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Gatinater

07-21-2003, 03:13 AM

What is Max Payne 2 about? I see on the cover art he is with a women. Has he found himself another tap? Or is it a prequel? Or is it just picture illustrating him with his former wife? His fugitive lifestyle is a result of her murder. So an illustration of her would be appropriate.

At the beginning and end of Max payne "Officer in danger. I repeat officer in danger" is broadcasted over the CB. So I'm thinking at that point the police realize what's going on. So what the hell? Is the law still after him or what? Or has he become a likeness of Martin Riggs?

biXen

07-21-2003, 07:41 AM

From PayneReactor. Slightly assumed, slightly based on the facts that we don't know everything yet, but it's a short synopsis I guess. There's other parts to pick out from different previews and such. (and no this isn't publically available on the site yet, it's also one of the things I might rewrite before going public with the page since it's a bit messy)

The story of Max Payne 2
Against all odds Max Payne is cleared from the charges after the first game, with some help from Alfred Woden. Now he's once again framed for murder, and yet again he loses a loved one. Again he faces the New York underground, full of scum and murderous thugs, this time he looks even better though.

This is pretty much the basis of the story for Max Payne 2, of course there's more, but do you really want to know too much yet? We think no, you'll get more later. Remedy has promised that this story will have you even more immersed into the game, and it'll be darker and moodier.

The Baskinator

07-22-2003, 01:09 AM

Actually, I heard the story goes like this:

Max Payne escapes from the police and meets up with a gang of renegade ninja-pirates who teach him the ways of the ninja (and the ways of the pirate). When his training is complete, he returns to New York city with the ninja-pirate gang to fight a gang of samurai-zombies-- the sworn enemies of all ninja-pirates. Then he meets a female samurai-zombie and he falls in love with her, thus bridging the gap between ninja-pirates and samurai-zombies.

They get married and have a samurai-ninja-ghost-pirate-zombie child. They name him Bruno.

Then Bruno dies for some reason and Max, mired in grief, leaves his wife and walks the earth as a lonely ninja-pirate. Also, he stomps on puppies.

Ah ha. Ha ha ha. I'm so tired. *wanders off*

Gatinater

07-22-2003, 01:49 AM

Cool.

Fortune Hunter

07-22-2003, 03:19 AM

why would alfred wooden help him? at the end he turns out to be bad and kills everyone.
then again I dont remember much after that cuz I havent played it in a while.

I think as well due to the cover pic and the small desricption that mona is in fact alive because her body disapeared from the elavator and she shows up mysteriousley and turns out to be a small peice in another web of evil stuff.

Or maybe a test to see if the aged max can still handle it. (the moves and focus and stuff)

Jokke_r

07-22-2003, 05:00 AM

aged WTF are you talking about there has only passed a year...

07-22-2003, 06:17 AM

Originally posted by biXen:
Now he's once again framed for murder, and yet again he loses a loved one.Isn't he guilty of murder this time?

RollingBrass

07-22-2003, 06:20 AM

Originally posted by The Baskinator:
Actually, I heard the story goes like this:

Max Payne escapes from the police and meets up with a gang of renegade ninja-pirates who teach him the ways of the ninja (and the ways of the pirate). When his training is complete, he returns to New York city with the ninja-pirate gang to fight a gang of samurai-zombies-- the sworn enemies of all ninja-pirates. Then he meets a female samurai-zombie and he falls in love with her, thus bridging the gap between ninja-pirates and samurai-zombies.

They get married and have a samurai-ninja-ghost-pirate-zombie child. They name him Bruno.

Then Bruno dies for some reason and Max, mired in grief, leaves his wife and walks the earth as a lonely ninja-pirate. Also, he stomps on puppies.

Ah ha. Ha ha ha. I'm so tired. *wanders off* I'm buying three copies of this game.

theHunted

07-22-2003, 08:35 AM

Originally posted by Fortune Hunter:
why would alfred wooden help him?coz max is in posession of a tape showing him (the one eyed alfred) having fun with a hooker.

biXen

07-22-2003, 08:55 AM

Originally posted by j:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by biXen:
Now he's once again framed for murder, and yet again he loses a loved one.Isn't he guilty of murder this time? <hr /></blockquote>#¤%!...

As I said, I'm gonna rewrite that crap before I go public...

