
Max escapes the hospital and returns to the amusement park, only to find his enemies waiting for him there. The cleaners, this time without their disguises, try to kill him once more. Max wakes up in the hospital and finds Winterson dead. Max Payne 2's story is mostly told through graphic novel vignettes. Max shoots her first, but she manages to shoot Max when she is on the ground. Winterson, another detective, confronts Max and threatens to shoot Mona. The cleaners have a huge arsenal of weapons hidden on the site. Max manages to follow them in one of their own vans and they arrive at a construction site, where Mona soon joins him. Back at the precinct, the cleaners have assaulted the building trying to kill Mona. When the police arrive, they arrest Mona. However, by the time they arrive he is already dead and the cleaners are all over the building. She tells him about a possible lead, a member of the Inner Circle, a group of powerful men. This time, Max approaches Mona in a run-down amusement park, which she has made her home. Mona runs off on her own and Max fights the cleaners in his apartment building. Mona later comes to Max's apartment to tell him someone wants them both dead, shortly after which a sniper tries to kill them. Along the way, he runs into Mona Sax, but she disappears before he can get to her. When investigating a shots fired call, he runs into a gang of heavily armed men disguised as cleaners. He is still suffering from depression over his wife and daughter's murder and has turned to alcohol. Following the story of the first game, Max is now a detective for the NYPD, having been cleared of the charges he faced thanks to Alfred Woden. It deals with themes like love, depression and choices. Max Payne 2 is a mature film noir love story.

On April 27, 2009, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne became available on the Xbox 360's Xbox Originals service for 1200 Microsoft Points. The game was originally released for the PlayStation 2, PC and Xbox in 2003. Dubbed 'Bullet Time 2.0', the meter no longer drains while shoot dodging and killing several enemies in quick succession is rewarded with a bullet time reload involving Max ducking while the camera spins around him. Entering bullet time drains the hour glass meter but, unlike the first game, the meter regenerates on its own given enough time.


Max can also leap in any direction in slow motion whilst firing his guns, which is called a shoot dodge. With a tap of the button, time slows down for Max's enemies while his reaction abilities remain the same. It was the first series to incorporate slow motion bullet time into the gameplay.

Max Payne 2 is a third-person shooter like its predecessor. Overview Max Payne reloading after killing an enemy.
