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Friday, March 19th, 2004I have beaten Max Payne 2 for the third time, and this news is gonna contain a huge SPOILER… beware!
If you haven’t ever played Max Payne (the 1st or the 2nd), I don’t think you’ll understand much of this ending. I’ll try to summarize the whole story in a few lines: Max Payne (nice name, uh? ;)) is a detective. In the first chapter his wife (and his daughter too) was killed for knowing too much about a mysterous drug named Valkyrie; Max was also framed for a murder. Long story short, he managed to know the truth about Valkyrie with the help of the russian mafia boss Vladimir Lem. He also met Mona Sax (another nice name :p), the sister of the wife of a boss Max was after: last time we see her, she’s lying in an elevator with a bullet in her head, apparently dead. Finally Max killed the head of the Organization beyond Valkyrie, avenging his wife and thus ending the game.
Woah, I wrote too much. Shorter now: in the second chapter Max find out that Mona isn’t dead, and he falls in love with her. This time the BBB (Big Bad Boy) is Vladimir Lem, who tries to kill Max countless times and shoot Mona in the back near the ending. If you beat the game on Easy or Medium level, you finally kill Vlad, but Mona dies. Soooo sad :( I didn’t expect it and was quite disappointed the first time I played the game. Anyway, if you beat the game on Hard level too (which is called “Dead on Arrival”) you get a slightly different ending: Mona is alive! I didn’t expect this either, after seeing her die two times. But this was a good surprise, as this is how the ending should be in my opinion. And they lived happily thereafter. ;)