Originally posted here: https://cultclassiccornervideogames.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/mod-corner-7th-serpent-crossfire-genesis-max-payne-2-the-fall-of-max-payne-review/
The Max Payne games might have a smaller modding community than most games, but they are definitely a dedicated bunch, still releasing some pretty good stuff every now and again. One of the best mods for Max Payne 2 is 7th Serpent: Crossfire.
The story for both mods are actually fairly lengthy, since there is a bit of backstory going on. I’ll try to summarize whats necessary to understand for both mods, but if you want to go check it out, it does come in the manual for both mods.
In Crossfire, you play Damon, the first prototype of the Serpent Industries serpent agent program, and your first assignment was the assassination of the CEO of a company called Hryfter Armament Technologies. The mod begins right after the assassination, right when you are making your escape. The rest of the mod is you escaping through the city, trying to get to the extraction point, as a city-wide emergency alert has been issued and the local authorities have promptly deployed.
Crossfire is a good looking mod considering that the team behind it was pretty small, definitely pushing what the mod tools were possible of. Most of the game is going through the streets of a futuristic sci-fi city, but the mod does have a larger scale to it, making the fact that it’s fairly detailed more impressive.
Gameplay wise, it’s pretty much the base game from Max Payne 2, nothing has really changed. But when the gameplay is as solid as Max Payne 2’s was, there isn’t really a need to change it.
The mod is on the shorter side, being about 45 minutes long, but that isn’t really a complaint since it’s free and has a lot of effort put into it. My only real complaint is that it’s a tad too hard, which might cause some people to struggle with it, but it’s not unreasonable, and it’s nothing that a bit of quicksaving couldn’t help.
At some point after Crossfire’s development, the team meant to release a second episode for Seventh Serpent, but life got in the way and people got busy, and what the team was working on couldn’t be finished. So the series was giving to another team, and just over 2 years later, that team released the second mod, Genesis. But that's for another review.
7th Serpent: Crossfire is a great time and is well worth checking out if you're into playing mods.
The Max Payne games might have a smaller modding community than most games, but they are definitely a dedicated bunch, still releasing some pretty good stuff every now and again. One of the best mods for Max Payne 2 is 7th Serpent: Crossfire.
The story for both mods are actually fairly lengthy, since there is a bit of backstory going on. I’ll try to summarize whats necessary to understand for both mods, but if you want to go check it out, it does come in the manual for both mods.
In Crossfire, you play Damon, the first prototype of the Serpent Industries serpent agent program, and your first assignment was the assassination of the CEO of a company called Hryfter Armament Technologies. The mod begins right after the assassination, right when you are making your escape. The rest of the mod is you escaping through the city, trying to get to the extraction point, as a city-wide emergency alert has been issued and the local authorities have promptly deployed.
Crossfire is a good looking mod considering that the team behind it was pretty small, definitely pushing what the mod tools were possible of. Most of the game is going through the streets of a futuristic sci-fi city, but the mod does have a larger scale to it, making the fact that it’s fairly detailed more impressive.
Gameplay wise, it’s pretty much the base game from Max Payne 2, nothing has really changed. But when the gameplay is as solid as Max Payne 2’s was, there isn’t really a need to change it.
The mod is on the shorter side, being about 45 minutes long, but that isn’t really a complaint since it’s free and has a lot of effort put into it. My only real complaint is that it’s a tad too hard, which might cause some people to struggle with it, but it’s not unreasonable, and it’s nothing that a bit of quicksaving couldn’t help.
At some point after Crossfire’s development, the team meant to release a second episode for Seventh Serpent, but life got in the way and people got busy, and what the team was working on couldn’t be finished. So the series was giving to another team, and just over 2 years later, that team released the second mod, Genesis. But that's for another review.
7th Serpent: Crossfire is a great time and is well worth checking out if you're into playing mods.