Max Payne is a story-driven 3rd person action game aimed for a mature audience.

Two camera modes show the grim present day New York City setting and the gunplay action from the best possible angles. The follow-up mode tails Max Payne, as he runs, his guns blazing and his long leather jacket flapping, through trash littered alleys and cockroach crawling hotel rooms. The cinematic camera provides 'director's cut' pre-set views to dramatic scenes, be it in a deep-shadowed slum, or in an all sleek and sexy art deco skyscraper.

Realistic weapon setup includes over a dozen real-life guns, all fitting the crime-story setting like a bullet in the head.

The action is surrounded with more than 80 hand-painted comic-screens that enhance the game's dark and gritty atmosphere and attitude, introduce the game's murderous cast of characters and carry the twisting roller coaster plot from one action location to the next.

Remedy Entertainment's own MAX-FX technology provides the following:

- E2 Rendering engine. The same engine core that was used to create the amazing visual effects seen in Final Reality. E2 gets it's name from the Exit Technology that is used for visibility optimization in Max Payne.

- Smooth character system that allows seamless characters meshes with a wide range of movement. Characters naturally receive lighting properly from the environment.

- Particle systems. Remedy's ParticleFX editor lets the user create different particle systems that can be used real-time within the game.

- Level Editor. MaxED makes the environment creation intuitive and easy. With MaxEd you'll be editing levels 3D Accelerated and truly experience WYSIWYG for the first time in level editing. MaxED will be bundled with the game: The players can create their own killer levels.

- Full Radiosity Lighting. The lighting has never been this realistic. MAX-FX Radiosity Lighting photo-realistically reflects the light and casts shadows in the environment.

To guarantee the breath-taking graphics, Max Payne is 3D Accelerated only, support via Direct 3D, plus native support for major accelerators.

The game features full multiplayer support. All the bangs and goodies the players have come to expect from a major 3D action title are included.

Max Payne is a gritty journey to the present day New York City during the worst winter blizzard in a century. The thriller pulp story keeps the players guessing right on till the end. The game shoots from the lowest slum pits to the greatest skyscraper heights, leaving behind a trail of corpses, splatters of blood, and empty brass rolling on the floor.

Max Payne is released when it's done.

Three years back a young NYPD cop, Max Payne, came home one night to find his family senselessly slaughtered by a gang of drug-crazed junkies, high on a previously unknown synthetic drug. Now that same drug, Valkyr, has spread through the whole New York City like a nightmare plague, and Max Payne's on a crusade for revenge, out to get even.

The drug hit the city like a bad dream, turning it into a hell on earth. More corpses lie in the streets than there are demons in the real thing, and hordes of Valkyr-head junkies are on an insane killing spree, their eyes burning with mad green fire.

To Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, this new drug was evil incarnate, to be stopped at any cost. They infiltrated an undercover agent into the ranks a NY Mafia family that appears to be behind the distribution of the drug. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Max Payne, now a DEA special agent, is a man with nothing to lose, he's the man for the job. He goes to work undercover among the dirtiest mobster murderers in this city gone bad.

Now Max's boss and best friend, the only one who knew his true identity, has been murdered, and Max's been framed for the slaying.

Now the cops think Max is a cop killer, and suddenly the mobsters know all about him being a fed. Both are out to get him, and the heat's coming down like nothing before. But Max ain't gonna do a fade. He's got nothing to lose. He swears he's gonna find his boss' murderers and make them pay, big time. He's gonna track down the source of Valkyr and make them wish they were never born. If Max is going down, he's gonna take all the wiseguys with him, all the way to hell.

Now, New York City, present day, the worst winter in a century…

MAX PAYNE, a hardboiled, fugitive undercover cop, framed for the murder of his boss, out to revenge his slaughtered family. MAX PAYNE, he's on a bridge burning, rock n' rolling rampage that's gonna take him through the criminal underworld of the New York City - all the way to the criminal masterminds lurking in the city's heart of darkness.

MAX PAYNE, a trust-no-one descent into a horrifying government conspiracy. There's something rotten in the core of the Big Apple, and the disease is spreading.

MAX PAYNE, a lone hero against a horde of stone cold murdering mobsters, drug-enhanced killers, bad cops, professional assassins, corrupt politicians, and things much, much worse. It's gonna be a cold day in hell before anyone can stop 'em.

MAX PAYNE, it's the worst winter in a century, and mercury's falling fast.

MAX PAYNE, a cold day in hell.

Max Payne 4, Max Payne 5, MaxPayne 6