Awesome / Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

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• After the Cleaners invade Max's apartment complex, players can witness one of them harassing an old lady, and she blasts him out her door with a shotgun. She then firmly declares "nobody's dragging me out of my home" and offers Max a spare shotgun she keeps in her cabinet.
  • Later on, Max meets a drunk who claims he's a former cop, and a prostitute who carries a handgun with her for protection. Both of them lend Max a hand as he fights the Cleaners and tries to get out of the building, and provide cover for him from the windows when he climbs down into the street. Clearly Max lives in a building populated by Badass Bystanders.
• As one of the few survivors of Punchinello's organization, Vinnie Gognitti has rallied the Italian mob and is waging war against Vladimir Lem. Pretty good for someone who Max said "had the brains but lacked the balls" to be a leader in organized crime in the last game.
• In the opening of Act 2 when Max returns to Mona's hideout and the two fight off some invading Cleaners, players get to explore the funhouse behind the scenes and sic the gimmicks of the funhouse on the cleaners, scaring the crap out of them and distracting them before gunning them down. In a particularly brutal moment, there's a part of the funhouse where a giant syringe swings down to impact a cage that rises from the floor below; it's supposed to to be a trick and the syringe stops at the point of impact, but this time it malfunctions and smashes through the cage, the two Cleaners inside, and the wall behind them. Players also witness Mona evading the Cleaners and taking several of them out on her own by hiding among the backdrops and slipping between areas to ambush them from above. As Max sums up, "the funhouse was Mona's playground".
• Mona being Promoted to Playable for a whole level, stepping in to save Max's life as he's pinned down on the ground level of the construction site.
• Out of its fair share of awesome moments, one that sticks out is beating the game on the hardest level, allowing the good ending to happen. Mona lives, and Max gets a happy ending.

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