Morry
07-26-2006, 01:50 AM
That's right. Five years ago, gamers around the world were treated to one of the finest video games to ever grace our screens - Max Payne.
Three years back a young NYPD cop, Max Payne, came home one night to find his family senselessly slaughtered by a gang of drug-crazed junkies, high on a previously unknown synthetic drug. Now that same drug, Valkyr, has spread through the whole New York City like a nightmare plague, and Max Payne's on a crusade for revenge, out to get even. To Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, this new drug was evil incarnate, to be stopped at any cost. Max's boss and best friend, the only one who knew his true identity, has been murdered, and Max's been framed for the slaying. Everything ripped apart in a New York minute... Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, and now hunted by cops and the mob. Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for a new breed of deep action game.
I remember the first time I played Max Payne, on a struggling setup that crashed every 10-15 minutes. But the game was so good that I could not resist playing the game, despite it running so slow that you could tell when the AI of an NPC turned off, creating a still corpse.
Thanks for the memories, Remedy, I recall it as some of my favourite experiences in all my years of gaming.
View 3D Realms' proper congrats here (http://www.3drealms.com/news/2006/07/happy_birthday_max_payne.html)
Three years back a young NYPD cop, Max Payne, came home one night to find his family senselessly slaughtered by a gang of drug-crazed junkies, high on a previously unknown synthetic drug. Now that same drug, Valkyr, has spread through the whole New York City like a nightmare plague, and Max Payne's on a crusade for revenge, out to get even. To Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, this new drug was evil incarnate, to be stopped at any cost. Max's boss and best friend, the only one who knew his true identity, has been murdered, and Max's been framed for the slaying. Everything ripped apart in a New York minute... Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, and now hunted by cops and the mob. Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for a new breed of deep action game.
I remember the first time I played Max Payne, on a struggling setup that crashed every 10-15 minutes. But the game was so good that I could not resist playing the game, despite it running so slow that you could tell when the AI of an NPC turned off, creating a still corpse.
Thanks for the memories, Remedy, I recall it as some of my favourite experiences in all my years of gaming.
View 3D Realms' proper congrats here (http://www.3drealms.com/news/2006/07/happy_birthday_max_payne.html)