Excerpt: Rockstar is most known for its over-the-top shock factor games. Last year, they developed a console game that brought bullet-time into the lime light.
Excerpt: Imagine yourself thrown into a dark world filled with thugs, junkies, hookers, crimelords and a hard boiled cop who's been wronged and wants revenge.
Pros: Great story and voice acting, Lots of gunplay and action
Cons: Blocky characters and furniture, Platforming elements hampered by poor jump action
Excerpt: Max Payne: the game synonymous with Bullet Time arrives on the GBA surprising intact. Alas, the nightmare levels are missing (and, as the Monty Python troupe would say:...
Excerpt: Max Payne: the game synonymous with Bullet Time arrives on the GBA surprising intact. Alas, the nightmare levels are missing (and, as the Monty Python troupe would say:...
Excerpt: Max Payne: the game synonymous with Bullet Time arrives on the GBA surprising intact. Alas, the nightmare levels are missing (and, as the Monty Python troupe would say:...
Excerpt: GBA players have reason to smile: Max Payne is that rare sort of GBA game that manages to deliver the fun, style, and feel of its console counterpart.
Summary: Rockstar Games compresses its hard-boiled hero to handheld size without losing a bit of the original game's grit, nastiness, or slow-motion gunplay.
Pros: Voice acting on the GBA!; strong graphics; cool and mature story.
Cons: Can be crazy difficult; lack of save points; camera can be a hassle.
Conclusion: This is a graphically impressive GBA game, with clear, crisp sprites, and nicely detailed levels. The sound is good, with decent samples and clear speech during the cut...
Pros: Good, fun gameplay., Great selection of weapons., Isometric view works well.