Walkthrough: Part Two - Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne Guide - IGN (2024)

Walkthrough: Part Two

Prologue

Max, being caught with a suspected killer, gets suspended and is told to write a report. After leaving Chief Bravura's office, Max can walk around the police department and speak with the other officers. (Just for fun, Max can rattle Chief Bravura's door to elicit some funny responses.) Feel free to check out the recreation room, the garage, the dispatch room, and even the restrooms.

When Max is done procrastinating, he should sit down at his desk (it's at the back corner of the upper floor, just across from Detective Winterson's desk), so he can begin on his report. After a while, Winterson's phone will ring, and he'll answer it, only for the other end to hang up. Another officer suggests that he speak with Winterson, who is at the line-up.

Find the door to the line-up and watch as a witness identifies Mona. After Winterson leaves, talk to the witness to learn a few more interesting details. Now step back out to catch Winterson holding a highly suspicious conversation with an unknown party.

Winterson will now chat with the Chief, so Max should go see Mona at the lock-up. Get down there and buzz the door at the checkpoint. Find Mona, and then return to the checkpoint to make a call to Alfred Woden.

A bomb will suddenly go off at the upper floors, and all the cops except for Max will go up. Max, looking at the monitor, will see Mona eluding some bad guys and then escaping. He should now open the locker nearby to grab some guns and painkillers. Go waste the enemies at the lock-up, and then head through the door that connects to the garage, killing more bad guys who show up. A van in the garage will release even more bad guys. Blow them all away, and then run out of the garage, through the main gate.

Chapter 1: The Things that I Want

Leaving the police station, Max sees Vlad driving up to him, offering him a ride. After a small conversation, Vlad will drop Max off at the fun house and then continue about his own business. Before Max can get too comfortable with Mona, however, some bad guys will attack them.</p>

Max, falling off from a busted walkway, will begin in the backdrops just outside of Mona's hideout. His goal is to reach the exit, kinda working backwards through the fun house by using the backdrops. First, he should gun down the bad guys on the other side of the fence, and then he should head to the opposite side of the area. Watch out for bad guys above. Check the rearmost corner here to find a crate with some ammo.

Go up the stairs and enter the small room. Flip the switch there to activate the fake box trick below, and then shoot the surprised bad guys who run out. Leave the small room and continue up the stairs to find some molotov cocktails. Open the door that leads out to more backdrops. Some bad guys below are talking about being scared of entering a part of the fun house. Drop molotov cocktails onto them.

Follow the wooden ledges to the next room. There are bad guys below talking about the plot of the old TV show, "Address Unknown." Flip the switch to drop the gigantic syringe, crushing them. Open the next door and kill the several bad guys hanging around on the walkways ahead. Take the wooden staircase down to the ground floor.If Max wants to, he can go back to the fun house exhibits to pick up the ammo from the bad guys he has killed earlier. When he's ready, he should find the way back to the earlier parts of the fun house. Fight through more bad guys waiting there, and find Mona near some garage backdrops.

At the garage backdrops, Mona will help Max take out the bad guys as he fights through the corridor. When approaching the door at the back, watch out for a bad guy who will come out through it. Go through this door to enter the ticket booth area, and then leave the fun house.

Chapter 2: In the Middle of Something

Jumping into the back of an escaping van, Max follows the bad guys to the condemned Castling Insurance Company building. He also hears them talking about evidence being held at the top floor. He should check it out.

Max begins in the garage at the bottom of the building. He should climb back into the van to pick up some painkillers and ammo before proceeding onwards. Two bad guys will be coming into the garage to check on things, so kill them. Find some stairs and go up. See those red cases? Hitting them will cause them to explode.

Enter the lobby through the double doors. Two bad guys talking to each other will come down the escalator. Blow them away. Go up the escalator and get into a room with some red cases. Hit the red cases to blow open the elevator door, and then carefully climb down the elevator shaft.

Exit to the exterior and hit the red cases to blow up all the bad guys ahead. Watch out for a bad guy on the guard tower, too. Go inside the guard tower to find some painkillers and ammo. Now find a door leading to a short corridor that connects to more rooms.

Proceed deeper into the building, shooting through all the bad guys in the corridors. Pick up the painkillers along the way, including the ones near the TV set (a news program should be on, talking about an APB on Max). Continue onwards, climbing the staircases and going up floor by floor. Max will eventually reach a room with some bad guys and a red case. He can try tossing grenades into this room to set off the red case, killing everyone inside. Search behind the wall partitions in the back to find some molotov cocktails. Jump across any pits in the way to reach the door at the other side.

Max should find a huge weapon cache. Look for painkillers and ammo in the boxes and on the floor between the green cases. Go up the staircases to the room above, pick up a sniper rifle at the corner, and then go out through the double doors to enter a high walkway at the lobby. Enemies will be at the bottom, so toss molotov cocktails down there or shoot them to death. Watch out for the red barrels, which can explode if hit.</p>

Leap across the gap in the walkway and move into the next room. Climb up the crates in the elevator to reach the floor above. Go out onto the walkway and kill the masked bad guys who will show up. If the red cases blow up, destroying the walkway, Max will be forced to leap across the wide ledge nearby to reach the other side. Keep climbing up the floors. Kill a bad guy talking on a radio, and then waste more bad guys behind the door ahead. Go all the way up and enter the room full of body bags.

