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 III: Waking up from the American Dream

Chapter Two: On a Crash Course

When you enter the mansion, walk up to the few guards at the top of the stairs and they will tell you that the boss isn't in. Before they stop talking take them out and the rest that enter the far doors. Head to the right side of the room and go through the doors into the kitchen to kill a few more guards. Grab the painkillers from the far wall and head through the door on the left side. Use bullet time here since this can get a bit hairy. There are commandos all over this room and one or two up on the higher levels. Use the pillars to hide behind and pop out to nail them one at a time. When all is quiet, head up the scaffolding to the second level and take out the few goons that come through the doors at the far end.



The next area is the second floor above where you first entered. Again, make your way to the far end and go through the opening on the right side. Head up the stairs and follow them around to another large room with a small stair case on the left side of the room. Go through the door there and grab some painkillers from on top of a box. Go through the door at the end of the room and inside will be a dummy strapped to a few barrels. Walk around it and slowly walk through the boxes to hear two commandos talking about how there will be a big bang when you shot it. Go around the corner and kill them while someone else enters the room and shoots the dummy for you. Through the large hole in the wall, there will be a staircase and a few commandos hanging around on it. Kill them and then climb up the stairs and go to the far end of the catwalk. Take the stairs down to the ground and take out the two goons shooting at you.



When you reach the bottom, go through the door at the far end and kill the few guys in here. Make your way through the door on the right and follow the stairs down to the parking garage. When you open the door, kill the few commandos in there and then grab all of the weapons and ammo lying about. Make your way through the door on the right side and kill the two baddies who come down to greet you. Make your way up the stairs. Clear out this room here as the voice on the loud speaker calls for more re-enforcements. Take the stairs on the left up some more and kill some more guards up here. Make your way down the hall and enter the first door on the right. Kill the two guards on the loudspeaker and the chapter ends.





Part III: Waking up from the American Dream

Chapter Three: A Mob War

Make your way forward through the door way and go to the right around the shelving. Go down the hall to the right and listen for the commandos to come down the stairs as they talk. They will enter the room with the shelves, so nail them from behind. One more will come down the stairs for you to kill as well. Make your way up the stairs until you can't go and farther and there will be a green gas can on the ground beside a crumbling wall. Shoot it and it will blast a hole in the wall for you to get through. Enter it and go left through the door. Make your way out into the hall and jump through the next hole in the wall. Enter the room with the guy watching TV and grab the pain killers off the box. Make your way out and to the white door on the right to get outside. Max will say he needs to get down to the street. Hop through the window and across the catwalk to the door on the right.



Enter and go up to take out 4 thugs and to get some weapons, ammo and pain killers. Make your way back down and continue to go down the stairs to where you will come to two thugs running past. Kill them and head to the left. Head through the room and go left again to enter another room with a thug in the corner. Kill him and make your way across the boards to the hole in the next building. Make your way across and some enemies will show up everywhere. Some will be below you, some will be in the room you just came from and some will be below you but on the other side of the fence. Make your way across the boards and hop into the hole. Exit the room and follow the stairs up a floor. Go through the white door and through the door to the right of it to find two mobsters climbing out the window. Shoot them and follow the boards to another open window. Enter the apartment and grab the pain killers from the shelf. Walk to the front door and exit.



Part III: Waking up from the American Dream

Chapter Three Continued

Now it seems you are teaming up with the mobster after you just whack a whole butt load of them. Oh well. Make your way down the hall and down the stairs to the street. Head left and just follow where the mob guys go. When the cleaners appear on the street, start taking them out. If your mob buddies get killed its no big loss. Make a left down the street and more cleaners will appear. Kill them as you move and eventually they will all be dead. Enter the first green door on the right side of the street and it will take you to a back alley. A black cleaner van will pull up at the end of the street and unload a swarm of cleaners on you. Just keep firing at the back door of the van and you will kill them as the exit the van. When they are all dead, make your way to the van to end the chapter.



Part III: Waking up from the American Dream

Chapter Four: Dearest of all my Friends

Well this is one of the funniest missions I have played in any game. It seems Vinnie is wearing the Baseball Bat Boy suit the Vlad had in his car and it is wired to a bomb. You need to protect Vinnie through this chapter while the cleaners try to kill him. First off Vinnie will hide from the cleaners so as long as he is backed into a corner he is usually safe. Stay in front of him and kill the cleaners that appear. First three cleaners will enter the building. Kill them and Vinnie will get up and move and tell you that they are coming over the walls. Head outside the front door and kill the cleaners as they jump over the wall one by one. After Vinnie is on the move again, head back inside and follow him to a large warehouse.



