Max Payne 1 and 2 Remakes in Full Production

[Paper Rival]

Super hyped as a Max Payne 3 enjoyer who missed out on the earlier games!

"Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake, which Remedy is working on as a co-production with Rockstar, has “progressed from production readiness to the full production stage”. According to Remedy, the team is currently working towards a version of the game that is playable from beginning to end."

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/max-payne-1-2-remakes-are-in-full-production-control-2-is-now-in-a-playable-state/

[ingi]

read that too. I'm really looking forward to the remake. I had to buy The Fall of Max Payne 2 for my Playstation 2 because the game crashed after a certain time under Windows 11 and couldn't be fixed. And I've never played max payne 1.

[Paper Rival]

Originally posted by ingi:

read that too. I'm really looking forward to the remake. I had to buy The Fall of Max Payne 2 for my Playstation 2 because the game crashed after a certain time under Windows 11 and couldn't be fixed. And I've never played max payne 1.

Yeh, I had a similar experience with the second game. Even with all the communities fixes couldn't get it to run properly. I believe I had a major audio bug as well.

First game wouldn't even start.

Granted I'm using a newer system and there is clearly some issues with running some older games with a modern CPU/GPU.

So the remakes are essential to actually be able to play these games on PC for me.

I know some may (rightly so) express skepticism towards these remakes after the sloppy GTA Trilogy remasters. Given that they're actual remakes though and seem to be headed by Rockstar and Remedy themselves, I think they have a much better chance of being high quality.

[Tex [SRB]]

CAN'T WAIT!!!

[ingi]

Originally posted by Comedown Machine:

Originally posted by ingi:

read that too. I'm really looking forward to the remake. I had to buy The Fall of Max Payne 2 for my Playstation 2 because the game crashed after a certain time under Windows 11 and couldn't be fixed. And I've never played max payne 1.

Yeh, I had a similar experience with the second game. Even with all the communities fixes couldn't get it to run properly. I believe I had a major audio bug as well.

First game wouldn't even start.

Granted I'm using a newer system and there is clearly some issues with running some older games with a modern CPU/GPU.

So the remakes are essential to actually be able to play these games on PC for me.

I know some may (rightly so) express skepticism towards these remakes after the sloppy GTA Trilogy remasters. Given that they're actual remakes though and seem to be headed by Rockstar and Remedy themselves, I think they have a much better chance of being high quality.

Now I switched back to Windows 10 until the Windows 10 updates were switched off on October 30, 2025. And strangely enough, the fall of max payne 2 works without any problems under Windows 10, there haven't been any crashes or anything else. I just can't explain the mystery.

[menad]

Hope the games don't get stuck on epic like AW2

[Kiryu Kazuma]

Originally posted by mernard:

Hope the games don't get stuck on epic like AW2

They are published by rockstar not epic, so I doubt that they will

[Death]

Originally posted by ingi:

read that too. I'm really looking forward to the remake. I had to buy The Fall of Max Payne 2 for my Playstation 2 because the game crashed after a certain time under Windows 11 and couldn't be fixed. And I've never played max payne 1.

I played through both recently on a Win 11 machine. I just installed it and used this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=793268068 and everything worked from beginning to end.

[Bazzy]

I do not trust Remedy or current Western Devs at all to not screw a remake of a game like this up. So no thank you!

[ROXANN]

How? ^ Remedy literally made the originals lol

[Lilly]

Has there been any word on the voice acting, if James McCaffery recorded his lines before he passed away? I really hope they don't change Max's voice.

[Kai]

Cant wait for garbage like Alan Wake 2 and Control.

[Nutrie]

My expectations are at a bare minimum. I expect any Western game released nowadays to be woke and progressive. And that's an automatic blacklist from me.

[Coolverine]

Originally posted by Lilly:

Has there been any word on the voice acting, if James McCaffery recorded his lines before he passed away? I really hope they don't change Max's voice.

Tbh, I wouldn't mind if they just re-used audio from the first games. They probably have a lot of unused recordings too.

[LeftPaw]

So we will get to finally play as Mary Payne?

[Lilly]

Originally posted by Coolverine:

Originally posted by Lilly:

Has there been any word on the voice acting, if James McCaffery recorded his lines before he passed away? I really hope they don't change Max's voice.

Tbh, I wouldn't mind if they just re-used audio from the first games. They probably have a lot of unused recordings too.

Yeah that would be good too.