This is a great game but this steam port has way too many problems to warrant a purchase. Now I've gotta say in terms of core game play and story it's pretty damn good. It seems the damage weapons do is a little inconsistent, sometimes I hit a guy point blank with a shotgun and he doesn't die, other times he can be a good 30ft away and I 1 shot him. Not a huge deal but a little annoying. The controls are okay but sometimes it feels like you're stuck against something when there's nothing there, also not a huge deal but it's still there. Now here's the juicy part. This port is a crippled broken down MESS of bugs, and is everything bad you could expect from a steam port. 1st of all the cut scene audio is gone. It just isn't there, you have to download a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ patch online and install it yourself in your Max Payne file directory to get it to work. How the ♥♥♥♥ is something as important as THE CUT SCENE AUDIO bugged? 2nd of all is the Vinnie Gognitti chase scene. I have no idea what the developers were smoking at this part, because it's inexcusably broken. As you chase Vinnie down a flight of stairs, he sends 3 goons after you in an in-game cut-scene, as in not a cinematic one but one that happens through the game play. The problem is that the camera moves away from you, and in the faces of the goons as they pull out their weapons, and the camera doesn't go back to normal for what feels like an eternity. Essentially what happens is the camera gets stuck on a point where you can't even see your character or the bad guys, giving you no chance against the 3 guys as they gang up on you. Yes, you WILL die during this scene, and it will most likely take you multiple tries until you can bypass it. It's basically a choice of either fighting 3 guys while controlling a character, ALL OF WHICH you can't even see, or loading and playing the scene enough times that you can memorise how to get back up the stairs, again without even looking at it. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ridiculous. After a little while of chasing Vinnie I eventually caught up to him and finally killed him. After the cut-scene I assumed I had to enter the door in front of his body. No? Okay what about the other doors on this floor? No? Well I looked it up, and apparently the next chapter is supposed to start as soon as you kill him, and guess what? IT DIDN'T! I was stuck in chapter 7 because chapter 8 refused to load after the boss was killed. So I decided to load up an old save, play through the entire chase scene again, including the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with the broken camera on the stairs when Vinnie sends his goons after you, and thankfully it didn't happen again. You wanna know why? BECAUSE VINNIE DIDN'T EVEN LOAD INTO THE GAME PROPERLY! After you get passed the part with the broken camera on the stairs, he's supposed to run outside and trigger a scene where he uses an elevator to escape from you. He was there the first time, but after I loaded an old save because chapter 8 wouldn't start, he just disappeared! I now have no choice but to try reinstalling the game, and hoping that Vinnie loads in properly, and chapter 8 starts after I kill him, but at the moment I really just don't feel like it. Overall, my short amount of time in this game isn't a matter of not liking it, this game is great with lots of charm and pretty solid gameplay for 2001, but this port to steam is nothing short of a catastrophe. Between needing to download mods just to get the game working properly, and chapters that don't load into the next one after completing it, the steam version of this game is a nutty brown pile of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I might update my review if I can get it working bug free in the future, but the fact that the base game is so broken that mods are the only way I can even play it properly is just plain ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up.

This is a great game but this steam port has way too many problems to warrant a purchase. Now I've gotta say in terms of core game play and story it's pretty damn good. It seems the damage weapons do is a little inconsistent, sometimes I hit a guy point blank with a shotgun and he doesn't die, other times he can be a good 30ft away and I 1 shot him. Not a huge deal but a little annoying. The controls are okay but sometimes it feels like you're stuck against something when there's nothing there, also not a huge deal but it's still there. Now here's the juicy part. This port is a crippled broken down MESS of bugs, and is everything bad you could expect from a steam port. 1st of all the cut scene audio is gone. It just isn't there, you have to download a fucking patch online and install it yourself in your Max Payne file directory to get it to work. How the fuck is something as important as THE CUT SCENE AUDIO bugged? 2nd of all is the Vinnie Gognitti chase scene. I have no idea what the developers were smoking at this part, because it's inexcusably broken. As you chase Vinnie down a flight of stairs, he sends 3 goons after you in an in-game cut-scene, as in not a cinematic one but one that happens through the game play. The problem is that the camera moves away from you, and in the faces of the goons as they pull out their weapons, and the camera doesn't go back to normal for what feels like an eternity. Essentially what happens is the camera gets stuck on a point where you can't even see your character or the bad guys, giving you no chance against the 3 guys as they gang up on you. Yes, you WILL die during this scene, and it will most likely take you multiple tries until you can bypass it. It's basically a choice of either fighting 3 guys while controlling a character, ALL OF WHICH you can't even see, or loading and playing the scene enough times that you can memorise how to get back up the stairs, again without even looking at it. It's fucking ridiculous. After a little while of chasing Vinnie I eventually caught up to him and finally killed him. After the cut-scene I assumed I had to enter the door in front of his body. No? Okay what about the other doors on this floor? No? Well I looked it up, and apparently the next chapter is supposed to start as soon as you kill him, and guess what? IT DIDN'T! I was stuck in chapter 7 because chapter 8 refused to load after the boss was killed. So I decided to load up an old save, play through the entire chase scene again, including the bullshit with the broken camera on the stairs when Vinnie sends his goons after you, and thankfully it didn't happen again. You wanna know why? BECAUSE VINNIE DIDN'T EVEN LOAD INTO THE GAME PROPERLY! After you get passed the part with the broken camera on the stairs, he's supposed to run outside and trigger a scene where he uses an elevator to escape from you. He was there the first time, but after I loaded an old save because chapter 8 wouldn't start, he just disappeared! I now have no choice but to try reinstalling the game, and hoping that Vinnie loads in properly, and chapter 8 starts after I kill him, but at the moment I really just don't feel like it. Overall, my short amount of time in this game isn't a matter of not liking it, this game is great with lots of charm and pretty solid gameplay for 2001, but this port to steam is nothing short of a catastrophe. Between needing to download mods just to get the game working properly, and chapters that don't load into the next one after completing it, the steam version of this game is a nutty brown pile of bullshit. I might update my review if I can get it working bug free in the future, but the fact that the base game is so broken that mods are the only way I can even play it properly is just plain fucked up.