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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Whatever happened to the Maxx Payne lawsuit?

[lightspawn]

For the goldfish-memoried among you, here is the original slashdot article.

Was the lawsuit dismissed? Was it settled? Did Rockstar arrange for the candle truck to pay Mr. Payne a visit?

Re:Whatever happened to the Maxx Payne lawsuit?

[bigman2003]

The lawsuit was not dismissed- it was settled. I believe there was a payment of 1/1 speaker bracelets.

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:Once a troll... (actually serious post)

[gl4ss]

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.

Re:Once a troll... (actually serious post)

[simoniker]

I always took it as a Finnish-constructed take on American film noir, which would necessarily get a little, uhm, skewed in execution. Whether this is a good thing or not is, naturally, open to argument - I think GTA has about the right balance of (slight) stereotyping and cheesiness without going overboard, so let's hope Rockstar do similar with Max Payne now they're in charge of the sequel.

No way.

[rjh]

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.)

Re:No way.

[_Sexy_Pants_]

Dude, your mom sounds kinda scary

Re:It _is_ a Dragunov.

[wickedj]

"Dunno about you, but all the real women I know can carry nine and a half pound weapons without any problem."

Yeah, it's called a purse and its deadly.

(no offense to the ladies out there)

Take2

[new_confused_mind]

Max Payne IP was sold to Take2 and not to Rockstar, which is just another Take2 'division'. From the linked page:

Take-Two also announced that it has acquired ownership of the Max Payne brand and all intellectual property rights associated with the brand, including trademarks, copyrights, characters, perpetual license to utilize proprietary technologies, including the Max Payne game engine and associated "Bullet Time(TM)" technology, and rights to license fees from ancillary Max Payne brand extensions such as cinema, television and literary productions.

Take-Two purchased the Max Payne property from Remedy Entertainment and Apogee Software in exchange for $10 million in cash and 969,932 shares of restricted common stock, in addition to certain future development incentives.

Let's get things straight please.

I'm confused

[skinnedmink]

Wait, you mean a game made it's release date?

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!

Re:Ass-kicking women

[bigman2003]

Umm..looks like Courtney Cox to me.

Just the thought of her opening her mouth, bitching and whining, would send me running. She don't need no stinking gun...