After a few days of good entertainment, I finished up [[amazon:B0000D12XI Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne]] last week.

The first Max Payne was quite excellent, it broke several boundaries. It was the first noir first-person-shooter, if not game, that I was ever aware of. The voice-acting, the environment design, the storyboard narration, all made for a very unique gaming experience.

The sequel doesn’t really add all that much in creativity. Technically the game is more advanced due to the 2+ year advance in technology. Where the first game’s stylized narration worked (in a peculiar way), I was rolling my eyes quite a few times in this one. This game also felt noticably shorter than the original.

All in all, it was enjoyable to play. No big surprises, I guess I just expected to outshine its ancestor.