Max Payne 2 Impressions
 

I'm on the third level now. So far, the game is just more of the same, though admittedly much prettier. The environment is a bit more inteactive (read: pushable, destroyable), but otherwise, not much in the way of new stuff.

So far, B+.

Max Payne 2 has been released? :confused: :confused: :confused:

The game owns me, big time.
I'm a few chapters in. VERY impressed with it so far.
More twists than the first.
A+

Hehe, played it a little more. The ragdoll system kicks ASS when you can actually see it in action. To anyone who has it already, try this: with any rifle, dive and fire upwards into a guy and keep firing long after you know you've killed him. He just keeps flying and it looks way neat :D

The construction yard level was way neat.

I raise my grade to an A-; it's a very worthy sequel.

LMFAO! :lol:

Dude, where you been??

Today, I will (hopefully) join the ranks of Max Payne 2 players.

To Victory!

I was looking at the console release dates. I guess I forgot the PC release was two months before :(

im debating about installing and replaying the first max payne before i start on the second...

does the 2nd part have to do anything with the first part cause i never beat the first part i stayed int he 2nd level :(.so im wondering if i should move to the 2nd part or what?

Ooooooo I want to play!!!

To get a general idea of the ragdoll system:

Note you'll need xvid for this:
Click Here to See ragdoll in action (10MB)

I'm not sure my computer is good enough to run Max Payne 2 :(

What are the requirements?

IGN gave Max Payne 2 a 9.4! Holy shit. I never played the first one, but I might have to get this one. That's one hell of a high score.

<A HREF=http://pc.ign.com/articles/455/455259p1.html>Link!</A>

-Lasereth

Im gonna get it in a few days. I downloaded a few clips of the gameplay on it. It looks damn good.

To those who haven't played the first one: you don't really need to, there's a "Previously" button that basically sums up the entire story of the first one in case you've forgotten.

As for system reqs: I'm running this on a midrange system, Athlon XP 2000+ with a Radeon 7000, 512 SDRAM, and it ran beautifully at 800x600.

Harder than the first, too short... But a great game nonetheless.

I loved the first one can't wait to play 2!!!

Nudity Cheat
 

This cheat is pretty cool, it lets you use any model in the game plus lets you play as nekkid Mona w00t!

HOW TO GET MONA NAKED: A TUTORIAL BY DEFLUX/BobbyM
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1) Make a shortcut to the game's exe file.
2) Change the Target field to this:
"C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Max Payne 2\MaxPayne2.exe" -developerkeys -screenshot
3) Start a new game or load one you have saved.
4) Use PAGE UP/PAGE DOWN to scroll through models. You will get Nude Mona
quicker if you use PAGE UP.
5) Pressing F3 will allow you to move the camera around freely. Press F3 again
to set the camera and regain control of your character.
6) Pressing F10 will make a screen shot in your Max Payne 2 directory.

http://www.kainproductions.com/images/max_b00bies.jpg

Wench! YAR, a good thing to have after a day of killing.

Is that naked model and skin in the game during a sex scene or something? Or was it just there waiting for some loser geek to find and use? I mean no offense of course, when I get the game the first thing I'll be doing is playing with a naked Mona.

Re: Max Payne 2 Impressions
 

Yup, and I'm loving every minute of it! :D

Probably the shower scene.

I beat it already. Great stuff.

I hear there is a second ending if you beat it on Dead on Arrival mode. I'm working to get that now.

Fuck, wont play, damn Direct X 9 compatibility

Anyone know how long this one is? Is it worth the early purchase or should I wait for the bargain bin?

Cool, thanks

Someone mentioned the shower scene but there's also a scene in the first trippy dream sequence where you see Mona in a body bag. If you notice when cycling through the models, there are two nude Mona models. One for the shower, one for the morgue.

Don't know if you guys find Penny Arcade funny, but still:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20031017l.gif

That about sums it up right there, thank you lol.

Wait for the bargain bin.

Mixed reviews...

Jigglin' titties? Whouda thunk of it?!

You've answered our prayers here in Hollywood...

Veritas en Lux!
Jimmy The Hutt

The game is, IMHO, a good candidate for Game of The Year. The story was still over the top noir stuff, but its much better this time. THe gameplay is suitable awesome, and I'm looking forward to some cool mods for it. All in all, I recommend this game highly...

Veritas en Lux!
Jimmy The Hutt

P.S. Don't we have a Titty Board around her somewhere? Since when do we need naked polygons?:)

Beat the game, and am trying to enjoy it a second time around. It was short, but good. Although it didn't offer much new aside from the original Max Payne. It felt very... familiar.

Dead Man Walking is nice, though. Maybe we can get a thread up here to post or records and stuff ;)

awesome but short.....

