Despite this common goal, Mona lures Max into accepting a drugged drink, which results in him being captured by his enemies.

Mona is also looking to kill Angelo, due to the fact that he beats her sister. He then encounters Mona Sax, an assassin whose sister is married to Don Angelo Punchinello. Heading to Ragna Rock, Max finds and kills Jack Lupino. Max also learns that the Punchinello family is at war with the Russian mob. One of Lupino’s associates, a snivelling wretch called Vinnie Gognitti, reveals that Lupino can be found at his night club, Ragna Rock. Max is framed for the murder and is forced to go on the run the NYPD is hot on his trail, led by deputy chief Jim Bravura.ĭespite this setback, Max continues on his personal quest to crack the drugs ring, searching the city for Jack Lupino. As the pair convene, Alex is killed by an unseen gunman. arranges for Max to meet with Alex at a New York subway station.

Aside from Alex, the only person who knows about this assignment is another DEA agent by the name of B.B. Max goes undercover and manages to infiltrate the notorious Punchinello crime family. The pair are tipped off that the key to the drug ring may lie with Jack Lupino – a deranged mobster obsessed with Norse mythology. Outside the city was a cruel monster.Īfter three years of careful investigation, Max and Alex are close to getting a break in the Valkyr case. Everything ripped apart in a New York minute. It’s subsequently discovered that the addicts were high on a new designer drug called Valkyr.Īfter burying his family, Max accepts Alex’s offer and joins him at the DEA. Devastated, he blows away the three junkies. Max desperately tries to rescue his wife and child, but both die at the hands of psychotic drug addicts. One day Max comes home to find that his house has been burgled, the walls of his home daubed with sinister graffiti. Max is invited to join the DEA by his good friend Alex Balder, but our gun-toting gurner wants to spend more time with his wife, Michelle, and their infant daughter. Max Payne is a detective in the NYPD, working out of the Midtown North Precinct near Hell’s Kitchen. Something ugly had been tattooed on the wall, a map of things to come. They’d given me the best seat in the house – front row, centre.

Here’s our rundown of what happened in the first two games – the stories that introduced us to the most trigger-happy cop in gaming.įor the sake of expediency, we won’t be listing every mobster that Max has whacked. Max Payne 3 is due to be released next week, but as it has been almost eight years since the last game, some of you may be a bit hazy on Max’s past.

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