Max Payne (video game)
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| Distributor(s) | Take-Two Interactive |
| Producer(s) |
George Broussard Scott Miller |
| Designer(s) | Petri Järvilehto |
| Artist(s) | Sami Vanhatalo |
| Writer(s) | Sam Lake |
| Composer(s) |
Kärtsy Hatakka Kimmo Kajasto |
| Series | Max Payne |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox, OS X, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Android |
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Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 2
Xbox
OS X
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| Genre(s) | Third-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Metacritic | (PC) 89/100 (Xbox) 89/100 (PS2) 80/100 (GBA) 78/100 |
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| GameSpot | 9.2/10 |
| GameZone | 9.2/10 |
| IGN | 9.5/10 |
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| Publication | Award |
| BAFTA | Best PC Game of 2001 |
| IGN | Readers Choice Action Game of the Year, 2001 Readers' Choice Best Story, Best Graphics, Best Sound |
| GameSpot | Best of E3 2000, The Top Games of E3 2001, Readers' Choice Game of 2001, Readers' Choice Single-Player Action Game of 2001, two 2001 Game of the Year nominations |
Max Payne is a third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Gathering of Developers in July 2001 for Microsoft Windows. Ports created later in the year for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and the Game Boy Advance were published by Rockstar Games. A Mac OS port was published on 16 July 2002 by MacSoft in North America and Feral Interactive in the rest of the world. There were plans for a Dreamcast version of Max Payne, but they were canceled due to the discontinuation of the console. The game was re-released on 27 April 2009 as a downloadable game in the Xbox Originals program for the Xbox 360. The game was also re-released in the spring of 2012 as a downloadable game in the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation 3 under the PS2 classics banner, iOS, Android, and in April 2016 for the PlayStation 4 as a downloadable game in the PlayStation Store.
The game centers on NYPD Detective Max Payne, who attempts to avenge the murder of his family. It features a gritty neo-noir style and uses graphic novel panels (with voice-overs) in place of animated cutscenes to narrate the game, as it draws inspiration from hard-boiled detective novels by authors like Mickey Spillane. The game contains many allusions to Norse mythology, particularly the myth of Ragnarök, and several of the names used in the game are those of the Norse gods and mythos. The gameplay is heavily influenced by the Hong Kong action cinema genre, particularly the work of director John Woo, and it was one of the first games to feature the bullet time effect popularized by The Matrix.
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