Kill the two cleaners that slide in through the top windows as Vinnie waddles over to a small door. When he starts saying to get to the elevator, three more cleaners will slide in from the top windows again. Follow him to the elevator and grab the painkillers. Nail the cleaners as they come close to the elevator until you reach the top. When you reach the office, stand at the top of the stairs and kill the few cleaners that come up there. Enter the office and Vinnie will tell you that you and him can get out through the balcony. Go through the large glass doors and shoot the back wall to reveal some cleaners waiting there. Kill them and the two on the ground. Drop down to the street and a black van will pull up.



Kill the few cleaners in the back and follow Vinnie as he runs around the corner. He will try to get in the garage while you take out more cleaners in another van and hopping over the wall. When Vinnie gets the door open, go inside and grab the painkillers from on top of the boxes atop the shelf at the bottom of the stairs. Make your way up the stairs and use the control box to lift Vinnie up to the second floor as a black van crashes into the garage. Nail the cleaners as they hop out of the van. When they are all dead, Vinnie will run down the hall and eventually you will get to his parked van through a set of double doors. A few more cleaners will enter for one last try to get Vinnie. Kill them and you guys will escape.



Part III: Waking up from the American Dream

Chapter Five: A Losing Game

Make your way forward through the door on the right. To your left will be a set of stairs. Take them down and jump off the first landing through the broken railing to the ground below. Head to your right and run up the ramp. When you get to the top, a wall will fall way. Before you jump down to the ground here, shoot the barrels to make them explode. If you choose not to, they will explode from the heat and chances are you will be standing right beside them when they do. Walk under the structure in the middle of the room to avoid the flames and go to the far corner.



There will be a barrel to the right of the car that will make a hole in the wall when it blows up. If it hasn't blown already, shoot it and climb through. Make your way through the bathroom going to the right and out into the hallway. There will be a few more explosions and the beam will fall. One large beam will fall and be leaning to make a ramp. Walk up it and jump off to the right side to land on top of a building. Run to the far wall and then jump down off the right side. Continue to follow the hall and a hole wall blow open in the left side wall. Enter the hole there and go through the next room with the cardboard cut outs. Go to the right side of the room and follow the doorway there to the next large room. Go around the right corner and there will be a fire alarm on the wall. Pull it and the flames will start to be extinguished. To your right will be some pain killers and to your left a large beam will fall over.



Go to the right and the water will have shorted out the electrical transformers and won't let you walk up the stairs. Go through the door on the left side of the wall before you reach the fenced area and make your way through 2 rooms until you come to the fuse panel in on the far wall. Turn off the circuit breakers and the electricity will stop. Head back through the fenced area and up the stairs. Make your way to the far end, running past Vinnie to the stairs. Make your way up them and turn to the left to get into your office.



Part III: Waking up from the American Dream

Chapter Six: There Are No Happy Endings

For this very short chapter, start by listening to Bravura on the operating table in the police station. When you finish talking to him, head into the interrogation room. You will see a reflection of yourself. When it starts hooting at you, shoot back. Chase him as he takes off through the door. Follow him down the hallway and continue to go through the door at the end. Keep going through to the end and the chapter will end when Mona starts talking to you.



Part III: Waking up from the American Dream

Chapter Seven: Love Hurts

When you reach the Mansion, you and Mona are ready to attack. You drop down and Mona takes the high road. Kill the cleaners on the ground and the few around the top ledges. When they are dead, cleaners will start to come through the large front doors. Now that you can enter them, go inside and you will hear some people talking behind the door at the top of the stairs. Head to the front door as an explosion makes the ceiling collapse. As long as you stand at the front door, you won't get hit. Keep your cross hair on the door at the top of the stairs though because as soon as the ceiling stops falling a cleaner will appear there to kill you.



Take him out and enter the next room and kill the cleaner hiding behind the piano. Make your way through the glass doors and enter the room on the right. Take out a few guys in here and Mona will be on the second floor clearing out cleaners there. After the scene, kill the two guys who come in through the other side and make your way down the hall. Enter the room there across from the giant yellow explosive and grab the pain killers from the cabinet. Make your way through the door in the room and kill the cleaners that appear on the bottom floor of what looks to be a library. As you go to the other side of the room Mona and a few cleaners will appear on the second floor. Take out how ever many cleaners up top you want and Mona will take out the rest. After they talk, three cleaners will come through the large doors leading to the room. Kill them and make your way to the door at the end of the hall to enter a large room.





