MAX:
Max Payne steps off the airplane into Liberty City airport. He looks at his coffee, annoyed at the freezing chill coming from the cup he tosses it aside. He realizes immediately that he seems to fit in, as he is not your average cop. Besides in a weird way Liberty City was a lot like New York.
Rain pounds the top of Max's head, he'd heard someone mention that it was going to rain for days, maybe weeks. This didn't matter to him, he'd had to deal with a lot worse than rain in his time on the force, he isn't even slightly effected.
He pulls a pack of cigarettes from his pocket in a futile attempt to light one he tosses the cigarette to the ground. Then pulls out his gun in front of everyone to check his bullets, doing it as a kind of dark joke to show how pathetic the security is in airplanes going to and from Liberty.
Max Rents a car at the airport and drives halfway through the city, going from Staunton Island to Portland. He had decided the only way to find garbage was to go were waste accumulates in Liberty the one place everyone seemed to climate towards was a small venue known as Luigi's Sex Club. People came from all three islands to get to Luigi's and it was a popular Mafia hang-out. Max had also read that Luigi was dead, killed a few years ago, someone had blown his car apart with a shotgun.
He gets close to Luigi's, he ends up driving in an area rich with gang violence. He notices that the gangsters are the street gang members known as the Diablos. Max is driving through the street past two apartment buildings with a payphone in the middle. He just spots a black Sentinal parked next to the phone, during his briefing it was stated that black Sentinals were known by the police in Liberty as 'Mafia Sentinals.'
He moves his car slowly to a stop a prostitute bangs on his windows and he smiles at her as he comes to a stop, he reaches to turn off the ignition when his door swings open. A man with a black shirt and a blue hat, grabs Max by his leather jacket and throws him onto the concrete. Gets in the rental-car and drives away. Max jumps to his feet and starts blasting holes into the car with his pistol hoping the man would get scared and jump out, he doesn't he just keeps driving.
"Shit!"
He doesn't know whether to go to Luigi's or stick by the Sentinal in case something happens. A man wearing a pink suit and feathered hat runs up on him with a Desert Eagle.
"GIVE ME ALL YOUR FUCKIN' MONEY!"
'This is rediculous,' he says to himself reaching in his pocket. He pulls out a Berretta and points it at the pimp. He reacts quickly firing two shots at Max, Max goes into his 'zone' a condition that Max has had for years.
He calls it 'the zone,' his doctors call it a brain deficiency. It's the first time the doctors had ever seen it and were baffled by its effects. Adreniline pumps into Max's body during a state of panic, as with everyone, but with Max his brain reacts as well. In an attempt to keep Max alive in an impossible situation his brain distorts Max's perception of time and thought giving him, the ability to react to something even as instantaneous as a flying bullet.
Max drops to his right, three bullets glide only a little less than a foot away from him. He hits the ground and looks up at the man. He'd ran he pushes down pedestrians in the street. Max doesn't want to arrest him that would get Max killed, but he won't kill the man either not if he's going to run away instead of stay and fight.
Max realizes quickly that not killing him was a big mistake the pimp darts after a Mannana he brutally blasts the right side with .50 caliber bullets. A bullet flies through the left windshield and blood paints the interior of the car. Max is amazed at the amount of violence even in a place as infamous as Liberty.
The pimps pulls the dead woman from the car. Max can't even tell what she looks like, the hole coming through the left side of her head is so large and bloody it disfigures her entire face. He grabs his other Berretta from his pocket and blows holes in the car.
Suddenly Max feels his rush of energy, the car in front of hims slows down, as well as the clouds on the horizon and the rain in the sky. He fires like a maniac but the look on his face shows focus. He aims both guns in the same exact direction and fires. The car turns into a yellow and red fireworks show. Max finally gets a grip on himself and goes back to a state of normallity.
BOOM! the car finishes it's explosion, tearing into tiny peices of flying plastic, metal, and glass. Ripping past air and rain. The car slides for six feet and black smoke spews uncontrollably from it, so much so that the fire that makes it can barely be seen.
