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metal gear sloid 2(sons of liberty) ps2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 66
Date: October 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

if you like spy games you will like mgs2, it has a interactive storyline and alot of movies , snake is at it again and he has to infiltrate a tanker photograph the new metal gear and get out before being spotted ....end of story right???? a new player comes in where snake left off.... say hello to raiden, you gotta save the president disarm c4 and go against metal gears and basically save the world i give it a mike rating of 5-out of 5

max payne 2 is kick ass but the first was better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 17
Date: October 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

well i thought this game was pretty fun and it looked great on my computer it really put my ati radeon pro graphics card to the test. It was fun and there was alot of hard core action and the story was put together well my only complaint was that this game gets hard really fast like after the first 15 minutes also the sory is more like a corny love movie with action if you havent played the first one you should it is better than number two.

MAX PAYNE 2 is great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well all I could say It was fun. It was easier then the first one but then again I did put easy never now what I might get my self into if I put normal or hard it was a fun game has the movie sence to it. Its a real fun shooter if you liked the first one youll love this one

Good game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Max payne 2 is a good game but not a great game let me tell you why. There are only three drawbacks in this game that bother me, first off the bullet time is differant and not in a good way. When you go in to bullit time the color of the screen goes to a drab kind of yellow and the slow motion is not very slow unlike the first game where it was very slow and it felt much more matrix like, second the game is much easyer than the first and is also shorter, and third there is a bullet hole glitch in the game that will let you blast holes in some rooms and not in others? All in all it is a good game but I recomend the first game It's much better.

Short, Sweet, and Brillant

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Amazing Game! I thought it was very bold to spin a love story in a shooter but it works. The graphics are WAY improved in Payne 2 and the plot is cool film noir. The developers have added sniper missions and escort missions for variety. Yes the game is short BUT I haven't enjoyed a game this much in a long long time. By the way you get to play as mona!

RIVETING ,ABSOLUTE STUNNING GRAPHICS AND STORY

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

MAX PAYNE 2 THE FALL OF MAX PANYNE ,NOIR LOVE STORY.
THATS RIGHT EVERYONE THATS THE TITLE YOU WILL BE SEEING ASKED FOR MORE THEN ANY OTHER TITLE THIS UPCOMING YEAR.THERE ISNT EVEN ANY BARKS OR COMPLAINTS IN THIS GAME ITS A PERFECT MASTERPIECE I PLAYED I THINK SOMETHING LIKE 4 HOURS MY FIRST RUN AT IT AND IT SEEMED LIKE 20 MINUTES WENT BY ITS THAT GOOD I FINISHED IT IN UNDER 8 HOURS SO IT PROBABLY COULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE LONGER BUT HEY DONT MESS WITH A WORK OF ART. BY THIS TIME AROUND EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT BULLET TIME AND ITS JUST AS GOOD AS THE FIRST AND LETS ADD SHOOTDODGEING INTO PLAY A NEW MOVE DESIGNED TO HELP JUMP AND SHOOT IN A DIFFERNT BWAY OF BULLET TIME.ALSO THE STORY IS COMPLETE AND SHOULD BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ANYTIME SOON MONA IS MAX,S PARTNER IN CRIME AND SHE IS A CROSS BETWEEN LARA CROFT AND BUFFY THE LOOKS THAT KILL AND THE MOVES THAT KILL.JUST AS BEFORE THE CINEMA SEQUENCE IS AWESOME PUTS YOU RIGHT IN THE STORY FOR REAL AND EASY TO FOLLOW AS WELL .BRING IN THE BAD GUYS OHHH YA PLENTY OF THEM WITH TONS OF COOL WEAPONS TO PICK UP AFTER THERE DEAD CORPSES LAY BENEATH.AUTOMATIC RELOAD COOL OPTION YOU CAN ALSO MANUALY RELOAD WHITCH I RECCOMEND BETWEEN FIGHT SCENES.THE DIALOUGE IS AWESOME AND VERY FUNNY AT TIMES BE SURE TO GO SLOW AND PICK UP ON ALL THE CRIME LINGO AS IT WILL HELP GUIDE THRU GAME.THE ONLY WAY TO PLAY IN THE BEGINNG IS DETECTIVE MODE WHITCH LIKE THE FIRST PAYNE GAME YOU CAN SAVE WHENEVER AND AS MUCH AS YOU DESIRE SO THAT ALONE HELPS.ALL IN ALL PERFECT GAME MY CHOICE THUS FAR FOR GAME OF THE YEAR.

