Max Payne (character)

Max Payne is a male video game character who features in Max Payne.

Biography

Max Payne

By the summer of 1998, Max Payne has been living with Michelle and Rose, is a Midtown South/Hell's Kitchen detective of the NYPD and has created a home and family he never had growing up - a house in the suburbs in Jersey, a loving wife, and a new born daughter. In his words, he was living the true "American Dream." On August 22, 1998, Michelle and Rose Payne are murdered by valkyr-pumped madmen wearing green jumpsuits who broke into the Payne residence. Max returns home during the invasion and finds his house in disarray. He kills the armed intruders, but is unable to rescue his family. All he is left to do is scream in anguish holding his wife's dead body. After burying his family in the Golgotha Cemetery, the widower accepts Alex Balder's offer and joins the DEA, seeking to bring down the traffickers and producers of the previously unknown drug (valkyr) that fueled his family's murderers. The Valkyr Case is opened.

Approximately two years later, in December 2000, the members of the DEA catch their first glimpses of progress in the case, when an dime-dropper informant links the Punchinello Crime Family of the Mafia to Valkyr distribution, Max Payne infiltrates the gang as an undercover officer. For three months, from December 2000 to early February 2001, Max Payne poses as a gangster rising through the ranks, meets higher and higher ranked members of the crime family and tries to uncover the source of the drug. During this time, he is known to have come into contact with the Finito Brothers and visited Lupino's Hotel on a regular basis. The highest ranking member he is able to get acquainted with seems to have been Vincent Gognitti. Max never manages to meet Jack Lupino, the original and main suspect of Valkyr trafficking.

Notes

• Max Payne was created by Sam Lake and voiced by actor James McCaffrey where he featured in the setting of the Max Payne universe.

Appearances

• Max Payne:

External Links

• Max Payne Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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