Anything as good as Max Payne out there?

[Modron]

Since this is a necro there is no mention of the upcoming Killer Bean and there was that Wanted: Weapons of Fate movie vidya adaptation in the late 2000s.

 

[General Disarray]

While the thread is up I can't helps but to mention The Specialist mod to halv life 1. Yes only multiplayer, but the gameplay is extremely precise, punishing and rewarding. Heavily inspired by The Matrix you have bullet time, rolls and slides ( seriously name another game if you throw yourself you can actively choose between slide or roll ), backflips, Matrix bullet dodge, weapons from throwing knifes to AKs.

But the real glory was the dynamic fighting mainly centered around ammo in the clip. I usually ran throwing knife, close combat knife, five seven and an UMP. As soon as the ump is out of bullet I switch to side arm, and then to throwing knife. You could also kick a weapon out of the opponents hand, pick it up, and shoot him with it. It was the best, unthreatened to this day.

 

[Modron]

The duel Russian pistols were really good in The Specialist, could land tons of headshots with those. Been so lon I can't remember if they were Makarovs or Tokarevs.

 

[jebsmoker]

i used to play The Specialists 24/7 and i distinctly remember that the akimbo pistols in that mod were dual 1911's with gold plating

 

[Modron]

Weird maybe it was single pistol but I can't even find russkie ones on the current list of weapons must have been the glock 18c but I do remember one of the lesser expensive ones being a headshot machine.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

Weird maybe it was single pistol but I can't even find russkie ones on the current list of weapons must have been the glock 18c but I do remember one of the lesser expensive ones being a headshot machine.

I don't think there was an iconic Russian pistol in the mod at any point. Sounds more like the FN Five-SeveN. These were extremely accurate and could be used akimbo style. Or perhaps the Ruger with Slinecer? https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_Specialists

 

[SilentMRG]

Freedom Fighters (2003) is also a great TPS, however, it doesn't have "bullet time", and doesn't resemble MP at all, hehe. Anyway, it's on GOG and Steam. Fun fact: It was developed by IO Interactive and uses the Glacier engine, the same engine used in the first Hitman games and Kane & Lynch - Dead Men/Dog Days.

 

[Tehdagah]

While the thread is up I can't helps but to mention The Specialist mod to halv life 1. Yes only multiplayer, but the gameplay is extremely precise, punishing and rewarding. Heavily inspired by The Matrix you have bullet time, rolls and slides ( seriously name another game if you throw yourself you can actively choose between slide or roll ), backflips, Matrix bullet dodge, weapons from throwing knifes to AKs.

But the real glory was the dynamic fighting mainly centered around ammo in the clip. I usually ran throwing knife, close combat knife, five seven and an UMP. As soon as the ump is out of bullet I switch to side arm, and then to throwing knife. You could also kick a weapon out of the opponents hand, pick it up, and shoot him with it. It was the best, unthreatened to this day.

Is there still people playing this game?

 

[Ezekiel]

Lol, I forgot specifics of 48:18, only checked it out again because of comment. Flew into the air, reloaded gun, still had time to take painkillers and prevent death.

Rockstar movement after MP3 is so fucking shit.

Edit: Also forgot my gun dropping towards camera while rolling off dumpster at 51:13.

Edit, 52:36: And that's why I prefer third person, Ash. Could do it in first of course, but would be disorienting as hell because the cam would go all over the place and you don't have the character's equilibrium. World would be on its side.

 

[AfterVirtue]

This should scratch the itch, perhaps:

https://af.gog.com/en/game/el_paso_elsewhere?as=1649904300

 

[911 Jumper]

May want to check out the DEAD TO RIGHTS series. It even has a bullet time mechanic.

 

[AndyS]

Freedom Fighters (2003) is also a great TPS, however, it doesn't have "bullet time", and doesn't resemble MP at all, hehe. Anyway, it's on GOG and Steam. Fun fact: It was developed by IO Interactive and uses the Glacier engine, the same engine used in the first Hitman games and Kane & Lynch - Dead Men/Dog Days.

The genius of this game as a concept is that progressives think it's a clever satire of right wing paranoia while everyone else gets to massacre reams of communists.

 

[SilentMRG]

The genius of this game as a concept is that progressives think it's a clever satire of right wing paranoia while everyone else gets to massacre reams of communists.

Lol... That's right! But I never realized that, hehe. What I find interesting about this game is how the missions progress, just one example, you need to go to one area of the city to blow up a helipad, so that you don't have helicopters shooting to death when you go to sabotage a train in another part of the city.