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Max Payne 2 Gone Gold
Natoi writes "Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne has gone gold and will be shipping to stores on the 15th of October in the States and on the 24th in Europe. Max Payne 2 is developed by Finnish Remedy Entertainment, which sold the rights to the Max Payne name to Rockstar Games after the first game in the series a little over two years ago." Playstation 2 and XBox versions are slated for an early December release as well.
Great. Another use of that ludicrous invention of Hollywood: The Ass-Kicking Chick. Screenshot Notice how the lady obviously does not have the upper body strength required to even hold up the weapon. These aren't women, they are nothing like women, and it's only sexy if you have never held a conversation with a real woman. Of course, I suppose that the Chip makes American women unattractive enough as is. Maybe some guys find these girls to be an improvement. Anyway, the silliest aspect of the whole mess is that it makes our culture inclined towards idiocy like women in combat.
Oh ya, I thought the whole story about Max being a battery for a super computer and he gained self awareness was SO the Matrix!
And when Max flew off the Empire State Building into the sky at the end...that was SO lame!!
Oh wait...Max Payne was a mob game, no sci-fi what-so-ever...I guess super slow motion is a total rip off of the Matrix in every way that TV commercials and a few dozen other movies where trying to "be like the Matrix" with slow motion action...
Guess we can sue Etienne Jules Marey for making a camera that took 700 pictures a second in 1894...damn copy cats!!
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
if i know anything about the background the makers of the game come from.. it was dark humour most likely(as such noir detective stories usually are, the genre is NOT hard boiled beneath the surface by any means but filled with cliches that actually have to be there for it to be what it is).
as for what made the game fun? shooting people, plain and simple, the engine made 'movie like' shooting of people easy and fun.
now, that might just as well have been it's biggest shortcoming, as the game wasn't that long at all and basically you only shot people and there were around one or two places where you had to actually think a bit on how to proceed to shoot those mafiosos.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Notice how the lady obviously does not have the upper body strength required to even hold up the weapon
:)
A fully-loaded M-16A2 with undermounted grenade launcher weighs a total of about twelve pounds. My mother could carry that today, and she's not exactly young.
A Barrett M82A1--which is a big honkin' piece of hardware (click here)--weighs about thirty pounds. So as a rough guess, I'd say the hardware she's carrying there in the screenshot (a rifle I can't place, although it looks vaguely Dragunovish, which would make it nine and a half pounds fully loaded) weighs no more than twelve pounds.
So either you don't know jack about women, if you think they can't carry a twelve-pound weapon, or you don't know jack about firearms. Take your pick which.
(Up until her 50th birthday, my mother could beat me in skeet shooting. Her preferred rig was a twelve-gauge firing three-inch magnum rounds. So please don't tell me "real women can't handle hardware like that." Real women, especially real women who come from Alabama and grow up hunting and fishing with their fathers, most definitely do handle hardware like that.)
They sold the Max Payne IP to Rockstar Games after the first game for (if I recall correctly) 15 million USD. Rockstar obviously has big plans for the name (and game), as there is also a movie production rumored. Remedy just made the deal with them to develop the sequel, otherwise they're not connected to Max Payne anymore.