The Myth of Max Payne 2 | Story Explained
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- In Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, a detective for the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is reinstated after the events of the previous game, and he reunites with Mona Sax to uncover a conspiracy of death and betrayal.
Two years after the events of the first game, Max has been reinstated in his old job as a police detective for the NYPD. Max is called on to investigate a gunfight at a warehouse owned by Max's old associate Vladimir Lem and discovers the place has been attacked by a group of hitmen called the Cleaners. He encounters Mona Sax surprisingly, who was presumed dead at the end of the previous game. Max heads to a restaurant owned by Lem and rescues him from his old foe Vinnie Gognitti; Lem claims that Gognitti is trying to monopolize the black market gun trade and sees Lem as a threat. After evading an attack by the Cleaners in his apartment, Max tracks Mona to an abandoned funhouse and learns that the Cleaners are after anyone who knows about the secretive Inner Circle. While attempting to track down a contact, Mona is arrested because of her crimes and is taken in to the police station, despite Max's protests.
While at the station, Max overhears his new partner, Valerie Winterson, talking on the phone about Mona. The station is attacked by the Cleaners, who are looking for Mona. Mona breaks out of her cell, and after fighting off the Cleaners, Max and Mona begin hunting down the people responsible for the attack. Their search leads them to a construction site, where he and Mona defend themselves against the Cleaners. After their foes leave, Winterson arrives and holds Mona at gunpoint. Mona claims that Winterson is there to kill her, while Winterson claims that she is simply trying to arrest a fleeing fugitive. After several moments of consideration, Max fatally shoots Winterson, allowing Mona to escape. Before she dies, Winterson shoots Max, hospitalizing him.[5]
The Cleaners raid the hospital building looking for Max, but Max manages to fight his way out. He visits Senator Alfred Woden, the leader of the Inner Circle, who reveals that the Cleaners work for Lem; Lem wants to secure control of the criminal underground and the Inner Circle by killing Gognitti and Woden. Max raids Lem's restaurant, killing several of his henchmen, and discovers that Winterson was Lem's mistress. He races to Gognitti's hideout to save him from Lem, and the two flee to Mona's funhouse hoping that she can help them, but Lem ambushes them. He reveals that Mona is a hired gun for Woden, with orders to kill Lem and Max. Lem murders Gognitti, shoots Max and leaves him for dead. Mona rescues Max, and together, they go to Woden's mansion to save him from Lem.[5]
At the mansion, Mona knocks Max to the ground in an attempt to follow her orders to kill him, but discovers that her feelings for him keep her from doing so. Lem shoots Mona, after realizing that she will not kill Max. Woden confronts Lem, who shoots him dead in the ensuing struggle. Max and Lem fight while the mansion burns around them. Eventually, Lem is killed and Max returns to Mona's side as the police arrive, and she dies in his arms.[5] In an alternate ending unlocked on the highest difficulty, Mona survives her wound, and the two share a kiss.
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0:00 - Max Payne 2 Introduction
0:42 - The Hero's Journey
1:23 - The Ordinary World
2:10 - Call To Adventure
3:26 - Refusal Of The Call To Adventure
4:31 - Meeting The Mentor
5:10 - Crossing The First Threshold
6:30 - Tests, Allies, and Enemies
9:42 - The Approach To The Inmost Cave
11:01 - The Ordeal
12:36 - The Reward
13:42 - The Road Back
14:33 - Resurrection
15:56 - The Return With The Elixir
17:05 - Outro - Ігри
This was such a good follow-up to the Max Payne 1 vid! I love seeing the further story progression and then production is fire as always
Thanks!
"A funhouse is a linear sequence of scares. Take it or leave it is the only choice given. Makes you think about free will: have our choices been made for us because of who we are?"
One of those games that make you really think💯
Amazing video! You really simplified it for me, I'm currently writing my own script and this helps!
Really underrated channel. You surely deserve more.
Both the max payne 1 and 2 vid was really awesome.
Thanks for the kind words and support!
@@pandoxvideos welcome 😁
Absolutely love this series! Was wondering if you were gonna do Max Payne 3?
LJ, thanks for the encouragement and kind words. I was considering a video on Max Payne 3 in the future!
@@pandoxvideos well if you plan on doing one, I’ll be here !
@@pandoxvideos please do.
