Max Payne (2001)
Genres:Shooter
Themes:Action, Thriller
Game modes:Single player
Story:Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Max Payne is a relentless story-driven game about a man on the edge, fighting to clear his name while struggling to uncover the truth about his slain family amongst a myriad of plot-twists and twisted thugs in the gritty bowels of New York during the century's worst blizzard.
The groundbreaking original cinematic action-shooter, Max Payne introduced the concept of Bullet Time in videogames. Through its stylish slow-motion gunplay combined with a dark and twisted story, Max Payne redefined the action-shooter genre.Show more
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@mkrajewJanuary 10, 2025
I was blown away by this game’s graphics. The story and bullet-time mechanics were great, but at the time, it was the most realistic-looking game I had ever played. That’s how I’ll always remember it.
@loganoidDecember 20, 2024
Obvioulsy the game had a great, heavy weight story like taken directly from Vertigo graphic novels. But I specifically remember two things. Bullet time shootouts... this thing just blew me away immediately and did not get boring over time. The other thing was graphics. Back then it felt almost as realistic as movie, despite the flat faces!
@DirtyRolandoJanuary 12, 2025
During my time in school, it was the topic! A hard game, for a mature audience, with bullet-time (like in Matrix) and a hard, dark story. There were even rumours, that the game will be not long available in my country. Of course, my mom bought the game!
I especially like the noir look, the comic cutscenes, the bullet-time and the really heavy atmosphere. Max was out for revenge, he had lost everything. Max was ready to kill and to die!
From my perspective now, it´s simply funny, that Sam Lake hasn´t just „played“ Max Payne. He has also involved his parents! Both are in the game. I heared, his mom is evil, in the game ;)
It would be nice, if there would be a special GoG Edition:
Max Payne 1 + 2 as original version, includling the remakes of both games in one big bundle.
@Zach826January 29, 2025
I have a specific memory of playing Max Payne on the original Xbox and there being a train level and I was really into the bullet time shooting mechanic as a kid. It was awesome to dive and activate the bullet time and try to clear the area just in bullet time. I can't remember if I ever was able to clear it or not though.
@OldschoolKJanuary 29, 2025
The gameplay and the bullet-time mechanic was wonderfull, as well as the storytelling. Everything about this game merges in the best possible way two medias like movies and games.
@Charodiy_UAJanuary 29, 2025
I understood that buying the Game in the Steam (EGS, Fanatical - Steam, Humble Bundle - Steam) store and enjoying it is better than waiting for it here (gog) for eternity. A lot of games will never be published in the gog store it is a fact! For different reasons many games will never be published in the gog store - f@ck_DRM policy (or at least gog trying to pretend DRM-free), absurd terms of cooperation that gog is pushing, support policy that is completely frustrating and disappointing, and of course non-professional personnel.
@DerGreifJanuary 29, 2025
I watched my brother play this game during my first state exam. Every day for two weeks I had to write 5 hour exams from 8 to 13 o'clock, would come home at 14 to my brother's and mine apartment, eat what my brother kindly prepared and then just watch him play to regenerate and relax. The dark noir atmosphere, the excellent music adding to that and the bullet time concept I first saw in action really took me in. This was punctured by some real cool self-aware humour. The memories of my loving brother taking care of me are strongly connected to this game, too, as is 9/11 which happened at the beginning of my second exam week. I always wanted to buy the game to play it myself one day, to relive those memories, but never got my hands on it.
@vamargo22January 29, 2025
I was a teenager when this game came to my hands, so the spectacular cinematics and the bullet-time just amazed me. That was one of the titles that made me fall in love with videogames.
@telepath.January 29, 2025
I don't have to explain the greatness of this game. Max Payne was ahead of its time, and now still holds up very well.
Sadly, this game isn't playable on modern pc unless you install a bunch of patches, even for that one version sold on an steam. So i think it deserves a well done update and fix, in order that everyone can have easy access to it.
@M3RKABNORMALJanuary 29, 2025
Yes the game is on pc, such as steam, but it is barely playable without workarounds. I’d hope that GOG would be able to make the game absolutely perfect for modern PCs. Hoping rockstar are smart enough to allow this game on GOG and the eventual Max Payne remakes
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