"I had a dream of my wife. She was dead. But it was alright." A line that hit me like a freight train and one that I'll never forget. McCaffrey delivered the sharpest neo-noir performance of this generation, blending pulpy hard-boiled detective grit with poignant modernist poetry. What a tremendous loss. I'll be seeing you, Max.
This game was more than a movie, more than any other games during that time.. wow over 10 years passed. Such a level of depth and story telling. Above all the main BGM is so Divine and touching. Hearty thanks to the entire team. You made everyone feel the pain of Mr.Payne.
That smile Mona gives Max as she dies, coupled with the ominous sound effect in the background as the other panels fade away to show that she'd just finished bleeding out, that shit fuelled my nightmares for months till I came back and beat DOA mode. I was never happier to beat a game than the moment I saw Max and Mona holding each other, alive.
@@maverickslastoddworld6476Mona dying is a much better fit thematically than having Her survive,for example Max mentioned at the end of the game that confronting the past is "Like kissing the lips of your dead love, darkness waiting in the hole of Her mouth" also even the official Wikipedia page for Max Payne has Mona listed as deceased, that is Max's "curse" throughout the Franchise, He always gets to live, but can NEVER have a truly happy ending
Probably one of the most tragic and sad endings to any video game. At least Max Payne 1 had a silver lining at the end and in Max Payne 3 he found some sense of peace. In this game everything goes to shit
@@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470 i am not so sure. In MP3 at the beginning of the mission at the graveyard, Max mentiones Mona, but he doesn't says whenever she is alive or not.
Zhandos Zhenis Yeah, I remember clearly not knowing what to do when he blew the stairs and shot me while going right and left like a crab with an M4 in that attic.
yes bro . ive spent about 2 hours to kill him and that too with help of F5 (quick save ) . im the only one who killed him in my city . i got lot of respect for that ;-D
the music the story, the characters, the comic style and it's ilustrations, the gameplay, the world, this game was perfect. it's Noir tone still resonates in me. I think this game is responsible for making me like the noir genre so much. masterpiece
In my entire life playing video games, this was the ONLY game I didn't feel any satisfaction in finishing it, after killing Vlad, after finishing watching the graphic novels, getting the credits up... My mind and my body was a terrible feeling of emptiness, sadness, melancholy, desolation... as if I were Max himself, as if Mona had just died in my arms, as if I myself were reliving the tragedy of my own wife and my little baby. No other game has given me such a thing, and it's precisely this experience that makes Max Payne 2 a masterpiece, one of the best games ever made. Amazing how reviewing this ending here, all that horrible feeling we feel when completing the game for the first time, just comes up unexpectedly.
"Now, like all my loves, she was mine forever", "in the act of seeing, I am reborn" & "I had a dream of my wife, she was dead, but it was alright".. all simple and kind of melodramatic lines that hit incredibly hard emotionally given the context of the two games. max is one of the most tragic anti heroes in any form of media, and this ending was absolutely perfect. Going through tragic loss once again didn't break him, but reawakened him, Mona showed him he could still love and care about something other than vengeance. Beautiful game series, shame that Max Payne 3 kind of wiped it's ass with the series' trademark poetic writing and emotional complexity, that's rockstar for you! (They make the most overrated games in the industry from a story standpoint IMO). MP3 had the best gameplay of the 3 for sure, but other than that games intro and ending cutscenes (which I'll admit give some nice close to Max's journey), the story is a MASSIVE downgrade from the Remedy days.
Max payne 2 might be the greatest game ever made, the ending is utterly Perfect... And then max payne 3 goes and takes a steaming dump all over it with "Max is Back and hes Shooting Brazillians, Baby!"
@@UnknownPerson-2004 how tf they would made it canon, coz if so, then no mp3 and no money-grabbing would be in the future. But keeping mona dead as a canon, the ptsd story can be milked again
Strangely when I remember bullet dodging it is not Matrix but Max Payne which comes to mind. Best TPS game series ever made, the narrative associates Payne's pain and revenge with player. I still remember more than 10 years ago when end credit scene rolled in front of my eyes, I was heartbroken. Max Payne 3 also lives up to tragedy that is life of Max Payne.
