Bob Gnarly Posted May 18, 2003 Posted May 18, 2003 Rockstar Games, the publishing division of Take-Two Interactive announced Max Payne 2: The Fall Of Max Payne, the next installment in the blockbuster Max Payne franchise. Developed by Remedy Entertainment, Max Payne 2: The Fall Of Max Payne for the PC is expected to hit retail shelves Fall 2003. When Max Payne debuted in July 2001 as an award-winning, best-selling PC game, it revolutionized the action genre with its cinematic combat sequences fueled by the groundbreaking use of slow motion and compulsive narrative-driven gameplay. Later that year, console audiences were equally impressed by the stylish, urban, revenge-driven story of a fugitive cop with nothing to lose and Max Payne went on to achieve Greatest Hits status on PlayStation 2 and Platinum Hits recognition on Xbox. Now, the highly anticipated Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne for the PC was unveiled to an extremely select audience by invitation only at this year’s E3. Details regarding the release of the console versions of Max Payne 2: The Fall Of Max Payne will be made available at a later date.
Darklighter Posted May 18, 2003 Posted May 18, 2003 Do you have a link to this info? It'd be cool to know where it came from:)
Sivy Posted May 18, 2003 Posted May 18, 2003 cool, thanks for the info i was wondering about max payne 2, eversince they annouced it last year there hasn't been anything more said about it.
ckcsaber Posted May 18, 2003 Posted May 18, 2003 The Fall of Max Payne? Hasn't he already "fallen"? His family is dead, and his life is driven by vengeance. It sounds like he's fallen to me.
Solbe M'ko Posted May 18, 2003 Posted May 18, 2003 Pretty crappy name! Oh well, as long as the gameplay improves...
StormHammer Posted May 18, 2003 Posted May 18, 2003 Well, you can visit the official site...though there's not much there at the moment. It does have this tag line, thoug... A film noir love story A love story?!?
Datheus Posted May 18, 2003 Posted May 18, 2003 Hmm, I'm worried... If I'm correct, it's only been in production for a short time, and is coming out this fall (I'm not sure if this is accurate though).
ckcsaber Posted May 18, 2003 Posted May 18, 2003 Maybe Max Payne has turned to a life of crime with a new babe crime-partner......
StormHammer Posted May 18, 2003 Posted May 18, 2003 Originally posted by ckcsaber Maybe Max Payne has turned to a life of crime with a new babe crime-partner...... Yeah...maybe we'll see some bullet-time kissing action...
C Shutt Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 "A Film Noir Love Story" is the best tagline to a game ever. Here are some screenshots. (Edited to remove dead images)
RoguePhotonic Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 No way will it be out this fall with the lack of info and screenshots...
Lunatic Jedi Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 Good to see that its gotten a much-needed graphical overhaul. CAN'T WAIT! ERGH!
C Shutt Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 Is this some kind of ultra-subtle irony? There are screenshots right above you.
RoguePhotonic Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 2 horrible looking screenshots isn't much....
RoguePhotonic Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 lol...I think the graphic's look horrible in those...though I thought the graphic's looked like **** in enter the matrix shots but it turned out way better than I thought....i'm sure that will also....
Lunatic Jedi Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 I thought the screenshots looked crappy in Enter the Matrix, and the graphics turned out pretty good. But these... THESE LOOK AWESOME, AND THEY'LL TURN OUT EVEN BETTER!
The Cheat Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 is it possible that this one would take place before the first one?
HertogJan Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 Originally posted by TheCheat is it possible that this one would take place before the first one? It could be, but I don't think so. You see, Max Payne's wife wasn't some chick with a gun, seeing that she was crying like hell when they shot her baby and tried to kill her - a badass chick would've killed those junks instead So I think it's after the first game, but who knows!!
Lunatic Jedi Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 Who knows? Who cares?! Did you see how perfectly round and smooth the barrels of the guns were? Those guns are modeled so perfectly!
C Shutt Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 I think the woman in the promo image is likely Mona Sax, so it'll probably be a straight-up sequel.
Lunatic Jedi Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 Good. I think TPM turned me off of prequels of any kind. Forever. Ugh... Jar Jar... THAT CURSED JAR JAR!
toms Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 in the screenshots i saw it looked like max was a different person (actor)... no more big hair
StormHammer Posted June 27, 2003 Posted June 27, 2003 There's a preview of Max Payne 2 in PC Zone (UK) magazine, with quite a number of nice-looking screenshots. Max is definitely remodelled, and looks much less like a constipated Bruce Willis this time around. His features actually remind me of another American actor, but I'm useless at names... Anyway, here are some key points from the article... - The engine has been completely overhauled. - Max now has facial animation, from blinking to lip-synching, and has different expressions. - Other characters look more realistic, and the AI has been reworked. - Bullet time has been improved, with better effects. - There is still no unarmed combat, but Max can now use weapons to whack people around up close. - Havok 2 has been implemented in the engine, and there will be ragdoll effects. - Clipping problems that dogged the original game (such as in bullet-time where you ended up with your head inside a wall), seem to have been resolved. - This time around, the story is being incorporated more into the game, rather than simply being told in the graphic-novel-style cut scenes. - The script is 3 times bigger than Max Payne. - The game takes place a year after the end of the original Max Payne. - In spite of the depth of the script, don't expect the game to be any longer than the original. They're aiming for a 'compact' game experience, and they want people to complete it... - There is NO multiplayer planned at all. - It will be rated 18. That's about all the juice I can squeeze out of that article (in my own words).
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