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Max Payne
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Max Payne is a single-player shooter and action game developed by Remedy Entertainment. The title was released in 2001, with specific publication dates recorded as July 25, 2001, July 27, 2001, December 6, 2001, and January 11, 2002. It operates on the MAX-FX engine and is part of the Max Payne franchise. The game is rated Mature by the ESRB.
The software version identifier is 1.05. Max Payne has been released on multiple platforms, including PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360, Classic Macintosh, and Android. Critical reception included a Metacritic score of 89 and a review score of 89/100. Other ratings include 4.45, 86, and a critic rating of 74.
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Game data
Metacritic 89- Released
- 2001-07-25
- User rating
- 4.45 / 5
- Genres
- Shooter, Action
- Platforms
- PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Classic Macintosh
- ESRB
- Mature
via RAWG
Game details · IGDB
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Max Payne is a relentless story-driven game about a man on the edge, fighting to clear his name while struggling to uncover the truth about his slain family amongst a myriad of plot-twists and twisted thugs in the gritty bowels of New York during the century's worst blizzard. The groundbreaking original cinematic action-shooter, Max Payne introduced the concept…
- Released
- 2001
- Genres
- Shooter
- Platforms
- Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 2
- Game modes
- Single player
- Engine
- MAX-FX
- Franchise
- Max Payne
- Developer
- Remedy Entertainment
- Publisher
- Gathering of Developers, MacSoft Games, 3D Realms, Rockstar Games, Feral Interactive
Key facts
- Developer
- Remedy Entertainment
- Publishers
- Gathering of Developers (Windows) Rockstar Games
- Director
- Petri Järvilehto
- Producers
- George Broussard Scott Miller
- Programmer
- Markus Stein
- Writer
- Sam Lake
- Composers
- Kärtsy Hatakka Kimmo Kajasto
- Series
- Max Payne
- Platforms
- Windows PlayStation 2 Xbox Mac OS X Game Boy Advance iOS Android
- Release
- 25 July 2001 Windows NA / EU : 25 July 2001 PlayStation 2 NA : 11 December 2001 EU : 11 January 2002 Xbox NA : 18 December 2001 EU : 14 March 2002 Mac OS X WW : 16 July 2002 Game Boy Advance NA : 16 December 2003 EU : 19 March 2004 iOS WW : 12 April 2012 Android WW : 14 June 2012
- Genre
- Third-person shooter
- Mode
- Single-player
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Has part
- bullet time
- Publisher
- Take-Two Interactive
- Series
- Max Payne
- Followed by
- Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
- Collection
- The Finnish Museum of Games
- Screenwriter
- Sam Lake
- Cast member
- Julia Murney
- Producer
- Scott Miller
- Developer
- Grove Street Games
- Platform
- Game Boy Advance
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Official website
- www.rockstargames.com/games/maxpayne
Show 12 more facts
- operating system
- Android
- Commons category
- Max Payne
- publication date
- 2008-01-04
- software version identifier
- 1.05
- input device
- computer mouse
- derivative work
- Max Payne
- distributed by
- App Store
- different from
- Max Payne
- language of work or name
- Brazilian Portuguese
- review score
- 89/100
- influenced by
- hardboiled
- title
- Max Payne
Sources (14)
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Encyclopedic overview
Max Payne is a 2001 third-person shooter game developed by Remedy Entertainment. It was originally released for Windows by Gathering of Developers in July 2001. The game centers on former New York City Police Department (NYPD) detective Max Payne, who attempts to solve the murder of his family while investigating a mysterious new designer drug called "Valkyr". While doing so, Max becomes entangled in a large and complex conspiracy involving a major pharmaceutical company, organized crime, a secret society, and the United States Armed Forces. The game features a gritty neo-noir style and uses graphic novel panels with voice-overs as its primary means of storytelling, drawing inspiration from hard-boiled detective novels by authors like Mickey Spillane. It contains many allusions to Norse mythology, particularly the myth of Ragnarök and several names. The gameplay is heavily influenced by the Hong Kong action cinema genre, particularly the work of director John Woo, and it was one of the first games to feature the bullet time effect popularized by The Matrix (1999).
Max Payne was ported by Rockstar Canada to the PlayStation 2 and by Neo Software to Xbox in December 2001. The Mac OS X version was developed by Westlake Interactive and published in July 2002 by MacSoft in North America and by Feral Interactive in other regions. A version of the game for the Game Boy Advance, featuring an isometric perspective but retaining most of the original's gameplay elements, was developed by Möbius Entertainment and published by Rockstar Games in December 2003. An enhanced port for mobile devices was developed by War Drum Studios and published by Rockstar in 2012 to coincide with the release of Rockstar's Max Payne 3. A Dreamcast version of the game was also planned, but it was canceled due to the discontinuation of the console in 2001. Max Payne was released for the Xbox 360 in 2009 as part of the Xbox Originals program, the PlayStation 3 as a PlayStation 2 Classic in 2012, the PlayStation 4 in 2016, and the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in 2021, due to the consoles' backward compatibility and emulation features.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Max Payne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.