10 Upcoming Video Game Remakes That Could Be Better Than The Original
3. Max Payne 1 & 2
The first two Max Payne games are among the very best action titles of the entire 2000s - if not ever - and while they've generally aged well, few fans are going to say no to a remake.
Developer Remedy announced in 2022 that they were indeed developing a remake collection of the first two games, the enormous potential of which speaks for itself.
Above all else, Remedy has grown considerably as a developer since they shipped Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne back in 2003.
Between Alan Wake, Quantum Break, Control, and most recently Alan Wake 2, they've continually one-upped themselves and proven to be one of the most impressive AAA developers working today.
Remedy's Northlight Engine - which they began using with Quantum Break - is astonishingly powerful and something they'd clearly mastered by the time Alan Wake 2 was released.
And so, it's easy to see how it'll produce eye-wateringly gorgeous results for Max Payne's balletic, slow-motion action.
While late Max voice actor James McCaffrey sadly won't be able to lend his voice to Max once again, in terms of its visuals and its gameplay, there's every reason for Remedy to deliver a beefier, more adrenalised iteration of the original two masterworks.
And above all else, they can make the first game's infamous nightmare sequences way less of a pain in the ass to play through.