He becomes the lead agent in charge of the Valkyr case.Īnother DEA Agent involved in the Valkyr investigation.Ī sniveling mid-level lieutenant in the Punchinello crime family.Ī deranged copregime in the Punchinello crime family, driven mad by his drug habit. The DEA liaison to the NYPD and a close, personal friend of Max. The actor would require an approximate similarity, to be sure, but nothing beyond being of the same age, build and ethnicity, but he’d have to be able to provide voice narration reminiscent of the distinct, gravely voice overs provided by James McCaffrey. Neither was a defining factor, as Payne is much more associated with his voice, heard throughout the game predominately as he provides charmingly over the top narration rife with metaphors, as any hardboiled detective worth his salt does. By the second game, however, he adopts the visage of soap opera actor Timothy Gibbs. In the first game he was modeled after the game’s main writer Sam Lake, who bears a strong resemblance to actors Timothy Olyphant, Josh Duhmall and Johnny Knoxville. His idyllic life living the American dream was shattered when drug addicts invade his home in his absence and murder his wife and newborn daughter. Maybe it will be more of the same, or maybe not.įormerly a Robbery-Homicide detective stationed in Hell's Kitchen. It was even more reviled by the fans, who in addition to the preceding disliked the nixing of popular characters, lack of action and the movie as a whole being produced with a PG-13 rating in mind despite the games’ signature stylized violence.įox seems to be on a reboot kick recently, which included Fox’s prior VGM Hitman, so another Max Payne movie may still be in the cards, or maybe not. The Mark Wahlberg feature was critically panned, citing poor pacing, lack of character development and interesting dialogue and an overabundance of characters. VGMs in general have a poor record, which was bad enough, but 20th Century Fox was producing. Max Payne was adapted for the big screen in 2008. The story is heavily influenced in equal parts by Norse mythology, Hong Kong action flicks and hardboiled/noir/pulp fiction, and is notable for innovations in game play, notably Bullet Time, at the time recently made popular by The Matrix, an aspect copied but not quite duplicated in several games, as well as the use of comic book strips in lieu of the more traditional cinematic cutscenes. It follows an undercover DEA Agent left out in the cold, both literally and figuratively, during a severe winter storm, having been framed for the murder of his handler, as he tracks down the source behind a designer drug that was the cause of his wife and daughter's brutal murder.
It was an instant hit with fans and critics, even winning a BAFTA for Best PC Game of 2001.
View full post on Comic Book MovieMax Payne is a video game series, soon to be a trilogy, that first exploded in 2001.
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