spoilt so many games before it. The story is completely over the top and 'cliched' yet at the same time so bloody well done and fun to follow.
I can't really explain what it is that keeps drawing me back to play it but as a series on the whole it is so bloody addictive.
On that note, anyone got any decent mod sites for Max Payne 2? I tried the Matrix style bullet time mod where you can see the ripple around the bullet as it goes through the air but I was looking for some maps for the time trial shooting sections or something similar.
Oh and to finish on a good note, Max Payne 3 is set to be confirmed within the next week or so despite being a working title at the moment there is talk that Remedy won't be developing it. More on that this week by all accounts, I hope Take Two don't f**k it up!
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