In the second game, Max was a stable professional despite his wife’s death, and by the end he was even at peace with that too. Oddly, Max Payne 3 seems to barely acknowledge Max Payne 2.Īside from a reference to “the Mona business” and to the deaths of some Max Payne 2 characters, the third game depicts Max like the second game barely happened. It also enhances models and particles and fixes an issue with allies and inconsistent health. It’s a mod that updates the second game’s Bullet Time to better mirror the third game’s cinematic style. We used Payne Evolution to modernise the Bullet Time in Max Payne 2. This contrasts with Max Payne 3, where Passos seems to fight alongside you uselessly in a few chapters, never hitting anything. In Max Payne 2, we allowed allies like Mike and Mona to kill on our behalf whenever possible, because they thoroughly annihilate everything they see. Max Payne is good at killing, but he’s not bulletproof.
In Max Payne 2, we allowed allies to kill for us when it was practical. Imagine seeing the same canned death animations over and over.
But I suspect it won’t be as interesting as the second and third game, due to a lack of ragdoll physics. If people insist, we’ll find a way to record Max Payne and verifiably document his kill count. We manually counted Max’s kills in his first game and hoped we didn’t miscount. Max Payne is almost two decades old, so we had trouble with running it, let alone recording. We couldn’t document the first Max Payne, due to software issues. I know sequel escalation is common, but Max Payne 3 is a 10-hour game, and its kill count is almost as high as the 32-hour Grand Theft Auto V. (Mods, you can remove the link if warranted.) I was more stunned that Max Payne 3 constitutes more than half of Max’s lifetime kill count. Max Payne 2 (2003): 373 kills (does not include Mona Sax’s 91 kills)įor those who want to verify our kill count for the second and third game, both are in this playlist, though I understand if mods frown on links in posts. The long version would be the breakdown below. The short version is that Max has killed 2,241 cops, criminals and guards. Well, corona happened and we found ourselves with enough time to research this question. But my friends and I always wondered how many Max killed over the course of his journey. Max Payne 3 wasn’t perfect, especially in its narrative, yet its gunplay offset its weaknesses and ensured Max ended his journey on a high note.
Compared to trilogies like Crysis, Dead Space or Mass Effect that ended on bitter notes, Max Payne is the rare legend who emerged from his trilogy with his reputation largely unscathed.
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