Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Worth it · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.85.
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $1.61/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 32MB AGP graphics card with hardware transform & lighting support, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a violent, film-noir love story. Dark, tragic and intense, the in-depth story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations. Love hurts.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in January 2013. It has been discounted 63 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 65 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $6.85, a level the record has reached 63 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Max Payne ($9.99, scores 71) and Max Payne 3 ($19.99, scores 63).
Critics scored it 86. Players sit 8 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 44 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 93 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 1,540 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Players
36 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The soundtrack, Gameplay, and the noir love story of Max & Mona.. 10/10. For a game this old? None of the recent AAA games can even come close to this masterpiece. "The past is like pieces of a broken mirror, you try to pick them up, but you only end up cutting yourself..."
Playing this again after so many years, wow. It's still oozing with pulpy noir goodness that doesn't age. Sure the graphics are nothing to write home about anymore, but the story and characters and voice acting keep you hooked anyway. With the widescreen fix in place, this game is still a 9/10 well worth playing if you never have before. And worth revisiting if you haven't played it since the good ol' early 2000's.
When I was little, I always remembered the level with the theme park and the cutscene at the end of it. Again, now on the bigger screen and 144hz, it's amazing. Simple, yet absolute beast of a game that has a amazing story and you can never go wrong with just gunblazing and jumping around corners to surprise your enemies with a set of dual MAG-10s
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/12150/max-payne-2-the-fall-of-max-payneThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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