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"Max Payne....."

..got 95% in the latest issue of PC Gamer, and they are usually pretty accurate with their reviews. For you non PC gamers, they gave Deus Ex 95%, and Half Life 96% - they give very few games that high a mark. Start getting VERY excited about the PS2 version now ;-).

Max Payne is over a bit quickly, I’ve been playing it round a mates house (my PC isn’t up to spec.) and he’s just finished it as well.

I have to say that as a game it keeps it’s replay value very well, it’s not the sort of game you finish and then say “That’s that, what’s next then?” It will keep you entertained again and again.

You have to play the game on the easiest level first, then on completion you gain access to the harder level settings.

Eventually the novelty of the bullet time may wear off, but I would imagine that this would take longer than it would to complete most games.

Even though I’ve more or less played through the whole game on the PC, I’ll still be getting it for myself on either the PS2 or the PC, if I upgrade my graphics card.

A colleague of mine has had it since the middle of last week and has completed it already. While it does sound good, it also sounds far too easy.

The game is out for the PC now.I might buy that just to see what it plays like

There was this picture of Max Payne himself on one issue of PSM2 (issue #12 Pg. 43) and I got to say that it looks like they scanned pictures to make his face which I think could look better if the developers had used polygons instead, but the background and gameplay look good and I haven't played the PC version.

They will have to tone down the graphics a notch or two. The PC version uses huge environments, not yet able to be reproduced on consoles without data streming from the CD/DVD.

One of the decent songs they wrote in the 90s. Sad I know.

devo wrote:
Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme the ultraviolence I desire

Once you rocked James, but know.....

I can see it now - PS2 Max Payne - featuring ice, jungle and castle levels. Max is changed to a small purple dragon, and shoots fluffy bunnies. Pah, pah, and thrice pah. If that's the case, I must just get it on PC then.

Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme the ultraviolence I desire ;-)

I did read in a PS2 mag that the game is "likely to be toned down for the PS2".

But they didn't say whether this meant in violent content, gameplay options or something else.

Personally I see no reason that any aspect should be affected, but still...

..got 95% in the latest issue of PC Gamer, and they are usually pretty accurate with their reviews. For you non PC gamers, they gave Deus Ex 95%, and Half Life 96% - they give very few games that high a mark. Start getting VERY excited about the PS2 version now ;-).