GamesThird Person ShooterMax PayneThe Max Payne remake is likely years away, but one ambitious modder cranked out an ‘RTX on’ remaster of the original game’s first levelWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
GamesThird Person ShooterMax PayneThe Max Payne remake is likely years away, but one ambitious modder cranked out an ‘RTX on’ remaster of the original game’s first levelWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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Slasks Psybunker seems to have used the RTX Remix runtime to use this, an earlier version of the RTX remastering toolkit Nvidiaplans to release at the end of the month. As a refresher to those who aren’t fully tuned in with bleeding edge Nvidia graphics stuff, RTX Remix is the tech giant’s tool for quickly creating ray tracing-enabled “remasters” of older PC games. The company first showed it off with aray tracing-enabled version of Portal.
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The results are pretty stunning with the RTX Remixed version of Max Payne as well. The game’s first level, Roscoe Street Station, gets this really grungy, oppressively dark makeover. Some part of me will always prize the turn of the millennium charm of the original, but Slasks Psybunker’s remaster is definitely a cool alternate take.
I’m hopeful that the modder continues this work for the rest of the game. Roscoe Street is an iconic level, but kind of in the same way Oblivion’s Imperial City sewer is—I can’t quite put my finger on why I love these dank tunnels so much, they’re kind of dumpy, but they do set the stage for amazing videogames. I’d be excited to see Max Payne’s more scenic areas like the Aesir headquarters or the mansion level get this same treatment.
This mod also might be a small taste of what Remedy might pull in its upcoming Max Payne 1+2 remaster. You know that bad boy’s going to have the most taxing, uber-fancy next gen lighting imaginable, but bouncing light rays are hopefully just the beginning. Alan Wake 2 showed us a studio at the height of its art direction powers, while the destructible environments of Control would be right at home in Max Payne’s ultra violent world.
In the meantime, you can check out the Max Payne RTX Remix demo yourself onModDB, or watch YouTube userturnpike’s playthrough of the demo.
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