My favourite game

My favourite game is Max Payne written by Remedy® Entertainment and 3D Realms®. It is the TPP (Third Person Perspective) game so you see the environment from behind the hero. In this game, the hero is Max Payne – an ex-policeman from New York, whose family was murdered by mafia. He has nothing to lose and he starts fighting with drug dealers and criminals.

You start the game on the lowest difficulty level (you cannot change it). In the game, there is a great variety of weapons – beginning from pistols and baseball bat to rocket launcher and Molotov cocktails. Especially good is an assault rifle called “Jackhammer” and Pump-Action Shotgun. One of the most powerful pistols is the set of dual Berettas; it is most effective against groups of enemies. Another powerful weapon is “Colt Commando” – quick shooting submachine gun – also against groups. The graphics is on really high level – you can even notice the clothing waving on the wind. There is a large variety of options to be able to play the game on a weaker PC (in 640x480 resolution), or to get an extra performance and animation quality on fast computer (in maximum 1280x1024 resolution and 32-bit colour). Despite of the fact, that the game has so much options it requires at least 400 MHz processor, 96 MB of Random Access Memory and a 16 MB graphics card with 3D accelerator.

However, nothing has only advantages. The whole action is sometimes spoiled because of effects. Some of them are really stupid – for example, if you shoot with a rocket launcher into thin, wooden door, nearly nothing happens! The door after the shoot will be only a bit black. As far as I am concerned, the door should get a big hole. Another effect is also foolish – if you shoot with shotgun into one’s head, he survives!

Even though these disadvantages, the game’s interesting, full of action and, the most important, full of violence. I really like games containing violence and I like Max Payne.