Example
levels released by Remedy 30th October 2003
by Kristian
"biXen" Hollund
Remedy has released
official example levels and more
This levelpack they released today contains
the Dead Man Walking mode map Manor, and
another map filled with useful objects (prefabs).
This is what Petri Järvilehto of Remedy
has to say about it.
"The set
includes source .LV2 files for a _huge_
amount of different physical objects, ammo
boxes and whatnot as well as the first Dead
Man Walking .LV2 file.
Included files:
Physical_objects.lv2
- An extensive compilation of dynamic objects
from the game, ranging from chairs and desks
to explosive ammoboxes and watercoolers
DMW_Manor_Frontyard.lv2
- Source level file for Manor Front yard
Dead Man Walking level
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New
version of RASMaster including mp2m support 30th October 2003
by Kristian
"biXen" Hollund
New version of
RASMaster - version 1.2 with .mp2m support
In the Max
Payne 2 Mod Tools download section you
can now find a new version of the popular
RAS Master tool, now with mp2m mod file
support as well. Head on over there to check
it out.
Texture ripper released
You can now get the textures from the levels
Remedy has made. Get the tool LDB2Rip from
our MP2
Tools downloads page. Be sure to read
the
thread at the official forums before
downloading it and using the textures. And PLEASE,
for the love of God, try to use textures
wisely so all levels don't look like shitty
Max Payne 2 ripoffs :\
First Person view mod and Max Payne
face actor mod
Froz has made a mod swapping Timothy Gibbs
face with Sam Lake's face, so now you can
play looking like the original Max Payne.
You'll find it in the MP2
Small Mods and Tweaks section. needhelp
from the 3D
Realms Forums has released a small mod
which lets you play the game in first person
view, looks very different, worth trying
out. Get it here.
Other news Deep
Six also has posted questions they've
asked Remedy. Go and check
it out. Max
Payne Source has an article going with
info on how to build a successful mod, a
must for all of you that wanna start a mod
but don't know where to start. They are
currently on part 2, but you'll find the
first part easily. Part 2 is here.
Official
level addon, changes to our mod sections
and more 28th October 2003
by Kristian
"biXen" Hollund
For those of
you still unsure whether to buy the game
or not - Remedy Q/A First off, you can check
gamerankings to see what the average
gamer thinks, second of all you can read
the questions we popped off to Sam Lake
of Remedy. Check them out here.
About contacting me I get WAY too many mails asking
me all sorts of questions. I'm sorry, I
don't have time to answer all that, read
the contact info
page, it says the same there. If you
have all sorts of weird questions either
use official channels or use one of the
forums.
You can also forget about sending me tweak
mods or info about tweak mods, I only accept
level, mod or tools info with SCREENSHOTS
(not for tools) and proper description.
And I can't host files for the moment.
New Modsite is up There's a new modsite in town.
It's called MP2 Mods. It has different mod
downloads and info on modding Max Payne
2. Head over
there and check it out.
Additional levels from Remedy
Remedy has released two new Dead Man Walking
gamemode levels. They are called "Upper
East Side" and "Mona's Partyground".
You can get them in our Mod Section under
Max
Payne 2 Level downloads.
New source for official themesong
Take 2 has put up a link to the official
Max Payne 2 themesong on their page. You
can find the link in our
Max Payne 2 Downloads section.
Our modsection is totally renewed
Our Good Mods
page have turned into a new experience.
It's a lot bigger and divided into sections.
It's not exactly filled up with content
yet, but it will come, for now you can find
a great tool, a GUI for Rasmaker2, in the
Max
Payne 2 Mod Tools section, and the levels
released by Remedy in the
MP2 Levels section. I am also working
on freshing up the tutorial section properly,
so hang on for some good changes.
"Last Goodbye" lyrics
Wondered what the lyrics to the song in
the credits (and other parts of the game)
are? The band is Poets
of the Fall and the lyrics can be found
at their
website. Thanks to |D|O|M|E| for that
info.
Max
Payne 2 modding tools are out! 25th October 2003
by Kristian
"biXen" Hollund
Max Payne 2 Mod
Tools
That's right. Now you can create your own
characters, weapons, levels and most of
the other stuff you want. Just get the mod
tools here.
