Max Payne (PS4)
Max Payne is a franchise I have never really cared for. I own all the games and have considered playing them once or twice but a third-person shooter with no cover mechanics never really appealed to me so for years they have sadly sat on my shelves collecting dust. Yet due to all of the positive analysis videos I have seen on the series (shout out to Raycevick by the way) I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Max Payne was released during the height of the PlayStation 2 so it does make sense that it would be overshadowed by other titles that were about violence, drugs and sex. With that in mind though, the first game sold 5 million copies worldwide and has its dedicated fanbase so I thought it was worth giving the game a shot and found the PlayStation 2 port on the PS store. Max Payne is mostly a typical third-person shooter with a few gimmicks thrown in to make it more unique. Bullet-time is the biggest of these, allowing Max to mimic Neo from The Matr...