Max Payne 2 Is a great sequel, people may say that is way shorter than expected but personally it took more to finish it compared to Max Payne 1.
Gameplay It's not a big difference, max's skin has changed to James's face to connect the character with the voice actor and so it's no longer Sam Lake, I think it's the same engine but a bit improved and redesigned. You get new weapons like my favorite being the kalashnikov, the level design is still very interesting and the novel story writting does not get old. Chapter 4 is the most goofy and unexpected to happen in a max payne game.
Story Max cannot pass his past about his family and so he got back to his detective job and he was investigating a warehouse owned by one of his friends named Vlad that is a russian mob that owns the mentioned warehouse full of cleaners but really they are all criminals. Max gets a full PTSD episode from the hospital where you can see one of his partener valerie winterson being dead. After going forward to inspect the situation about these HITMEN cleaners max finds a girl by the name of Mona Sax trying to help him but she was on the wanted list and max had to choose if he wants to join her so he can finish the case or not. Further in the story Mona was along Vlad and he wanted her to eliminate Payne and get out of his partener bounding. But something Vlad didn't know is that both of them got attached together in a some kind of relationship. Sure Mona betrayed max in the construction site but even after that she had some emotions for Max. After rescuing Vinnie and then learning the truth about Vlad everything went on fire knowing how Vlad planned this to happend and so he destroyed the building that Max was in.
Mona rushing to save him and getting out of the burning building they had to end Vlad forever. Going to his mansion fighting the guards and then meeting with Vlad finally giving the last straw after finding out that Mona betrayed him and immediately shooting her. Max following Vlad while the explosives were going ON destroying the basement he reaches Vlad and then a high ground fight starts. Vlad was on a chandelier while Max was on ground trying to dissemble the wires that hold Vlad. After eventually finishing the job and killing Vlad falling down to his death Max finds out mona dead on the floor while the cops are rushing to the building and so the story ends.
Bonus Really tried to remember the story but it very complex compared to the first game, writing this on a phone was not a very pleasant experience but oh well. When I think about Max Payne 2 I think about Halo 4's story and the final twist after rolling the credits lmao, for me this story is quite forgettable but replaying it might help me refresh my brain a bit.
Also, might start to add games that I played during the last month of 2023 and marking it as Played on 2024 so yeah.
Gameplay It's not a big difference, max's skin has changed to James's face to connect the character with the voice actor and so it's no longer Sam Lake, I think it's the same engine but a bit improved and redesigned. You get new weapons like my favorite being the kalashnikov, the level design is still very interesting and the novel story writting does not get old. Chapter 4 is the most goofy and unexpected to happen in a max payne game.
Story Max cannot pass his past about his family and so he got back to his detective job and he was investigating a warehouse owned by one of his friends named Vlad that is a russian mob that owns the mentioned warehouse full of cleaners but really they are all criminals. Max gets a full PTSD episode from the hospital where you can see one of his partener valerie winterson being dead. After going forward to inspect the situation about these HITMEN cleaners max finds a girl by the name of Mona Sax trying to help him but she was on the wanted list and max had to choose if he wants to join her so he can finish the case or not. Further in the story Mona was along Vlad and he wanted her to eliminate Payne and get out of his partener bounding. But something Vlad didn't know is that both of them got attached together in a some kind of relationship. Sure Mona betrayed max in the construction site but even after that she had some emotions for Max. After rescuing Vinnie and then learning the truth about Vlad everything went on fire knowing how Vlad planned this to happend and so he destroyed the building that Max was in.
Mona rushing to save him and getting out of the burning building they had to end Vlad forever. Going to his mansion fighting the guards and then meeting with Vlad finally giving the last straw after finding out that Mona betrayed him and immediately shooting her. Max following Vlad while the explosives were going ON destroying the basement he reaches Vlad and then a high ground fight starts. Vlad was on a chandelier while Max was on ground trying to dissemble the wires that hold Vlad. After eventually finishing the job and killing Vlad falling down to his death Max finds out mona dead on the floor while the cops are rushing to the building and so the story ends.
Bonus Really tried to remember the story but it very complex compared to the first game, writing this on a phone was not a very pleasant experience but oh well. When I think about Max Payne 2 I think about Halo 4's story and the final twist after rolling the credits lmao, for me this story is quite forgettable but replaying it might help me refresh my brain a bit.
Also, might start to add games that I played during the last month of 2023 and marking it as Played on 2024 so yeah.