Could Max Payne kill his family?

Attention! Current review is nothing but personal opinion of its author and doesn't set any objective truth in Max Payne series!

Let's start from the beginning. In first part of the game Max comes back home and sees some bastards murder his family. Max gets them into another world. But in following cutscenes of Max we can see that events differ each time and only the end remains the same - Max stays next to his dead wife laying on the bed and holds a gun in his hand.

Before this screaming of his wife becomes to prays to spare and have a mercy, and it is addressed to Max. Also, in one of our nightmares we run into the bedroom and see ourselves as an enemy.

Becides, if we firstly run into the bathroom before going to Michelle, we'll see a blood on the walls. The door is blocked. But it will open a little and we can see that there is nobody out there - neither Michelle, nor child, nor killer strangers - althouh there will be screams getting out from there.

Gunshots of assasins sound edxactly like police berette of Max.

More. In the middle of the game we get the point that murder was ordered - Michelle accidentally found Valghalla files.

And it was decided to kill all Payne family - but there was no hunt after Max. Assasins began their actions when Max was not supposed to be at home. Why should he remain alive? Maybe because the killer is Max himself?

Now the reason. Valghalla project includes experiments with finding a brand new narcotic called Valkyr that helps to run a man. A city civilians were explored. And in Max's flat we can see a logo of Valkyr painted on the wall. What does it mean?

Next second a phone rings. Some voice asks is Max Payne at home already. After getting that Max is, the voice is satisfied and ends talk.

A simple result - it is a same wild experiment and Max Payne is his main perticipant.

In the middle of the game Nicole Horn's army traps Max in residence of Pulchinello. And what they do? Kill Pulchinello and remain Max alive, just shot him in a doze of Valkyr and leave on the street! Such actions can be applied only to indolent hireling who got out of control.

So. Michelle Payne definitely had known some facts that cost her life - an information of Valghalla project. And it was decided to terminate all family of Paynes. An executer became father of family, police officer Max Payne. He gets under Valkyr influence, gets the task and we begin the game as Max whose inflames consciousness that turned over everything around. Max kills his little child and after that his mind creans for a second showing him what just has happened, including into the scene three assasins getting into the house. Then he kills his wife ignoring her screams. Because of the stress action of Valcyr stops but Max never comes a man he was before. His head is messed out.

All main characters understand what's going on. Each of them tries use Max as he wants suggesting him this or that. Vladimier Lem, Vinni Gognitti, Nicole Horn, Alfred Woden - in which person Max is involved.

One more detail - what if bullet-time (slo-mo) inserted into the game not for gameplay only? Is it possible that physicals of Max are unique? Yes, it is, if you remember that speeded synapses - one of a few points of Valghalla project implying training of perfect soldiers. That is why Max wins all skirmishes with tens of high-skilled opponents. And slows time down - in the fact, just speeds up his biological clock.

Max Payne - the only successful result of experiments with Valkyr.

After events of first part of the game Max destroys all Valkyr system and resumes relatively safe life of lonely man being treated by nightmares of family and guns.

And then he begins to feel that he is only one who blamed and starts to look for justifications for his actions, getting to thought that - yes, he did something terrible - but for love.

For sure, Max wasn't forgotten. "Professionals like you are always in need", as said Vladimier Lem. And Alfred Woden is still in the game - why he cleaned name of Max after all rows? Somebody watches Max.

Every action of Max was recorded, analyzed. As far as suffer of killed family. A needed "point of push" was found - a will to love.

The object of love turned to Mona Sax, a killer-woman which appeared after terminating of senator Geith (or Gate?)...
Why did Mona, working for Alfred Woden, come to Max again?

Because "services" of Max as an assasin are required again, at this time for solving a "Vinni Gognitti vs. Vladimier Lem" problem.

Firstly Mona helps Max (at first game level) by appearing and saying well-known phrase "Max we gotta stop meeting like this", shocking Max with some memories. Then she comes to his home and lets him know that she takes care about him.

Then Max "should" understand that he and Mona are on the same side. Max sees sniper - and sniper shots - AFTER Max sees him. Shots, definitely going to miss.

Mona escapes with "panic", Max follows her... Done. A fight machine is in the game again. According to will of Alfred Woden.

During a whole game Max Payne is getting deeper and deeper into his dream in which he was always loving Mona, in which he must follow all her actions - he even kills his partner, detective Winterson.

And the last cutscene of the game...

"I was dreaming of my wife. She was dead. But it was alright."