Max Payne was best known for its 'bullet time' feature, which slows down time as Max guns down enemies. I was only two years old when the game was released, but I discovered the series with the announcement of Max Payne 3 and went back to the first games through Steam. I absolutely fell in love with the neo-noir aesthetic, the strong emphasis on narrative and, of course, Max's iconic quotes. It's a tragedy that Rockstar hasn't developed on the series since the release of the third instalment in Sometimes we include links to online retail stores.
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His first ever console was the PlayStation, where he found his love of games through Ridge Racer. GTA Trilogy has removed some cheats for technical reasons. Max and Raul manage to escape after Max knocks out one of the hitmen with a shovel and throwing dirt in the others eye while a bloody headed Passos manages to pick up one of hitmen's gun and shoots the other before he can escape.
Both men escape through the morgue and into the funeral home main office where Passos manages to call for a way out of New Jersey. Max's first job is in the Caribbean. After that mission, he, Raul, and Marcelo start their second job in Panama, delivering something, later revealed to be money, to an associate of Victor's, a banker.
The three relax on a yacht, along with Marcelo's friend Daphne Bernstein. Max goes to his room to sleep for a few hours, and when he awakes, he finds that the yacht is being attacked by well armed pirates. Max fights his way off the yacht, where he finds Raul and Marcelo taking some bags to a truck.
While Max and Raul fight in the yacht to find survivors, Marcelo drives off with the bag. Finally, much to both of the bodyguards' dismay, they find all the passengers dead. As Max looks at the view from the building's roof, Raul comes to talk with him, and tells him about some of the guests. Max fights the gangsters and saves Fabiana by sliding down a balcony.
Max then enters the parking garage, where he saves Rodrigo from being taken in a van. Raul then arrives and asks Max if he is okay. Max begins to drink and relax at the club, until the CS attack again and attempt to kidnap Fabiana and Giovanna, while Marcelo escapes. Max fights the CS at the club and eventually gets on Raul's helicopter.
Following the kidnapping, Max and Raul discuss the situation with Rodrigo, Victor and Marcelo of the ransom letter sent by the Comando Sombra, and decide to make the exchange at the stadium of the Galatians FC. The surviving Comando Sombra members run away in the stadium with the ransom money, with Max and Raul try to catch them. Max and Raul get on a helicopter, with Max noticing two men before escaping.
Following that incident, Max remembers the events at Walton's bar. After failing the exchange, Max and Raul try to save Fabiana by different means. The two sneak in on a speed boat to the Comando Sombra's base on the harbor near the Tiete river. As he sneaks, he sees Serrano , leader of the CS, on a boat speaking to two members. As he leaves Max kills the two members who were talking to him, and continues deeper in the place. There, Max watches a television, seeing that Fabiana is beaten up, but still alive.
Following this, Max is involved with a large gunfight with the CS. Max enters the where Fabiana was beaten up, but finds no one. Max then goes to another building at the harbor, seeing Serrano taking Fabiana to his boat, in order to escape Max. Killing the men in there, Max finds the plans for attacking Club Moderno and a newspaper about Rodrigo and Fabiana. Max goes to the pier and kills the men who are there.
Max runs to the end of the pier, where he sees Serrano sails off with Fabiana. One of his men shoots at the fuel barrels there, destroying the place, but Max jumps and is saved by Passos, who arrives with his speed boat. As the two chase Serrano, many boats chase them, as well as foot soldiers who shoot at them from the docks. As the two get near Serrano's boat, their boat is crashed at a small building, and stops working, once again missing a chance to save Fabiana.
As Victor, Marcelo, and Passos, as well Armando Becker , leave Rodrigo's office, Rodrigo tells Max that he had many plans, as well saying that he may be just another idiotic rich man like his friends, as well stating that he knows that Fabiana married to him due to his fortune. Max replies that despite this, Rodrigo is a decent man. Rodrigo tries to lock down his office, but can't, as there is a problem in the system.
Max and the second man who was at the office, the IT Guy , fight their way to fix the system. Once they fix it, Max tells to Rodrigo to stay in the protected office. A few minutes later, Max returns to the office, where he finds a now-deceased Rodrigo, with a shot to the head.
Despite the fact that Rodrigo is dead,. Max decides that he will continue to search for Fabiana. As Max takes a bottle of alcohol, he notices a bomb, and rushes from the office, getting caught in the shockwave of the explosion, but survives.
He calls Victor and Marcelo, who thought that he was dead. Max tells them what happened, as well revealing Fabiana's current whereabouts. Inside the favela, a kid offers to help him find Fabiana. The kid leads Max to a street party, though Fabiana is not seen.
A few gangsters approach Max, stealing his phone, sunglasses, Desert Eagle and watch. After being robbed, Max finds himself at a strip club, where Wilson Da Silva , a detective whom he was never introduced to, offers him a beer. The detective tells Max that Fabiana is up the hill in the favela, and gives Max an M before leaving, as well saying that he will help Max if Max will help him.
