Max Payne Codexery

Development & Legacy

12 entries in the Max Payne compendium.

Development & Legacy — Era Chart

Sam Lake1970Remedy Entertainment1995John Woo1999Film Noir2003Aesir Corporation2008Rockstar Games2012
Remedy EntertainmentWhere Finnish demoscene roots meet bullet-riddled noir.Sam LakeThe face of Max Payne, the writer behind the script — and the man who put his own mug on aAesir CorporationThe company that made a monster and tried to bury the proof.John WooThe Hong Kong action cinema director whose work inspired Max Payne's bullet time and gunplFilm NoirWhere the dark swallows the light, and every shadow holds a secret.Third-person shooterWhere slow motion meets hard-boiled vengeance.Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max PayneLove hurts. So does a bullet to the face. So does a bullet to the face.Max Payne 3Gun fu meets gritty noir in sun-scorched Brazil — where every bullet is a confession and eRockstar GamesThe studio that traded snow for sweat, New York for São Paulo, and gave Max one last, brutMark WahlbergThe face that turned a bullet-time legend into a box-office cautionary tale.The MatrixWake up. The simulation is the only game that matters.John MooreA name I cannot confirm belongs to the Max Payne universe.
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