In a time when most popular PC games were following the cookie-cutter fads of either FPS or RTS, the publishers of Max Payne dared to break the mold. Max Payne was one of the last boxed PC games I purchased before my extended vacation from gaming altogether and perhaps was the last PC game, aside from Wizardry 8, to capture my attention and suck me in for any length of time at that stage in my life.
