Remedy Entertainment has announced that it will remake the iconic Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne games in a new development agreement with Rockstar Games.
Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games, said:
“We were thrilled when our long-time friends at Remedy approached us about remaking the original Max Payne games. We are massive fans of the work the Remedy team has created over the years, and we can’t wait to play these new versions.”
Remedy CEO, Tero Virtala, added:
“Max Payne has always held a special place in the hearts of everyone at Remedy, and we know the millions of fans worldwide feel the same. We’re hugely excited to be working with our partners at Rockstar Games once again for the chance to bring the story, action and atmosphere of the original Max Payne games back to players in new ways.”
Remedy will develop the games as a single title for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S using its proprietary Northlight engine. The game’s development budget will be financed by Rockstar Games, the size of which will be in line with a typical Remedy AAA-game production.
Let’s hope that Remedy will keep Max’s iconic face for the first Max Payne game. Since we’re talking about a remake, a “classic” face model should be possible. Let’s also hope that Max Payne 2 will retain its amazing ragdoll physics.
Stay tuned for more!
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Well this came out of nowhere! Excited to see what they come up with
As long as they dont touch the script and dont add cover like in 3, im all for it.
There is a zero percent chance they won’t mess around with the script and “politically correct” this game up the a**. Zero.
Yeah im worried that unfortunately that will be the case!
Then this doesnt exists for me, i dunno how they can insert all that crap into a “noire homage with a 4th breaking wall commentary about games on the side”, the genre itself doesnt allow that if you want to be faithful.
The story, the dialogue, the characters and overall atmosphere are great, so they can only f*ck it up if they change anything…f*ck is going to suck just like Dead Space remake isnt it?
“…the genre itself doesnt allow that if you want to be faithful.”
I hear ya. I’m sure you’re well aware though, that none of these companies have the slightest care in the world of being “faithful”. Sadly, just the way it is.
Dead space remake is gonna be amazing. The devs are actually listening
assume the females are going to be ugly and race swapped
Didn’t they add a cover based system in the Mafia remake? Don’t worry, the game will feel very familiar to other games you’ve played in recent years. And the script will likely be modernised for today’s audience.
INB4 is a Max Payne 3 glorified “mod”.
I highly doubt it. They’re using an entirely different engine for one.
They are using Control’s engine, they can easilly replicate what they did on MP3…but that would be dumb.
It will be modified for the f4g devs and reviewers, not the audience.
speaking of which they didnt just “add” cover, the original games had wide empty rooms so you could shoot dodge, they changed the level design to make the cutscenes loading screens. Scripted to death.
But is so cinematic!!!. Impressive how a couple of photos with the proper filter and music make a better presentation than in engine generic cutscenes with some annoying effects like chromatic aberration to make them “interesting”.
Let’s also hope that it won’t be a EGS exclusive.
Other than fortnite, i don’t know many EGS exclusives, temporary doesn’t count, people shoudn’t buy games on release aniway.
After that pile of crap that was Max Payne 3, i can imagine this being a waste of time.
really?…while I didn’t like the story at all..I thought it was fun…hell I thought it was great..just NOT a max payne game
on top of that and doing the important stuff like combat worse than the first game, it was so damn scripted that felt like i was watching a movie rather than playing.
alright…you know what?…thats fair I can see why some didn’t like it. I played through it a couple/few times…only in the flashback city scene did I really like what was going down.
no it was nihilistic cinematic nonsense that was the stepping stone for the crap we have to today.
interesting how the response here isnt “no that wasnt made from remedy” but a downvote, so i guess they agree with that awful game.
If you believe that statement, you’ve never played a good game before.
There is a lot that can go wrong with remakes. Especially in these Politically Correct Games days.
Alternatively, that is the hidden point of remakes: a quick cash in, little to no creative imput, while also sanitizing the script, level design, politics and character design for today sensibilities…
Is that all you people keep repeating like a parakeet?
Reality proves those worries right.
They’ll turn Max Payne into Maxine Pain.
Makes you think what they might do to Mona Sax. Mona Blax?
I think I’d prefer a nice remaster, updating the game for modern systems with some niceties added.
years ago that was a joke, now its standard practice.
Unfortunately modders can't even swap out the models without being removed from all modding platforms. So far I have not seen Alan wake 2's model replacement. So never bothered playing it
when i read rockstar, and seem what happened with gta definitive, I thought
…failure.
Got a few serious optimists in these comments. Hate to burst your bubble, but take a look around at other remakes, and also take a look at Remedy’s last few years in the business.
Don’t get your hopes up too high. You’re guaranteed to be disappointed.
Quantum Break and Control are amazing.
Crossfire X is some weird side gig.
Quantum Break and Control are both highly up for debate on being “amazing”.
