The Myth of Max Payne 2 | Story Explained

In Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, a detective for the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is reinstated after the events of the previous game, and he reunites with Mona Sax to uncover a conspiracy of death and betrayal.

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Two years after the events of the first game, Max has been reinstated in his old job as a police detective for the NYPD. Max is called on to investigate a gunfight at a warehouse owned by Max's old associate Vladimir Lem and discovers the place has been attacked by a group of hitmen called the Cleaners. He encounters Mona Sax surprisingly, who was presumed dead at the end of the previous game. Max heads to a restaurant owned by Lem and rescues him from his old foe Vinnie Gognitti; Lem claims that Gognitti is trying to monopolize the black market gun trade and sees Lem as a threat. After evading an attack by the Cleaners in his apartment, Max tracks Mona to an abandoned funhouse and learns that the Cleaners are after anyone who knows about the secretive Inner Circle. While attempting to track down a contact, Mona is arrested because of her crimes and is taken in to the police station, despite Max's protests.

While at the station, Max overhears his new partner, Valerie Winterson, talking on the phone about Mona. The station is attacked by the Cleaners, who are looking for Mona. Mona breaks out of her cell, and after fighting off the Cleaners, Max and Mona begin hunting down the people responsible for the attack. Their search leads them to a construction site, where he and Mona defend themselves against the Cleaners. After their foes leave, Winterson arrives and holds Mona at gunpoint. Mona claims that Winterson is there to kill her, while Winterson claims that she is simply trying to arrest a fleeing fugitive. After several moments of consideration, Max fatally shoots Winterson, allowing Mona to escape. Before she dies, Winterson shoots Max, hospitalizing him.[5]

The Cleaners raid the hospital building looking for Max, but Max manages to fight his way out. He visits Senator Alfred Woden, the leader of the Inner Circle, who reveals that the Cleaners work for Lem; Lem wants to secure control of the criminal underground and the Inner Circle by killing Gognitti and Woden. Max raids Lem's restaurant, killing several of his henchmen, and discovers that Winterson was Lem's mistress. He races to Gognitti's hideout to save him from Lem, and the two flee to Mona's funhouse hoping that she can help them, but Lem ambushes them. He reveals that Mona is a hired gun for Woden, with orders to kill Lem and Max. Lem murders Gognitti, shoots Max and leaves him for dead. Mona rescues Max, and together, they go to Woden's mansion to save him from Lem.[5]

At the mansion, Mona knocks Max to the ground in an attempt to follow her orders to kill him, but discovers that her feelings for him keep her from doing so. Lem shoots Mona, after realizing that she will not kill Max. Woden confronts Lem, who shoots him dead in the ensuing struggle. Max and Lem fight while the mansion burns around them. Eventually, Lem is killed and Max returns to Mona's side as the police arrive, and she dies in his arms.[5] In an alternate ending unlocked on the highest difficulty, Mona survives her wound, and the two share a kiss.

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0:00 – Max Payne 2 Introduction
0:42 – The Hero's Journey
1:23 – The Ordinary World
2:10 – Call To Adventure
3:26 – Refusal Of The Call To Adventure
4:31 – Meeting The Mentor
5:10 – Crossing The First Threshold
6:30 – Tests, Allies, and Enemies
9:42 – The Approach To The Inmost Cave
11:01 – The Ordeal
12:36 – The Reward
13:42 – The Road Back
14:33 – Resurrection
15:56 – The Return With The Elixir
17:05 – Outro

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