Max Payne is a third-person shooter developed for PlayStation 2, featuring a disgraced former cop navigating a dark urban landscape. Framed for murder, he battles against law enforcement and criminal factions while searching for the truth behind his family's murder. The game is noted for its innovative use of Bullet Time, allowing players to experience intense slow-motion gunfights within a gripping narrative.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Max Payne is a relentless story-driven game about a man on the edge, fighting to clear his name while struggling to uncover the truth about his slain family amongst a myriad of plot-twists and twisted thugs in the gritty bowels of New York during the century's worst blizzard.
The groundbreaking original cinematic action-shooter, Max Payne introduced the concept of Bullet Time in videogames. Through its stylish slow-motion gunplay combined with a dark and twisted story, Max Payne redefined the action-shooter genre.