Max is soon involved in a shootout in the club, after refusing to give up his gun. Max then escapes the club. Max starts a large shootout with many gang members, and fights his way to Fabiana's location. He enters a. Max continues his way to the hill, overhearing a talk between Marcelo and Serrano, as well seeing a bag of money, Giovanna, and a beaten Fabiana. Max storms the exchange after understanding that it did not go well.
His gun is taken, and Serrano aims his gun at Giovanna. Max yells at him not to kill her, leading Serrano to execute Fabiana, and before he can.
After the flashback, Max disarms the gangster that was meant to take care of him, and starts to look for Giovanna and Marcelo, fighting in the way large group of UFE soldiers, as well witnessing the group's brutality. Max rushes to save Marcelo, knocking out the soldier in the progress, but fails to save him. Rego then throws Giovanna from his side and draws his machete. Max is then able to block, disarm, kick at and kill Rego, escaping from the scene along with Giovanna.
A few moments later, Alvaro Neves arrives to the place to find Rego dead. Giovanna then translates that Neves blames Max for the death of Rego. A few hours later, Max and Giovanna leave the favela, and arrive at a more urban location of the city, where Giovanna finds a phone and calls Raul.
The two hide in a bus wreck at a bus graveyard, where Giovanna tells Max that she is pregnant with Raul's child, much to Max's shock. Giovanna hides from the gunfight, while Max kills the soldiers. As more soldiers arrive, Giovanna panics and runs behind some barrels as snipers attempt to kill her.
After killing the remaining soldiers, Max and Giovanna enter a factory building. Max jumps to the ground floor, while Giovanna finds no way down from the upper floor and stays there as Max kills the reinforcements.
Giovanna then runs on a small bridge from more soldiers, but is saved by Max. She then warns Max out about more soldiers. Giovanna finally finds a bottom to lower the stairs for Max, and the two reunite.
She is saved by Max, who guns down the mercenary. The two then escape in a bus which Giovanna drives while Max shoots at soldiers that chase them, much to Giovanna's shock, who never drove a bus.
After getting hit by another bus, they crash at a building. Luckily, Raul arrives via helicopter. Giovanna runs to him while Max stays to kill the remaining soldiers and then attempts to get on the helicopter, but to his shock, Raul flies off without him. After waiting at the warzone, Max is encountered by Wilson Da Silva , and Max drives off with him from the scene.
At a garage, Da Silva reveals many facts to Max, including Raul working for Victor, more about the job in Panama, and other things. Once in the hotel, Max finds a group of kidnapped civilians in a room, and releases them from captivity. One of the people he releases is Serrano, now a beaten and "pathetic" man. Max fights his way through the hotel until he finds a morgue inside the building, where he confronts Arthur Fischer , a doctor and one of the men behind the body harvesting.
Fischer begs for his life and offers money to Max. Serrano soon interferes and confronts the doctor for his crimes, ultimately killing him as Max leaves the scene. Max finds a bag full of C4 bombs, planting them on the walls of the hotel. After planting the bombs, Max confronts Neves at the top of the hotel, where he activates the bomb, causing the building to collapse. Max fends off Neves' men, but falls down as another explosion happens.
Neves then comes out and aims his handgun at Max, but is shot in the head by Raul, who arrived to save Max. Passos comes in to thank Max as well before leaving with Giovanna with his last words to Max is " Try to look after yourself Max, huh? Life is worth living. Da Silva knows that there is to much corruption involved in this problem for him to take them down legally, so he has Max do it, with a little help from Da Silva himself. After Max purposely gets himself caught by the UFE, he is able to knock out the guards that are interrogating him, while Da Silva is causing a prison riot which helps out Max a bit more.
I knew nothing resembling good times lay beyond that gate, but i was gonna have to face the music sooner or later. After Max kills Bachmeyer he uses his card to finally get to Becker. While Max tries to kill Becker by choking him to death Victor holds a gun to Max's head before admitting that he is the one behind the murderers. Before Victor manages to kill Max, he blocks out his gun a gives a brutal headbutt to Victor head before Becker tases Max allowing both men to escape Max and his angry rage by locking the door behind them.
Max assumes that they are going to leave the airport, thinking in his head that " rich people love to fly away". When Max and Da Silva go after Victor and Becker who happened to be at the airport, Da Silva goes to look for the Bronco plane by the hanger while Max fights his way through tons of the UFE members at the airport, then at the airport subway station when Max had to take a train to reach the hanger where he is ambushed by more of.
You can choose to kill Becker or spare him, but he will die from his wounds anyway. Becker's men. After a brutal train ride, Max reaches the hangar and sees Victor and Becker attempt to leave on a private jet. Don't have an account? Sign up for free! What do you need help on? Cancel X. Topic Archived. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts.
Boards Max Payne 3 How old is Max? Of course, celebrating a sequel is never as fun as celebrating the original, and Max Payne remains a landmark game. Also, props to Sam Lake, who clearly has a sense of humour, and seems to still fit inside a jacket he wore twenty years ago. No mean feat. Final Fantasy V's pixel remaster is out now. We should see more of Bethesda's Starfield next summer. If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission.
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