


The first game of the series, Max Payne, was released in 2001 for Microsoft Windows and in 2002 for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Apple Macintosh a different version of the game was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. The series' first and second installments were written by Sam Lake, while Max Payne 3 was primarily written by Rockstar Games' Dan Houser. The series is named after its protagonist, Max Payne, a New York City police detective turned vigilante after his family was murdered by drug addicts.

Max Payne is a neo-noir third-person shooter video game series developed by Remedy Entertainment ( Max Payne and Max Payne 2) and Rockstar Studios ( Max Payne 3).
