Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder hunted by cops and the mob Max is a man with his back against the wall fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Max Payne is a relentless story-driven game about a man on the edge fighting to clear his name while struggling to uncover the truth about his slain family amongst a myriad of plot-twists and twisted thugs in the gritty bowels of New York during the centurys worst blizzard. The groundbreaking original cinematic action-shooter Max Payne introduced the concept of Bullet Time in videogames. Through its stylish slow-motion gunplay combined with a dark and twisted story Max Payne redefined the action-shooter genre.