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- Spoilers (2)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- Mild amount of sexual references throughout.
- In a comic book style cutscene, a man receives oral sex. The woman is offscreen. We can hear it just a tad and we see her head pop up. Comedically, when you fight the man, he runs around with his pants down to his ankles with his underpants on. No nudity.
- No sex scenes.
- The game contains sexual themes and references but nothing sexual is actually shown and no nudity.
- Max Payne moves around a brothel, where pictures of scantily clad ladies in bikinis can be seen.
- Sexual themes and implied BDSM/bondage and prostitution but this is about as graphic as it gets.
Violence & Gore
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- High number of deaths and blood
- Blood spurts and pours out of enemies when shot and any corpses will be covered in blood.
- Literal nonstop blood violence and action throughout
- No gore, but very heavy amounts of violence and a high body count.
- The entire game is filled with highly strong and non-stop violence and gore.
- Max is hit with a baseball bat on the head, and blood is shown spluttering.
Profanity
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- The entire game is filled with minor profanities like 'Damn' and 'Crap'
- At certain points, people scream out 'Shit' and 'Bullshit'
- There are no 'F' words or worse.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- The main source of healing in this game is painkillers.
- The entire game's storyline is based on a drug called 'Valkyr'
- The second nightmare sequence is caused by a valkyr overdose.
- You will encounter many drug addicts throughout the game.
- There are mild scenes of alcohol, drugs and smoking.
- A character is seen violent and shooting at everyone, and moaning in the influence of drugs.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- Dark themes such as murder, distribution of drugs, arms trafficking, organised crime, prostitution, police corruption, evil corporations, gritty violence are in the game. Also it has a depressed main character (Max Payne) out for revenge.
- Despite the dark and gritty atmosphere with the occasional disturbing imagery in regards to Max Paynes wife and baby. The game is rather tongue in cheek with lots of obsured sequences and comedic dialogue, the game is rather self aware, meta, satirical and darkly comedic which saves it from being overly drab and bleak.
- This game can go from gritty to disturbing to funny to creepy within an instant.
- Rated R for Violence Throughout and Disturbing Images, and for Some Sexual and Drug Material.
- The entire game is intense for sensitive players.
- The prologue is disturbing and very intense.
- The 'dream' levels can be a real fright, and have a lot of potential to scare with incredibly disturbing sounds and atmosphere, the game becomes almost Silent Hill or Lynch esq in the few dream sequences.
- The final level is quite intense.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- During the prologue in the Payne residence Max finds a crib full of blood (implying that the baby was killed) and his wife's corpse shortly after. Although the context of this scene is very important for not just the story of this game, but of the entire franchise, it is very intense and disturbing.
- The PC version has an option called "Parental Lock" that will disable blood/gore, profanities and all of the graphic novel parts. However, the part during the prologue where Max finds the bodies of his wife and daughter is still present and disturbing.
