Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Main Title

Main Menu

If you haven't played the original, you can check the background story from the menu screen

Selecting the game mode (more unlock after you finish the game)

General loading screen

Looks like you get up on the wrong foot right from the start

Where else would you start but in the hospital with some serious lack of... firepower

When your health is low, medical kits like the one in front of you may prove most useful

When reloading in slow-motion, Max pulls a cool stunt of spinning while reloading costing you almost no time lost

Like the original, the game does not start at the beginning of the story

Arriving at the crime scene... now let's investigate that warehouse

The game is split into three parts, each with about seven chapters

Due to abundance of conflicts, Max will have plenty of weapons to use

Mona Sax... Max's partner, friend, love, liaison, enemy, and everything that comes with the territory

Up close on the Max

Max and Mona team up to get the cleaners

Slow-motion gives you the upper edge but you still gotta be quick

Max taking out the cleaners... guess he wasn't so happy how they cleaned his office

Vlad and Max seem to be friends... but looks can be deceiving

Things can get hot in this game even without the fire of bullets

"A typical slow-motion slide and shoot" by Max Payne

Wooden stairs like these provide little to no protection against the shotgun

Max is chasing himself in one of his nightmares

Generally good thing about nightmares in this game is that bullets can't kill you

Aside from Max, there'll be couple of chapters that will let you control Mona Sax

Mona coming up to the rescue in the nick of time

Max to the Max, solving a crime of passion

Sometimes the line between dream and reality can get real blurry

The dynamic duo ready for the showtime

When you kill someone with a sniper rifle, you'll see a bullet trajectory camera up to that target

Title screen

The always present main menu shot, introducing Mona Sax as a co-protagonist.

"Ough, I hate mondays..." This is how the game starts. Looking good, Payne!

Trying to shake off the effect of the drugs and the pain in every bone of the body, Max finds his first corpse, and hears the first treath... This can't be good.

Can you believe that two seconds ago all that stuff was properly placed in the shelf... which was by the way hanging on the wall? Say hi to the "havoc" physics engine!

Looks like at least Max is gonna have *some* fun this time.

Luckily, Max got rid of the hideous colorful shirt of the first game.

The snow storm of the century is gone... to be replaced by a regular rainstorm. Nice reflections, huh?

Once again, the "soap opera device" is gonna be used to add a little irony to the storytelling.

The good old shoot-dodging is back, along with a modified bullet time... and some quite fancy shading!

Max is back in the NYPD, so we can get to see him doing lots of fancy cop stuff like never before: "Freeze!", "Up against the wall!", "I need backup!".

Yes, Virginia, these are in-game graphics. Although the game engine is the same as in the prequel, this time it's been loaded with cool special effects as well as very detailed textures...

Back in action

Boom

Extreme Bullet Time

You said something ?

Non stop action

Max has a variety of weapons

You can also play as Mona in the game

Beware !!!

OH MY GOD, It's the cheatau from The Matrix Reloaded ...

Mona Sax: a pretty tough woman.

Reloading amidst the chaos.

Spraying the guards with bullets.

Pill a day, keep the doctor away

Keyboard controls

Vinnie Gognitti

Vladimir Lem

Detective Winterson

Max Payne is confused

Previously on Max Payne

Vladimir Lem's Office

Mike The Cowboy

The Story continues

Jim Bravura

Hostage in danger

Mona Sax

Max waits for his enemies in the dark...