SAD MAX: A Max Payne Trilogy Retrospective

This is a fullspoiler critique and retrospective of Max Payne 1 and 2 by Remedy Games and also Rockstar s climactic Max Payne 3. It looks closely at how each game treats Max as a person, from archetype, to abstract metaphor, to cautionary tale. It looks at how the different design priorities tease out different Maxes who still, somehow, connect along a single arc of character. TABLE OF CONTENTS Max Payne 1 00:24