Max Payne (Mac)

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $9.94

Features:

• Max Payne is an original third-person 3D game based on the MAX-FX engine, and uses photo-digitiz
• Story is the bedrock of Max Payne
• Game play never looked this real, nor frightening! Auto-adjusting game play
• Painstaking attention to detail, bullets are even modeled accurately resulting in realistic and
• Everything is destructible, and comes

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	ATI 100-435317 Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition for G5 256MB AGP Video Card

Customer Reviews:

Heck Yeah! [Posted on 2003-01-25]
Even though I have the PC version of Max Payne, this game rocks! if there are any Mac Users reading this, and they do not have Max Payne yet, why not? go get it! The game came out in 2001, and I am still hooked! I have not played any other games that can top this. I can't wait for the sequel, which is suppose to be out sometime at the end of this year. Don't know if they are making it for Mac users. Oh one last thing, A word to parents-if you are worried about this game being too violent for your son/daughter, it really isn't. There are other games that are worse than this one. Yes, it's a shoot em up game, In the prefrences file of the game, you can remove the blood in the game, and set your own password, if you wish, although setting this prefrence will remove the graphic novels in the game too, and make the game less intresting, and not very much fun to play. Decide for yourself, but if your son/daughter knows that Max Payne is a game, and nothing more, things should be ok, nothing to worry about. Well, that's it, have fun, mac gamers! ...

fun fun fun [Posted on 2003-03-14]
will not disappoint. I wish there was a difficulty setting to make it harder, but I enjoyed every minute and got totally immersed in the game play. well done.

a shooter (third person) par excellence [Posted on 2003-03-26]
normally, shooters dont do much for me unless combined with some other quality such as stealth, role playing, or puzzles, specifically nolf, deus ex, and tomb raiders. i dont have the reflexes or hand eye coordination of a teenager, and i cant do unreal tournament etc, even the training. max pain, though is a real winner with excellent visuals and a convincing, though improbable story (one man wipes out the entire illegal drug industry, from street junkies all the way to the head of the corporation that makes the drugs) of revenge for the murder of his family. the script is hilariously overwritten and BAAAD, obviously a parody on tv and movies. the story and exposition are presented in comic book form. as with most pure shooters, there are no puzzles and very few secrets.

gameplay. max's moves are limited to kicking open doors. he cant climb ladders, move boxes, etc. however, there is bullet time, a great slow motion effect, which can allow him to get the bad guys more easily. on "fugitive", the default and easiest level of difficulty, this was pretty useless, allowing me to watch max's demise in gory detail, but on "hard boiled", the next level up, it is more useful, though not frequently. since its hard to take on 3-4 thugs at once and live, my favorite and effective technique was to run and wait around corners and blast the bad guys when they followed. seldom does one have to attack directly. "safe spots" are non existant, because ai is as good as they come; you cant hide; theyll get you. all the weapons are useful at one point or another, my favorites being the shotgun in the early phases and the colt automatic rifle in the later ones. this is because there was tons of ammo for each. there are also tons of medkits, referred to as payne killers. there are a couple of boring surrealistic mazes ..., but these do not detract from the overall game.

visually striking, conveying all the seedy side of new york. it surprises me to see that most of the names in the credits look like Finnish. max tends to run duck footed, and, as typical of third person games, he gets in his own view, especially when crouched. this does not hamper the action much, though, which is so intense that you really dont notice this is a short game, at least not until the second time through. many windows users have complained of poor running, even with their "high end" machines. this ran perfectly at 1024x768 on my slow emac.

in summary, this is a classic, even for those who dont like shooters. buy it now, and in great quantities so mac users will continue to get great games.

Max Brings The Payne [Posted on 2003-04-10]
Max Payne is one amazing game. You play as Max Payne, a everyday person who walks home one day to find his wife murdered...because of this he goes undercover and thats where the story begins...the story is filled with action and adventure and it keeps rolling out, never getting "slow". The graphics are great and "bullet time", a matrix type gameplay, is very cool...everything slows down and you can dodge bullets easier. Although there is no online option, Max Payne still has a very good story line and is probably one of the most popular shooters. The best part about the game is where it takes place...takes place in New York City where there are tons of cops and gang members to kill.

Gameplay: Lots of action MATRIX style! What more can you ask for in a FPS??

Graphics: Game may be a little old but the graphics are still terrific...

Story: Probably one of the best stories for a FPS. Contains a real ganster story instead of those other games that try to contain a "street" story and takes place in ohio with no cops to kill.

Overall: Max Payne is one must buy title! I haven't played anything this good in a long time... If you like BLOOD, GUNS, or ACTION, this one is a MUST-BUY!

Fun but predictable [Posted on 2005-04-09]
This game is very fun, gameplay is relatively unique due to the needed use of Bullet Time where time slows down for a few seconds. Graphics are great on a stock 20 inch Imac ans sound is also great. The biggest flaw in the game is that there is no puzzle element during the actual game. There is only one open door where there is a posability to go else where. So wherever a door can be opend is the way to go. Also enemies become very predictable after the majority of the game which makes replays pointless. There are however, two blood trail mazes which are extremely annoying and are a complete waste of the time it takes to get a walkthrough and pass them.
Overall this game is very fun the first time around but that's all there is to it.

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