Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
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A violent, Film Noir love story between a cop and a femme fatale murder suspect...here's how it ends.
Developer
Remedy Entertainment
Publisher
Rockstar Games
ERSB Rating
M
Rel. Date
15 October 2003
Genre
Third Person Shooter
Players
1
Date: 18 December 2003
Author: Jeff 'Judasen' McAllister

Part I: Darkness Inside

Prologue

After the scenes and when you are finally in control, turn around and pop open the cabinets behind you to grab some pain killers. Use them and then make your way forward out of the room as the voices talk to you. Go to the right and down the hall to the next door. Go through and enter the large room and make your way to the next set of doors. After the next scene continue through the doors and across the hall to the next set of double doors. When you enter here, there will be a dead man on the ground and another scene will play. Shoot the thug when he enters the room ands make your way through the doorway he came from. After another scene, make your way left down the hall and enter the elevator. Go down a level and you will exit to talk to Jim Bravura. After the next scene, make your way out the open door. Enter the next room and another scene will play to end the mission.



Part I: Darkness Inside

Chapter One: Elevator Doors

When you get out of your car, make your way to the right and follow the alley way around the corner to a small set of stairs. Go up and enter the warehouse through the door here. Make your way to the left and then shoot out the TV for fun. Continue making your way through the aisle around to the right and a large door will open. After you talk to the cleaner follow him to the door he opens and then enter. When he starts to fire, take him out and the next cleaner that appears as well. Make your way around the racks to the right and open the large door there. Take out the two cleaners in here and head for the smaller door in the corner of the room. Go through there and through the next door on the left side of the next room. Take the stairs up and kill the cleaners you run into along the way.



Make your way into the next room and down the hall to reach an answering machine on a desk. Listen to the message and grab the ammo from the cabinets on the wall. Make your way through the door to the right of the desk and down the hall to another door on the right. Grab the painkillers from the cabinet on the right and head for the door at the far end of the room. Watch the scene and then kill the perps inside. Grab the shotgun off the desk and the Uzi off the ground. When you exit the room, two more cleaners will show up at the far end. Take them out and make your way out the door and to the right through the now open door. Head for the end of the room and three more cleaners will appear as the sirens sound. Kill them and grab the pain killers from the locker.



Make your way through the doorway and to the end of the catwalk for another scene to play. After it is done, head for the elevator and press the green button. Wait for it to show up and if it doesn't take a walk along the catwalk outside the door and return to the elevator. When the doors open, hop on and press the button. Step out of it when you reach the lower floor and head to the right out into the open warehouse. Make your way around to where you found the first cleaner and take out the thugs in here. When you go through the doorway, watch out for the shelving that will fall over as soon as a forklift nails it from behind. Head for the door at the far end of the area where the shooter runs through. The chapter ends when you exit.



Part I: Darkness inside

Chapter Two: A Criminal Mastermind

After the long scene and you are finally back in control, make your way through the room and up the stairs. Kill the three goons in here and go to the right and enter the room there. Listen to the phone call and head back out into the hallway and go left up the staircase. Take out the goon there and enter the next room to meet Mike the Cowboy. Continue up the next set of stairs. Kill the few guys in the next room and head through to the next hallway where they will shut the door closed on you. Go up the stairs and through the brown door at the top of the stairs. Kill the few guys inside and head down the stairs. Follow the walkway around to the left and grab the 4 painkillers from the cabinet beside the brown door. Go through and kill the goons in here as you make your way down the stairs. Kill the two thugs on the ground and the one on the stairs and enter the door on the left.



Go to the right and take out the two thugs at the far end and grab the stash of painkillers and grenades in the cabinet on the far wall. When you are done, head through the wooden door behind the shelf in the center of the room. When you enter this room here, there will be one guy to the left and then three down below on the ground. Take them out and then climb down the scaffolding on the far side of the room and make your way to the far side and through the double doors. Enter the next room and it will be swarming with bad guys. Circle around the room and kill them while they are on the second floor or wait until they drop down and take them out, either way stay hidden when you aren't firing. When they have all been killed a scene plays and a few more will come for you. Kill the three that enter and then go through the door where they entered from



Part I: Darkness Inside

Chapter Three: The Depths of My Brain

Head out of the hotel room and follow the hallway around to where you can go left. Follow it more and head down the stairs until you appear in the morgue. Walk to the drawer and Mona will appear sitting on the table behind you. Talk to her and she will tell you to answer the ringing phone. Walk over to the desk at the far end of room and answer it to start another scene. When you are back in control, turn around and run down the street avoiding the bullets flying at you. Again, another scene starts and finally you will be in control. Shoot the two people standing beside you and you will wake up to end the chapter.



