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I know this is very late in the making as Max Payne and MP2 have both been out for some time. Be that as it may, I thought I’d talk a little bit about them both, as they are perhaps the most fun games I’ve played in a while. Understand first that my taste is likely not that of a typical gamer, and that the game I have played more than any other this year is without a doubt Dance Dance Revolution.
Max Payne was to me the first sign of a video game industry interested in taking the storytelling aspect of gaming to a new level- one where the story is not merely the icing on the ultra-violent cake, but the truly engaging end to the game itself. The story in Max Payne 1 takes center stage and not only draws in the player, but does much to explain Max’s own motivation in a why that might actually get you to empathize with him! |
Update: Interviews with the Creators here and here. Turns out that the head writer also starred as Max in the original, and that not only do you get to interact with NPCs, but how you interact with them will apparently have some effect on how NPCs react to you later in the game. Guess I’d better go try the next difficulty level…
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