Max Payne

Max Payne est un homme qui n'a rien à perdre dans la nuit urbaine violente et froide. Un fuyard, policier sous couverture, accusé à tort de meurtre et désormais traqué par la police et la mafia. Max est un homme dos au mur, luttant dans une bataille qu'il ne peut espérer gagner. Préparez-vous à une nouvelle génération de jeu d'action profond. Préparez-vous à la douleur... Développé par Remedy Entertainment et produit par 3D Realms, Max Payne est un jeu implacable axé sur l'histoire, racontant l'histoire d'un homme au bord du gouffre, se battant pour sa justice tout en découvrant des rebondissements et des malfrats tordus dans les entrailles crasseuses de New York pendant la pire tempête de neige du siècle. Max Payne est un jeu original en 3D à la troisième personne basé sur le moteur MAX-FX et utilise des textures photo-numérisées et un éclairage par radiosité, résultant en l'un des jeux les plus réalistes jamais vus sur PC.

In December 2001, as New York City is enduring the tail end of the worst snow blizzard in the history of the city, Max Payne, a renegade DEA agent and former NYPD detective, is standing at the top of a skyscraper with a sniper rifle in his hands, smiling, as police units arrive on the scene to arrest him. He then experiences flashbacks from three years ago and the last two days he experienced. Three years earlier, on August 22nd 1998, Max was working as a regular NYPD detective, having just finished his day's work. His longtime friend and DEA agent, Alex Balder, invites him to transfer into the DEA, but Max declines the offer, wanting to focus on his full-time life with his wife, Michelle, and their newborn daughter, Rose. As he returns to his house in New Jersey, he finds that a trio of junkies had broken into his house, all addicted on a brand new designer drug, Valkyr. Max receives a call from a mysterious woman who seems pleased at the trouble in the house and refuses to call for help. Max rushes to aid his family and kill the junkies, but is too late as he finds his wife shot dead, and his daughter slaughtered. After his family's funeral, Payne accepts Alex's offer, and transfers to the DEA at his own request to stop the spreading of the drugs.

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