The graphics deliver striking photo-realistic textures portraying dilapidated factories, dingy homes, a neglected police station, and an eerie funhouse in Coney Island just to name a couple of my favorites. You will go back and see the cutscenes any time you wish them to be unlocked. Scripted events and the monotonous plot of Max himself hold the story going in the middle of the game. The plot advances in an artful graphic novel approach that occurs between chapters and stages of superb voice-overs. In reality, the damage and the horrific body count is astounding.
Max Payne 2 The Collapse of Max Payne offers a dramatic, single-player experience, full of heart-wrenching deception, grim recurring themes, and frantic, chest-wrenching action. The real film noir yarn is rife with bleak undertones and a defective protagonist trying to meet a dramatic conclusion. Max Payne 2 has crossed the threshold of perfection into the world of excellent cinematic storytelling that eludes the vast majority of big-budget movies. If you like the Max Payne franchise, then you may like to play and have a lot of fun to play. Mind you, the first game was already a stylistic bag of grim irony, touching on true grandeur. Once you fired your way through non-stop action and the black, brooding narration, that was pretty much it.
Perhaps the one big fault with the original Max Payne was his lack of replayability.