Max Payne playing it ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: December 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Max Payne 2 is very similar to the first one. Unfortunately, if the first game was an ok game years ago, the new Max Payne just doesn't hold up anymore. In the last years, there were a lot of advancements made in terms of gameplay and graphics. MP2 just doesn't care about those. To call the graphics horrible is an understatement. Everything is blocky and there are only two colors in this game: dark grey and dark brown. The textures look so bad, you'd think this is a Playstation 1 game.
The story is told in cutscenes, but other than that, you're left with mindless shooting. Level design is similar with first game - very linear, follow one path, don't think too much and kill everybody. It's a simplistic approach that worked 10 years ago in all FPS, but now we evolved from that, didn't we?! Bullet time was great in the original, but so many games have done it better meanwhile, while MP2 keeps it the same. And hey, if the graphics would be good, maybe you'd care about it a bit (see Enter the Matrix, another bad game which at least had better graphics).
MP2 is also a pain to play. While the controls are similar to Halo's, the speed of moving the target particle is not. It moves too fast and because of that, the developers had to use an auto-aim feature. The auto-aim is not like in Halo though - you will kill enemies even if you hardly shoot in the right direction. This ruins the game as a shooter as well.
Overall, i would not recommend renting or buying this game. We have to give a clear signal to those developers. Tell them that if we spend money on their product they better make something that it's not stuck in the eighties. And if they don't know how, look at Bioware, Bethesda, Bungie, UbiSoft Montreal and others.

It was way to short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OK< I played both Max Payne 1 and 2, and my opinion is that 1 is alot better then 2 due to the fact that it was harder and longer.... I did like 2 don't get me wrong but that game is way to short.... I like it what I was Mona for a few times, that was good, and different.... That graphics were good, I'd say better then the first.... I did like the story line, even though it was a love story what I call a chick flick.... But it all comes down to this, it only took me 2 days to clear it, and it was way to easy, I think my friend who never cleared a game yet, would clear this. All and all I give it a 3 star rating, just for the fact that it is a short game play and way to easy.

Great Sequel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was a little nervous about purchasing this game considering some of the complaints I've heard. Fortunately I found none of the complaints to be true and ended up loving this game more than the origional. The main knock that I heard was that the game was too short. Rather I found myself satisfied with the game length. It was neither too short, yet the story wasn't drug out to annoying lengths.

The graphics look great and I was impressed with your ability to interact with the environment. Most objects are movable and after a heavy gun battle, the room looks like you'd expect it. Blood on the walls, bullet holes everywhere, chairs and bottles knocked over. Graphically I noticed very few glitches...maybe 3 throughout the entire game.

The graphic novel style is still here and some people found that a bit annoying. This unique way of storytelling was used in the origional to save money and evidently it worked well enough that they've decided to stick with it. My only problem with it is that sometimes this slows the game down. It's nice to have a little breather after a difficult level and watch as the story advances, but sometimes the break was way too long. The story can get a little cheesy, but this is something I've come to expect from Max Payne.

One thing I noticed is that the weapon selection is exactly the same as the first one. While there are quite a few guns to choose from, there could have been a few additions just to keep things interesting.

Overall this is a great sequel and well worth the money, especially if you enjoyed the first game.

Why doesn't Rockstar update with the times?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: December 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The graphic quality has improved since the first one but that is not saying much. My least favorite part of the whole graphic quality of the game is, anytime you see a car, the windshield is not glass, instead it is a hard blue concrete. Also Payne's cutscenes in Graphic Novels is neat, but he talks in riddles the whole damn time! This is annoying. Gun battles are still fun, collision detection is still horrible. This could most likely be called Max Payne 1.5

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