8 MORE Video Games Where The True Ending Is The Bad Ending

Mr Payne has led a pretty awful life through his trilogy of games but, at the end of Max Payne 3, he at least gets to quite literally walk off into the sunset. However, his final fate may well be much darker and, bizarrely, tucked away in another game.

Control, Quantum Break, Alan Wake… Each one of Remedy Entertainment’s games features not just Easter Eggs but pure justification that all of their titles take place in the same universe.

Alan Wake, star of his own 2010 horror title, is a novelist known for his crime thriller series. The hero of these shares some surprising similarities with Max Payne. That being said, the man in these books is called Alex Casey… even though he is quite literally voiced by Max Payne actor James MacCaffrey.

Casey has a gruff noir detective way of looking at things and an addiction to painkillers. His penultimate book is called “The Fall of Alex Casey”, a reference to the title of The Fall of Max Payne. And, in the final volume The Sudden Stop, Casey describes his death as the result of chasing revenge 13 years ago - the number of years between Max Payne 1 and 3.

Clearly, Max Payne exists in Alan’s world. Perhaps Alan chose to protect his identity by changing his name when adapting his life into books. Moreover, somewhere along the trilogy, or perhaps afterwards, Max most certainly falls… for good.