Difficulty:

Hard

Time Spent:

20 to 40 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Almost, but not quite"

The good of the game:

1. Control is easy compare with other shooting game

2. Soundtrack is suit the game story progress excellently especially during the combat.

3. Graphic is definitely the greatest

4. Character development, no doubt the beginning of the game Payne is totally a walking corpse & dwell in his wife dead but as the story progress he return to former-self.

5. Epic Action throughout the game

6. High Enemy AI as they accuracy is fantastic, even just come out from a door, they still can accurately hit you (cheat?) & they know when to charge to you.

The Bad of the game:
1. Storyline - Maybe just me, i can feel the storyline show how stupid Max Payne is, even i also can tell how the conspiracy work at the beginning (not 100% accurate).

2. "Lock" Mode - you can't do anything more than just follow the story flow no freedom at all. Make matter worse you only can wear a bullet proof vest almost at the end of the game.

3. Story is too short just like COD, it take about 18 hours to complete the game.

4. AI partner - Our AI partner Passo did a "great" job for giving support by just aiming without shooting any enemy & force gamers to sole the whole battle field.

5. Replay value - Other than to understand better of the story, collect of golden gun parts & clues nothing else worth of replay.

6. Over depend on the bullet time movement if you use all bullet time movement & can't find a good spot to avoid enemy fire, then you are as good as die.