shooter

WARNING: game contains foul language, sexual situations and extreme violence. This is not for kids!

Max Payne, returns in this awesome sequel. This game picks up where the first one left off. Max Payne falls in love with a beautiful assassin, named Mona. They both become targets of a contract hit. They start getting answers step by step. This game has the same excellent quality as the first Max Payne, but they also refined the gameplay by; improving the ragdoll physics, adding more interactive environments, better A.I., improving bullet-time, adding more speech and lots of levels. Max Payne is a tragic story, yet beautiful and peotic, with a stylish noir feel to it. If you like shooters, with an excellent story; Max Payne 2 gives you both.

Pros:
+intese gun fights
+excellent controls
+excellent graphics
+excellent music
+excellent sound effects
+excellent voice-acting
+excellent story
+ragdoll physics improved
+bullet-time improved
+improved A.I.
+dream sequences improved
+fast loading on XBOX

Cons:
-wish it was longer
-single player game

Another masterpiece for the XBOX.

This is a tremendously underrated game. I received it as a gift -- I'm not sure I would have purchased it if left to my own devices. I would have missed out on one of the most engrossing and coolest video games I've ever played.

Everyone seems to be into the non-linear games and "hundreds of hours", etc., etc., but what games of that nature lack is plot. There's a lot to be said for a good story, with good characters, and most games don't offer that these days. Max Payne 2 plays (and reads) like a very dark graphic novel, with an excellent cast and some cool turns in the plot. It's a movielike experience, with some weight to the emotions evoked -- grief, remorse, anger/revenge, love, and the confusion that results when that love isn't with whom you expect, and with someone you're unable to trust. It also incorporates some very cool, one might even say "trippy" nightmare scenes.

On top of all that, the game not only provides a welcome break from all those 1st person shooters (you play in the 3rd person), but it includes its vaunted matrix-like "bullet-time" to great advantage. Simply one of the coolest games I've ever played. I'd say it took me about 12 hours to complete it, and I liked the game so much, I did it in two days! Beating the game also unlocks other play modes, so I imagine I'll be wading back in...

I bought both Max Paynes and enjoyed them both. Max Payne 2 was great. The only draw back was that it was short but that only irritated me because I was enjoying the story and twists so much. If you enjoy games that actually have a plot then this is one for you. This is one of the best games I have bought up to date.