Developer's Foresight: If the player kills the very first cleaner before he turns hostile at the warehouse, Max will note that he saw through the cleaner's disguise.By the end, he's gone so far over it that he actually breaks out the other side. Despair Event Horizon: Max starts the second game on the cusp of this.The storyline here is noticeably bleaker, as Max suffers from even more constant guilt and suffering than he was 2 years ago, the graphic novel scenes are much more serious and lack some form of Bathos in some supposedly serious scenes, note The hilarious and comedic expressions where reserved for in-game TV shows instead and the combat music lacks an "action-hero feel" and is instead much more tense and occasionally forlorn. Max: When entertainment turns into a surreal reflection of your life, you're a lucky man if you can laugh at the joke. The show's events also parallel Max's own experiences to a disturbing degree, one of the many hints during the game that Max is not entirely sane. Cuckoo Nest: The Show Within a Show, Address Unknown, where the protagonist was in an insane asylum and thought everyone else there was insane.It's even implied that Max feels so remorseful over his choices because Winterson was in the same position as him finding her grave in 3 has him expand on this, noting that killing Winterson because he still loved Mona is one of his bad calls he's still trying to bury. Cry for the Devil: In-Universe - In 2, Max seems regretful over killing Detective Winterson, even though it later becomes clear that she was Vlad's lover and actually working against Max.When Vlad quizzes Vinnie about the Captain BaseBallBat-Boy franchise, one of his question is who original creator of the comic strip is - Vinnie answers "Sammy Waters", which is a pun upon Sam Lake, the Max Payne series' creator. Creator Cameo: Done in a somewhat subtle way.Bodyguard Betrayal: Happens to Alfred Woden near the end of the game.Bizarrchitecture: The Million Dollar Question features a building of luxury apartments, yet also takes you through an apartment that has no windows whatsoever.Bedlam House: Pink Bird Mental Institute in Address Unknown.Award-Bait Song: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne has Poets of the Fall's " Late Goodbye " as the country-inspired Recurring Riff and Solemn Ending Theme, which netted a 2004 Game Audio Network Guild Award.Mona goes from being in only two scenes in the first game to being Promoted to Playable in the second. Ascended Extra: Vladimir Lem and Vinnie Gognitti get upgraded from bit parts to major characters central to the plot in Max Payne 2.It also rewarded patient players with several additional stories they could choose to watch if Max stopped at the various televisions scattered around the game, he could catch the latest episode of the obnoxious animated series Captain Baseball Bat Boy, the self-mocking cop show Dick Justice, the amusing period soap Lords and Ladies or the surprisingly creepy, Twin Peaks-like psychodrama Address Unknown, all of which seemed to revolve around Max's life somehow. The game features better physics and graphics, actual in-engine cutscenes with new animation beyond the standard AI movements, more varied gameplay (including having Mona appear as a playable character for several chapters), and an original song by the newly-formed Poets of the Fall. He's soon forced to investigate a highly organized and well-funded group of assassins who are wiping out the powerful syndicate The Inner Circle, while becoming entangled with the Circle's possibly-trustworthy-who-knows hitwoman Mona Sax. Two years after the events of the first game, Max Payne is back working as a detective for the NYPD. It is the sequel to the 2001 video game Max Payne, and the second game in the Max Payne series.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a Third-Person Shooter video game, developed by Remedy Entertainment and released in October 2003.
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