History VideoGame / MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne

* DarkerAndEdgier: ZigZagged. The storyline here is noticeably bleaker, as Max suffers from even more constant guilt and suffering than he was 2 years ago, the graphic novel scenes are much more serious and lack some form of {{Bathos}} in some supposedely serious scenes,[[note]]The hilarious and comedic expressions where reserved for in-game TV shows instead[[/note]] and the combat music lacks an "action-hero feel" and is instead much more tense and occasionally forlorn. The nightmare levels on the other hand.... (see LighterAndSofter below)

* DarkerAndEdgier: ZigZagged. The storyline here is noticeably bleaker, as Max suffers from even more constant guilt and suffering than he was 2 years ago, the graphic novel scenes are much more serious and lack some form of {{Bathos}} in some supposedely serious scenes,[[note]]The hilarious and comedic expressions where reserved for in-game TV shows instead[[/note]] and the combat music lacks an "action-hero feel" and is instead much more tense and occasionally forlorn. The nightmare levels on the other hand.... (see LighterAndSofterBelow)

* LighterAndSofter: While just as creepy, the NightmareSequence levels lack the nightmarish, horror-esque elements such as the wails and weeps of his late wife and baby daughter, the limbo-esque blood trail, etc. And rather than being confined inside Max's home, it now has an outdoor area.

* WasntThatFun: Subverted. After getting rid of dozens of mobsters trying to kill Vinnie Gognitti and finally escaping, Vinnie comments "Well, that was fun - [[{{Dissimile}} in a fuckin' terrible, sick, not-at-all-fun way]]".

* PoliceAreUseless: The Cleaner commandos attack the hospital Max is interned in, even though it's swarming with police (including Lt Bravura personally) and security guards. They still proceed to butcher them utterly, because the badly armed guards don't dare to shoot first, that and they didn't have the sense to assign SWAT operatives given that said commandos are armed-to-the-teeth with automatic weapons.

* PoliceAreUseless: The Cleaners attack the hospital Max is interned in, even though it's swarming with police (including Lt Bravura personally) and security guards. The Cleaners still proceed to butcher them utterly, because the badly armed guards don't dare to shoot first.

--> '''Max:''' When entertainment turns into a surreal reflection of your life, you're a lucky man if you can laugh at the joke. Luck and I weren't on speaking terms.
* CryForTheDevil: InUniverse -- In ''2'', Max seems regretful over killing Detective Winterson, even though it later becomes clear that [[spoiler:she was Vlad's lover and actually working against Max]]. It's even implied that Max feels so remorseful over his choices because Winterson was in the same position as him; finding her grave in ''3'' has him expand on this, noting that [[spoiler:killing Winterson because he still loved Mona]] is one of his bad calls he's still trying to bury.

[[caption-width-right:220:"Max, we got to stop meeting like this."]]

''Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne'' is a ThirdPersonShooter video game, developed by Creator/RemedyEntertainment and released in 2003. It is the sequel to the 2001 video game ''VideoGame/MaxPayne1'', and the second game in the ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' series.

->''"This is love. When someone drags you from the wreckage when you have given in, ready to just lie there and die. This is love. When someone, no matter what the cost, shows you there is hope, a choice, that you can put down your gun. This is love. Love hurts."''

[[caption-width-right:220:"Mona?"\\
"Max, we got to stop meeting like this."]]

* DevelopersForesight: If the player kills the very first cleaner before he turns hostile, Max will note that he saw through the cleaner's disguise.

* VillainInAWhiteSuit: Vlad wears one in this game, [spoiler:and is a traitorous piece of work]].

** In ''Max Payne 2'', to the irritation (or amusement, considering who the escortee is) of many players.
** An interesting inversion in the third game; Max is seriously wounded in an ambush and can barely limp along as his partner clears the route of enemies.
** There are also other missions in the third game, such as escorting an IT guy to a server room that ''seem'' like they might be this at first. But the escorted will stay far out of the way of fire and the enemies focus on you, making this more of a subversion.

* LastBreathBullet: In ''2'', [[spoiler:Winterson pulls a non-lethal variation when Payne fatally wounds her, only for Winterson to shoot him in the back before dying.]]
* MookPromotion: In the first game, Vinnie Gognitti is a ratty, low-level flunky who Max chases and torments for information, and is so pathetic Max figures he's not even worth killing. By the second game, Vinnie seems to be pretty much running the entire Mafia, due to Max having killed everybody else in the Family hierarchy during the course of the first game.

* PoliceAreUseless: In the second game, the Cleaners attack the hospital Max is interned in, even though it's swarming with police (including Lt Bravura personally) and security guards. The Cleaners still proceed to butcher them utterly, because the badly armed guards don't dare to shoot first.

* SarcasticTitle: The second game has a chapter near the end titled "Dearest of All My Friends." In it, Max has to protect his long-time enemy Vinnie Gognitti [[EnemyMine against their common foe]] [[spoiler:Vladimir Lem's men]], despite the fact that Max and Vinnie still hate each other. [[TitleDrop The title is dropped]] at the end by Vlad [[spoiler:who proceeds to try to kill his former ally Max.]]

* SolemnEndingTheme: ''Max Payne 2'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzsiE44Lz_w Late Goodbye]]" by Music/PoetsOfTheFall.
* SternChase: ''Max Payne 2's'' ThemeSong "[[https://youtu.be/AzsiE44Lz_w?list=PLjACqN5i5sDVBPJGHevomO4YZd9wwVLkS Late Goodbye]]" has a couple chased endlessly by "the Devil" though its unclear whether its literal or metaphorical.

* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: [[spoiler:Vladimir Lem in the second game. It wasn't that he was a particularly nice guy to begin with, being a high-ranking member of the local Russian mob as well as more fond of explosives than is strictly healthy, but he was a WorthyOpponent in an EnemyMine situation.]] As Max himself puts it:

* UnorthodoxReload: In bullet-time in the second game, Max spins around when using his dual pistols.

* WasntThatFun: Subverted in ''Max Payne 2''. After getting rid of dozens of mobsters trying to kill Vinnie Gognitti and finally escaping, Vinnie comments "Well, that was fun - [[{{Dissimile}} in a fuckin' terrible, sick, not-at-all-fun way]]".

''Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne'' is a ThirdPersonShooter video game, developed by Creator/RemedyEntertainment and released in 2003. It is the sequel to the 2001 video game ''VideoGame/MaxPayne1''.

''Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne'' is a ThirdPersonShooter video game, developed by Creator/RemedyEntertainment'' and released in 2003. It is the sequel to the 2001 video game ''VideoGame/MaxPayne1''.

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