Tutorials will follow both from Remedy and
from other sources, among others here at
Payne Reactor. On Sunday, if all goes well,
I'll have the new mod section published,
it's getting a good spitshine, so you should
look forward to that. It's still gonna be
the Good Mods only, but a much better overview
and so on.
Max
Payne 2 Patch 1.01 is out 22nd October 2003
by Kristian
"biXen" Hollund
Max Payne 2 Patch
1.01
The patch bringing the game up to version
1.01 contains the following fixes/additions:
* Fixed game crashing to "Exception:
Bad Allocation" on Windows 98/Me during
loading of certain levels. This may potentially
fix other crashes as well.
* Improved loading
times on low-end computers.
* Improved Technical
Support Tool to include CD-ROM Model.
The real-life Max Payne Some have said they want to see
the real Max Payne also up here, well I
won't make a special page for that. But
the name of the actor who plays Max Payne
in Max Payne 2 is Timothy Gibbs, you can
see his
homepage here. His voice is James McCaffrey's,
check out some info on him here.
In Max Payne the original his face was Sam
Lake of Remedy, who's written both the games.Couldn't decide who I'd have a
pic of here, so here you have both, nice
eh?
Amazon links As you may have noticed I have
some amazon.com
links to buy or pre-order a version of Max
Payne 2 in my top area. This is because
I have a high bandwidth usage with all the
visitors, so I need a just in case, so I'd
appreciate if you'd support me by using
those links for buying Max Payne 2 or anything
else you buy off Amazon.com.
More
reviews and more Mona 20th October 2003
by Kristian
"biXen" Hollund
Mona Sax(y)
Seems my little article about Kathy Tong,
who is the actress you see as Mona's face
in Max Payne 2, was a success. I have added
a couple more images of her in our "Who
is the real-life Mona" article.
And I've also added the info on how to get
her nude in the game, for all you pervs
out there. (thanks to Andreas T and Avi
Magen for links to new images)
Update: I've added more
pics of Mona, thanks to Avi Magen again,
she's really beautiful in these new pics,
a lot sexier than the nude model everyone
seems to love to play with :)
Some more reviews Actiontrip
and icronticGames
have mailed me about their reviews, and
they are quite different. Actiontrip
gives Max Payne 2 82/100 and says it's too
short, no shocker. To answer that I think
I'll just quote the cons of icronticGames'
Max Payne 2 review : "If it lasted
months, it would be too short!"
Still, 6 hours sounds short, but I believe
the replayability of MP2 is a lot bigger
than for MP1, and the mod community has
learned quite a bit and is stronger, so
I don't think it deserves anything under
90 unless they fucked up some vital bits,
which I doubt. At least they were honest.
We'll see when I get my hands on the game.
Read Actiontrip's review here
and icronticGames review here.
Multiplayer
OMG WTF LOL. Some reviews have mentioned
that Max Payne 1 had multiplayer, or that
it was possible, or that it's possible for
Max Payne 2 or whatever. NEWSFLASH: Unless
you find the world's best assembly guy you
are never going to do jack shit with Max
Payne's code. Yes it was done with GTA,
but GTA had multiplayer code remnants laying
around + it was coded for it, it had tracking
of all objects in a low level in the engine,
which was used for the replay as well. There
ain't never gonna be multiplayer, just enjoy
the best single-player experience of the
year, play some mods and shut up!
A
Big BIG update about Max Payne 2, modinfo
and other things 19th October 2003
by Kristian
"biXen" Hollund From now
on I'm gonna put a bolded
header for every different newsitem in each
newspost. This is because some people seem
to skip the whole post if one thing in them
isn't interesting, now you can skip to the
next header. Smart eh? Max Payne 2 is due
to be out on Friday in Europe, so the last
of us except the console fans will soon
get our hands on the game.
Deep Six' Impressions of the New
York Trip
WhiteRabbit of Deep
Six has posted his impressions of the
New York trip me, him and Mika of Remedy
had some weeks ago. He writes about his
trip and his impressions of the game. He
remembers some details I didn't and vise
versa, worth checking out. Read it here. Who is the real Mona Sax?
Well her name is Kathy Tong apparently,
according to the credits in the game. And
some people have asked me to dig up some
info on her, well all I could find without
some help were some images, and some attributes
on her. I think that's her. I have made
a little page collecting the info here.