Chapter 3: Blowing Up

Max discovers the bodies of the people that the "cleaners" have murdered, but before he can do anything much about it, some bad guys locate him and start shooting, detonating some explosives. Now that the place is on fire and about to blow, Max must escape.

Max should get out into the hallway and find a side door leading to a room where a bad guy will get killed by an explosion. Climb through the gap in the wall. Shoot the explosive cases near the crack in the back wall to blow open a hole. From this hole, carefully leap onto the beams, and go through a door that will be blasted open by more explosions.

Run through the corridor, and drop down through the rubble to the floor below. Kill some bad guys, and watch out for the ceiling, parts of which may collapse, crushing anyone underneath. Open the door and kill a bad guy. Past the double doors, there are lots of bad guys. Toss a grenade in to blow up the red barrels, killing everyone inside. Drop into the hole and kill more bad guys. Drop through another hole.

At the bottom, take the right path (the left will be blocked off by the flaming body of a bad guy). Dash through the corridor as the red cases blow up from behind, and duck into the hole in the wall. Move through between the flames and reach the window.

Chapter 4: Routing Her Synapses

The events of this chapter take place at the same time as those of the second chapter ("In the Middle of Something"). Having arrived at the Castling Insurance Company building, Mona contacts Max and finds out that she'll need to go through the building to reach him.</p>

At the starting point, Mona will hear two bad guys talking on a floor high above. Wait for them to finish speaking and lean against the railing, and then snipe at them. Now find a side ramp that leads to a staircase going up. Watch out for a bad guy here. Open the door to the second floor and snipe at a bad guy on a distant balcony ahead. Move across this floor and continue up the other staircase. Duck into the side balcony and wait for the three or so bad guys to come down from above. Waste them. Go to the top and kill the bad guy there.

Ride the yellow lift down to the high floor where the bad guys Mona has sniped at earlier are located. Grab the painkillers in the medical bin. Open the door to enter a bunch of rooms under construction. Using the walls and crates for cover, kill all the bad guys. There are some painkillers on the boxes here. Go to the back corridor and climb up the metal walkways. From the metal walkways, enter more rooms and kill even more bad guys. Additional bad guys will arrive, so mow them down too. Grab the painkillers in the medical bin.</p>

Open the door and run through the empty corridor. (At this point, Max discovers the huge weapon cache.) Open the next door to find some bad guys screwing around. Kill all of them, and then drop down into the hole.

Chapter 5: Out of the Window

The events of this chapter take place at the same time as those of the third chapter ("Blowing Up"), plus they will cover what happens shortly afterwards.

At the starting point, Mona should turn around and kill a bad guy who is catching up from the ledge above. Pick up the ammo by the box, and then go out to the corridors. At one of the pits, Mona can quickly run along some overhanging wooden planks and then leap onto a metal walkway to find extra painkillers inside a small room. Back in the corridors, step out onto the scaffolding and kill a bad guy at a distant balcony. (Around this time, Max will report that the building he's in is about to blow up.)

Find a door in the back, killing a bad guy who comes out from it. There are painkillers in the medical bin nearby. Enter the door and waste several bad guys on the high platform. Go out through more doors to see Max flying out from the window and then falling to the ground below, becoming pinned down by a beam.

Mona will now have to stop the bad guys who wanna kill Max. Gun down the bad guy who comes out from the nearby wooden door. Go through to a balcony at the other side, look down, and kill the three bad guys who are running towards Max. Afterwards, Max will break free and dash across the construction yard. Help him take out the bad guys who appear. He will eventually discover that all the doors there are locked, so he'll take cover while Mona moves to another scaffolding to get a better shot at the bad guys.

As Mona goes back through the building, she should watch out for new bad guys who show up. Return to the scaffolding passed by earlier on, and then resume helping Max kill the bad guys at the yard. After a while, Max will hide behind cover and wait again. Mona should now head past the starting point, and some bad guys will blow open a previously locked wooden door. Kill them, and watch out for the red barrel nearby. There are painkillers in the medical bin around here. Kill more bad guys on the way to the next scaffolding, including a bad guy waiting at the top of the scaffolding. Resume covering Max, and he will soon leave the yard. Mona should then continue up through the building. Find a hole and drop into it.</p>

Chapter 6: The Genius of the Hole

Mona must continue to cover Max's ass as he runs around the construction yard, finding a way out.

From the starting point, Mona will see a bad guy looking down over the scaffolding ahead. Shoot him in the back. Grab the painkillers in the medical bin nearby. Go out onto the scaffolding. Shoot the fuel canisters near the building below to blow up the bad guys down there. Max will eventually move to another area.

Mona should now turn around and go through the corridors. Watch out for the bad guys who show up, and go through the door. Pick up a molotov cocktail in a box by a corner. Climb out to a walkway ahead and resume covering Max as he runs around the yard, checking the doors. Mona will soon have to go up the stairs, killing more bad guys, including one who comes out of the door past the rooms. Enter this door and turn to the left to see a bad guy climbing up from the shaft. Kill him, along with his buddy on the platform below.

Dropping onto that platform, find and cross a wooden bridge. Now Mona will have to proceed through the corridors and metal walkways, heading down while fighting off lots and lots of bad guys. Be sure to grab the painkillers in the medical bins around here.

At the very bottom, Mona will find a door leading out to the yard. Some bad guys are waiting on the scaffolding high up outside, so she can snipe at them from the corner of the doorway. Now go out into the yard, and snipe at two or so bad guys positioned far ahead. Find the red lift and ride it up.</p>

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