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"Max Payne impressions after 48hrs"

Ok, I've done a review and little "1st Impressions" thread, but now I've been at it all weekend near enough (band and the lady not withstanding).
Does my initial impression of it hold up?
Not at all.
I can say, hand on heart, that this isn't probably the best game I've ever played.
It is without a shadow of a doubt, the single best game I have played on any platform, ever.

Why?
Polygon blah, frame-rate yadda yadda, adjustable difficulty talk talk talk.
Forget that geek talk, it's pointless with Max Payne.

It boils down to one and one thing only:
The is the coolest game you will ever play.
Ever.

So howcome?
Well, imagine you were a games designer, and you sat round with your mates and said "What game do we want to play?"
"How's about one with slo-mo stuff like The Matrix? You could burst into a room with 6 people, hit the button and everything slows to allow you to get around and shoot them!"

And, praise the lord, this is what they have done.
But it's not just that feature, although it does set it amongst god-level for me.
These guys have watched John Woo movies, Hong Kong action flicks, every single cool Manga cartoon and taken the bits that you and me love and stuck them in a game to play around with.

It has a narration for the cut-scenes (done in graphic novel style), and ANY game that has the main character say "I made like Chow-Yun Fat and took that place apart" gets my vote.
And a game where one character has to offer a password to get into a laundry?
"What's the password?" "John." "John what?" "John Woo"

This rocks, and you know it.
The slo-mo/bullet-time.
Ok, you can use it whenever you want to, you just have to shoot villains to earn it (hourglass thingy).
But you will use it a lot, simply because it is an incredible effect.
Two people round a corner waiting for you?
No problem, jump right and hit the right mouse button.
Time slows and you fly out shooting.
You can see your bullets moving towards them, see their shots coming at you, hear the whistle as they pass..see the trails left in the air.

Absolutely stunning stuff, I have never had so much fun leaping into a room.
My personal "I goddamn rock!" moment?
A steep staircase in a hotel, leading down to the lobby.
3 guys in the lobby waiting for me.
What to do? Sneak down and toss a grenade?
Nope.
You leap from the top stair, hit slo-mo and shoot as you fly OVER the balcony/
Firing with an Uzi in each hand, you can see their shots coming at you and going past you as you hit the floor and roll to your feet, still shooting.
Then hit backwards and right mouse, time slows down and you leap backwards across the lobby, still shooting as the last man falls to the floor.
Payne comes into normal time once more, does a back roll and ends up standing, still alive, pictures hanging from the walls in tatters.

If you like action movies, if you liked The Matrix, if you like John Woo, if you thought Crouching Tiger was cool, basically if you want to play something so totally original it will leave you with a stupid smile?

Buy Max Payne and love every single second of it.

Completed Max Payne today and i've started to play the "hard boiled" version and boy, is it hard! If you are shot twice you are practically dead and if your shot with a shotgun, well your out of there in a body bag. The last few levels are going to be very hard, i died enough times playing throw it last time. I've still got to look at "New york Mintue" game that was unlocked as well.
Does anybody know what they are doing with the level editor? I've had a quite look and it's really complicated. I can only imagine how think the manual/instructions is going to be.
Anyway in the manual is says that they are already making a sequel to the game and there are discussions underway to making a "feature film" Sounds interesting but i think they are jumping the gun a bit.

Darkreaper

Never mind, I very rarely make any sense!

Kapoera Gaebora wrote:
> Dont go their MJ you might just go into overdrive :-D

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What are you on about Jamie???? Oh wait I get it......whywold I go into overdrive looking at one of my threads anyway Jamie????

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Dont go their MJ you might just go into overdrive :-D

zeldapro wrote:
> Mj is gonna need a bib soon with the amount of drool he is producing
> over these Max Payne discussions....I wonder if their is a Max Payne
> forum in the Games FOrum?

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A bib??? No thanks...I already got one of those. To answer your question there is no Max Payne forum in the games forums, but there is one in the Games Not Listed Below & Requests forum.

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Mj is gonna need a bib soon with the amount of drool he is producing over these Max Payne discussions....I wonder if their is a Max Payne forum in the Games FOrum?

Man this game sounds cool......too bad Ihave no chanceof fitting it on my PC let alone running it.

I meana demo of Half Life ran VERY slow on my PC so I don't know what this game would do to it.

Could someoneplease post a URL fora movie of thegameby the way?

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No idea mate.

Me and Hooplah played it last night from 8pm until 3am this morning (curse work for starting at 8:45am).
We're at The Mansion now, chapter one.

And yes, we too spent many minutes throwing ourselves around in slo-mo and getting shot.

The level editor looks cool, although I haven't really played around with it yet. Will be doing so over the next week or so.

People are moaning about the lack of multiplay, but that's impossible with the bullet-time effect. Time slows for you but not other people, you can't do that with two people at once employing this effect.

I don't care if I finish it anytime soon, the other modes need unlocking and I'm quite happy to start over again, attempting more and more outrageous stunts.

The root-top chase sequence rocks, try leaping from one roof to the next in slo-mo, pause and grab a screenshot.

I love this game.

Hey goatboy, have you used the level editor yet, is it as good as thay say it will be?

Yeah my computer that I own now already has plenty of RAM to play Max PAyne and I just relaised that the minimum was a P2 and I have a P3 stupid me!!! :-D