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Joe Siegler

07-26-2002, 03:20 PM

One year ago yesterday, Max Payne hit the streets. The hit game from Remedy & 3D Realms has been out there a year now. It's garnered many many awards, spawned two console ports (to the Xbox & PS2), and continues to be appeciated by gamers worldwide! (Max Payne is even used in the opening credits for the TechTV game show Extended Play (http://www.techtv.com/extendedplay)!) Don't know what Max Payne is? Here's a bit from the story of the game..

Three years back a young NYPD cop, Max Payne, came home one night to find his family senselessly slaughtered by a gang of drug-crazed junkies, high on a previously unknown synthetic drug. Now that same drug, Valkyr, has spread through the whole New York City like a nightmare plague, and Max Payne's on a crusade for revenge, out to get even. To Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, this new drug was evil incarnate, to be stopped at any cost. Max's boss and best friend, the only one who knew his true identity, has been murdered, and Max's been framed for the slaying. Everything ripped apart in a New York minute... Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, and now hunted by cops and the mob. Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for a new breed of deep action game. Prepare for pain...

Featuring the award winning Bullet-Time feature, which allows you to slow down the game action on the fly while you play, Max is sure to please any gamer. It certainly has over the year it's been out. If you haven't played it before, you can grab it a few ways:

 Download the free PC demo game (http://www.3drealms.com/max/downloads.html) Buy the full PC game from 3D Realms (http://www.buymaxpayne.com) Order the Xbox version from Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RCQ5/73407921) Order the PS2 version from Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005OLX1/73407921) Order the MACINTOSH version from Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000645X8/73407921) http://www.3drealms.com/images/new.gifIf you want more information on Max Payne, visit our Max Payne page (http://www.3drealms.com/max/index.html) here on this site, or you can visit the Official Max Payne site (http://www.maxpayne.com) (requires Flash). Both have screenshots, downloads, and other cool stuff to check out!
If you already have Max Payne, how about grabbing your copy and giving a spin!

Bushido

07-26-2002, 04:08 PM

Happy Birthday Max Payne! Thanks for the greatest action game memories I'll ever have!

...until the sequel of course! images/icons/shocked.gif

The Baskinator

07-26-2002, 06:54 PM

*places party hat on MP box and gives it a hug*
Best. Game. Ever. graemlins/love.gif graemlins/love.gif graemlins/love.gif graemlins/love.gif

BADGER

07-26-2002, 06:59 PM

It.... it can't have been a year already, could it?

Where the hell has the time gone?

(I guess with so many bullet-times, my sense of time gets askewed...)

Ninja

07-26-2002, 10:16 PM

One year already? Damn, I remember in the forums before it was released when George came here and said "It's very close to completion", then a few days later- "It's done!"

Another year before Max Payne 2 probably...I want it now!

Kev_Boy

07-27-2002, 03:48 AM

Wow , the year of Payne is gone in a NewYorkMinute images/icons/tongue.gif

The Dude

07-29-2002, 06:31 AM

Max Payne? Is that some sort of game? Doesn't sound familiar...

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Congratulations guys, even after a year I still give the game a quick play every now and then. After 3 years of anticipation, it couldn't have been as good as I hoped, but it was damn close enough. images/icons/smile.gif

[ 07-29-2002, 06:36 AM: Message edited by: The Dude ]

PhobosDeimos

07-29-2002, 01:59 PM

Well I was for one was extremely impressed with the quality of Max Payne, it felt like a game with tons of polish and it was worth all the wait. Playing Max Payne alone is more than enough for me to have faith in DNF, if DNF is half the game Max Payne was I'll be satisified. 3Drealms, thanks for giving me the same great memories I got from playing Duke 3D all those years ago, Great job! You guys rock! images/icons/smile.gif

Crim

07-29-2002, 03:00 PM

I wonder how Max is doing inside the prison after one year of serving jail time...Hmmm...

Shaft Windu

07-29-2002, 10:09 PM

As long as he's got plenty of cigarettes...and a bar of soap with a little string attached, I'm sure he's doing just fine. And even if he doesn't, I'm sure he has plenty of friends. It's a win-win situation. He's truly "a prisoner with nothing to lose". Not even his sodomistic virginity.

Darkblade

07-30-2002, 02:20 AM

A year already?

Damn... time is sure flying these days. Well... happy (late) birthday Max and congratulations to Remedy crew for making a good game with an excellent story. images/icons/wink.gif

Keep up the good work.

Devil Master

07-30-2002, 05:17 AM

if DNF is half the game Max Payne was I'll be satisified. If DNF is half the game Max Payne was I'll feel cheated! I'm expecting DNF to be EPIC in length... to LAST forever!!!

Co11

07-30-2002, 08:22 AM

DNF... it's not just a game, it's a career! images/icons/smile.gif

BTW, Happy birthday max; and may many others follow..

e-phonk

07-30-2002, 11:46 AM

looks like you had a happy birthday from gamespot (http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/gamespotting/072602/p1_01.html) also:

Though I'd already played through Max Payne several times, Ryan Mac Donald pointed out to me a key aspect of its design that I hadn't really acknowledged during all my time with it: The game's got no roadblocks. You're not looking for keys. You're not looking for whatzits or doodads or secret doors. It's a linear game that's all about action, and the mechanics of the action are simple and well built. The levels are increasingly difficult and a constant test of your skills. There's always enough context to push you forward. At any time, if you die, you can easily try again (two alternating quicksave slots--ingenious!). People complained that Max Payne was too short. I think part of the problem was that the designers practically did too good of a job balancing the game. It's the sort of game that you play in marathon stretches...it just sucks you in. No wonder people finished it quickly--it's that good

Amazingly, Max Payne also secretly customizes its difficulty to suit the player's skill. It mostly seems to do this by giving you more or fewer health power-ups depending on how you're doing. Other game designers really ought to examine this accomplishment carefully. You don't really hear about people who got so frustrated by Max Payne that they abandoned it. Yet no one's calling it easy, either. It's right at that perfect difficulty level.

Generator 22

07-31-2002, 06:18 AM

A year already? I wouldnt know. An orgy of studying and sleeping meant that I lost track of time. The only other thing I could do was play Max Payne. The game is so enveloping that I completed it in 2 days. Anyway Happy Birthday, Max