Information about the mod tools
Sami Vanhatalo of Remedy has updated us
with some info on what to expect from the
modtools of Max Payne 2 which is not included
on the cd but will be released soon. Here's
a quote from a
thread at the official forums.
"The Tools installation package
will be about 20MB (give or take a few megs...)
The Tools installation
contains pretty much similar (executable
for everything and perhaps one sample for
each editor), with the exception that:
- during the installation of the tools,
the installer can automatically generate
a "MaxPayne2Dev" folder which'll
contain unras'ed database with modified
menu.txt, levels.txt etc so you can get
a kick-start into just making a map and
not having to worry about RasMaker paths
etc...
Then there will be
additional "Tutorials" on the
official
website.
We're currently
still testing the Tools package installer,
but it's coming..." Extract sounds, music and dialogue
from Max Payne 2
Noticed this over at Deep
Six. Now I don't know how to use this
so you are on your own if you can't get
it to work. But apparently a guy called
Alex Shapiro made this program which will
extract it for you, get it here.
Maddieman has released LameKatana
Lame Katana is the last version of Katana
2 before Maddieman switched to Kung
Fu 3 and the new things that involved. It
looks quite fun, so fire up Max Payne and
LameKatana to get a taste of Maddiemans
twisted mind :) Check out more info at his
site, Hell's
Kitchen. Download
the mod at Max Payne Source.
aavenr of Deep
Six is taking a break
aavenr of Deep
Six has announced he's stepping back
from the Max Payne spotlight for a while,
after he realised that real life needs some
more attention. So I guess I was right when
I wrote that he'd get lazy and busy too.
Well I hope the new additions to the Deep
Six crew can keep the site up to pace while
aavenr has a breather :) Good luck on chilling
out aav.
PayneReactor's
Hands-on Preview of MP2 and NY Trip Story 12th October 2003
by Kristian
"biXen" Hollund I am a bit
out of the loop with news currently, I'll
summarize some of the more important stuff
tomorrow. My hands are kinda tired now,
I've been working on the article about my
trip to New York for some days now, and
it's finally all done. I didn't wanna release
it in parts since it gives you a better
feel to read it all at once.
There's probably some errors in there, but
at the moment I don't care. I just want
to get it out there, might correct later.
The preview itself is pretty spoilerfree,
I don't mention anything related to the
story or the actual content of levels, so
it should be pretty safe for everyone to
read. You all know what characters survived
the first one anyway, so that doesn't do
any damage. But if you still don't wanna
read it it's easy to skip to the other parts,
so I hope you'll all enjoy it.
Max
Payne 2 full trailer and recommended specs 9th October 2003
by Kristian
"biXen" Hollund The recommended
specs for playing Max Payne 2 are out, they
are as follows:
1.4Ghz Athlon or 1.7 Ghz Pentium 4,
Celeron or Duron processor
64MB DirectX 9 compatible AGP graphics card
with hardware T&L support
512MB RAM
1.5 GB hard drive space
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
DirectX 9.0
Also, best news in a long time. The full
trailer of Max Payne 2 is out, and it KICKS
ASS. You have to go and get this now. Find
the link from our Max
Payne 2 Downloads page.
Update: Forgot to mention that you need
to check out Katana 2 Interview Part 2 over
at Deep Six. Read it here,
it's good. AND, hang around this page later
today for a small trip log and Max Payne
2 preview, if I get it done in time :)
Big
news on the horizon 6th October 2003
by Kristian
"biXen" Hollund Sorry for
the lack of updates this weekend, but me
and WhiteRabbit of Deep
Six was invited to New York to check
out Max Payne 2. I'll publish part 1 of
that article tomorrow or the day after that,
with part 2 coming Thursday evening European
time. I may delay part 1 and release them
both together, we'll see. The Rockstar
guys were really cool, and the trip was
a success indeed. Anyway, Max Payne 2 is
gonna kick ass, and you'll hear about that
soon. I'll also update some general news
tomorrow, including the fact that Max Payne
2 is now gold, and will be in stores soon.
(Going gold means the master cd is duplicated
into the copies we play on). Release dates
are 15th October in the US and 24th October
in Europe. Now for some sleep, going back
and forth in time is hard :)
