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You've got a big arsenal of guns to work with, and a pocket-full of painkillers to top up your health. Showboating revenge-killer Payne can launch into bullet time dives with a jab of the right shoulder button, and you can reposition his body while soaring through the air to take care of multiple foes. Max Payne for GBA was actually quite fun to play. It's all a long way from the Nintendo who had a strict ban on the word "kill". Plus, racy pin-up posters still adorn the motel's walls, and when you stumble upon Rico he's still being "entertained" by a lady friend (and you'll still chase him down a corridor, with his trousers around his chubby ankles). Nintendo's long held prudishness didn't even affect the sex motel level from Chapter 3, where tiny pixelated beds judder up and down when you push the love-heart-shaped button nearby. Enemies explode into a shower of blood, leaving pools and splatter stains of the stuff on nearby floors and walls. Nope, this game wears its "16+" rating sticker with pride.
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That includes LucasFilm having to expunge any sexually suggestive sentences from the NES version of Maniac Mansion, or id Software turning Wolfenstein's Nazis into green-blooded zombie soldiers on SNES.
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Nintendo had obviously relaxed it's adult content rules by the time Max Payne released, and forgot about the strict standards policy that had crippled many PC ports in the past. Remarkably, almost nothing was censored in the leap to GBA. Okay, so the voices are so garbled by the GBA's crackly phone-line soundchip that most bits of dialogue are barely audible, but it's quite the feat, nonetheless. Most impressively, even the graphic novel panels are intact - complete with voice acting. It certainly helped me find the enemies who are hidden off screen by the restrictive camera angle. Having just played through Max's first two acts for our review of Max Payne Mobile on iPhone and iPad, it was slightly uncanny to see huge swathes of the original game remade in the pixelated, isometric style. Almost every chapter (bar the iconic dream sequences) is remade for the GBA port. You still catch a ride on a rundown subway train, still chase enemies across snow-capped rooftops, and still blow your way through a bank with the help of some leftover C4. Entire rooms, building layouts, subway maps, enemy placements and story sections have been reproduced on Game Boy Advance. Playing it Bogartīut despite completely altering the view, Mobius slavishly replicated the PC edition in this new, top-down style. Instead of a third person shooter, Max Payne on GBA is viewed from an isometric perspective, making it look like the world's most violent and grubby version of The Sims. That's mostly down to the game's handheld-friendly visual style. In 2003, Mobius Entertainment (now Rockstar Leeds) managed to squish Remedy's action-packed noir epic into the cramped confines of a Game Boy Advance cartridge.Īgainst all odds, it didn't completely blow.
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The cramped screen, the modest performance, and the shortage of buttons means that most computer games just don't play nice in portable form.īut that didn't stop Rockstar from trying. You only have to look at Rockstar's mangled iPhone port of Max Payne to realise that some PC games just don't work that well on handheld. This week, Mark Brown dives headfirst, and in slow motion, towards Max Payne's first handheld release. In Replay, we take another look at the handheld and mobile games that have defined genres and pushed boundaries.
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