#ELEMENTS OF STYLE MAX PAYNE 2 MOVIE#

We are actually using photos as the basis of many textures to give them a Creal-life' photo-realistic look. Our texture artists have been busy bringing our gloomy version of NYC alive with crumbling brick walls, rusty pipes, neon signs and graffiti. And yes, we've done our homework, watched all the right movies.

#ELEMENTS OF STYLE MAX PAYNE 2 MOVIE#

We're talking about action movie realism here, the dark underbelly of New York City everyone knows from countless crime, film noir, pulp and Mafia movies the city gone bad. No sci-fi space stations, no mediaeval demon castles. Sam Lake, the story writer and game designer, enthuses: The setting of Max Payne is unlike anything you've seen in a 3D action game so far - that is to say, the real world. Okay, it's another third-person 3D action game, but the developers are hoping that the realistic locations will strike a chord with fans of gangster films as well as gamers who have had their fill of fantasy scenarios. Payne is continually forced to do battle with various murder-for-hire mobsters, drug lords, rotten cops, corrupt politicians and an array of other wrong uns as he delves deeper and deeper into the squalid underworld lurking beneath the glitzy Manhattan skyline. The action takes place in New York City, and features a cast of characters evil enough to make the Krays look like Spandau Ballet. Incensed and hell-bent on retribution, he embarks upon a lone quest to clear his name and determine who is responsible for putting out a contract on his clan. In the American sense of the word, Max is pissed. And to add insult to injury, his entire family has been mercilessly slaughtered by an unknown assassin. A once highly decorated cop turned fugitive, he has been framed for the murder of his boss. Unfortunately, our Maxie hasn't had a great deal of luck of late.

Step forward, then, the puntastic Max Payne, a badass mutha with an Uzi for a brutha. Discounting Mel Gibson's Mad Antipodean, Max is hardly the most heroic of names.

Elements of style max payne 2