Watching this legit made me tear up I remember buying this and many nights spent playing this hard to believe it's been almost 18 years. If you're here people you're in good company
Max Payne 3 was a masterpiece. However in terms of cutscenes style's, and no nightmare levels, It was disappointing. However l loved how it was dark and gloomy and Brazil felt like a fresh air, but I hope if they will make Max Payne 4 I hope it's in New York. It had it's unique atmosphere.
Such tremendous writing. Of the 3 games, 2 is still my favorite. I even beat it on hard where you get the alternate ending and Mona lives. The writing and character work is phenomenal. I was heartbroken to hear of James Mccaffery's passing.
After spending an hour to make this game work, I was finally able to play the game for the first time ever. The whole campaign's journey was one that despite was way more bittersweet than the previous, was something that was really worth playing! This game is gonna have a special place in my heart. Beautiful.
@@leonmcaffrey4625 just cause she didnt appear in the third game it doesnt mean its non canon. They couldve been separated in other ways, she got arrested, fled away etc
@@chanwooksook Три раза прошел обоих Максов в этот новогодний уикенд, и все так же эмоции захлестывают, когда начинает звучать Late Goodbye. Это искусство. Для меня такими играми навсегда останутся второй Макс и Сайлент Хилл 2.
The lousy thing about Max Payne III, is that they didn't put back on max's past memories, as the FINAL battle with Lem, the murders of Mona, Valerie, Vinnie and Woden would have been sensational
They did but they ret coned it for example in Max Payne 2 Mona snuck up behind max and pistol whip him before they can get to Woden panic room however in the Max Payne comic after the fall , he had a chance to confront Woden before vlad killed him
There's tons of lousy things about Max Payne 3 as a story and as a sequel. Rockstar made a great over the top action game with awesome combat, but IMO completely butchered the tone/story and characters
I still remember those school days when i was afraid to play this game yet i finished its all level except the last one( My big brother when i was in school completed final level. I was so angry at him that i didn't talk to him for two days). Those were the school memories. I miss those days😭😭😭😭
" I was supposed to be a hero" - said Vlad in the end. This is vanity. The reason why Eve plucked an apple from the forbidden tree in Eden. In the last seconds of the scene, a mosaic with the Tree, Adam and Eve can be seen on the wall. Genius.
This game was way way ahead of it's time what a storyline the whole team of this game successfully portrayed a broken man life and his tragic moments happened in his life this game is still now better than any other games ❤MAX PAYNE❤
12:30 was the moment i cried a little, shame ya had to changed the ending credit music by something else and not play the original poets of the fall music, that was the best part :/
kinda BGM played when Thanos fulfilled his destiny in Infinity War and found a place at end to rest himself. But you could actually see how much pain he went through in achieving his goals...you could look in his eyes..his sufferings.... and BGM rises...he smiles with pain....
The only reason the secret ending works on any level is because you have already lost Mona in a previous playthrough before that. It would be such a dumb and pointless ending if it was just Mona surviving all along.
With not saying much I know how opiates can be, and Max Payne 1 & 2 give a very depressive tone from the main character, it is very well thought, since I've noticed how opioids can eat away chunks of your persona and depress the hell out of you, and only a detective like Max Payne can give the accurate depiction of how it is to try to think clearly when on opioids. But the games themselves, even with small budget cutscene comics was great, storytelling dragged me in as a kid and now as an adult after few replays, I love the story too
Very sad ending broken my heart i played it three times still this game grabs a special place in my heart last words by maxpayne is very hard to take still playing the game never getting bored
I understand many players will feel betrayed by the default ending (Mona's death) but the alternate ending just feels like a figment of Max's desperate imagination as he always thought he could enjoy happiness after all the hardships he has gone through. It's like Max picked up the pieces of a broken mirror and tried to fix it and hurt himself.
I keep telling people had mona lived she would've went to jail for killing sebastian gate the U.S senator and max would've went tojail or have been fired with no pension
9:19 Freeze frame and cue music: “Max Payne, age 33, gave himself up to the authorities after the incident. He is now serving a life sentence.” Roll credits
Because Mona was also a member of the inner circle. She was waiting for a good moment to reveald. Max was angry but he still loved her. As he said - this is love...
