Max Payne 1 & 2 Remakes Coming From Original Devs Remedy

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Remedy Entertainment, the original Max Payne development team, plans on remaking the first two titles in partnership with Rockstar Games. Such news has been a long time coming, especially when considering Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive's recent tease of new Max Payne projects. The tease in question made the rounds following a February 2022 earnings call with investors, wherein Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick expressed an interest in revisiting older IP and used images from Max Payne 3 as an example. Reportedly, stills from L.A. Noire and Midnight Club were also featured in the slideshow.

The original Max Payne hit store shelves in the summer of 2001, inviting players to join the titular character in a noir-style adventure. New York City sat at the forefront of the experience, its gritty underbelly accentuated by Remedy's crafty story about a cop-turned-vigilante. A sequel, The Fall of Max Payne, followed in 2003, once more demonstrating the studio's storytelling prowess. Rockstar Games, the publisher behind Max Payne 2, brought the character back for a third installment in 2012 — 10 years after Take-Two acquired the IP.

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Without offering much in the way of concrete details, Remedy (via Wario64/Twitter) has announced remakes for Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. The studio will partner with Rockstar Games to see the project through to completion, with the final product itself expected to launch as a "single title" for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S platforms. Remedy's proprietary Northlight engine will power this endeavor, the company said in a statement while also noting that the remakes, funded by Rockstar, currently sit in the