Max Payne 2 is a third-person shooter, in which the player assumes the role of Max Payne, but also plays as Mona Sax in a few levels. Initially, the player’s weapon is a 9mm pistol. As they progress, players access other weapons including other handguns, shotguns, submachine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, and hand-thrown weapons. To move the game along, the player is told what the next objective is through Max’s internal monologue, in which Max iterates what his next steps should be.
In Max Payne 2, the player controls Max Payne, a former DEA agent for the NYPD and a fugitive framed for murder of his best friend and fellow cop Alex. Two years after the events of the first game, Max has cleared his name and is now an NYPD detective. He reunites with Mona Sax, whom he met in the previous game, as they set out to resolve a conspiracy of death and betrayal, finding the Inner Circle in the center of it all.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | 1 Ghz PIII/Athlon or 1.2 Ghz Celeron/Duron processor | 1.4 Ghz Athlon or 1.7 Ghz Pentium 4, Celeron or Duron processor |
| CPU SPEED | 1 Ghz PIII/Athlon or 1.2 Ghz Celeron/Duron processor | 1.4 Ghz Athlon or 1.7 Ghz Pentium 4, Celeron or Duron processor |
| VRAM | 64 MB | |
| RAM | 256 MB | 512 MB RAM |
| OS | Windows 98/ME/2000/XP | Windows 98/ME/2000/XP |
| Graphics Card | 32 MB AGP graphics card with hardware transform & lighting support | 64 MB DirectX 9 compatible AGP graphics card with hardware T&L support |
| Direct X | DirectX 9.0 | DX 9 |
| SOUND CARD | Yes | Yes |
| HDD Space | 1.5 GB | 1.5 GB |
| Game Analysis | In 2001, Max Payne arrived to set the benchmark for action gaming, earning countless awards and revolutionizing the genre with cinematic combat sequences fuelled by the groundbreaking use of slow motion and compulsive narrative-driven gameplay. Now, working together with Rockstar Games' New York-based production team, Remedy has combined Max Payne's hallmark gameplay with all new innovations and unmatched production values. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne has raised the bar for action games all over again. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Note | Keyboard and Mouse | |
| Optimization Score | 9.2 | |
+ Great story.
+ Slow motion.
- Too much shooting.
I enjoyed Max Payne 2 like I was watching the season 2 of a TV series: One episode leading to another. The protagonist is a cop that lost his wife and son, then is framed and hunted as a murderer. Anyone who experienced the pain of loving and losing can identify with this. He tries to keep his sanity and kill the demons inside his head. This time, he is not in it for vengeance. Now it’s for “love”, but ultimately to find his “true self”.
Conclusion: To me it was not an action game with casual narrative moments, but a narrative with casual action moments.