Max Payne (2008)

Developer: Remedy Entertainment
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Genres: Action
Rating: 4.4 of 5, 15,702 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 8.1 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

A bleak, cinematic noir shooter with a heavy atmosphere and relentless, story-driven action.

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What players say

Players agree the game is a classic held back by a broken Steam release: audio is busted and it crashes without a fan-made fix. When it works, the bullet-time gunplay and noir storytelling still hold up, but the relentless difficulty and sparse autosaves force constant manual quicksaving.

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