MP3 really hit a nerve with all the cold turkey and gang violence stuff cause I was getting drunk a lot and hanging around shady people back in the day lol it came at the right time
I was late to a date at Applebee's because I was watching this video. 1/10 would watch again.
I hope you enjoyed their apple-teasers
This is hands down the best video on max Payne 2 as a big big big fan of this game this video explained a lot of what I had already felt about and taken from the game myself I hope I too can do the same as max and move on with my life that no matter how broken Iam this depression is something I can survive as well max payne 2 hands down always will be and is my favorite game of all time heres to you max dearest of all my friends :)
Max Payne 2 was the greatest telling of the hero's journey.
Perfect. Glad you went for a second part.
Legit playing this series right now ! Awsome video man
Enjoy the playthrough! Thanks for watching!
This my favorite game, and also the first game i ever bought. And this video was made on my birthday? WOWW
It's late but happy birthday :)
Never thought about the hero story in the max payne games
Nice!
ive gotta say, it was a great video!! especially your interpretations
Isn't mona alive at the end? It's the secret ending if you beat the game on hardest difficulty.
I was wondering what the elixir would be. Nice vid thanks!
The Return With The Elixir was difficult to identify because the thing Max wanted most (Mona) as lost to him. Thanks for watching Malice! 😀
Awesome video, do make one for max payne 3 ! It would be quite a delight
Great videos bro, watched both 1 and 2 now for some nostalgia for the games and I learned a lot. 10/10
Max Payne is a real guy you know that this story is what max head gone through in real life
@@MaxPayne19893 you got any sources for this info? Interesting if so!
@Dave Nevis yeah my brother saw when he was little a news report at max Apartment he saw a picture of that Flaming building he saw someone in a jacket that was supposed to be max Payne and in 2009 i remember saw the news on tv and saw the crisis on the airport i was listening what the news say and mention the name max Payne i thought immediately is not a made up game this was real and get a little information that Rockstar made contact with max Payne they say to max do want us to make a game for u to see people what you had gone through at first he says but then he says fine and the reason why is not Public anymore because max want to keep this a secret thats why so many people dont know that this is not a made up game thats al the information i know
@@MaxPayne19893 sorry bro. I'd love to believe you but do you not have evidence? Fairly cool story though 😂
You dont believe me fine then never i was trying to get people the truth and how can i find evidence that is deleted for over 14 years Jesus why dont people like you never believe me its making me pissed off i was just trying to help you understand but you dont believe me fucking fine then
Great video, would love to also see one about max payne 3
Lost my saved game so now I gotta watch a video instead of starting all over lol
Why not an inspection for the comic and third game too? I think it is a good time to do it
Mona has survived!
This is my most favorite game ❤. The story feels personal
has any one of you once run into a fanmade graphic novel, I do not remember entirely if it runs somewhat paralel with the second game I think, but it has a good deal younger sister(early 20´s) of Max, that unknown to max, works for Vladimir as a hit man, i think Vlad calls her the Sparrow,, and possibly a occasional lover, that during a job for Vladimir to kill Vinnie she kinda falls for Vinnie, and it appears as if I believe that she somehow gets to and rescue Vinnie from the baseball bat boy suit before it blows up unknown to Max
does it ring any bells?
I haven’t heard of it. If you find it, can you link it (or send to me via Twitter or email)?
@@pandoxvideos I did find the name of the characther, Sandie Payne, I also found the name of the writer, apparently she has done some work on deviantart as well, under the name: Mariamus, but unsure if she is still active there as it seemed she had not done anything for about 2years, but it did seemed she unfortunately had taken down the story to make the characther a story of her own.
Can you please Make myth of max payne 3
Great video! One criticism I could make is that you could try to speak faster and with a bit more enthusiasm. It's a bit monotone. Production is fantastic though!
Thanks for the constructive criticism and kind words!
I wish it would come to android already
Can you please keep video of max payne 3
That's certainly on my to-do list!
Do max Pain 3
I'm planning on doing one about Max Payne 3!
I wish we have a Max Payne 4 to see Mona, Max, and hopefully a son team up as actual team of cops to finish the suspense left in Max Payne 2. Max Payne 3 was at best a filler. Good video, Pandox.
Part 1 and 2 were really great. But 2 years later and I suppose a part 3 is dead.