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    Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

    Game » consists of 12 releases. Released Oct 15, 2003

    Max Payne 2 is a film-noir action game in which the player takes control of Max Payne, in search of the murdering group masquerading as cleaners.

    ishoturface's Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Xbox) review

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    MAX IS BACK

    Now the first max payne you played as a ex cop trying to figure out who killed your wife kid and best friend. But this time you are a cop (or detective)
    And this time its almost the same except this time you have mona sax on your side.
    Mona sax is wanted for murder and A a love interest of Max.


    Now the story in the first max payne was and is still good and Max payne 2 while its not as good as the first game's Plot it is still really good.
    So in Max payne in the end you get dragged off to jail in the end because you are suspected of murder, and in max payne 2 you get out of jail and are back to being a regular New York city cop. And in the first mission which is just a normal Murder investigation you discover someone is Killing off All the major thugs and Mafia members. So thats the basic's of the story (im not going to spoil anything for you).

    Once again there is no multiplayer which again as i said in my review for the first game is really disappointing because the gameplay the gunplay would be awesome for multiplayer. So again its disappointing that there is no multiplayer.

    The gameplay in the first max payne was and is still awesome which is back in max payne 2 and is just as good as the first game from the ragdoll effect (which is awesome) the gunplay, bullet time Now bullet time in max payne 2 is not the same as max payne instead this time you stay at normal speed while your enemies slow down and eventually you will become very fast while your enemies are still stuck in slow motion which makes it easier for you to take on even more bad guys and Thugs.
    There are still pain killers in the game to help heal the damage you have taken and if there were not any then the game would be impossible to get past.
    Now the one thing that I found bad about the gameplay is that it just seems to much like the first max payne. Other than that everything is Awesome in the gameplay.

    The graphics are a step up from the first game with nicer textures but there still are some sharp edges like in the first game. But the graphics still look better than ever.


    The game's sound is much like in the first game with the exception of that most of the guns have different sounds than in Max Payne. Speaking of guns there are 3 new weapons in the game including a MP5 SMG, Ak-47 assault rifle (although in the game its called something else) And a dragunov sniper rifle. Now back to the sound the voice acting is just as good as the first game's acting even though sometimes the acting can get cheesy.
    There is not much replay value in max payne but there are more levels of difficulty to play on and a new mode called dead man walking which is just you killing bad guys until they take you out.


    Over all if you have played the first Max payne and are wondering what the hell happens then get Max payne 2.


    Campaign: 9.8/10
    Multiplayer: 0/0 ( well there isn't any!)
    Gameplay: 9.9/10
    Tilt: 9.7/10
    graphics: 9.3/10
    Sound: 10/10
    funnessfactor: 10/10
    Replay value: 9.5/10

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