Max Payne- IBM PC Compatible

I rarely rate first-person shooters highly these days. I didn't rate this one highly, either, for the sole reason that this isn't a first-person shooter. Hmm? let me try this again.

Take a lot of film-noir darkness and add a dash of The Matrix, andyou'll get Max Payne. In this third-person shooter, you take on the roleof Max Payne, a fugitive undercover cop who has been accused of murder. You must dive deep into New York's dark...

Max Payne (MP)attempts to take gaming to a more mature, sophisticated level. Granted,there's a lot of twitchy gunplay but there's a definite storypropelling everything along. It all starts off darkly with the wholesaleslaughter of Max's wife and baby....