You know I honestly wished there had been more backstory to Vladimir Lem, it would have been nice to have seen when he first became a member of The Inner Circle, and to see exactly how and why he developed so much bitterness and resentment towards Alfred Woden, the voicemail to Woden from Vlad in the final chapter basically implies that Vlad felt unappreciated by Woden, and that's the closest thing you get to an answer smh
"I had a dream of my wife. She was dead. But it was alright."
Tear drops start pouring
Crazy thing is I thought that sentence way before I heard about it in the game. It’s a pretty cool sentence and I agree with you it is a tearjerker.
Yeah😢❤
RIP McCaffrey
its meaning ?
@@bratstar0005 he says this after mona dies in his arms
"I had a dream of my wife. She was dead. But it was alright."
A line that hit me like a freight train and one that I'll never forget. McCaffrey delivered the sharpest neo-noir performance of this generation, blending pulpy hard-boiled detective grit with poignant modernist poetry. What a tremendous loss.
I'll be seeing you, Max.
RIP McCaffrey
Rest in Peace
This game will hold a special place in my heart
Like in the ventricles?
In Mine too ❤️❤️
Me too
Me tooo
Amen
In my opinion, most tragic video game protagonist ever. Poor max, all his life he had to suffer
Thats why his name is max payne
James Sunderland
U gotta be feeling the pain
Of Max Payne
I just figured out that Max could mean Maximum
@@aleksandersanya1817 never thought about that lol
when the game was over i was just starring at the wall and listening to the theme with heart broken.
Same
This game was more than a movie, more than any other games during that time.. wow over 10 years passed. Such a level of depth and story telling. Above all the main BGM is so Divine and touching. Hearty thanks to the entire team. You made everyone feel the pain of Mr.Payne.
Vijayashankar Yayathi Still better story and writing than most games today, beat the first 2 games a few days ago
Very True
True
Silent Hill 2. 2001.
His name was Max(Maxium) Payne(Pain) for a reason.
That smile Mona gives Max as she dies, coupled with the ominous sound effect in the background as the other panels fade away to show that she'd just finished bleeding out, that shit fuelled my nightmares for months till I came back and beat DOA mode. I was never happier to beat a game than the moment I saw Max and Mona holding each other, alive.
Yeah it's just too bad the DOA ending is non-canon
@@texasgent4694 to who?
@@maverickslastoddworld6476Mona dying is a much better fit thematically than having Her survive,for example Max mentioned at the end of the game that confronting the past is "Like kissing the lips of your dead love, darkness waiting in the hole of Her mouth" also even the official Wikipedia page for Max Payne has Mona listed as deceased, that is Max's "curse" throughout the Franchise, He always gets to live, but can NEVER have a truly happy ending
@@texasgent4694 especially since his story is a tragedy 😔
childhood memories! almost 10yrs now, I still remember some of the dialogues and the dead music OMG.
Same
Same here
almost 16 years now. same.
And in max payne 1 , the hell in which the sound of his baby crying
Ya. Unforgettable story and bgm
When story telling was more important than graphics.
it had wonderful graphics back in its days
I think the graphics of MP2 is still beautiful until right now.
Probably one of the most tragic and sad endings to any video game. At least Max Payne 1 had a silver lining at the end and in Max Payne 3 he found some sense of peace. In this game everything goes to shit
Actually. In this game max finally accepts everything that happened and moves on with his life. Until mp3 retconned it.
Play it on "Dead on Arrival" mode and you'll see a different ending ;)
@@medalighodhbani5927 Which unfortunately isn't canon :(
@@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470 i am not so sure. In MP3 at the beginning of the mission at the graveyard, Max mentiones Mona, but he doesn't says whenever she is alive or not.
@@Szmergiel747 he literally visits her grave
Vlad was one of the hardest bosses in my childhood, cause I had no idea how to kill him
Zhandos Zhenis Yeah, I remember clearly not knowing what to do when he blew the stairs and shot me while going right and left like a crab with an M4 in that attic.
The pins being bright orange to stand out kinda scream out to do something with them
Zhandos Zhenis. i think i had the same problem
Even i
yes bro . ive spent about 2 hours to kill him and that too with help of F5 (quick save ) . im the only one who killed him in my city . i got lot of respect for that ;-D
This game has special place in my heart
My also
Max Payne is just John Wick’s dad
U mean grand dad
But better
Speaking of which.... Bob Odenkirk would be a great Max Payne
Why the hell people even bring someones father in every damn subject
@@sebastiansomething7138 dad issues
the music the story, the characters, the comic style and it's ilustrations, the gameplay, the world, this game was perfect. it's Noir tone still resonates in me. I think this game is responsible for making me like the noir genre so much. masterpiece
I had a dream. My wife was dead.
