Game Character:
Max Payne
Character Bio
The title character of the story-driven third-person shooter, Max Payne was a police officer and a family man until his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their own home by what appeared to be an organized crime hit. Perhaps an attempt to work through his grief, he later joined up with the Drug Enforcement Agency but was soon deftly framed for the murder of his partner. Max Payne then finds himself on the run from both the mob and the cops, with nothing left to lose and vengeance his only motivation.The look of the Max Payne character is actually based on photographs of writer and designer Sami Jarvi (listed as Sam Lake in the game's credits), who posed in costume to provide a visual reference of the grim vigilante. Many of the photos of Jarvi as Max Payne were later used in the game's plot-advancing cut scenes. ~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide
