Max Payne

max Payne is a Video game of action and of objective shooting (contrary to a Jeu of subjective shooting) developed by a named Finnish company Remedy Entertainment, produced by 3D Realms and published by Gathering off Developers in July 2001; it will be related later to Xbox and PlayStation 2, published by Rockstar Games. A version of max Payne also left on Game Boy Advance.

After the success of this one in 2001, a continuation will come under the name of max Payne 2: The Fall off max Payne .

The characteristic of max Payne was to propose for the first time in a video game, an innovation drawn from the cinema: the Bullet time. This effect, integrated like a component of the Gameplay , makes it possible to slow down certain actions giving more time to the player for better aiming or dodging more easily.

Complete scenario

Max Payne works with DEA, a section of the police force devoted to the traffic of Drogue. He is married in a marvellous woman, Michelle and has just had a child. Accustomed to make covers in the world of the Dealer S for the account of its close friend Alex Bolder, incorruptible, max abruptly decides to hang up again the cushy jobs, which disturbs a little Alex, who had planned for max a cushy job in mediums of the Drogue. The baby initially. All seems to survive this intelligent and cultivated man, who is obviously in the American dream. However, like he says it itself, “the dreams can rock with the nightmare in only one second”.

When it returns at his place, it falls on hooligans under the influence from a new drug, the Valkyrie, who have just assassinated without pity his family. Losing all it in what he believed in " one new-yorkaise" minute; , Max now decides to live for revenge, and to find and make pay the assassins of its family. It accepts the cover of Alex then, thinking of being able to thus find the creators of the Valkyrie, who are incontestably related to these two murders.

Three years passed. A snowstorm falls down with fury on New York, putting in fear the city. The citizens return precipitately on their premises, seeking to flee this hurricane which approaches with any pace. The investigation of max, anchored now in one of the worst gangster families, did not really progress, DEA not managing to find evidence reasonable. Max is unaware of always which is the person at the origin of the Valkyrie, which is now the most widespread drug in the streets of the city. Its suspicions relate to Jack Lupino, psychopathe alienated believing deeply in the Hell and the occult sciences, which directs a nightclub, Ragna Rock, a hotel, the Lupino hotel, and a gangster family. Max is in general with the Lupino hotel, directed by the brothers Finito, two gangsters of Sunday, themselves chaperonnés by Vinnie Gognitti, a " small frappe" who is the right-hand man of Lupino Jack, and is terrified by this last.

The two contacts with DEA of max Payne are Alex Bolder and a certain B.B. Whereas the storm falls down, B.B explains to max that it must meet Alex at the station Roscoe Street , in the middle of the Bronx. Max, which did not see Alex since months, is enchanted, but without testing some apprehensions.

When it unloads at the station, max fall in full steering. Killers took possession of the station, and seek to direct a bank while passing by the drains, the closed down ways of subway, and the sewers. Threading a way in the middle of this band of gangsters, max manages to enter the strongroom of the bank, where he discovers that the hold-up men stole only the funds belonging to the organization Aesir Corporation, young organization, which became celebrates to have so quickly acquired fortune. Max will also have a meeting of telephone with the police chief Jim Bravura, who will not be long in making leave the name max Payne, and to make the public enemy of it number one. Max manages nevertheless to find Alex, who explains to him that the men of Lupino are responsible what here does without. Somebody cuts down suddenly and coldly Alex, under the eyes of a max impotent Payne.

Max finally succeeds in leaving, and goes to the hotel Lupino, rather morose. It has just lost an old friend, but its martyrdom does nothing but start. The Finito brothers put themselves at the canarder, having learned that max was a cop of DEA, which lets think that a mole would be among the rows of the police force. Max does not have however too time to think of it, having to face an army of killers before arising after a fashion from the hotel. A series of bombs explode then in the district, works of Vladimir Lem, chief of the Russian Mafia , a man in war with the Mafia, and which has as a practice to use explosives. Max decides to return a small visit in Vinnie Gognitti, by changing method: more infiltration and operations slow and meticulous, it is in a place where human dignity does not exist, and where he will become a killer without pity. Its objective: to find Lupino.

Tracked by the police force, it is found trapped in a closed down building, informed presence of the police force and Jim Bravura by a telephone call of a certain Alfred Woden. Max will escape however without sorrow from the police force, and will find Vinnie in a building in ruins truffle of bombs. At the end of a short shooting, Vinnie will escape. Long will follow and vibrating continuation on the snow-covered roofs of the city, the police force, impotent, is satisfied to collect the corpses which max Payne in its furrow leaves. Finally, max will manage to wedge Vinnie, giving up it wounded in a lane before going to the Ragna Rock , where Lupino hides.

Ragna Rock is a sordid nightclub resembling a church dilapidated and cursed, where the demons and other monsters of night are not other than gangsters smashed with V (the Valkyrie). Max will face an army of killers here, until reaching Lupino, while learning always a little more on the man during his tour. Jack Lupino is a true nut, describes by max like new a Faust , “ready to sell its heart with the Devil in exchange of fortune and glory”. Its apocalyptic reign will be completed however quickly, max managing to cut down it after a endiablée fight.

It will then meet Mona Sax, twin of the woman of Gift Punchinello, the Gift of the Mafia. Mona, sister of LISA Punchinello, will double max Payne quickly while making him drink a liquid containing of the sleeping pills.

Max will awake in the basements of the Lupino hotel, tabassé by Frankie the Niagara, a gangster of service. Max will however manage to release, and to kill the Niagara, then to escape. He will learn by radio that the police force now regards it as a corpse, believer who his body is among the many corpses of the drug addicts found in Ragna Rock. He will also learn that the gangsters which found it in Ragna Rock also captured Mona Sax, but which it is with the manor of Gift Punchinello, between the hands of the Trio, the three gorillas of the Gift, its bodyguards.

In the streets of the city, the vendetta of max then seems to stop. Lupino was not the good target, it does not remain any more but Punchinello. But, in his manor, the man is unattackable. It is finally Vladimir Lem who will offer a track to him: quays of Brooklyn, where Punchinello awaits an important delivery of weapons on behalf of Boris Dime, former gangster working for Lem who, with his crew, changed his/her colors, choosing to work for Punchinello, presenting works more enticing that the Russian. Understanding that if ever Punchinello had this important stock of Armes, it would be the end, max attacks Charon directly, the boat of Dime, massacres all its crew, and cuts down the latter, then seizes many Armes. It now has an asset in its sleeve: the Weapons of Punchinello, and decides to organize a deal in the restaurant of Punchinello. The appointment is however a trap, the restaurant having been filled with gasoline beforehand. Max survives of little the flames and the killers of the Gift, and decides to apply the oldest principle of revenge: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. According to this method, max goes to the manor, led by Lem.

Punchinello has for its defense an army of killers, in addition to the Trio, which patrols in the alleys of the manor. Max decides to enter by the cellar, where it falls on a series from signed corpses Mona Sax, which apparently succeeded in escaping, and to flee of the manor. Max does not intend however to flee, and advances to the office of Punchinello, at the end of the manor, defying the hundred gangsters protecting it, and while finishing with the Trio. Max will receive meanwhile a call of mysterious Alfred Woden, informing it of the presence of a Hélicoptère which has just landed in the garden. It will also find the sister twin of Mona Sax, beaten with died by her husband.

Finally, the deposed cop will arrive to the office of the largest criminal of the city. Killers in costume armed with Colt Commando will unload then, and will transform Gruyere Punchinello, putting fine at its career. Max will fall then on the creative one from the Valkyrie, a mysterious woman mortal who will inject to him a puncture of V in the veins before leaving for Cold Street.

For max starts then a painful psychological fight against the Valkyrie and the overdose which watches for it, in a glaucous nightmare which brings back it always behind, for this purpose of evening, where all had rocked… He will manage at the same time to escape from the manor of Punchinello, set fire to by the mysterious witch. Max will finally manage to leave its state of overdose, and will decide to go to Cold Street. He is unaware of still the rather remote bond between this Drogue and his massacred family.

He knows some just a little more about the organization: Punchinello was man which spread the Valkyrie in all the city, which made a very lucrative business, considering the d'" number; adeptes". The mysterious woman with the stiletto heels was the fabricante. Max is unaware of where to find it, but he knows an address: the abandoned foundry of Cold Street.

Inside, the old agent of DEA will continue its vendetta by facing mysterious commandos, until arriving to an elevator which will take it along in a underground bunker built by the American army, and which, according to any obviousness, is related to the Valkyrie. The proof: a logo representing the Valkyrie on the ground. Its answers are there. Unfortunately, time plays against him. All the evidence being able to accuse the woman is present here, the place was thus dynamited, and is likely to disappear constantly. This does not slow down however max, which quickly learns the raison d'être from this place, and all the truth.

In the beginning, the Valkyrie was a military Drogue intended to stimulate and improve the moral one of the Soldats during the Guerre of the Gulf. This project was called Projet Valhalla . This underground bunker had been created with an aim of creating the Drogue in question. The realization being prolonged during years, the US government decided to stop this project, and ceased giving funds to the scientific team which worked there. Unfortunately, somebody - the mysterious woman who had gotten rid of Punchinello - had decided to continue, but not for the same reasons as in the beginning… Several subjects of studies were thus created, of the men with whom one had injected the Valkyrie. It did not remain any more but with to test their behavior in urban environment, i.e. by releasing them in nature. Similarly, Michelle Payne learned the existence from the continuation of the Projet Valhalla , and tried to speak to the Prosecutor about it. Unfortunately, its investigations did not escape the witch, who decided to make of a stone two blows. Firstly, to test its subjects by sending them to tackle a New Yorkean family and to see whether they would fill their objectives. Secondly , to get rid of an awkward woman who knew some a little too much. The project went to wonder, perhaps even too well, because it caused the fury and the hatred of a simple New Yorkean cop who, three long years later, discovered to it pot-with-pinks in a bunker in demolition. The fact is that it was not the only one to discover that: Alex Bolder, his former colleague, had also discovered the truth, which explains why it was cut down by a mysterious killer with Roscoe Street . The steering of Lupino was only one cover, intended to camouflage the murder of Bolder, while making pass that for an unhappy coincidence. Horrified, max finally managed to flee of the foundry in flames, all the evidence being able to accuse the mysterious witch left in smoke.

Without real track, max is found in a coffee, where it receives a call of B.B., its second contact with DEA. It includes/understands whereas B.B is a ripoux, which works for its enemies, and which he killed Bolder, and sold max in Vinnie Gognitti and to the Finito brothers. Max decides to regulate its accounts, and finds B.B as well as an army of gangsters protecting it on the roof from an air carpark. By seeing the smart behaviors, the gold watch and the hypocritical smile of B.B., max understands that it rightly, and faces with aggressiveness B.B and its men in the air carpark, until finally getting rid some. Meanwhile, the police force returned responsible max of the fire of the Punchinello manor, reinforcing the conviction of Bravura for the arrest of this man, become the public enemy number one . Gradually in the city, certain men start to put forth assumptions according to which max Payne would make only good at the city, by removing it from good number of these notorious killers and criminals.

Alfred Woden will remake his appearance then, by inviting max to join it at the Asgard building, more. At the building, max learns even more things on the business Valkyrie.

Woden makes party of a top secret and extremely powerful organization called the circle of the Initiates. It is about an organization of the shade, powerful, which is dependant in many plots and " secrets" projects; American state, like the Project Valhalla . Without clearly explaining their implication in this project, the circle of the Initiates explains nevertheless that the mysterious woman is called Nicole Horne, and directs Aesir Corporation, an organization surpuissante which quickly grew rich thanks to the Valkyrie, unchaining the admiration of the media. Now, Horne is very influential, very powerful, and thus very dangerous. Woden explains why they can nothing make against Horne, that the circle of the Initiates has the hands dependant. They require that max eliminates Nicole Horne. In exchange of this service, Woden explains why it will raise the loads which weigh against max Payne. The killers of Horne unload then in the meeting room, and massacre with blows of machine-guns the members of the Cercle of the Initiates . Max Payne succeeds in surviving while jumping by the window, and will gradually realize while wandering in the building Asgard to the research of the exit that Woden is not either nice.

Max remembers Candy Dawn, a prostitute doped with the V which lived with the Lupino hotel, and had as a practice to film its customers, in order to resell the band then to them, while threatening to reveal it. The majority of its customers having a prestigious fame, this cassette would be very compromising for them. Max finds this kind of cassette compromising in the office of Woden, and attends in the room of safety the miraculous alarm clock of Woden, smile to the lips in the middle of all these fellow-members deceased. One is unaware of why Woden had let his/her comrades die. One can only suppose that Woden sought to take the capacity and the absolute control of the circle of the Initiates by killing all the other members of their council. He will also leave small presents to max: plans of the building of Aesir Corporation.

Payne managed to escape from the building, and leaves slowly through all the city towards the head office Aesir Corporation. The final battle takes place now, and max Payne does not have anything any more to lose.

After combat fulgurating in the building of Aesir corporation max will find the body of Mona Sax in the lift shaft, but will be stopped by other bodyguards. the elevator will be closed and when max returns to open it, the body will have disappeared.

During the final confrontation, max makes fall the pillar at the top from the tower from Aesir Corporation on the helicopter from the witch who tried to flee. Max is then submissively let stop by the NYPD.

List main characters

  • max Payne
  • Michelle Payne , the woman of max
  • Alex Balder , a friend of max which works with DEA
  • Mona Sax , tueuse with pledges
  • Alfred Woden , chief of the circle of the initiates
  • Jack Lupino , one of the men of Angelo Punchinello
  • Angelo Punchinello , the gift of the gangster family Punchinello
  • Nicole Horne , the director of Aesir Corporation
  • Jim Bravura , the assistant editor of NYPD
  • B.B , one of the contacts that Max has in DEA
  • Vladimir Lem , chief of the Russian Maffia which is in war with the family Punchinello
  • Vinnie Gognitti , right-hand man of Jack Lupino

Weapons available

  • Weapons of body with body :

  • Handguns :
    • Beretta 9 mm (later, max will be able to use two Berettas at the same time.)
    • Desert Eagle
  • Fusils with pump :
  • Automatic weapons :
    • Ingram MAC-10 (later, max will be able to use two Ingrams at the same time.)
    • Colt M4 Colt Commando
  • Fusil of sniper :
  • :

References to Scandinavian mythology

Max Payne being a play Finnish, its scenario is strongly related to the Scandinavian Mythologie. So one finds several references to this mythology:

  • the collar of max represents a boat of Viking (it is necessary to approach much to notice it).
  • the nightclub Ragna Rock comes from Ragnarök, the Scandinavian end of the world. It is noticed that the logo of the nightclub is a helmet of Viking.
  • Alfred Woden requires of max to join it at the Asgard building. Asgard is the name of the city of the Scandinavian gods, Woden is another name of the Odin god.
  • Nicole Horne is the director of Aesir Corporation. Aesir, or Adzes, is the name of the group of the Scandinavian gods.
  • Valkyrie drug was invented in a military project secret signal in the name of Valhalla. Actually, Valkyrie is name of angels, which was virgin, which carried the warriors with the Valhalla, the palate of Odin.
  • Balder, from Alex Balder, comes from the god Balder who was killed by Loki.

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