Comments on: First Max Payne movie trailer released

By: Whizzo

Whizzo — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:28:08 +0000

Much nicer quality version of the trailer here. I’m really looking forward to this now, hmm time for a reinstall perhaps? Bet it looks rather ropey now!

By: patlike

patlike — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:45:01 +0000

I reckon that trailer looks brilliant, personally. Far better than I was expecting.

By: Daniel Plainview

Daniel Plainview — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:41:46 +0000

massive fan of the games, hopefully marky mark can do it justice

By: Tiger Walts

Tiger Walts — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:43:54 +0000

Valkyr made people do some fucked up shit, that’s all you need to know.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:17:19 +0000

Maybe they’re inner demons?

By: Gamoc

Gamoc — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:11:47 +0000

Now I’m pissed. Demons? They had WINGS. Max Payne did not have demons. The closest thing in Max Payne to demons was the psychotic guy who had ‘tasted the flesh of fallen angels’. Damn that was creepy/cool.

If they turn this into a demon fighting film I’ll be really pissed. The storyline was great.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:37:45 +0000

Actually… maybe it’ll run on my PC. I didn’t realise it was that old.

By: Dr.Haggard

Dr.Haggard — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:27:59 +0000

No idea sorry Blerk, but it wasn’t very demanding on hardware on the PC back in 2001 so hopefully the port wasn’t drastically different. Given that it’s third person I imagine it works well with a controller.

I remember it being a very atmospheric game, and tbh it was the story and the excellent noir-style comic book cut scenes more than the gameplay that held my attention.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:23:12 +0000

Quite amazed that the movie has a similar feel to the game.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:10:24 +0000

Is the Xbox version any cop?

By: Dr.Haggard

Dr.Haggard — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:04:51 +0000

Where’s the hawaiian shirt? Still, looks awesome actually, captures the feel of the games nicely. Hopefully the full thing won’t be a disappointment.

@Blerk: Yes, very good games, particularly the first one.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:57:18 +0000

Hey, that actually looked pretty good!

I’ve never played Max Payne. Should I have?

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:57:11 +0000

WTF monsters?

By: Whizzo

Whizzo — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:55:06 +0000

“Max, you’re in a movie!”
“I couldn’t think of anything more horrible.”

Well the style seems right and it has the obligatory Max diving in the air firing a pistol so perhaps this game to movie will actually work. At least his voice is nicely gravelly too.

Presumably the supernatural elements are Valkyr inspired hallucinations rather than anything else?

By: Tiger Walts

Tiger Walts — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:39:01 +0000

I wonder if they’ll do the drug induced self-referential bit.

“Max, you’re in a movie!”