RudeBoyGunslingerUK

07-22-2003, 11:13 AM

I believe The Baskinator was closest to the truth.

hemlock_0

07-22-2003, 11:17 AM

The story is that Max fights and kills bad guys while collecting and using projectile weaponry. He talks to people, and they talk back. Finally, he meets some new people and sees some older ones, and he resolves issues.

You heard it here first... images/icons/smile.gif

[ 07-22-2003, 11:28 AM: Message edited by: hemlock_0 ]

aavenr

07-22-2003, 01:54 PM

Originally posted by Fortune Hunter:
Or maybe a test to see if the aged max can still handle it. (the moves and focus and stuff) Originally posted by Jokke_r:
aged WTF are you talking about there has only passed a year... That's an interesting comment joke_r, I mean now that I think about it, yes it's been only a year from the events featured on Max Payne 1 but at the same time Max is wearing adult diapers now. What I am getting at is that one should assume now that everything that Max did on the first game was while being some 40-50-ish lad, including his action movie star capabilities... images/icons/grin.gif

Gatinater

07-23-2003, 12:02 AM

Maybe Max finds some high quality poonani and she is kidnapped. So he must rescues her.

Fortune Hunter

07-23-2003, 03:34 AM

No ive got it this time. Max is released on an insanity plea or something and now that he has found retribution he could never kill again... or so they think.
Then you spend the entire game wandering through bars and getting into the occasional bar fight until you find the right woman.
Once you do you go and get married and after returning from your honeymoon alfred wooden shows up at your house saying he needs you to help him stop a major war between the ninja-pirates and the samurai-zombies. max thinks, then looks at his wife ('s rack) and then says @#%$ that, and shoots Alfred in the head and goes to jail for another year

then we get max payne three where he is released from jail because alfred threatened his wife and he was very scared of loosing her so he shot him. Then you wander the streets going into a bars and so on so forth until you find your missing wife and when you get home a ninja-pirate shows up and says he needs help, you shoot him and they take him to court and then tattoo "dont let me have a gun" on his forehead because there is a bizarre pattern every time they let you out.

(where the heck is this story going?)

Then the fourth game: having no guns and being very sad you go around kung-fu-matrixing all the v junkies on the street because they #%@&ed up your life and then they put in jail for ever.
ITS ONLY A 4 GAME CONTRACT

[ 07-23-2003, 03:42 AM: Message edited by: Fortune Hunter ]

KillJoy

07-23-2003, 03:46 PM

Actually, Remedy just hand wrote me a letter telling me what MP2 is about. Cause we are such good friends.

Max Payne finds out that he is the prince of the unknown land of Jigiliehaha, and he needs a princess. The one he wanted, Mona Sax, got dead when he wasn't looking, so for the rest of the game, he has to find a new princess.

That was all in that letter. I hope Remedy doesn't get mad that I told you this stuff. BTW what is an NDA? That was stamped all over it.

Fortune Hunter

07-23-2003, 06:30 PM

see I was sort of right........... a little.....

AWW!...... @&$#!?

okay so I made it up.... big deal i was on the right track.

Mizkreant

07-23-2003, 11:13 PM

Originally posted by aavenr:
That's an interesting comment joke_r, I mean now that I think about it, yes it's been only a year from the events featured on Max Payne 1 but at the same time Max is wearing adult diapers now. What I am getting at is that one should assume now that everything that Max did on the first game was while being some 40-50-ish lad, including his action movie star capabilities... images/icons/grin.gif This is only speculation at this point, albeit somewhat supported by what has been released so far, but at least some of Max Payne 2 is told in flashback. People have already pointed out that Max looks to be different ages in diffrerent screenshots (he especially looks young in the graphic novels). If you look at one of the graphic novel pages that's been scanned, it says something like: "Like most things in my life, it involved the death of a woman I loved. I couldn't save her." You might think he's talking about his late wife, but the panels show him with Mona. Notice he talks about it in the past tense.

biXen

07-24-2003, 01:25 AM

Max Payne 2 will like Max Payne be a story that has already happened, you play the past. And it's beginning is supposed to be one year later.

