What is Max Payne?
{{italic title}} '''''Max Payne''''' is a [[third-person shooter]] [[video game]] made by Finnish [[Software developer|developers]] [[Remedy Entertainment]] and published by [[Gathering of Developers]] in July 2001 for [[Microsoft Windows]]. Later in 2001, ports for [[PlayStation 2]], [[Xbox]] and [[GameBoy Advance]] were published by [[Rockstar Games]]. A [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] port was published in July 2002 by [[MacSoft]] in North America,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://uk.mac.ign.com/articles/362/362274p1.html | title=Max Payne Ships to Stores July 16th | date=June 14, 2002 | author=Rick Sanchez | accessdate=2007-06-07 | archive-date=2012-05-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517083737/http://uk.mac.ign.com/articles/362/362274p1.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> and by [[Feral Interactive]] in the rest of the world. There were plans for a [[Dreamcast]] version of ''Max Payne'', but they were cancelled because of the console had stopped being made.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://uk.dreamcast.ign.com/articles/132/132175p1.html | title=Max Payne Dreamcast details | date=July 27, 1999 | author=[[IGN]] | accessdate=2007-06-07 | archive-date=2007-10-26 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026145011/http://uk.dreamcast.ign.com/articles/132/132175p1.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> The game was again released in April 2009 as a [[download]]able game for the [[Xbox Originals]] program for the [[Xbox 360]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Ryan|last=Treit|title=Max Payne is an Xbox Original|url=http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/m/maxpayne2/20090424-payneoriginal.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601181648/http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/m/maxpayne2/20090424-payneoriginal.htm|archivedate=2009-06-01|work=Xbox.com|date=2009-04-24|accessdate=2009-08-26}}</ref> The [[game]] features a neo-noir type style and uses [[graphic novel|comic strips]] (with [[voice-over]]s) in place of animated [[cutscene]]s to narrate the game. This is because it is inspired by hard-boiled detective novels by authors like