I haven’t had as much fun playing a game for as long time as this one. However they make it a point to never overdo the style which was a great thing to see here. Flashbacks and visions keep popping up from time to time giving you interesting and thought-provoking looks into Payne psyche which also happens to be a major contributing factor in making the gameplay and experience engrossing. Beginning with a flashback and then proceeding to the real-time events. That is exactly the way Max Payne 2 proceeds. The three components are mixed and presented as a seamless chain of events. The narrative builds up through a series of cut scenes, comic book panels and the gameplay. Max Payne’s forte was its engrossing narrative, terrific visual style and breathtaking presentation. His search takes him through some visually stunning topographies to the wolf’s lair where an old acquaintance is waiting for his return. Max is now left to uncover the mystery surrounding the cleaners and Mona’s part in the tale. While she is being interrogated, the cleaners attack the Police Station and Mona escapes. She is however captured and brought back to the station even tough Max is not convinced that she is guilty. Following her, Max lands up in a lot of typical gun fights which are just beautiful. Mona, as you might remember was presumed dead after the first game. His investigation takes him to a place where he meets Mona Sax under strange circumstances. Max Payne has been reinstated to his position in NYPD and is tasked with looking into certain murders involving a gang of killers who are dressed as cleaners. The story starts two years after the events of the first game. While Max Payne was very much similar to what you have here, my love for the game is banked mostly on the factor that it takes everything that I loved about the first game and amps it up two times. The film noir genre which was made popular by such great films like Chinatown, Touch of Evil and Double Indemnity is brought refreshingly to life on the platform of computer softwares by this series. When you are playing the game, you tend to forget that you are actually accessing a software. It is for me one of the perfect mergers of technology and art ever created in recent times.
I have memorized almost every move and every enemy position and what not and yet I just love playing it. Max Payne 2 has been for years a game that I have played atleast once year and yet I still keep getting back to it.
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