aavenr

07-24-2003, 01:54 AM

Originally posted by Mizkreant:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by aavenr:
That's an interesting comment joke_r, I mean now that I think about it, yes it's been only a year from the events featured on Max Payne 1 but at the same time Max is wearing adult diapers now. What I am getting at is that one should assume now that everything that Max did on the first game was while being some 40-50-ish lad, including his action movie star capabilities... images/icons/grin.gif This is only speculation at this point, albeit somewhat supported by what has been released so far, but at least some of Max Payne 2 is told in flashback. People have already pointed out that Max looks to be different ages in diffrerent screenshots (he especially looks young in the graphic novels). If you look at one of the graphic novel pages that's been scanned, it says something like: "Like most things in my life, it involved the death of a woman I loved. I couldn't save her." You might think he's talking about his late wife, but the panels show him with Mona. Notice he talks about it in the past tense. <hr /></blockquote>I don't particularly agree with that about mona being dead but you definitively have got a good point there. We really don't know much about the plot, and flashbacks within the game could easily tear apart our initial perceptions. But that's good isn't it, what's the fun on knowing exactly the plot beforehand? I really enjoy making these kind of assumptions and speculations and then finding out the real thing.

Gatinater

07-24-2003, 05:43 AM

Somebody has stolen all of the pianos and synthsizers. Van Halen can't perform Right now or Jump without them. So your quest begins.

Skitso

07-24-2003, 03:31 PM

Max looking older or not, he has exactly the same clothes in each shot... so no flashbacks in MP2 me thinks. At least you can't make any assumptions based on the shots available at the moment

Mars

07-24-2003, 04:52 PM

Max Payne 2 will be about $50. Har har har!

Originally posted by j:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by biXen:
Now he's once again framed for murder, and yet again he loses a loved one.Isn't he guilty of murder this time? <hr /></blockquote>He was guilty of murder the first time, I seem to recall shooting a large amount of people while diving around in slow motion.

KillJoy

07-24-2003, 06:03 PM

Uhh Mars, they are reffering to Alex Baldur's murder, not the v-junkies and other gun fodder.

Mars

07-24-2003, 06:17 PM

Well, you think the cops would notice the very large amount of dead people that Max Payne left. I can understand that he might not be found guilty of the murder he did not commit, but there is still the matter of the dead people in the building he was caught on with bullets fired from his guns in them.

biXen

07-24-2003, 06:25 PM

He gets away from that, read the synopsis... This murder he is actually guilty of. And again the story will be told while you play it, so it probably starts in the end again, at least that's the impression I got from the novel shots and story we've got so far.

Gatinater

07-24-2003, 06:34 PM

He took out the entire mob and an old crotchety lady. They probably gave him the key to the city.

The Baskinator

07-25-2003, 03:45 AM

Or the key to the entertainer's shack.

. . . That was l33t.

Fortune Hunter

07-25-2003, 04:43 AM

Well again It is prolly better to not decipher the entire plot to the point of knowing that the old lady set up the V-raid on your house (if we were talkin bout MP1)

I went in to MP1 with no knowledge of the story whatsoever. this is one of those action games with a seriouse plot for those who care and big guns for those who dont. As the story unfolded I learned as it was happening and got the suspense of finding all the mysteries and truths. And I really had fun.

I want to go into MP2 the same way. I obviousely know his past wich will make me understand the story better and Thats all I know. I hevent read any of the press releases or the novel shots because that might say something insignificant now but then spoil a suprise while playing the game because someone will say something that connects with that peice i read and I will know before hand and then spoil the story.

Thats MY OPINION and some might agree and some might not. Feel free to throw freshly cut carrots at me or tell me im full of crap (havent been to the bathroom in 10 days)

Yankee35643

07-25-2003, 07:07 AM

I feel the same way about not wanting to know the story, but still i'd like to know the basics, just what its mainly about.

And i'm surprised that this game has been keep so quite since it comes out this fall, i would have liked to seen a trailer for it or something.

Raven

08-14-2003, 06:45 AM

NO NO NO NO ,Alfred doesn't help him and Max sits in jail but now it's payback.

Joe Siegler

08-14-2003, 02:16 PM

Originally posted by Gatinater:
What is Max Payne 2 about? I see on the cover art he is with a women. Has he found himself another tap? Or is it a prequel? Or is it just picture illustrating him with his former wife? His fugitive lifestyle is a result of her murder. So an illustration of her would be appropriate.

At the beginning and end of Max payne "Officer in danger. I repeat officer in danger" is broadcasted over the CB. So I'm thinking at that point the police realize what's going on. So what the hell? Is the law still after him or what? Or has he become a likeness of Martin Riggs? This is the kind of stuff you find out after the game is released.