His journey into the night continues as Max Payne returns to his old job with the NYPD, and finds that old friends have turned to new enemies and old enemies to new friends, while at the same time, falling for a woman that he knows he should not. The brooding cop has left the DEA and returned to the NYPD. When his latest case ends up involving the thought-dead femme fatale Mona Sax, he finds that his journey through the night is far from over. Max Payne 2: The Fall Of Max Payne is a great example of gaming as an art form! With an amazing and well written plot by Sam Lake, top notch voice acting, and amazing action, it almost feels like your playing through a movie.<br/><br/>The game play isn't revolutionary, but is defiantly well done. A classic shoot them up with a nice bullet time twist. The amazing graphics make the action more realistic, and the rag doll physics make every death you cause on your raging rampage of revenge amazing. The story furthers the game play, and makes you want to make max survive every single gun fight to make it through to the end.<br/><br/>On to the plot, which may be one of the best in any video game. The story continues from the original max Payne, Alferd Wolden kept his promise and made max's record go away. So Max continues on with his life with no family, a broken heart, an unfathomable amount of guilt, and an alchool problem. Hes alone, with no one to turn to so he just keeps going with his eyes on the road, and not at the roadkill behind him. He quits the DA and goes back to good old fashioned detective work, he receives a police call of shootings at Vladamir Lems warehouse. There he witness a few thugs murder Lems girlfriend, and whilst in pursuit of the criminals finds Mona Sax, who was assumed dead in Max Payne very much alive, and kicking so to speak. With a few twists and turns afterward (really don't want to ruin the plot) Max ends up falling for Mona, and is framed for the murder of several police officers, on the run and with nothing to lose he goes to find Mona, and to reveal the mystery of who framed him, this eventually leads him to a construction site where we realize just what max will go through for love, and to find the truth. I loved this story and the writing is amazing the metaphors are beautiful and poigent.On Woldens manor door there's a plaque that read Omnia Vincit Amor, Latin for Love Defeats all, and thats quite simply what Max Payne 2 teaches us. The saga continues.Even you're a hard person to find things good in later comers,you'll find all the things you loved in first one.Dark atmosphere,action with 'bullet-time' quality,high-level graphics…And in this one our guy is not alone;if you're looking for a femme-fatale keeping secrets,mysteries,it's Mona Sax what you need.A story with lies,deceptions.A man trying to find the ground from his eternal fall.That's what we call Max Payne genre.<br/><br/> The newest thing about the game is the change in the face of Max Payne.Deadsure this new look is better.The new holds all the sorrow,and fatigue which the years gifted to him.And besides Max Payne,Mona Sax's join gives game a new level.We can into the thoughts of her by the dialogs,the oil-printed screens between chapters.And in some chapters we are playing Mona Sax character besides Max Payne.That's another reason that when everything comes up to a conclusion in the end,we feel the loss,the pain in our hearts better.We exactly live the feelings these two characters live.<br/><br/> The screenplay is more complicated.The bad men,the conspiracies,the things tricky.We don't kill the men just because game wants,we don't go with the flow;we are aware all the going on.This is the success of the screenplay and the videos between the chapters to keep us in the same direction as the game is on the wheel.Also in some chapters we play in the events which happened during the chapter we played before.These are some of the developments about the cinematic and storytelling side of the second game.<br/><br/> There are two things I'd like to tell.First one;this one is not just a game to continue the series.It is connected with the first game both in story and character side.And it feels like it will go on.The second thing is the song playing in the end:Late Goodbye by Poets Of The Fall.Only the ones who play this game can understand how it makes you feel.<br/><br/> So play this game and see how it plays with the ides about 'falling' in your mind.Ask yourself:Is there anything he didn't lose as he lives in his eternal fall? and will ever be ground for him to reach?
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