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Max Payne 1-3
Max Payne raised the bar for cinematic action in video games, its innovativeness principally down to the ability to transform shootouts into slomo bloodshed via bullet time. Max Payne was evidently inspired by The Matrix, and whilst it wasn’t the first video game to feature bullet time it certainly popularised it beyond anything seen before. The series’ timelessness is underlined by a superb character arc for its eponymous hero too, and whilst the trilogy took a slight dip in the middle, it culminated in the incredible Max Payne 3, a title where Max finally resolves after years of toil.
