I just finished Max Payne 2 and loved every second of it. There are still a couple of nightmare sequences (my least-favorite part of the first game), but they are much better this time around. The game is challenging without being impossible. A friend told me she plays Max Payne but never uses bullet time. That's the signature feature of the game, you may as well play any other shooter. I still enjoy the graphic novel style, I think it adds a lot of mood to the game. A lot of people dissed the first game for the horrible writing, I personally think it was done purposely like that to tip its hat to noir films and novels and was fine within the context of the game.
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