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.

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Once a troll... (actually serious post)

[jvmatthe]

Last time I brought up how mind-numbingly weak Max Payne was, I got flamed. So I'll ask this time, just for fun. :^)

Was Max Payne's story, with hammy voice acting and so forth, a joke or serious? That is, did they think they were making a work of serious fiction or were they trying to spoof the hard-boiled detective "noir" genre?

I never found a story or interview indicating that it was meant to be parody/satire, but I could have missed it. So I took it as an attempt to be serious, one that was painful to watch. Others saw it as intentionally bad for humourous effect.

So, anyone have hard evidence one way or the other?

Anyway, here's hoping MP2 is somehow better. I didn't realize it was coming out on the PS2, so I guess I'll have a chance to rent it to see it for myself. (Previous curmudgeoning of Max Payne here and here for the morbidly curious.)

Re:It _is_ a Dragunov.

[bigman2003]

Watch a woman who is holding a baby- she'll hold that thing forever.

Give a guy a bag of sand that weighs that same...he'll start complaining in 2 minutes.

Of course the kid looks uncomfortable as hell, being bounced, smothered, etc...but it ain't gonna hit the floor!