Max Payne (voiced by James McCaffrey)
is a fugitive DEA agent and former NYPD detective whose wife Michelle
and newborn daughter were killed in connection with the Valkyr drug
case. Max then goes undercover in the mob, and eventually becomes a
one-man-army vigilante waging a personal war on crime (and in
particular, those criminals responsible for his family's death). Max
ends up killing hundreds of gangsters and conspiracy enforcers while on
the run from the police determined on stopping his vendetta against all
those responsible for his family's death. He uses metaphors and wordplay
to describe the world around him within his inner monologues, which
often contradict his external responses to characters he speaks with.
The first game presents the story as retold by Max from his point of
view.
Characters
Mona
Sax (voiced by Julia Murney): The twin sister of Lisa Punchinello and a
contract killer, Mona is the femme fatale of the game. She has a grudge
against her sister Lisa's abusive husband, Mafia boss Angelo
Punchinello, whom she desires to kill. After Puchinello is killed, she
sides with Nicole Horne who hires her to kill Max. Finding herself
unable to do so, she is shot in the head by Horne's henchmen and
collapses into an elevator. She reappears in the sequel as a playable
character.
Nicole Horne (voiced by Jane Gennaro):
The game's main antagonist who led a secret military program code-named
Valhalla. She had Michelle Payne killed after she viewed a document
that shows that Horne is still producing the Valkyr drug despite the
fact that the project was suspended. Horne commands a well-armed private
army of hitmen and mercenaries. She is killed by Max at the end of the
game.
Alfred Woden (voiced by John Randolph Jones):
For most of the game he remains a mysterious unseen character, only
interacting with Max through phone calls where he either warns him of a
coming threat or provides information. Towards the end of the game he
meets Max face-to-face and introduces him to an Illuminati-like society
known as the Inner Circle. Woden tells Payne that Horne is his real
enemy and expresses his wishes for Payne to get rid of her. He is
seemingly gunned down by Horne's men while in a meeting with Max, but is
later seen on a security terminal getting up off the ground and leaving
his dead comrades. He reappears in the sequel as a U.S. senator.
Don Angelo Punchinello (voiced by Joe Ragno):
An Italian mob boss who distributes Valkyr and become involved in a
gang war against the Russians. He remains the main villain throughout
most of the game until it was discovered that he was being controlled by
Horne. He is later killed by her before he can give Max too much
information.
Vinnie Gognitti (voiced by Joe Dallo):
A high-strung mobster working for Lupino who is terrified that his boss
will kill him due to Lupino's Valkyr-induced psychosis. Max confronts
him to discover where he can find Lupino, but this encounter results in
Payne shooting Gognitti in the gut and then pursuing him through the
city's buildings and rooftops. When Max catches up with him he forces
the information out of Gognitti and leaves him bleeding in an alley (in
the 1998 trailer Vinnie was shown being summarily executed by Payne in a
cut scene, but this was changed later along with an other tweaks to the
story). He reappears in the sequel as a Mafia underboss.
Vladimir Lem (voiced by Dominic Hawksley):
A Russian mob boss and prominent gunrunner currently in a war against
Angelo Punchinello. He teams up with Max providing him with weapons in
one part of the game and occasionally chauffering him around to key
locations. He reappears in the sequel as a charismatic restauranteer who
maintains his shady connections in organized crime. He is portrayed by
Marko Saaresto of Poets of the Fall (a friend of the game's writer Sam
Lake). The band also wrote the main theme, "Late Goodbye", for Max Payne
2.
Jack Lupino (voiced by Jeff Gurner):
A Mafia underboss and an occultist, who oversees Valkyr distribution
for the Punchinello crime syndicate. He has been driven crazy by his
Valkyr addiction and has become a Satanist, obsessed with making a
Faustian pact with the Devil (he also owns Necronomicon, a fictional
book from the Cthulhu Mythos and Cthulhu is one of the deities he
worships). When Max confronts him he is the middle of a Satanic prayer; a
gun fight ensues and Lupino is killed by Payne.
B.B. Hensley (voiced by Adam Grupper):
A corrupt DEA agent and a supposed friend of Max. Receiving pay outs
from Horne, he radios Max telling him to meet agent Alex Balder at the
train station and then shoots Balder dead, framing Max for his murder.
Towards the end of the game he meets Max and is revealed as a traitor
working for Horne. Payne kills him in a gun fight.
Deputy Chief Jim Bravura (voiced by Peter Appel):
A high-ranking NYPD officer who is pursuing Max for most of the game
and is not deterred in arresting him, even though the TV commentators
don't see the violence as a bad thing because mobsters are the only
victims. At the end he finally arrests Max, but in the game's sequel he
becomes Max's boss.
Michelle Payne (voiced by Haviland Morris):
Working for the district attorney’s office, Michelle came across a file
that incriminated Horne, which later led to her murder and the killing
of her child by Valkyr junkies sent to her home. She repeatedly appears
through the game in flashback and nightmare sequences.
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