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Max Payne 2. Familiar voices in a New York night.

Rob Paulsen, Bullet Time and the song that grew from a Sam Lake poem, twenty-three years after the PC release.

The original feature 35 seconds. The story is also available in the slides and text below.

The Feature Film

Max Payne 2. Familiar voices in a New York night.

Rob Paulsen’s voice credits are one of the less obvious connections in Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne.

Batman’s Kevin Conroy had a place in Max Payne 2, too.

The Photo Essay

5 slides from the feature.

The story behind the images.

The original PC manual credits him as Lord Jack, Cleaners and Commandos—one of the details tucked into this noir classic.

On October 14, 2003, Rockstar shipped Remedy’s Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne to North American PC stores. The feature marks 23 years since that release.

Max was back in the NYPD. Mona Sax was alive. Bullet Time carried the action through a dangerous New York night.

And “Late Goodbye,” the Poets of the Fall song woven into the game, grew from a poem by writer Sam Lake.

For the Archive, the physical edition matters alongside the game: the original box, discs, manual, artwork and credits.

Wanted for the Archive

Max Payne 2. The original boxed PC edition.

The original physical PC release with its box, discs and manual, keeping the artwork and printed credits together.

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