Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a violent, film-noir love story. Dark, tragic and intense, the in-depth story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations. Love hurts.

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a action, noir and third-person shooter game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Rockstar Games.
Released on February 25th 2001 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 11,662 reviews of which 11,018 were positive and 644 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.77€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne into these genres:

Action Noir Third-Person Shooter Classic Bullet Time Story Rich Shooter Singleplayer Atmospheric Third Person Dark Great Soundtrack Cinematic Crime Detective Adventure Narrative Cult Classic Sequel

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP
Processor: 1Ghz PIII/Athlon or 1.2Ghz Celeron/Duron processor
Memory: 256MB RAM
Graphics: 32MB AGP graphics card with hardware transform & lighting support
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0
Hard Drive: 1.5 GB hard drive space
Sound Card: DirectSound compatible sound card
Input: Keyboard and mouse

Recommended:

OS *: Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP
Processor: 1Ghz PIII/Athlon or 1.2Ghz Celeron/Duron processor
Memory: 512MB RAM
Graphics: 64MB DirectX 9 compatible AGP graphics card with hardware T&L support
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0
Hard Drive: 1.5 GB hard drive space
Sound Card: DirectSound compatible sound card
Input: Keyboard and mouse

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

Just thought I should say this to anyone who is struggling to play the game on Windows 11. I spent 2 days trying to get the game to work, however it kept randomly crashing, sometimes after 10 minutes and other times as soon as I booted up the game. I followed every guide, downloaded every fix, but nothing seemed to work. Until some random comment on reddit from awhile ago suggested to change steam.exe affinity to 1 cpu in task manager. As soon as made this change the game worked. I've so far been able to play the game over the past day and with no crashes. I hope this helps anyone who is thinking of getting the game or is struggling to run it.

Dec. 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10

Dec. 2024

Max Payne 2 is an exciting third-person shooter with a dark and gripping story. It’s a nostalgic masterpiece that was groundbreaking for its time, offering an unforgettable experience. It was also the first Remedy game I played many years ago, and recently replaying it brought back all the memories. 7/10

Nov. 2024

This game will never get old and will be kept in our memories for ever. The theme song is fantastic. It reminds me of my best memories and happy times of my life.

June 2024

I still remember that high school afternoon when I finally got the chance to install Max Payne 2 on our PC at home. Once you shoot the first bad guy and he falls backwards, bringing down some boxes and shelves with him, my jaw simply dropped at seeing (almost) proper physics implemented into an action game! While it is not a groundbrakingly new sequel, Max Payne 2 improved on a lot things from the first one - the biggest for me being somewhat of a revamp for bullet time. Now, you don't necessarily have to rely on shootdodging a lot and this made the action more fluid in my opinion. Once you clear out a room with dual Ingrams, and then the camera flies around Max/Mona while they reload - it is such an awesome feeling! So, does it still hold up 21 years after its release? Absolutely, and I guarantee that you will have a great time with it. The graphic novel, the noir atmosphere, the "fake" TV series, and the exceptional writing do elevate it above its competition, even today. It is also interesting to see how Remedy carried over some gameplay ideas from the Max Payne games to Control and Alan Wake. Oh, and "Late Goodbye" from Poets of the Fall is still a fantastic song! Needless to say, I am very much looking forward to the Max Payne 1+2 Remake and I cannot wait to see what Remedy will do with the opportunity!

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