![]() It was above Frank Miller's Sin City in its strangeness but not by much. The original Max Payne was a bizarre hybrid of Matrix-like gun porn and insane humor. The fact is Max Payne 2 is a substantially different title from its predecessor. Unfortunately, I can't just blame it all on adolescents unwilling to admit girls aren't icky. This is probably unfair but I think the video game market still has a long way to go before its primary audience is capable of appreciating deep emotion. Maybe I don't have a very high opinion of the average fourteen-year-old gamer, mostly because I was one, but I suspect plenty of people instinctively shied away from the title because of the presence of romance in their shooters. I believe this directly lead to its commercial failure. ![]() Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne prominently displays the subtitle, "A Film Noir Love Story" on its cover. ![]()
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