Part I: Darkness Inside

Chapter Four: No "us" in This

When you are back in control, follow Mona out into the hallway until you reach the door she went through. You can't go through it so make a left down the hall and there will be an old lady in a doorway taking out a thug. You can go in her apartment to grab a painkiller from a cabinet, but otherwise go to the end of the hall and out the window on the left side. Hop from the first ledge across to the second and a van will arrive below. Kill the goons who jump out of it. If you can't see them all, then jump across to the third ledge and nail them from there. Make your way around the corner and hop through the window to enter the room. Head through the door on the left and past the sleeping guy to another open window. Hop out and follow the ledge to the right and into the window to the hallway. Take out the three goons down the hall here and head to the left to an old woman in a red house coat. Head into her apartment and listen to her talk about things. Grab the painkillers she offers you from the bathroom and make your way to the back room with an open window. Hop through and go to the scaffolding on the left. Jump across to it and make your way upstairs to find the people the old lady was talking about. Grab the sniper rifle off the floor and listen to the reel to reel to hear recordings of your phone calls. Make your way out the door as the building starts to shake. Grab the painkillers from the bathroom on the left and then make your way out into the hall. Follow it forward to where you will see a woman run into her apartment. Kill the thug and follow the stairs up. Kill a few more cleaners along here and go through the door at the top.



Part I: Darkness Inside

Chapter Four Continued

Continue to follow the stairs up until you r reach the seventh floor. When you get there, there will be a door that you need a pass code for and an open elevator beside it. Hop in the elevator and use the button on the wall to operate it. When it reaches the bottom, jump out and kill the three cleaners. If you killed them before they killed the bum, then talk to him and he will tell you to talk to Ed the janitor in the basement for the pass code so you can get through the suites and get to the roof. If the bum is already dead, well then just go to the basement. Make a left down the hallway that has the "Basement" sign above it and head through the door there. Follow the stairs down and grab the painkillers from the red tub. Talk to Ed and he will tell you the code is the neighbor of the beast. Whatta funny guy. Head back up the stairs and there will be two cleaners coming down the hall. Kill them and head back into the elevator. If you saved the bum the first time, he will be dead now so don't feel so bad if you let him die the first time.



Take it back up to the seventh floor and use the keypad to enter the locked door. Make your way to the right and around the corner there will be three cleaners. Kill them and grab their guns. Enter the apartment at the end of the hall on the left and grab the loads of painkillers and ammo from the cabinets. Through the kitchen on the right will be a cleaner. Kill him and heard through the window. Walk along the ledge to the left and follow it around. Hop over the gap and when you come to the end, drop down to the ledge below. Follow this ledge until you reach a gap in it and drop through there to the ledge below that. Follow this ledge to the open window and hop through. Go to the room on the left and go through the door to end the chapter.



Part I: Darkness Inside

Chapter Five: A Sign of Her Passage

Run to the end of the hall and open the door to reveal some cleaners that are waiting for you. Take them out and then you will have the choice of going up or down. You can go up two flights of stairs to get some painkillers and ammo that are on top of a stack of boxes, but you will need to come back down afterwards. Head down the stairs and you will see signs of Mona's passing. Go down another set of stairs and you will hear someone yelling behind a door with a board keeping it closed. Either shoot the board or walk into it to move it and there will be a man on the other side who pulls out some guns to help you. He will tag along so try to keep him alive and he will be more useful. Head back to the hallway and continue going down the stairs.



Go to the left end of the hall and take the stairs down here and you will hear a woman's voice. Make your way to the double doors with the exit sign above it and a hooker will be there saying that they locked all the doors and you could probably get out of a third floor window if you can get past the gas fire. She will pull out a gun and join you and the bum. Head back down the hall and some cleaners will pop out from behind the crates and boxes. Kill them all and make your way to the end of the hall. Head down the set of stairs there and follow the hallway around to the utility room. Turn the valve to shut off the gas and head back up. When you are back in the hall, there will be some more cleaners to deal with. Make your way back up the stairs to the third floor. Go to the end of the hall where the fire was and enter the door on the left.