But it was alright.
Actually, you got it wrong, it's:
I had a dream of my wife, she was dead, but it was alright
?
Too bad he has Mona's death to deal with now ontop of everything else
He is such a hypocrite, he says it’s alright but he goes to Brazil and shaves his head for his grief.
@@mcfauq8568 I think that was just the illusion of a preliminary prediction that he would get over things and that short of a Time
I completed this mission on my birthday
It was raining outside and also in the game
Memories 🙂
Thank you, Remedy, for this games.
the voice of the actor is amazing
In my entire life playing video games, this was the ONLY game I didn't feel any satisfaction in finishing it, after killing Vlad, after finishing watching the graphic novels, getting the credits up... My mind and my body was a terrible feeling of emptiness, sadness, melancholy, desolation... as if I were Max himself, as if Mona had just died in my arms, as if I myself were reliving the tragedy of my own wife and my little baby. No other game has given me such a thing, and it's precisely this experience that makes Max Payne 2 a masterpiece, one of the best games ever made. Amazing how reviewing this ending here, all that horrible feeling we feel when completing the game for the first time, just comes up unexpectedly.
Have you seen the other ending
Huh. Mona smiles instead of dying if the game is played at hardest difficulty.
And she would survive,too
Yes, she survives in hardest mode
One of the most exciting video game endings if you ask me
Gave me chills everytime
And felt quite hard
Playing max Payne 3 I felt like i forgot max payne 2! After watching this I instantly remembered the entire story line!! Good video man!!
"Now, like all my loves, she was mine forever", "in the act of seeing, I am reborn" & "I had a dream of my wife, she was dead, but it was alright".. all simple and kind of melodramatic lines that hit incredibly hard emotionally given the context of the two games. max is one of the most tragic anti heroes in any form of media, and this ending was absolutely perfect. Going through tragic loss once again didn't break him, but reawakened him, Mona showed him he could still love and care about something other than vengeance. Beautiful game series, shame that Max Payne 3 kind of wiped it's ass with the series' trademark poetic writing and emotional complexity, that's rockstar for you! (They make the most overrated games in the industry from a story standpoint IMO). MP3 had the best gameplay of the 3 for sure, but other than that games intro and ending cutscenes (which I'll admit give some nice close to Max's journey), the story is a MASSIVE downgrade from the Remedy days.
Max payne 2 might be the greatest game ever made, the ending is utterly Perfect... And then max payne 3 goes and takes a steaming dump all over it with "Max is Back and hes Shooting Brazillians, Baby!"
I know a man who has nothing left to lose. He cant be killed, and he can dodge bullets. The only point of his life is to live through the pain.
Thank you, James 💔
“I had a dream of my wife, she was dead. But it was alright”
Max's dreams never come true . so sad life of someone
I never saw are secret ending
@InsaneLP Secret ending is not cannon
InsaneLP lmao
@InsaneLP Mona being alive is not canon.
Period
@@UnknownPerson-2004 how tf they would made it canon, coz if so, then no mp3 and no money-grabbing would be in the future. But keeping mona dead as a canon, the ptsd story can be milked again
Strangely when I remember bullet dodging it is not Matrix but Max Payne which comes to mind.
Best TPS game series ever made, the narrative associates Payne's pain and revenge with player.
I still remember more than 10 years ago when end credit scene rolled in front of my eyes, I was heartbroken.
Max Payne 3 also lives up to tragedy that is life of Max Payne.
12 years ago played this game. I was then 19 year age boy with lots of dream in eyes.
So you now 31 ?
@@psychogenie6991 32 bro.. But when i saw this game play scene I remember my teen age days. And my first computer with p4 processor 512 mb ram
Hope ur dreams came true buddy
My was. P3 64MB .. on that I played max payne 1
I played this when I was 8
This game never gone die.....This moments...story....Sad but true...
Watching this legit made me tear up I remember buying this and many nights spent playing this hard to believe it's been almost 18 years.
If you're here people you're in good company
i m crying for remastered version on this game 2020 :D someone else ?