I’m referring to them SJW’ng the crap out of the remakes though. Remedy have very, very close ties to Sony and MS, and everyone knows how those two roll in terms of political correctness these days.
They’re amazing games. Especially control, love the atmosphere and storyline
Decent games, good graphics. Far from amazing
The only big publisher I have a little bit of faith in doing remakes is Embracer Group/THQ Nordic. Destroy All Humans turned out really well from the looks of things.
I don’t know about thq nordic that gothic remake looks like sh*t.
last great remake I really enjoyed was twin snakes.
Northlight Engine is really impressive with the amount of destruction and mayhem you can make, too bad the actual games leave a lot to be desired.
“Let’s also hope that Max Payne 2 will retain its amazing ragdoll physics.”
No, they can use the superior euphoria physics from Max Payne 3 combined with Northlight Engine environment destruction, this is the wrong type of nostalgia to have.
I would like a mix of destruction environments from Northlight Engine with the body ragdolls of RAGE engine.
Also, i think Rockstar doesn’t bother with the franchise thanks to the poor sales from Max Payne 3. And in theory they could adapt the euphoria physics from the Rage engine in other engines.
Max Payne 1 – My #1 favorite action game of all time!
Really hope they don’t tweak the script and the mature/dark atmosphere of the game.
Dude, they will destroy it. Don’t bother
I loved the first two games. They hold a special place in my heart and pretty much introduced me into the whole film-noir genre and Poets of the Fall rock band. I’ve listened to their music so many times I’ve lost count. The series also has some of the best writing in all of gaming in my personal opinion. Never played the third one but I’ll get to it eventually. Although I doubt it’ll have the same impact that the first two had on me, specifically the second one.
Personally I would have cared a lot more for this if it weren’t for the state of the industry right now and my eagerness for more original IPs. We have too many remakes and sequels that don’t offer anything new.
This has to be the best news this year. At least for me. I still have the original PC copy of this masterpiece. If you don’t know kung-fu mod for MP1 you are missing out big time.
Why not use that time and money in making a new Max Payne?
This is not going to end well.
I hope I have to eat those words someday, as I love the originals, but…… well, the trend says I likely won’t have to.
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Hahaha.
2022 is also for remake, remastered?
Was 2021 not enough ?
This ain’t releasing before 2025, at the very least.
depends if they give it to a sh**ty indian dev to make it.
Northlight Engine!
Hell yeah!
The news generated so much traffic, it broke the website :
https://twitter.com/remedygames/status/1511812348201385986
Would have been much more confident with a remaster… But a remake? Forget it…
R* is in full GTA 6 development.
Ah! It took them longer than i expected, here is though, time to put out another flob while detroying a former “Hit”.
Both of them still play great and the second one still look decent, they dont need a remake especially with the current gaming trends
Well gonna say it but this time around , Max will be a transgender african handicapped leftwing who his mission is to take revenge on the ppl who killed his transgender retarded african dog-wife.
Remember my words!
Excellent!
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>Max kids become migrants refugees adopted from whatever country
>Alex turns black and Max/the police are accused of being racists
>Nicole Horne turns into a white man because women are perfect and can’t do bad things
>Mona Sax cucks Max and he is fine with that
10 years ago I would have been screaming in joy from reading this news, but now I’m just cynical and expect nothing good from it.
Max’s face when he sees that the remake is turning into “Max Woke”.
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That Sam Lake’s face right there is the most kick a*s heavy metal balls artistic choice ever in the history of humankind.
Imagine that going through stages of approval up to the top where they agreed that “yeah, our main character for this IP is gonna look like that”.
Can’t ever not feel excited about that achievement!
Behold the all new Lass Gayne!
I’m skeptical, but let’s wait and see, right?
“We’re hugely excited to be working with our partners at Rockstar Games”
they destroyed max payne with max payne 3. No thanks, the originals with mods are fine.
interesting factoid, max payne 3 had no impact, you shot a wall in the original and the sound and the particles the pieces of that object that came off you shot were different not to mention the slow mo gun sounds, max payne 3 had none of these .
As long they only improve the graphics and not thestory characters and levels.
That’s remaster, not remake that was stated here.
MP1 needs remake in MP2 engine and that’s it. I hope there’s a mod like that already.
This is gonna be Mafia 1 DEmake again. With characters rewritten for worse, less gameplay features etc.
I hope this turns out well. I never go around to playing the first two games. By the time I could get them myself the games were very dated.
Yeah,fuk this, another one bites the dust!I’ll stick with the original s.
Everything about remakes and western Dev this day is guarantee dissapointing. Wish this remake announced before 2015 so we can get proper remake now.
Drones: This is great news!
Me: Are you sure?
I’m sorry butchered john how? compared to the original game maybe…I don’t see it.
read that rdr is getting a remastered watch it end up like the gta trilogy remaster.