I just started playing it and i'm about 2 hours in. I like it so far. The new "bullet time" (hourglass turns yellow) is a good addition since the original game, in my opinion.

Don't ask me why, but I have a feeling that you haven't played this game. I also have a feeling that you have never even read a review for this game and that your saying this because you didn't like the first game. Just a hunch;) .

better a short great game as some boring bullshit with 3000 levels :lol:

Those are the hardest breasts since Lara Croft! :eek:

I just beat it. I thought the ending "boss" kinda deal was weak, but otherwise the humor and art that went into it made it defintely worthwhile.

does it have multiplayer?

it *needs* multiplayer.

i played it for 5 minutes
my question is...where the hell is max payne??
if u r calling that dude with the black jacket max payne....he's gone thru more plastic surgiries than michael jackson
other than that...the world is very interactive...i didnt feel much diferrence in bullet time tho

there can never be MP in max payne...coz imagine:your opponent has gonei n bullet time...his time is dialated...what will u be seeing in real time?

Well if his time slowed down i would imagine that you would see him as moving a lot faster than normal.

I think it's a great game....lots of fun, and it's hella funny....the things some of the bad guys say, and whatever is on the TV :D

Worthy sequel... could have been a little more challanging though....
A- for now, once a matrix mod comes out, it will go straight to A+ :P

no multiplayer in the box

Great game in my opinion. Didn't ever see a grenade launcher in this one though... I was hoping that it would make a comeback in MP2. The ending was kinda cheesy again, but it didn't ruin the game for me. I'll put it down for a couple of weeks and then try one of the harder levels.

A-

if u can see him going quicker...what will he see? he's supposed to be going slower?
example
from time=0 he starts bullet time
he stays in bullettime for 5 secs
that in real time is 2 secs and if u see him acceraled...where is the missing time
note:this is only for MP

i started playing it yesterday and i think it's amazing so far. Don't know how long it is, but i have spent quite a bit of time messing around with the physics system of the game. It's amazing, so real, is this what they're gonna use or are using in half life 2?
THe level of interactivity is also very high, which makes exploring the environments so much fun.

Anyway, this game is gonna have great mod capacity, hopefully lots of other games spawn off this.

Good stuff.

I loved this game, so much fun. Kind of short, but the quality made up for it and anyways I dont see how they could have made it any longer without ruining the story, plus the other modes as well. I also here there an alternate ending if you beat it on the hardest difficulty setting. The mod's for this could be great too!

beat it liked it... to much of a love story and not much different then the original...

I loved it. It was short, and there isnt too much replay value to it, but I love games with a great story, and hell, it was fun too.

not sure i'm going to buy it, $50 for a 10hr game? My brother got the first one and beat it in about 8 hours...

good point, i didnt think it out i just typed it.

They could have it without the bullet time for MP, suppose it wouldnt be as fun, but would still add playability, if they had mods, addons and dm maps etc, it could have advantages

Just finished. I liked it, but not as much as the first (nothing really new). Plus, it had some very slow load times :mad:. Still, I'm sure I'll play Max Payne III.

I got it today but won't play it properly until I finish my backlog of games however I gave it a little go and: shit, freaking cool, it's incredibly hard-boiled and stylised yet keeping the plot in primary position, can't wait to play it properly!

I'm sure they could make it like the "force speed" in Jedi Outcast multiplayer, but that wouldnt be as cool.

I liked the game... went looking for this page with the intentions of posting mona's naked ass. Someone already had her full frontal... somehow I wasn't surprised =P

I finished this recently.. Pretty short game eh? Great ride while it lasted though.

Mona, as video game characters go, is hoooot. The voice-overs didn't hurt one bit.

i like the story , and i really love his nightmares, there arent many but it was like in the first one ... nightmares own , the developer get the atmosphere right and that is a great thing in todays games

I thought MP2 ROCKED compared to the first one. They took everything cool from MP1, added more of it, took everything lame out and added more cool stuff (the nightmare scenes in particular are WAY better in 2 than 1), and the different endings made it all worth playing the game through 3 times. I got my money's worth.

Grade: A.

I haven't played it yet, but the graphics themselves add points to the droolfactor alone.

The clean environment is awesome...object physics are greatly improved and the character envolvment to his suroundings is cool. I think they have over dramatized the storyline tho...it just got cheezy....the first story was genuine and gave max payne an honorable character...not so sure about this one.

I just got it for PS2, so far so good, I am loving it.

I can't tell you how much I love both Max Payne's. Yes, they are short, but still worth every penny. Not alot of difference from Max Payne 1 to Max Payne 2, but I'm actually very happy about that. The first was so good, why fool with it? I can only hope Max Payne 2 uses the same gameplay with only a different story. :)

I played mp2 back in early november, a really good game, especially the continuation of story line, improved graphics, improved gameplay, improved engine, all around a way better experience than Max Payne

I played MP2 a while back, and enjoyed it immensly. After I finished though, I got bored.

