Max Payne Gameplay Walkthrough - Part 3: A Bit Closer to Heaven, Chapter 1: Take Me to Cold Steel
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Max Payne is a third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Gathering of Developers on July 2001 for Microsoft Windows. Ports created later in the year for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and the Game Boy Advance were published by Rockstar Games. A Mac OS port was published on July 16, 2002 by MacSoft in North America and Feral Interactive in the rest of the world. There were plans for a Dreamcast version of Max Payne, but they were canceled due to the discontinuation of the console. The game was re-released on April 27, 2009 as a downloadable game in the Xbox Originals program for the Xbox 360. The game was also re-released in the spring of 2012 as a downloadable game in the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation 3 under the PS2 classics banner, iOS and on Android.
The game centers around the NYPD Detective Max Payne, who attempts to avenge the murder of his family. It features a gritty neo-noir style and uses graphic novel panels (with voice-overs) in place of animated cutscenes to narrate the game, as it draws inspiration from hard-boiled detective novels by authors like Mickey Spillane. The game contains many allusions to Norse mythology, particularly the myth of Ragnarök, and several of the names used in the game are those of the Norse gods and mythos. The gameplay is heavily influenced by the Hong Kong action cinema genre, particularly the work of director John Woo, and it was the first game to feature the bullet time effect popularized by The Matrix.
Max Payne received very positive reviews and was praised for its exciting gunplay and use of noir storytelling devices. The game won a large number of accolades, including the BAFTA Award. As of 2011, the Max Payne game franchise has sold over 7.5 million copies. It also inspired a feature film under the same title.
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Part I: The American Dream
Prologue
Chapter 1: Roscoe Street Station
Chapter 2: Live from the Crime Scene
Chapter 3: Playing It Bogart
Chapter 4: The Blood Veins of New York
Chapter 5: Let the Gun do the Talking
Chapter 6: Fear That Gives Men Wings
Chapter 7: Police Brutality
Chapter 8: Ragna Rock
Chapter 9: An Empire of Evil
Part II: A Cold Day in Hell
Prologue
Chapter 1: The Baseball Bat
Chapter 2: An Offer you can't Refuse
Chapter 3: With Rats and Oily Water
Chapter 4: Put Out My Flames With Gasoline
Chapter 5: Angel of Death
Part III: A Bit Closer to Heaven
Prologue
Chapter 1: Take Me to Cold Steel
Chapter 2: Hidden Truths
Chapter 3: The Deep Six
Chapter 4: Backstabbing Bastard
Chapter 5: In the Land of the Blind
Chapter 6: Byzantine Power Game
Chapter 7: Nothing to Lose
Chapter 8: Pain And Suffering
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