Trivia / Max Payne

• Bad Export for You: The Steam store sells to French customers only the French-dubbed version. Not only said dubbed voices are not very good (which is subjective), but it suffers from several unfixed Game Breaking Bugs, which add sound glitches and systematic crashes at specific points of the game (for example, during the loading screen between Section I - Chapter 1 and Section I - Chapter 2). Those glitches can be corrected thanks to unofficial bug fixes, but are totally absent in the original Steam version of the game (which is unavailable to French customers).
  • In general, the Steam version completely suffers from audio bugs when played on Windows Vista or later, one of which makes it so no sound, besides sound effects, plays. The above mentioned fan patch fixes this, but requires an installer as well as the patch itself.
• In Memoriam: The first game was dedicated to Gathering of Developers^*The company that published the game in North America, later folded into Take-Two founder Doug Myres, who died a couple months before the game's release.
• No Budget: Remedy dumped so much of their budget for this game into character models that they couldn't afford to hire actors for said characters. This led to writer Sam Lake contributing his likeness to the titular protagonist, and Lake and assorted Remedy staff having their friends and family members portray various characters- Lake's parents, older brother, and a custodian employed by the apartment complex where Lake was living at the time all appear in the game. The game's unique graphic novel-styled cutscenes are also a consequence of them not having the money to render and animate proper full motion cutscenes- it's far cheaper to edit a bunch of still images with speech bubbles and such and queue them to appear alongside voice narration.
• Real-Life Relative: Sam Lake's parents, Tuula and Markku Järvi, modelled for Nicole Horne and Alfred Woden, respectively, in the graphic novel segments, while his brother Teemu portrayed the gangster Virgilio Finito. Remedy has joked on occasion that there's something Freudian about casting your own mother as the villain and yourself as the hero.

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