Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Love’s a funny old thing, ain’t it? It inspires great works of art. It knows no boundaries, conquering race, creed and geography. And it totally forces you to fork out for cheap-ass chocolates on anniversaries. While love affairs can end a bit messily in real life, we’ve yet to see a couple with romantic woes commit international espionage or murderise a series of skyscraper-sized monsters for each other. But in video games? Hell, its normal practice for digital Cupid’s arrows. So, in the spirit of being a week late for Valentine’s Day, we thought it was high time to celebrate some of gaming’s most ruinous romances.

Kratos and Max Payne aren’t names frequently uttered in the same sentence. One’s the bald, rage-fueled protagonist of one of gaming’s greatest hack-and-slash franchises, and the other’s an insomniac gunfighter who’s addicted to painkillers and is soon to make a comeback as a paunchy, bearded version of himself. Above: Let’s stick with Thin Max for now, though

However, there’s one key scene

The secret lives of gaming's greats, in 140 characters or less.

Max Payne releases on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK on Monday 13 April. The movie stars Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne and the incredibly hot Mila Kunis as Mona Sax. It's a stylish adaptation of the cult game series and you can catch a clip from the movie further down this page. Watch it carefully and you could win yourself a copy of the Max Payne movie on Blu-Ray along with a PlayStation 3 and 32" TV to watch it on.

 

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High attraction.

Low resolution.

Classy Raccoon City looker.

Cheap Raccoon City hooker.

Assembled by the Gods.

Poorly assembled polygons.

Femme fatale.

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Weve done some research - yeah, we be book-smart - for some insight into some of our favorite games and compiled a bunch of our results below for your reading pleasure. The Origin of Rapture Rapture, the underwater city in forthcoming blockbuster BioShock, is so-called after a phenomenon experienced by scuba-divers called “nitrogen narcosis” - famously described by Jacques Cousteau as “the rapture of the deep.” Its trigger is a high nitrogen pressure within the body