Max stumbles and almost falls over, he gets a grip on himself then falls down. 'Oh well at least I tried,' he thinks to himself. His head becomes a sea of pain, he feels like it's been stuck with a thousand icles and hot pokers, ice cold pain, and red hot agony. It's amazing that he never goes into shock and dies.
It's part of Max Payne's brain deficiency. His brain can't handle what it's doing to itself, he can't handle the nerves and thoughts pumping faster than normal. He would later slip into a state of perpetual pain. Every part of his body will feel every type of pain imaginable to the human mind and some that aren't.
Max had only learned one way to counter it: painkillers. He'd had to use them so much that once he'd become addicted. There were also a few times when his current painkillers became unusable.
He had chased after a perp during a bank robbery the man turned around and shot at Max. Max got hit once in the arm, knowing what would happen next he quickly stuck two painkillers in his mouth. Four minutes after that incident Max fell to the ground and convulsed uncontrollably for twenty-five minutes, then slipped into a coma that lasted nearly six months. The doctors said he'd become immune to the painkillers and the shock of his 'zone' had almost killed him. The stress itself was already taking years off his life now he had to deal with a condition that could kill him and an addiction to drugs.
Max gets to his feet and slowly recovers, he feels the surge of pain shoot through his body, then it stops, the painkillers are working. He hears the distant wail of sirens and decides to bail. He runs back towards the Mafia Sentinal.
Three men come out of one of the apartments, one of them is Trenton Baldassare the kid Max is tracking from New York. He ducks behind a BF Injection, and watches them. Trent wipes blood off a baseball bat smiling. Trent is with a black guy with a blue jacket, the jacket has a patch with an 8-ball over the heart, the jacket is fading and looks very old. Trent's also with another white guy in a leather jacket who looks only slightly similar to Max Payne himself.
Max takes out a note pad and puts it under the car so rain won't soak it, then he writes: White male: late twenties, possible Italian mob dark hair and eyes average height. Black male: 8-ball? bald, possible freelance gangster nearly the same height as the other two.
Max will use it as kind of a rough reference later on. The three men get into the Mafia Sentinal.
Max Payne quickly jumps into the blue BF Injection and follows them.
Max Payne steps off the airplane into Liberty City airport. He looks at his coffee, annoyed at the freezing chill coming from the cup he tosses it aside. He realizes immediately that he seems to fit in, as he is not your average cop. Besides in a weird way Liberty City was a lot like New York.
Rain pounds the top of Max's head, he'd heard someone mention that it was going to rain for days, maybe weeks. This didn't matter to him, he'd had to deal with a lot worse than rain in his time on the force, he isn't even slightly effected.
He pulls a pack of cigarettes from his pocket in a futile attempt to light one he tosses the cigarette to the ground. Then pulls out his gun in front of everyone to check his bullets, doing it as a kind of dark joke to show how pathetic the security is in airplanes going to and from Liberty.
Max Rents a car at the airport and drives halfway through the city, going from Staunton Island to Portland. He had decided the only way to find garbage was to go were waste accumulates in Liberty the one place everyone seemed to climate towards was a small venue known as Luigi's Sex Club. People came from all three islands to get to Luigi's and it was a popular Mafia hang-out. Max had also read that Luigi was dead, killed a few years ago, someone had blown his car apart with a shotgun.
He gets close to Luigi's, he ends up driving in an area rich with gang violence. He notices that the gangsters are the street gang members known as the Diablos. Max is driving through the street past two apartment buildings with a payphone in the middle. He just spots a black Sentinal parked next to the phone, during his briefing it was stated that black Sentinals were known by the police in Liberty as 'Mafia Sentinals.'
He moves his car slowly to a stop a prostitute bangs on his windows and he smiles at her as he comes to a stop, he reaches to turn off the ignition when his door swings open. A man with a black shirt and a blue hat, grabs Max by his leather jacket and throws him onto the concrete. Gets in the rental-car and drives away. Max jumps to his feet and starts blasting holes into the car with his pistol hoping the man would get scared and jump out, he doesn't he just keeps driving.
"Shit!"
He doesn't know whether to go to Luigi's or stick by the Sentinal in case something happens. A man wearing a pink suit and feathered hat runs up on him with a Desert Eagle.
