New gameplay videos and previews
30th September 2003 by Kristian "biXen" Hollund
There's a lot of new gameplay videos released, and I only say ONE thing to you. GO AND GET THEM. I don't care if you are on 56K and have to wait ten days, just get them. If you thought this game would be good, you'll think it's going to be great after seeing this, if you thought it was going to be mediocre you are going to bend over after seeing these videos. This is KICKASS action at it's best, get get excited. You can find links to all the videos on my Max Payne 2 downloads page here.

There are some updated previews at Gamespy, IGN and Gamespot because of this. Might be worth checking out, there's a tad of new info there. And it's also been confirmed what I assumed about Bullettime 2.0, the improved version for this game. You will build up a time difference between you and the enemies if you kill enemies, hence making them move slower than you, I think it looks cool, not everyone does, but let's just wait until we've played it. Nobody's gonna miss Half-Life 2 for a while. Just check out the physics in MP2, powered by the same physics engine, Havok.

By the way, there was new screenshots with some of these previews, hence my Max Payne 2 screenshots page is updated, and it now has 40 unique different screenshots, so check it out. But most important, the gameplay movies here.

On another note, Max 2 is rated M for "strong violence, strong language, blood, and mature sexual themes". Mature sexual themes? The kissing? ;) I think this is another title the Norwegian family minister will want to ban, she's insane, don't ask :)

Some updates lately
29th September 2003 by Kristian "biXen" Hollund
As some of you have noticed, Maddieman is constantly updating a picture of the day at his site Hell's Kitchen. I think they are from both The Real World and Katana 2, anyway they look great, if you don't visit his site today you'll miss out, same goes for tomorrow :)

Some more good news. The roots of the Max Payne Headquarters people have created the site Max Payne Source. They are trying to make it more friendly this time, time will show if they succeed. After a bit annoying style sheet in the beginning it's now shaping up nicely. They'll probably get some content in there as soon as they can. But for now their forums are available to chat a bit in. On that topic my forums should have been up a while ago, no such luck, I'll see when I get time.

Some news from Deep Six. They have a great interview with the Katana 2 makers Maddieman and StratonAce, part 1 is online now. And along with that comes screenshots and two exclusive gameplay videos of the mod, and it looks sweeter than I had imagined. Check it all out in the interview here.

Maniac of Deep Six has also written a rather odd article of what won't be in Max Payne 2, head over here to read it ;)

Another interesting tidbit mentioned at Deep Six is that Max Payne 2 is confirmed for two cds by George Broussard of 3D Realms, Max Payne Area reported this. I already was 99% sure it was, but nice to have it confirmed. And people, 15th October is release date for the PC version. 30th for Europe, or 24th if you are lucky (some rumours said so).

Official Max Payne 2 site is now updated with gameplay videos
24th September 2003 by Kristian "biXen" Hollund
Gamespy had a little Q&A session with Petri Järvilehto of Remedy today. You can read that here.

The especially good news about that is that now all gameplay movies that has been site exclusives this past time is now available on the Offical Max Payne 2 website, MaxPayne2.com. You can go there and grab a big zip file with all files in nice quality or see one and one. Head on over and check out their media section. We've updated our screenshots page with the newest screenshot that you can see following this newspost. I've also updated the Max Payne 2 downloads page with info about the gameplay movies.

On that note, Froz has made a pretty cool fan video which uses footage from most of the gameplay videos released, combined with nice editing and music from the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack it sounds pretty nice.You can get it here.

By the way, guess everyone already noticed that the contest winner is in the top banner now. Looks pretty good, might do it so they change later, will see.

Another Max Payne 2 gameplay video
22nd September 2003 by Kristian "biXen" Hollund
Shacknews has an exclusive Max Payne 2 gameplay video up for grabs. It comes in WMV9 format, so make sure you are up to date before heading over to check it out.

If you aren't an IGN subscriber you might also want to check out the mirror of the movieclip they got a few days ago which shows off one of the comic book sequences in Max Payne 2. This game looks smoookin... OMG WTF LOL !!! Thanks to Deep Six for that piece of news.

To all you fellow Max Payne 2 fans I must just say one thing. Stop whining about every little thing that doesn't look so cool in the low-res 14 second video clips. All the cool stuff will be cool, everything that looks bad will probably be cool to. Have some faith. "There is no try, just do". Had to quote wise man Yoda. Now go check out some of these videos and enjoy the evening. If you have no clue what videos are out, head on over to our Max Payne 2 Downloads page to check it out.

Screenshots, interviews and more media
21st September 2003 by Kristian "biXen" Hollund
JCal from HomeLan Fed let me know that they've got an interview with Petri Järvilehto of Remedy asking some questions about Max Payne 2 and how they felt the response for Max Payne was among other things. It features two screenshots, one of them you can see on the right side here. Go and check it out here, it's a good read.

Spotted at affils Deep Six that Gamers.com has a preview of Max Payne 2 up at their site. Doesn't look that interesting content-wise, but it has 3 new shots. The shots also look a bit odd, maybe they are scanned, I'm not sure. They look too bright. Still, worth checking out here.

Another interesting tidbit, Max Payne is reported to be on it's way to the Gameboy Advance. It'll come on a 128MB cartridge and will be named Max Payne Advanced (how original). More info on that here.

Also worth noting, I've updated the downloads and screenshots pages for Max Payne 2 with all the new stuff. Some people doesn't catch the older newspost with news about the Max Payne 2 trailer being out, so I'm saying it again, there's a Max Payne 2 trailer out! There may be a bigger and better one yet, but one is already out, go to the Max Payne 2 downloads page to find links to it.

Matrix Revolutions Update and Media
21st September 2003 by Kristian "biXen" Hollund
Friggin Payne man! [/Vinnie Gognitti]. So many updates these days, with all Max Payne 2 media coming. Well it's good news, it's nearing release.

This update is concerning a mod for Max Payne though, Matrix Revolutions has a trailer to show off and wants to tell the world about their mod. I will just quote Versable who sent me the info.

"Matrix Revolutions is not just another Kung Fu + official maps mod. Rather, this mod will have much deeper and original ideas such as a flying mode, bullet stoping and Gunkata mod (Similar to drunken shootdodging but more fast paced and stylefull). Yes this mod will use Kung Fu 3.0 but with new animations. This mod will feature about 170+ new animations, over 15 new weapons, atleast 3 new maps and official maps such as Lobbyshootout."

It looks like it'll be a decent mod, you can check out the gameplay videos at our affils Max Payne Zone.

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