I decided to play through most of the game in the Captin Baseball Boy/Vince skin, using only Melee (I.E His Bat). Of course.. I had to do it in God Mode.. but it was interesting.

I never played the orginal Max Payne, but have played the second. It was a pretty decent game. The rag doll physics are the best it has to offer. I do not see what the importance of bullet time is. I keep beign told you have to use it to beat the gem, but was able to finish it easily without ever using it. I do admit though that when using it while playing around in the game it does make a nice special effect.

I thought it kind of sucked. I was bored to tears through the (what scientists have estimated) 5 billion cutscenes. Plus the gameplay wasn't that great either.

I give it 3 stars out of 5. 1 for effort and 2 for looking pretty.

i give a 4/5 just becuz u can get mona naked! haha jk, well.. it was an okay game. felt kinda like an expansion. nothing new really. couldve had more weapon choices and more shoot em up levels with more sniping. good game tho

Don't waste your money(or time to dl it).

This game was not as good as I hoped it to be. Besides the fact that it was too short, the storyline was kinda confusing. I never really knew what exactly was going on other than people were wanting to kill Max for hanging with Mona. It was EXTREMELY easy to beat, and shooting hundreds of people and the slow-time deal became boring and monotonous after a few hours. True, the sequal was better than the first, but it falls into the same trap at the end. By that, I mean that you spend all that time making your way through the game, only to be let-down again by another horrible and insanely easy ending.

I agree that it was a short game. But the storyline was pretty amazing. I love a good storyline in a game. It makes it so much more enjoyable to play and totally catches my attention.

Gameplay was very similar to Max Payne 1, so there wasn't much of a learning curve to it. Didn't expect much change in the gameplay though.

The graphics and sounds were very good as well. I played it on a friend's computer which he just got. Close to top of the line and it looks amazing when running perfectly with all details turned on.

A great game. I think there is another sequel coming out? Seems like the ending perfectly set it up for one. So hopefully there is one. Definately looking forward to it.

which ending are u talking about? the alternate or original? I didnt really pay attention to the story much but im thinking maybe the alternate would have a better set up for a sequel.

The standard ending had closure and one of the greatest final lines of dialogue ever, I'm playing through the game again to get the alternate ending, everything about this game rocks, I love it!

Actually, there is a scene where you see "parts" of her in her..apartment. Nothing very revealing is shown at all during these scenes. Once you see how the camera angles work during these cutscenes, you'll know why they had to do it that way.

Two things. First off, to make updated models for this version of the game, they had to rebuild Max. This is why he looks so different. The old skins just could not be rebuild with more polygons, etc. At least they kept his voice.

As for MP, of course they never will have it. But I think it could be done. Lets think of it this way:

Five players.
Two of you are in bullet time mode, so you are seeing three other players in slo-mo.
The fourth player you will see in real time, because he is in bullet-time himself.
If his bullet time period ends, you will watch him go to slow motion with the other players.
If you are not in bullet time mode, you will simply watch someone begin moving much faster.

This seems very similar to the speed mode you could get from Jedi Outcast.

I like the game. It doesn't seem to be as much of a nail biter as the previous game, plus the bullet time mode seems to last forever, which makes it a little easy. I retry extra difficult scenes a few times to see if I can save a painkiller or two.

Of course, the game is gorgeous. On the ATI 9800Pro it is just amazing to watch. Even the special effects smoke in the funhouse look like "special effects". Amazing. I've grabbed quite a few screenshots since everything is rendered in-game. The game seems more cinematic than the previous game. More cool camera angles, more cool scene renditions.

The story seems rushed. I have heard the game ends too soon, and I am really wondering why they didn't take the time to flesh out the story a bit more. I suppose it has to do with thumbing their noses at people like Id who seem to have trouble releasing products: they seemed to have no trouble getting the code out on time. I would hope the next story takes a bit more time to develop, though.

Go get it if you even remotely liked the first one.

you can use the naked model of mona by accessing the cheat menu...but i forgot where i found it. damn, i was no help at all; sorry. By the way, the game rocked!!

It's an awesome game. I can't grow tired of it. The cheats add an awful lot of fun into it. Can't wait to see some mods out there for it, too.

The only way I'll be convinced to play MP2 over and over again is when the Kung Fu mod comes out for it. That shit is the DC of Max Payne.

Yep. I beat the first Max Payne twice, then when the Kung-Fu mod came out, it made me play through it four more times. The amount of badass stuff you can do in those mods are incredible.