"GIVE ME ALL YOUR FUCKIN' MONEY!"
'This is rediculous,' he says to himself reaching in his pocket. He pulls out a Berretta and points it at the pimp. He reacts quickly firing two shots at Max, Max goes into his 'zone' a condition that Max has had for years.
He calls it 'the zone,' his doctors call it a brain deficiency. It's the first time the doctors had ever seen it and were baffled by its effects. Adreniline pumps into Max's body during a state of panic, as with everyone, but with Max his brain reacts as well. In an attempt to keep Max alive in an impossible situation his brain distorts Max's perception of time and thought giving him, the ability to react to something even as instantaneous as a flying bullet.
Max drops to his right, three bullets glide only a little less than a foot away from him. He hits the ground and looks up at the man. He'd ran he pushes down pedestrians in the street. Max doesn't want to arrest him that would get Max killed, but he won't kill the man either not if he's going to run away instead of stay and fight.
Max realizes quickly that not killing him was a big mistake the pimp darts after a Mannana he brutally blasts the right side with .50 caliber bullets. A bullet flies through the left windshield and blood paints the interior of the car. Max is amazed at the amount of violence even in a place as infamous as Liberty.
The pimps pulls the dead woman from the car. Max can't even tell what she looks like, the hole coming through the left side of her head is so large and bloody it disfigures her entire face. He grabs his other Berretta from his pocket and blows holes in the car.
Suddenly Max feels his rush of energy, the car in front of hims slows down, as well as the clouds on the horizon and the rain in the sky. He fires like a maniac but the look on his face shows focus. He aims both guns in the same exact direction and fires. The car turns into a yellow and red fireworks show. Max finally gets a grip on himself and goes back to a state of normallity.
BOOM! the car finishes it's explosion, tearing into tiny peices of flying plastic, metal, and glass. Ripping past air and rain. The car slides for six feet and black smoke spews uncontrollably from it, so much so that the fire that makes it can barely be seen.
Max stumbles and almost falls over, he gets a grip on himself then falls down. 'Oh well at least I tried,' he thinks to himself. His head becomes a sea of pain, he feels like it's been stuck with a thousand icles and hot pokers, ice cold pain, and red hot agony. It's amazing that he never goes into shock and dies.
It's part of Max Payne's brain deficiency. His brain can't handle what it's doing to itself, he can't handle the nerves and thoughts pumping faster than normal. He would later slip into a state of perpetual pain. Every part of his body will feel every type of pain imaginable to the human mind and some that aren't.
Max had only learned one way to counter it: painkillers. He'd had to use them so much that once he'd become addicted. There were also a few times when his current painkillers became unusable.
He had chased after a perp during a bank robbery the man turned around and shot at Max. Max got hit once in the arm, knowing what would happen next he quickly stuck two painkillers in his mouth. Four minutes after that incident Max fell to the ground and convulsed uncontrollably for twenty-five minutes, then slipped into a coma that lasted nearly six months. The doctors said he'd become immune to the painkillers and the shock of his 'zone' had almost killed him. The stress itself was already taking years off his life now he had to deal with a condition that could kill him and an addiction to drugs.
Max gets to his feet and slowly recovers, he feels the surge of pain shoot through his body, then it stops, the painkillers are working. He hears the distant wail of sirens and decides to bail. He runs back towards the Mafia Sentinal.
Three men come out of one of the apartments, one of them is Trenton Baldassare the kid Max is tracking from New York. He ducks behind a BF Injection, and watches them. Trent wipes blood off a baseball bat smiling. Trent is with a black guy with a blue jacket, the jacket has a patch with an 8-ball over the heart, the jacket is fading and looks very old. Trent's also with another white guy in a leather jacket who looks only slightly similar to Max Payne himself.
Max takes out a note pad and puts it under the car so rain won't soak it, then he writes: White male: late twenties, possible Italian mob dark hair and eyes average height. Black male: 8-ball? bald, possible freelance gangster nearly the same height as the other two.
Max will use it as kind of a rough reference later on. The three men get into the Mafia Sentinal.
Max Payne quickly jumps into the blue BF Injection and follows them.