Originally posted here: https://cultclassiccornervideogames.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/mod-corner-mi-new-dawn-2005-max-payne-2-the-fall-of-max-payne-review/
Throughout the history of video games, there have been a metric fuckton of video games based on films. From infamous companies like LJN flooding the market on the NES/SNES, to the terrible budget games you’d see on the Wii and PC, and numerous cheaply made ad-filled “games” taking up the Android and Apple online stores. There are hundreds of them, and 90% of them are trash pumped out either in time to meet the movies release date or just to have a brands name slapped onto a product. So the 2005 Max Payne 2 mod, M:I – New Dawn, being one of the better ones despite being a fan made project is depressing.
Mission: Impossible – New Dawn, or M:I – New Dawn for short, is a mod for Max Payne 2, that was released in 2005. M:I – New dawn tells it’s own story, but it’s pretty obviously based on the Mission: Impossible films starring Tom Cruise that were incredibly popular at the time.
After an F-16 crashed over Utah, everything looks like an accident at first, but as the wreck is recovered, it is discovered that the pilot is gone, and the new generation of warhead that was on the F-16 is gone with him. Ethan Hunt is sent in to figure out where the man and warhead have disappeared to, and prevent said warhead from getting into the wrong hands. Soon, Ethan finds himself in the middle of something bigger than he first thought and has no one he can trust or turn to. The plot is pretty much a generic early 2000’s action movie, but it’s good enough to get the mod going and keep you paying attention.
For the most part, the gameplay is the same as Max Payne 2, but the character does have an ability called Gun Kata. Take from another mod called House of Mirrors, based on the film Equilibrium, which is where the ability comes from, and is that movies excuse to have slick action scenes by combining guns and martial arts. You have to go out of you way to select it and it only work on the dual MP5Ks, so there really isn’t a reason to use it.
My only real complaint is some of the level design, such as one area in a level having you run towards enemies shooting at you so you can get to a subway station, which comes across as counter-intuitive. This only happens once in the entire mod, so it’s not that big of a problem. Also, for some reason, sometimes the dialogue of a cutscene will play even though you skipped the cutscene. It seems like it happens when you skip a cutscene too quickly, but it happens at random.
M:I – New Dawn is about 2 hours at most, depending on player skill and difficulty, so it won’t take much longer than an afternoon. Plus it’s a free quality mod, so it’s not going to cost you anything other than your time.
Throughout the history of video games, there have been a metric fuckton of video games based on films. From infamous companies like LJN flooding the market on the NES/SNES, to the terrible budget games you’d see on the Wii and PC, and numerous cheaply made ad-filled “games” taking up the Android and Apple online stores. There are hundreds of them, and 90% of them are trash pumped out either in time to meet the movies release date or just to have a brands name slapped onto a product. So the 2005 Max Payne 2 mod, M:I – New Dawn, being one of the better ones despite being a fan made project is depressing.
Mission: Impossible – New Dawn, or M:I – New Dawn for short, is a mod for Max Payne 2, that was released in 2005. M:I – New dawn tells it’s own story, but it’s pretty obviously based on the Mission: Impossible films starring Tom Cruise that were incredibly popular at the time.
After an F-16 crashed over Utah, everything looks like an accident at first, but as the wreck is recovered, it is discovered that the pilot is gone, and the new generation of warhead that was on the F-16 is gone with him. Ethan Hunt is sent in to figure out where the man and warhead have disappeared to, and prevent said warhead from getting into the wrong hands. Soon, Ethan finds himself in the middle of something bigger than he first thought and has no one he can trust or turn to. The plot is pretty much a generic early 2000’s action movie, but it’s good enough to get the mod going and keep you paying attention.
For the most part, the gameplay is the same as Max Payne 2, but the character does have an ability called Gun Kata. Take from another mod called House of Mirrors, based on the film Equilibrium, which is where the ability comes from, and is that movies excuse to have slick action scenes by combining guns and martial arts. You have to go out of you way to select it and it only work on the dual MP5Ks, so there really isn’t a reason to use it.
My only real complaint is some of the level design, such as one area in a level having you run towards enemies shooting at you so you can get to a subway station, which comes across as counter-intuitive. This only happens once in the entire mod, so it’s not that big of a problem. Also, for some reason, sometimes the dialogue of a cutscene will play even though you skipped the cutscene. It seems like it happens when you skip a cutscene too quickly, but it happens at random.
M:I – New Dawn is about 2 hours at most, depending on player skill and difficulty, so it won’t take much longer than an afternoon. Plus it’s a free quality mod, so it’s not going to cost you anything other than your time.