Wodens death sound makes me laugh every time, it's something you'd hear on a life alert commercial
Dillon Fortni haha true man
The ending still haunts me holy shit
Same. The most perfect tragic story in gaming!
A masterpiece both gameplay(for that time) and storywise(even now).
“I was compelled to give Vlad his gun back” damnnn
I was a teenager when I played this game. It did take a toll on my emotions at that time but it just made me stronger.
Best story and best game in history till date
NANTO RATA gaaaaaddaaayyyyyum 😰
This and Silent Hill 2.
Max Payne 3 was a masterpiece. However in terms of cutscenes style's, and no nightmare levels, It was disappointing. However l loved how it was dark and gloomy and Brazil felt like a fresh air, but I hope if they will make Max Payne 4 I hope it's in New York. It had it's unique atmosphere.
@FrenchToast he could have one game more where he could rebuilt his life
@FrenchToast he never did kill the mafia boss who put a hit out on him on hoboken after killing his son so we got that.
Max Kill hime mentally and make him unstable specially because he couldn't kill him you could say that Max destroy the pillars of his empire
THANK YOU i was looking for a comment like this. Finally i wasn't the only one who enjoyed the brilliant Max Payne 3
@@valkorion46 thats bullshit, he needs to live peacefully
Such tremendous writing. Of the 3 games, 2 is still my favorite. I even beat it on hard where you get the alternate ending and Mona lives. The writing and character work is phenomenal. I was heartbroken to hear of James Mccaffery's passing.
This games's ending makes me cry all the time 😥
After spending an hour to make this game work, I was finally able to play the game for the first time ever. The whole campaign's journey was one that despite was way more bittersweet than the previous, was something that was really worth playing! This game is gonna have a special place in my heart. Beautiful.
Mona Sax lives if you play at a higher difficulty level.
Rlly
Yep...the secret ending.
Not Canon.
@@leonmcaffrey4625 just cause she didnt appear in the third game it doesnt mean its non canon. They couldve been separated in other ways, she got arrested, fled away etc
FadeSkywards No, it’s confirmed her death is canon. Sorry
One Bullet At A Time .... LEGENDARY
Ком в горле, как и в старые времена. Такого больше не делают.
да. я прошел почти все что выходило в сингл кампаниях за 20 лет и макс2 так и остался лучшей игрой в моей жизни. от одной музыки слезы
@@chanwooksook Три раза прошел обоих Максов в этот новогодний уикенд, и все так же эмоции захлестывают, когда начинает звучать Late Goodbye. Это искусство. Для меня такими играми навсегда останутся второй Макс и Сайлент Хилл 2.
The lousy thing about Max Payne III, is that they didn't put back on max's past memories, as the FINAL battle with Lem, the murders of Mona, Valerie, Vinnie and Woden would have been sensational
They did but they ret coned it for example in Max Payne 2 Mona snuck up behind max and pistol whip him before they can get to Woden panic room however in the Max Payne comic after the fall , he had a chance to confront Woden before vlad killed him
There's tons of lousy things about Max Payne 3 as a story and as a sequel. Rockstar made a great over the top action game with awesome combat, but IMO completely butchered the tone/story and characters
I still remember those school days when i was afraid to play this game yet i finished its all level except the last one( My big brother when i was in school completed final level. I was so angry at him that i didn't talk to him for two days).
Those were the school memories. I miss those days😭😭😭😭
))) funny man
I struggled so damn much with that final fight against Vlad when I was a little kid.
same here
I can't imagine my beautiful childhood started with this game ...
In reality Mona doesnt die, you gotta play on dead on arrival to have the canon ending.
That sorrow grundgy voice of max
Takes me back to my childhood
No matter how many times you play but max payne and igi never gets old..
This is real depression guys 😭😭😭😭😭😭 every gamer have felt max words 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 iconic 😭
*insert crying emoji*
" I was supposed to be a hero" - said Vlad in the end. This is vanity. The reason why Eve plucked an apple from the forbidden tree in Eden. In the last seconds of the scene, a mosaic with the Tree, Adam and Eve can be seen on the wall.
Genius.
