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Both games send a troubled protagonist through a warped Manhattan, but Max Payne 2 frames its strangeness as rain-soaked crime noir, while Control Resonant leans into paranatural powers and cosmic peril.
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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Max Payne 2 is a third-person shooter, in which the player assumes the role of Max Payne, but also plays as Mona Sax in a few levels. Initially, the player's weapon is a 9mm pistol. As they progress, players access other weapons including other handguns, shotguns, submachine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, and hand-thrown weapons. To move the game along, the player is told what the next objective is through Max's internal monologue, in which Max iterates what his next steps should be.
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What it’s about — and how it feels
Max Payne 2 turns its gunfights into chapters of a noir romance, following a brooding detective through rain-darkened New York and back into the orbit of Mona Sax. Max’s sardonic inner monologue carries the story between bursts of bullet time, while brief levels as Mona shift the perspective without loosening the game’s fatalistic mood.
Noir romanceBullet-time gunfightsSardonic inner monologueShifting playable perspectives
Where it stands
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Details
- Developer
- Remedy Entertainment
- Play style
- Single player
- Platforms
- Xbox, PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360, PlayStation 2
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