(Click the pictures to inflate them to 1280x1024 resolution if you want a closer look at anything.) It's basically the song from the first game, except a bit slower, a bit sadder, and the piano has been replaced with violin. what about this theme tune huh? Pretty awesome and haunting right? Oh, here's a link so you can listen to it yourself while you read: youtube link. Whether it stayed true to the tone of the franchise is debatable, but critics and players agreed that it was a hell of a lot better than the mid-budget Max Payne movie released four years earlier.īut I'm meant to be talking about Max Payne 2 right now, so.
Critics and players loved the game but it didn't end up selling all that well and with Remedy Entertainment moving on to making Alan Wake the series lay dormant for almost a full decade after this before Rockstar Vancouver stepped in and gave it a big-budget blockbuster makeover with Max Payne 3. Max Payne 2 came out in 2003, two years after the original game, for PC, Xbox and PlayStation 2 (the GBA had to sit this one out I'm afraid). I'll be playing through Part One, mentioning anything that comes to mind as I go. Yeah sorry I totally cheated there (and I'd do it again without shame or hesitation).