Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

10 to 20 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Highly addictive"

Pros:

- Great story. Max Payne is on a journey to take a down a big hierarchy starting from the bottom.

- Very fun gameplay. Bullet-time ability is well implemented.

- Intuitive shootdodge mechanics. There is this one part where you have no ammo, and enemies are right around the corner. What you have to do is jump out in matrix style, grab the pistol, and shoot them, all in one action. It is very epic.

- Reasonable difficulty

- Good placement of cover objects

- Interesting graphic comic cutscenes

- Good voice acting

- Intense and poetically dark dialogue

- Good graphics for its time

- Interesting characters

- Nice array of weapons

- Good replay value with additional difficulty and a time attack mode


Cons:

- Saving anytime you want gives the player too much power. Frequent checkpoints would have been better.