Cerberus_e
05-09-2005, 04:16 PM
At first I wasn't really interested in max payne, someone that I knew (but moved to a school at the other side of the country) told me it's a good game, and serious sam too.
I thought: ok, but my computer can't handle it (had only a pentium 2 at the time)
when I got my pentium 4, I wasn't really interested (I haven't thought about the game anymore, I immediately played the demo of return to castle wolfenstein, because it's a follow-up to my favourite game when I was 5 year old: spear of destiny (not wolfenstein 3d, didn't know about that game then)
also got into doom 3 and HL2 and far cry and prince of persia and painkiller etc...
I played the demo of max payne 2 but it didn't really sell me. because it isn't a real FPS (a TPS http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif ) and the "depressing" style (black/noir) didn't suit my taste
(after all it doesn't matter, at that time my english wasn't good enough, and would skip all story things)
recently, I decided to play all big releases I've missed from the past: wolfenstein 3d and doom 2 and the quake series (like mentioned in my doom 2 thread in general gaming forum)
that thread mentioned serious sam so I checked it out too.
but when I think of serious sam, I automatically think of max payne (since that friend told me serious sam and max payne are both awesome games)
I gave it a try, and liked max payne A LOT! the way the story is told is fantastic.
I'm now done with max payne 2, it was awesome too, but the style is a bit different, it has lost it's "dark" style from MP1, I don't know how come.
when I played mp1 I thought the game took place in the middle 20th century, because it was all so old-fashioned (the elevators from that motel etc...)
I also like the humor
- in mp1, that graphic novel about "I'm in a graphic novel", and then "I'm in a computer game, weapon statistics floating on my eye, .... the worst thing that can happen to me"
awesome http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
- captain baseball batboy, especially the one with his bomb on his head that was so funny:D
still don't know how it ended, I guess I missed a TV screen?
- all connections to mp1 in mp2, the ragnarock lightning advertention lying in part 1 chapter 1, the my lord and lady, ... the connection to max payne and that detective on TV... the flesh of fallen angels, ...
I'm sure there were other funny moments, can't think of them now, like mona's playhouse, was cool http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
the story was a bit confusing at times, that guy was on his side but then moved to this side because another guy has also moved to that side while another guy is on the opposite side, unlike someone else that's on the other's side (I mean 2 sides: virginni against vlad)
I wonder why I was enemy of BOTH sides?
after all it doesn't matter, everyone is dead except me http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
final rating: excellent, other games should follow max payne's example for having such a good story, and the fact that the action is good too makes it a EXCELLENT game.
EDIT: also like how everything connects with each other.
like the signs "schizophrenic", "insane", "mad", ... from the funhouse that reappeared in a dream of max, in the prison.
they probably have very talented scriptwriters to come up with such a thing.
also at 3 points in the game someone was singing a certain song. after defeating the end boss, and the credits rolled, it came to my attention it's the credits song that they were singing. original stuff http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I thought: ok, but my computer can't handle it (had only a pentium 2 at the time)
when I got my pentium 4, I wasn't really interested (I haven't thought about the game anymore, I immediately played the demo of return to castle wolfenstein, because it's a follow-up to my favourite game when I was 5 year old: spear of destiny (not wolfenstein 3d, didn't know about that game then)
also got into doom 3 and HL2 and far cry and prince of persia and painkiller etc...
I played the demo of max payne 2 but it didn't really sell me. because it isn't a real FPS (a TPS http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif ) and the "depressing" style (black/noir) didn't suit my taste
(after all it doesn't matter, at that time my english wasn't good enough, and would skip all story things)
recently, I decided to play all big releases I've missed from the past: wolfenstein 3d and doom 2 and the quake series (like mentioned in my doom 2 thread in general gaming forum)
that thread mentioned serious sam so I checked it out too.
but when I think of serious sam, I automatically think of max payne (since that friend told me serious sam and max payne are both awesome games)
I gave it a try, and liked max payne A LOT! the way the story is told is fantastic.
I'm now done with max payne 2, it was awesome too, but the style is a bit different, it has lost it's "dark" style from MP1, I don't know how come.
when I played mp1 I thought the game took place in the middle 20th century, because it was all so old-fashioned (the elevators from that motel etc...)
I also like the humor
- in mp1, that graphic novel about "I'm in a graphic novel", and then "I'm in a computer game, weapon statistics floating on my eye, .... the worst thing that can happen to me"
awesome http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
- captain baseball batboy, especially the one with his bomb on his head that was so funny:D
still don't know how it ended, I guess I missed a TV screen?
- all connections to mp1 in mp2, the ragnarock lightning advertention lying in part 1 chapter 1, the my lord and lady, ... the connection to max payne and that detective on TV... the flesh of fallen angels, ...
I'm sure there were other funny moments, can't think of them now, like mona's playhouse, was cool http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
the story was a bit confusing at times, that guy was on his side but then moved to this side because another guy has also moved to that side while another guy is on the opposite side, unlike someone else that's on the other's side (I mean 2 sides: virginni against vlad)
I wonder why I was enemy of BOTH sides?
after all it doesn't matter, everyone is dead except me http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
final rating: excellent, other games should follow max payne's example for having such a good story, and the fact that the action is good too makes it a EXCELLENT game.
EDIT: also like how everything connects with each other.
like the signs "schizophrenic", "insane", "mad", ... from the funhouse that reappeared in a dream of max, in the prison.
they probably have very talented scriptwriters to come up with such a thing.
also at 3 points in the game someone was singing a certain song. after defeating the end boss, and the credits rolled, it came to my attention it's the credits song that they were singing. original stuff http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif