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Max Payne (PC) - Individual Level runs, New York Minute Mode (Total = 0:39:04)

by: Daniel 'Shido' Lee

Publication date: 2005

Topics: Max Payne

Individual levels runs of Max Payne on New York Minute mode. It is difficult to get the time of a NYM run even though the game is keeping track, because of the way it does. The listed time comes by subtracting the total times are the start of one level and the next. It can also be found by subtracing the end time from 1 minute and adding all the time the game adds for each kill (8 seconds). Older times are also available.

Level #/name                          Time  Date      Player
1-P  The American Dream Prologue      0:14  15.08.05  Daniel Lee
1-1  Roscoe Street Station            1:33  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
1-2  Live from the Crime Scene        1:43  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
1-3  Playing it Bogart                1:08  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
1-4  The Blood Veins of New York      1:01  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
1-5  Let the Gun do the Talking       1:03  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
1-6  Fear that Gives Men Wings        2:27  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
1-7  Police Brutality                 1:46  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
1-8  Ragna Rock                       2:07  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
1-9  An Empire of Evil                0:59  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
2-P  Nightmare                        0:51  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
2-1  The Baseball Bat                 1:08  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
2-2  An Offer You Can't Refuse        2:09  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
2-3  With Rats and Oily Water         2:56  20.06.05  Daniel Lee
2-4  Put Out My Flames with Gasoline  1:10  21.06.05  Daniel Lee
2-5  Angel of Death                   1:07  21.06.05  Daniel Lee
3-P  The Drug Trip                    0:48  21.06.05  Daniel Lee
3-1  Take Me to Cold Steel            1:11  21.06.05  Daniel Lee
3-2  Hidden Truths                    1:45  21.06.05  Daniel Lee
3-3  The Deep Six                     2:23  21.06.05  Daniel Lee
3-4  Backstabbing Bastard             1:53  21.06.05  Daniel Lee
3-5  In the Land of the Blind         1:17  21.06.05  Daniel Lee
3-6  Byzantine Power Game             1:10  21.06.05  Daniel Lee
3-7  Nothing to Lose                  3:33  21.06.05  Daniel Lee
3-8  Pain and Suffering               1:42  21.06.05  Daniel Lee

Daniel's comments: My advice for the whole run:

Focus only on your objective, kill only the ones in your way, and don't get sidetracked on items unless it's necessary.
Exploit the occasional pauses in the time that occur after you kill a certain enemy because time stops while you don't.
Dodge rolling is the most important because the Max Payne enemies find it hard aim on a dodge rolling target, and it's faster than running.
Shootdodging is a bad idea because it takes a while to get back up so that you can continue running.

p1c9: Quickly killing the mobsters who come out of the opposite side of the entrance should be the main priority before the Jack Lupino cutscene because there are more mobsters to kill. p2c3: Near the start, it took quite some practice to make that jump (not sure how to describe it) after you get up the ramp, which brings you to the door to the outside. I still can't make that jump 100% of the time. Also, after the mobster comes out that door, you have to wait for it to close before you go through it or else the platform won't be triggered. p2c6: Deplete as many painkillers and as much ammo as you want in this level because in the next, you'll be full of them. p3c8: I'm still not absolutely sure if it's shooting the rotor that causes the shutters to go down, but it seems like it.