10 Video Games Where It's Impossible To Have A Happy Ending

As far as gameplay goes, the Max Payne trilogy is an absolute riot to play. Matrix-inspired bullet time, slow motion diving and killer gunplay, all the features to make a kick-ass action hero out of our somber hero, the titular Mr. Payne.

Yet it's when you step back and realise why he's the way he is, what has brought him to this path of revenge and desire to uncover the circumstance of his wife and child's murder, that it paints a darker picture.

Granted, not so much by the third game, when he's playing "Patsy on Holiday", but certainly the first game, when still a New York detective. Max comes home one day to find his family seemingly killed by junkies high on Valkyr, but that's not the end of it.

After unravelling the conspiracy and [supposedly] stopping those behind it, does Max get any closer to closure as he stands atop the Aesir building?

Sadly not.

In fact, it would take a change of director to give the character any sense of a resolution, but that came in Rockstar's divisive instalment, Max Payne 3.