Part III: Waking up from the American Dream

Chapter Seven Continued

When you start, there will be a stone slab in front of you and one off to each side,. Also there are square platforms high above in each corner. Too clear the lower floor, toss a grenade forward and one to each corner. The gas cans will explode with the grenades and clear the room. Hide behind a pillar while Mona clears the top square platforms. A few more cleaners will enter the room through the large doors in the middle. Take them out and make your way down there. Head up the stairs on the left and kill the two cleaners hanging around on them. Two more cleaner will be at the top in front of the only door you can go into there. Enter the surveillance room after they are all dead and grab the goodies from the lockers.



Make your way through the next room with the fancy furniture and ready a grenade. Open the door and toss one out into the hall to clear out a lot of cleaners that are waiting there for you. When they are all dead, make your way to the right and go through the door there. Enter the walkway and below to your left will be a few cleaners shooting up at you. Toss a grenade or tow over the edge and go down the stairs to finish them off. A cleaner or two will then appear back up top. Kill them and go through the door at the end of the walkway that is now open. When you enter the next room, you will hear Mona and Max will tell her that Woden is in his panic room. Go to the left and follow the hallway through the doors until you reach the large room with two cleaners in the center shooting. Take them out and make your way down the stairs. Go to the large wooden door and you will meet Mona there.



Part III: Waking up from the American Dream

Chapter Eight: That Old Familiar Feeling

Walk forward toward the door in front of you. Let it open and then step back and wait for the cleaner to come to you. Kill him and take his gun. Walk around the corner and let the next cleaner come out the door. Kill him and turn around and run for the panic room. Get inside it and close the door by pressing the button beside it. The bombs will go off destroying everything around you. Grab the goods in the panic room and make your way out. Pick up any weapons that are lying around and make your way to the room on the right. Drop down and kill the cleaner that appears. Now you need to move fast because another bomb is going to drop down and explode. Run through the door and kill the two cleaners in here and run through the door behind them as well. In the next room, run up the wooden stairs and around the walkway. Jump across the broken part and enter the door.



Part III: Waking up from the American Dream

Chapter Eight Continued

Make your way up the stairs. When you reach the top and open the door, run as fast as you can back down them. The explosives will go off and then you will be able to go back up and through the door. Make your way around the corner and up the stairs. Take out the cleaners along the way and you will come to Vlad behind his glass shield. After he walks away, he shuts it off. Go through the door he went through and kill the few guards in there. Stock up on pain killers and ammo and then head for the elevator when you are ready. Press the button and hop on. Kill the few guards when you step off and head for the door on the right side. The staircase will collapse and you will need to ride the wheel chair lift up to the top. This part can be very frustrating since Vlad does a lot of damage to you and there isn't a lot of places to hide.



When you enter the back hallway, shoot at him to make him dive out of the way. Press the button on the left wall to activate the lift and it will come towards you. Vlad will then hide behind a cabinet and move over to his button and press it to stop the lift. Press yours again right away and the lift will come to you again. When Vlad appears, shoot at him and don't let him get to the button. When the lift is close enough, jump up into it and press the button on the left of the lift to go to the top. Vlad will then run through the top door and send a cleaner after you. Take him out and enter the large room where Vlad ran.



This is the final showdown with Vlad and it can be a bit tricky at times. Where he is perched you can shoot him but he is busy lobbing Molotov cocktails down on your head. Look up and the structure he is in and there are 4 orange cylinders in the joints. Shoot out three of them and the structure will fall to the top of the glass cage he was above. You still can't hit him so now you need to shoot the four orange cylinders that are keeping the roof together while he lobs even more cocktails at you. Shoot out all four and the large spike will come crashing down on him. He isn't dead yet though. Now that you can see him, you can shoot him. He will pop his head over the edge once in a while to throw the cocktails at you but if you lay into him with the MP5, he won't be able to duck nor will he be able to throw cocktails at you. Keep firing non-stop at him and he won't be able to move. You can also look under the floor where he is and there will be a shadow under his feet. Aim for where he is moving to and you will defeat him in no time flat. When you knock him down once and for all it all comes to a crashing end and you have finished the game.



Congratulations!

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