Make your way through the room watching not to get too close to the flames. The far wall has two open windows on it but the left window is the one that has a ledge under it. Hop out to the ledge and start to make your way around. The girl and guy will stay put and cover you from there. As you get around the ledge, some cleaners will appear below and start firing. Help your new friends take them out and continue around the corner. Jump over the railing to the scaffolding and follow the ramp upwards. Jump across to the ledge on the left and drop of the edge to land on the mesh fencing below. It will give way and eventually lower you to the ground. When you reach the ground, A mass rush of cleaners appears. Use a lot of dives and bullet time and just start nailing everyone in sight. When they are all dead, a van will drive off and the chapter ends.



Part I: Darkness Inside

Chapter Six: A Linear Sequence of Scares

Head into the room to the right and grab the painkillers off the desk. Go back out to the hall and make your way to the end. Go down the stairs towards the spinning circles and enter the street scene of Noir York. Follow the street to the left and into the parking garage where the cardboard man zooms over to. Follow it through and up the stairs. Follow the hallway, past the cardboard woman who gets her head cut off and out through the open window. Follow the catwalk down to the street and answer the ringing phone in the phone booth. Walk around the corner and there will be a large steel cage there. Walk into it and it will lower you down. Make your way to the right and follow the hallway around to the bathroom.



Continue through the next hallway to another large cage. Ride it up and exit to the hallway to the right. Make your way down the street with the mouths on the walls and enter the last one. The floor will spin as you walk through, so make your way to the left of the room and follow the hallway to the phone booth at the end. Use it and it will lift the wall to another spinning walkway on the right. Go through there and follow the signs that say no escape until you come to an opening on the left wall. Go through there and follow the hallway to the stairs at the end. The closest door on the left will lead to Mona's office but Max says he wants to snoop around more. Head the other way and enter the door there to go outside. Hop across the roof top to the open window and enter her office there. Walk into the next room and snoop around for a lot of painkillers and ammo. In the weapons room, grab the desert eagle and the Mp5 off the desks. Continue through the room and enter the white door that leads to the shower to end the chapter.



Part I: Darkness Inside

Chapter Seven: The Million Dollar Question

After the scene, step off the elevator and Mona will tell you that there are a few cleaners to the left of you. Head to the left and around the corner where two cleaners are standing around. Kill them and try to get through the door they were guarding and Mona will tell you to take the door to the right beside the large painting. Make your way over to the right one hallway and go through the door next to the large white painting. Inside will be two more guards for you to take out. Do so and make your way to the balcony and then to the left through the open metal fencing. Enter the apartment ad go through the bathroom and bedroom and Mona will tell you to check up stairs. When you reach the top of the stairs, 5 more cleaners will appear.



Take them out and then search around. When you find the body Mona tells you that more cleaners are coming and its time to book. Head for the stairs that you went up earlier and some cleaners will enter the door to the right. Kill them as they come through and just wait for them to enter. When no more are coming through, enter the door and go to the right and kill the few more that are hanging around. Take the stairs on the left down and kill the cleaners that are having a great ole time around the piano. Another cleaner will jump in through the window wanting to be killed as well. When they are all dead Mona will tell you that you should be able to jump down to the balcony below. Head out side and over the railing to the ledge. Follow it around to the left and hop down to the awning above the balcony below.



Part I: Darkness Inside

Chapter Seven Continued

When you are on the awning, you will hear two cleaners yammering about their job. Drop down and kill them. Open the door to the apartment and then quickly step back. Let the cleaners come to you as they open the door one by one. After they are all dead, Mona will tell you that there are more in the lobby ahead. Make your way out of the apartment and through the hall ahead where you will see two cleaners gun someone down. Kill them and Mona will tell you take the stairs down in the Drama Queens apartment. Make a left to the man's apartment and grab the painkillers from the bathroom. Take the stairs down and Mona will tell you about more cleaners to the right. Go that way and there will be two cleaners guarding a door across the lobby. Enter the apartment door they were guarding and take a snoop through.



On the far wall will be an open window with a cleaner in it. Kill him and talk to Mona. Jump out the window onto the lift. Take it down until it stops and then jump off to the right to the metal catwalk. When the lift stops moving, there will be a cleaner above you toss down grenades at you. Keep moving down the catwalks until you can't go down anymore. Now there will be an open window in the corner of the building with two cleaners inside. Toss in a grenade to kill them or just go cowboy on them and shot them. Enter the apartment and grab the painkillers from the kitchen. Leave through the front door and you will enter the lobby with a few guards strewn about. Kill them and enter the next lobby to find more cleaners. When they are dead, Kaufman exits the elevator and sends more cleaners after you. Kill everyone you see and you will need to use bullet time to take him down. He is a tough cookie and will take you out in no time flat. When everyone is dead, enter the elevator and take a ride to the lobby.



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