This game was way way ahead of it's time what a storyline the whole team of this game successfully portrayed a broken man life and his tragic moments happened in his life this game is still now better than any other games ❤MAX PAYNE❤
Rip James
Played it when i was 8 now i can feel the pain better
This is love..love hurts
12:30 was the moment i cried a little, shame ya had to changed the ending credit music by something else and not play the original poets of the fall music, that was the best part :/
Could be DMCA.
kinda BGM played when Thanos fulfilled his destiny in Infinity War and found a place at end to rest himself. But you could actually see how much pain he went through in achieving his goals...you could look in his eyes..his sufferings.... and BGM rises...he smiles with pain....
Am i seriously the only one who preferred this ending?
It really is a lot better and more meaningful
The only reason the secret ending works on any level is because you have already lost Mona in a previous playthrough before that. It would be such a dumb and pointless ending if it was just Mona surviving all along.
With not saying much I know how opiates can be, and Max Payne 1 & 2 give a very depressive tone from the main character, it is very well thought, since I've noticed how opioids can eat away chunks of your persona and depress the hell out of you, and only a detective like Max Payne can give the accurate depiction of how it is to try to think clearly when on opioids.
But the games themselves, even with small budget cutscene comics was great, storytelling dragged me in as a kid and now as an adult after few replays, I love the story too
This soundtrack... So many memories.
Very sad ending broken my heart i played it three times still this game grabs a special place in my heart last words by maxpayne is very hard to take still playing the game never getting bored
"I was supposed to be the hero"
Max Payne 3: I’m boutta end this man’s whole career
After i finish this mission im just starring at my keyboard
True man
These were the games which used to touch the hearts. Old games are just lit
Vlad's "Kidding of course!" at 3:20 always made me giggle slightly 😄
Classic early 2000s gaming right here. Top notch atmosphere 👌
I understand many players will feel betrayed by the default ending (Mona's death) but the alternate ending just feels like a figment of Max's desperate imagination as he always thought he could enjoy happiness after all the hardships he has gone through. It's like Max picked up the pieces of a broken mirror and tried to fix it and hurt himself.
I keep telling people had mona lived she would've went to jail for killing sebastian gate the U.S senator and max would've went tojail or have been fired with no pension
Omg this game has a special place inside my heart❤❤😭
Hauntingly beautiful ending.
The graphics look ahead of it's time
9:19 Freeze frame and cue music:
“Max Payne, age 33, gave himself up to the authorities after the incident. He is now serving a life sentence.”
Roll credits
I used to play this game after I got home from school in the evening I miss those days sigh
Always liked playing this on a raining day
I still laugh when I see Vlad fall down.
"LOVE HURTS" and tears run down from my eyes.
Me after finish this mission: "That's old familiar feeling..."
That nostalgia I used to play this game in my childhood soo many memories.
left by the person he loves twice
8:18 boss fight:Vladimir Lem
Have you ever wanted to just enter the game and give Max a hug?
One of the awesome memories max payne 2
1:05 love hurts..
The best story based action game ever witnessed
So many nostalgic moments in this. But back then I did not understand the sorrows of Max as a kid. Now, I do. :(
Damn.. all these childhood memories.. stunned!
I'm Addicted To Max Payne 1 & 2 Theme Music & Can't Forget It
4:49 My Life at me whenever I make any action move to get better😅😓
Have no fear Vlad is here
I prefer the original max Payne with sam lakes face
Missing my childhood memories 😭😭😭. I played it over and over before.. I was elementary that day and I'll never forget these game!💙💙💙
Bro it's 18+ and really it is beacause of sexual themes
Max Payne = Maximum Pain.
i still don't understand why Mona hit Max on the head with her gun
Because Mona was also a member of the inner circle. She was waiting for a good moment to reveald. Max was angry but he still loved her. As he said - this is love...
Max, dearest of all my friends...
A tragic but beautiful conclusion
A Legend
You know I honestly wished there had been more backstory to Vladimir Lem, it would have been nice to have seen when he first became a member of The Inner Circle, and to see exactly how and why he developed so much bitterness and resentment towards Alfred Woden, the voicemail to Woden from Vlad in the final chapter basically implies that Vlad felt unappreciated by Woden, and that's the closest thing you get to an answer smh
You'll get the alternate ending where MONA SAX ACTUALLY LIVES. You will just have to finish the game in 'hard-boiled' difficulty.
Just found out & felt really good