Max Payne

The game is literally broken, you can't complete it as it is, Besides that the game is incredibly Unbalanced. I get it's an old game but I like my old games to be playable.

Should not be legal to sell a game in this busted of a state. Right from the beginning, the audio is completely cut. The narration is literally what gives this game it's unforgettable personality. No one should have to go download third party mods to make a game playable while the devs and pub continue to make money off of it. Shameful. Game is great, but I cannot in good conscience recommend the steam version

Absolutne 480p!

Love the game, but no matter what I do after 1 hr trying to play it it would crash immediately.

i'll give max payne this - it's charming, the vibes are there, but other than that i fail to see any redeeming qualities about this game. the story is a basic and uninteresting tale of revenge that's basically only there to give you an excuse to kill people. the gameplay consists of you walking from room to room shooting people which would be fine if the game didn't constantly take you out of the action to make you watch these god awful comic book sequences. now i always understood max payne as the cool slow-mo game, but man is the gunplay underwhelming, it's janky and unsatisfying, you're just holding left click on an enemy until they eventually drop dead, most enemies are complete bullet sponges and bosses are just regular enemies with 3 times more health, melee weapons are useless and the slow-mo is mostly there as a gimmick, you can easily go through this game without using it once. for a game with such a big cult following i expected more.

Would not recommend buying in 2026. I was interested in playing this classic series starting with the first, and tbh this negative review is not about the game as intended but about its technical state. When I first turned the game on, most of the sounds did not work, and the sounds that did work were so terribly distorted it hurt my ears. Thankfully, one fan has created a "fix all" patch that resolves some of these issues. But even with that out of the way, it was impossible to play through the game because the cutscenes constantly bug out. Not so much the comic ones or the movie ones, but the game sometimes has in-engine events that play out, and it appears the timers and triggers don't work like they are supposed to on modern PCs (possibly related to FPS, but I don't really know). Villains that are supposed to be running away from me, I find standing like a zombie in the stairwell, failing to trigger an event. Characters that are supposed to run from A to B during a cutscenes somehow get "stuck" and just infinitely run in place, so the cutscene never continues, and you just have to load a save (I had to load and rerun this cutscene seven times before the game overcame the bug.) Another event that is supposed to show some enemies noticing me and starting to shoot at me begins but then does not return the camera and combat controls to me, so the enemies just kill me while I'm "trapped in a cutscene" powerless to do anything about it. This negative review is not to diminish the game itself, but I just would not recommend buying it on Steam in 2026. It is too technically broken because it has NOT been maintained.

I hope to be this vengeful to peter thiel when palantir kills my immigrant wife