From the word go you'll notice that even seemingly insignificant objects can be moved around and knocked over, with fairly comedic implications at times. The first change you'll notice is the addition of Havok physics, and although it has been used in other games, MP2 is the perfect title to show it off in. Outside of the obviously gorgeous graphics engine you'll be playing a game of spot the difference, which amounts to no more than a few tweaks rather than any major additions. In a game that took us just seven hours to complete (including watching all the narrative and some tricky later sections), it's fair to say that not a lot has changed - it's just this time we were a bit handier at stabbing the quick-save key and were already familiar with the controls. Unlike the original's stylised photographs (featuring members of the development team, the cheapskates!), the sequel uses a far more pleasing hand drawn approach, although the same script writer and voiceovers are present throughout - so we get the same slightly over the top dramatisation of events, but when you're involved in the most over-the-top action game ever, it all seems to make perfect sense. Once again the game punctuates the action with frame after frame of graphic novel-style narrative, and first play through you'll probably be slightly confused unless you play it in one sitting and make a few notes to remind yourself of what the jiggins is going on. Suffice to say, Max has left the DEA, joined the NYPD, and a fairly routine investigation turns his world upside down with Max falling for a Femme Fatale and inevitably going beyond the call of duty to bring down those responsible for his torment. In a game with so much twisting and overlapping narrative, it would be more than little ungracious to give away more than the bare bones. Max is back, and he's finally been to the toilet. But here it is, in our hands, and we're all the happier for it. In fact, after the fairly torturous wait for the original, we had to double take when we first saw the October release date. Having only been announced a few months back, it's refreshing to see that Finnish developer Remedy has not fallen prey to the slippage demons that seem to have engulfed the majority of top developers lately. With well over half a million of you in the UK alone buying the game, it's fair to say expectation from the surprisingly swift sequel is very high, after some spectacular recent promo footage.
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Many of you obviously liked it too, despite a few highbrow critical bashings, and the game went on to become a huge hit on the PC and Xbox, and an even bigger one on the PS2 - despite being a vastly less satisfying game to control on a joypad. In the context of videogaming, though, I personally applauded this refreshing approach, and found its trash depiction of New York, and Max's increasingly desperate attempts to clear his name one of the most memorable and exciting told in 25 years of the medium. What did grate on some, however, were its deliberately hammy film noir attempts, over the top voice acting and regular use of graphic novel frames to illustrate the action. The effect elevated an otherwise standard third person action game into something genuinely new and thrilling, with the novelty of diving sideways, backwards or headlong all guns blazing at posses of enemies never wearing thin. EstablishedĪ couple of years back the original was a massive commercial success on the back of an extremely polished graphics engine and its pioneering use of the now ubiquitous Bullet Time system of enabling the gamer to slow down time and continue shooting at a real time rate.
Welcome back, Mr grim, we've missed your constipated grimace. If that's the case then poor Max Payne is a supreme architect of ill fortune a man so down that you wonder why he even bothers getting up in the morning. Some people insist that you make your own luck in this life.
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