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| - Max Payne is your stereotypical character who loses everything he has, then vows to get revenge on the culprits. Seems simple enough, but if Max Payne were that baseless, he wouldn't have nearly the popularity that he has. If you get past the cheesy pun that is Max Payne's name, both he and his games are quite good. Max plays the role of the broken man who devotes his life to getting justice quite well, and he also plays the part of someone having nothing left to lose very well. When Max first learns that his family was killed by the hands of drug dealers, he goes undercover in an attempt to both find out what's going on and to get revenge. Unfortunately, everyone else who could have known about the events has also mysteriously died. Max decides that the only course of action to take from there is to go on a massive killing spree aimed at anything dumb enough to move, and this has spawned a decent little series with Max as the main character. Coincidentally enough, both Grand Theft Auto and the Max Payne series are both made by Rockstar, and there are similarities between the storylines of all the games made by the company. "Collecting evidence had gotten old a few hundred bullets back. I was already so far past the point-of-no-return I couldn't remember what it had looked like when I had passed it." - Max Payne
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