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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.

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

Not as great as it sounds.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Max Payne is not a great game. It's all shooting, no fighting or dirving at all. Its story is so werid and freaked out that I can't understand it at all. I expected better from Rockstar.

Don't blink........

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Plain and simple this game is just too short. I figured I could get my $55 of satisfaction by playing this game 2-3 hours a day for the next couple of weeks, at least. Well, 3 days, and approximately 9 hours of game play later, the game was over. These additional chapters to the original story line should have just been made available on XBOX live for download. Do yourself a favor and just rent it over a weekend. You'll beat the game and save yourself money.

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.

Good game. Too short, too little freedom.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Nice graphics on Xbox. Strictly scripted--interesting plot--but very little freedom of choice. Basically, I played through the game without stopping, watched all the cutscenes and everything, and the game didn't even take ten hours. Maybe like six. No puzzles. Minor exploration. Lots of gunning down dudes. Cute plot points, lots of film refs (I esp. liked the running parallelism between Max's story and an in-game TV show called "Address Unknown"...a dead ringer for Twin Peaks.). The girl is hot. The guns blaze. It's a cool game, but way, waaaay too brief. Glad I rented it.

Look for the secret room in Part One, Chapter Seven. "In Memoriam, Miika Forssell." Very cool.

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.

Well, they are successfully mimicking Hollywood...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

...by producing dull paint-by-numbers sequels. The original Max Payne was inventive (with its bullet-time interludes and playable nightmare sequences) and moody (pulp comic storytelling and Noir York backdrops), and held my attention despite some pretty serious gameplay and difficulty balance flaws. Unfortunately Max Payne 2 has retained the flaws and added nothing new to the experience.

MP2 is still too easy with Bullet Time assistance, far too many health and ammo powerups, and an overall simple level of play. I'm just an average shooter player, but I breezed through it in a few hours. And maybe due to less inspired level structure than the first (warehouses...ughh), it felt shorter. The complex time-warped romance of MP2 is disorienting and silly, and by the halfway point I had been jerked around by so many false flashbacks and faked death scenes that I really couldn't care less if Mona lived or died.

Yes, the graphics are nice and the storyboarding and character expressions are more realistic, but it will take more depth and innovation to hold my interest in the Max Payne series.

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.

Good game, but shadow of former self!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Max Payne 2 had all the great aspects the first Max payne had, but fell through when it was time to deliver. If you played the first Max Payne then chances are you will buy this game hands down, possibly for story reasons. However Max Payne 2 does not live up to its former self. With only about 12 hours of gameplay it is possible to sit down and finish the game in one sitting. Before long you will be engrosed with the so-so plot and end up just wanting to beat the next level to see how everything plays out, but when the game comes to a sudden stop, you will find yourself asking "Thats It?" Max 2 still has the great action elements that made the first one such a hit, and with unlockable difficulties you may find yourself playing through this game more then once. Nothing new is added (sadly), so if you liked the first Max you will probably love this one, but there is not enough change to sway new players into buying this game!

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