Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne - Retro PC Time Capsule vs PS2 - Can Consoles Cope?

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Publicado 2024-01-20
The Retro PC Time Capsule is back - this time taking us all the way back to 2003, the year of the Radeon 9800 Pro... and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne! In this video, Alex plays the Remedy classic on period appropriate PC hardware, while John attempts to keep up on the PlayStation 2 rendition of the game. The PC's inordinately more powerful, so can the console keep up?

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  • @Zly-Porucznik
    RIP Mr. James McCaffrey, I didn’t know he passed away! Such an iconic voice. 🙏🏻
  • @MrMobista
    I recently replayed this on PC. I was really impressed at how well it works on a modern system. RIP James McCaffrey, I've been hearing his voice since I was a kid. He'll be sorely missed.
  • @zaq_d
    Thanks for the acknowledgment of James. I recently came across recordings I made of my pal and I playing MP1 from 2001. Such great memories.
  • @Elatenl
    I love how zoomed back the third person camera in this game is. Almost every modern third person game has the camera right up to the character, causing the character to take up half the screen.
  • On Steam Deck compatibility, I fully completed this for the first time a month ago and can confirm it runs like a dream.
  • @SpeciiA
    Top 5 best games i've ever played. This is my childhood right here. James passing was such a shock. It hit me like a train. RIP legend. I dont know how the remakes will feel now without him. Max Payne's iconic quotes will stay with me until i draw my last breath.
  • @pimbech
    Playing Max Payne 3 right now, wow it still amazes me... the gunplay is so cool
  • @spehrson
    I remember that beginning rain scene, I also had a 9800 Pro and an Audigy 2, EAX enabled and a 5.1 surround system. The rain sounded amazing.
  • @pirazel7858
    I love the fact that the game has bullets with geometry. Also the guns have slides moving with each shot
  • Trivia about Warehouse guy who tricks Max. If Max shoots him earlier, he had a dialogue that actually describes how he deduced that something wasn't right about him. 😅
  • @jjforcebreaker
    Great game, RIP James! Fantastic atmosphere and voice acting.
  • @lukky6648
    It's a shame James left us before the Remakes , I really wanted to see him play the games. Rest in peace 🙏
  • @VanGtfogh
    I remember how mind blowing the physics and graphics looked when you shoot that first enemy into the shelf at 4:50. I was floored by the physics at the time.
  • @LuksTriad47
    R.I.P. Ms James, one of the very best (if not THE best) game voices of all time! Thanks for all the incredible memories of my youth and life in general!
  • @ARIXANDRE
    With the passing of James McCaffrey, I'm wondering which VOs are being used for the the Remakes. RIP, Legend.
  • @WholesomePotato1
    My favorite game when I was a kid, it's oozing with atmosphere.
  • @SomeRandomJork
    There needs to be a DF Lets Play Rule: Anytime you play an old 90's 2000's era game, assume that it doesn't have autosaves! Someone please sticky note that to the DF Crew's Monitors!
  • @KnotenKurt
    Thanks for revisiting this absolute masterpiece guys!
  • "Can Consoles cope"? The Xbox could. Ran it pretty well, in fact. The PS2 version wasn't even using the Max Payne 2 engine. It was basically remade in the Max Payne 1 engine... And had awful loading times. Xbox version in 03 on a CRT over s-video was pretty great. Wasn't a bad port at all.