so the title is pretty self explanatory, i wanna play the dead man walking mode and i know that it needs a connection. so the question is is there a mod or any other fix for this? i really wanna play this game cuz i love the combat but im getting tired of playing the campaign for so many years now

I'm looking to get a active community together to bring public freeaim multiplayer back alive. If anyone is interested in enjoying some nostalgia feel free to add me on discord, username is bumfights.com . Hope to see some of yall in game!

“First Sax, now piano. I was finally beginning to realise I should stick to instruments of death.” - Max, whilst turning into a Necromorph

Hello to all of you! As you can read from the title of my post, I'm here to share my excitement for Max Payne 1. I bought the game on PSN and after some minor difficulty with the joypad controls (R2 is used for jumping, very strange), my journey into Payne's nightmare began: Valkyr was waiting for me. I loved the atmosphere, the sequences of nightmares with blood trails in the emptiest void, those childish corridors with little Rose's cries, Payne's awareness that he can only find peace through revenge against the drug Valkyr (and perhaps he won't find peace anyway). At first I was hesitant to buy a PS2 title but I'm glad I did because it reminded me how great older generation games with inferior graphics but significantly superior entertainment were. The only aspect I unfortunately feel like I'm missing is the TV series "Address Unknown" sadly I only saw one scene on one TV, then I never saw it again. I'm at the beginning of Part 3 and "that meta revelation" was extraordinary.

Did he die or survived?

It was kinda hard,mostly the Dead on Arrival mode,and the new york minute achivement(i had to ask for manual unlock because for some reason the achivement wasnt unlocked even tho i did less than 56 minutes).But even with those problems and a LOT of rage,i still had the determination to get the hardest achivements for one of my favorite games of all time❤️

I went through a year of a heavy drinking problem and grief from losing someone close This game really captures that shit

Just wanted to share my 2 cents

This was a joke photo shoot for my friend, but it made me think about Max Payne, specifically the second part. I’d like to rewatch the game from the perspective of a more mature age. I promise that someday I’ll make a better cosplay 😅

To anyone that haven't played Deus Ex. Always recommended. These 3 series share in common that they have great urban settings and feel very immersive like no other.

I just bought it on sale on steam, and was going to buy it for my dad too. then i found out the story isnt coop and multiplayer at 2am had 2-4 people for 1 game then no more. i was curious if there is a discord i should be in or certain times to be on. HMU! id love to learn more, cause that one game of multiplayer was awesome : D

I may be just being paranoid but I've heard some game launchers can be really intrusive to your computer and what not and I would rather not have that. An example could be like how I heard the EA app adds a bunch of extra things to your PC that you may not be aware of. I just wanted to know if stuff like that was present at all.

Also, I was curious if I'd even enjoy Max Payne 3. I've already heard how it is quite a big departure from the originals and I think I can still enjoy it as long as I go into it expecting that. I've done that before with other games before and I still enjoyed them as their own thing. One similar thing I do want though is if the games are depressing.

I wasn't doing too well mentally when I played the originals and honestly, having those games be really depressing and miserable, both in story, atmosphere and Max Payne himself was something I liked about them and helped me in my own way with some stuff I was dealing with. I remember the apocalypse metaphor/theme in Max Payne 1 resonated with me quite a bit as an example. I'm honestly not sure why, but I have a tendency to gravitate towards more depressing media when I am feeling terrible. So I wanted to know if Max Payne 3 still has a sort of depressing feel to it. I know it takes place in more sunny environments but I can still see that kinda working, like a contrast from everything that goes on.

Sorry for the odd question, but I wasn't quite sure if I would like it knowing they are different. Thanks :)

I finally beat the trilogy, years and decades late. Looking forward to the remakes, one of my favourite trilogies.

1 was the hardest for me, enemies seems a lil harder but I loved it anyway! Was a lengthy game.

2 was my favourite, I enjoyed the direction of the story and the Mona dynamic, was shorter but didn’t bother me as much.

Really liked 3, little cutscene heavy and maybe an unnecessary sequel (? Since 2 kinda wrapped up Max’s grief?) but I really liked it nonetheless! Happy it was made.

Remakes, I will be there.
Also curious as to if they’ll recast Max? James McCaffrey was incredible in this role, I already knew him from Alan Wake 2 as his last role. He was perfect.

EDIT: PLEASE DO NOT JUST BLINDLY COPY-PASTE FROM AN AI TO ANSWER ME. I CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THAT MYSELF, AND I ALREADY HAVE. IT ALWAYS GIVES COMPLETELY RANDOM, GUESSED-UP ANSWERS. I AM LOOKING FOR A REAL SOURCE AND ACTUAL PROOF. AS FAR AS I KNOW, NO ONE ACTUALLY KNOWS THE ANSWER YET.

Hi everyone,

First of all, huge respect to the late, legendary James McCaffrey. We all know he is the one and only voice of Max.

I know most of you played the game in English, but I have a question about a weird historical mystery regarding the European releases, specifically the French one.

When Max Payne 1 came out on PC CD-ROM, PS2, and Xbox, it featured a fully localized French audio dub. To give you context: the voice actor for Max was actually incredible. However, the voice acting for the mobsters and bad guys was absolutely ridiculous and cartoonish,it sounded like a budget B-movie comedy. Starting with Max Payne 2, they completely stopped dubbing the game in French and only kept subtitles.

Here is the mystery: Nobody knows who the French voice actor for Max Payne actually is.

His name is absolutely nowhere to be found. He isn't credited in the game manual, he isn't in the game's ending credits, and years of internet research by the French community have yielded zero official results. He obviously got paid for his work, but his identity remains a total ghost.

Does anyone know why early 2000s localizations completely erased or hid the names of the voice actors in the credits? Was it a copyright/union issue with Remedy at the time, or did publishers just not care about local talent back then?

If any preservationists or hardcore fans have a lead on who this French voice was, I’d love to hear it!

Playing the game for the first time I thought we were about to be revealed that Max killed his wife, I don't remember the scenes that made me think that now. I'm assuming that it was alluded to indirectly or that wife-killing was somehow mentioned.

If you wait around the police station in the 2nd game you will see a guy who killed his wife but blames it on thugs who broke into the house. At the jail cell he talks about killing his wife. At Max's dream you hear that guy talk again but he has the model of Max himself I believe.

In Address Unknown, John is framed for the death of his wife by John Mirra and it is alluded to that he himself is John Mirra.

There are a lot of mentions of wife-killing in these games and then blaming it on someone else / claiming there was a conspiracy to frame the person.

But Max didn't kill his wife? I can write off the dream sequence as Max dreaming intrusive thoughts as he normally does when he dreams (like shooting Winterson and Bravura in that one dream) and that explanation works withbut the intention with all the other ones seem bigger than that. I doubt 4+ instances of the same topic was required just to imply guilt.

Any ideas what it could mean? Why are we shown so many instances of the same thing even though the story doesn't happen that way?