After Rockstar's first tried and true attempt at a comic/action game, they hit their heads together and came up with a great masterpiece to follow up the not so great masterpiece. Max Payne 2 brings the roughness of grand theft auto and the hard language and sexual themes of NYPD Blue and mingled them all together. I rated the first one a 6 just because the only interesting aspect was the bullet time mode. Now, Rockstar is not just a two hit wonder... They are now on their way to becoming a videogame empire.