Max Payne PC - Hard Boiled Difficulty - Intro Sequence and "level". Played at 1920x1080 Full Graphics, Recorded at 1600x900 1500 kbps variable. The Max Payne series is one of my favorite of all time. The game adheres to classic Noir film and writing archetypes and plays up to the greatly. While some of the dialogue and scenes lead you to believe they didn't take the concept too seriously, most of the action portions of the game can be scene as an homage to Hong Kong action films and gritty 70s style Mafia films. The blend along with the new (at the time) bullet-time tech made for a great end-user experience. The graphics have dated over the past decade, but the mechanics and although sometimes cheap difficulty still make for a fun game today. Max Payne Summart from Wikia: Max Payne is a third-person shooter action videogame, the first title in the Max Payne series, created by Remedy Entertainment, and first released for the PC in July, 2001, published by Gathering of Developers. The game follows the protagonist Max Payne, an NYPD detective turned undercover DEA Agent whose life of the "American Dream" - a loving wife, a new born baby daughter, and a home in the suburbs - one day got shattered. Themes of Norse mythology, and Hong Kong action cinema are prevalent throughout the game. Highly innovative at its time, Bullet Time debuted with Max Payne. Ports of Max Payne were created for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Macintosh. A version of Max Payne was also released for the Game ...