While doing so, Max becomes entangled in a large and complex conspiracy, involving a major pharmaceutical company, organized crime, a secret society, and the U.S. The game centers on former NYPD detective Max Payne, who attempts to solve the murder of his family while investigating a drug trafficking case involving a mysterious new designer drug called 'Valkyr'. The game was also re-released in 2012 as a downloadable game in the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation 3 under the PS2 classics banner, iOS, Android, and in April 2016 for the PlayStation 4 as a PS2 emulated downloadable game in the PlayStation Store.
The game was re-released on 27 April 2009 as a downloadable game in the Xbox Originals program for the Xbox 360. A Dreamcast version of the game was also planned, but got canceled due to the discontinuation of the console.
A Mac OS port was published on 16 July 2002 by MacSoft in North America and Feral Interactive in the rest of the world. Ports for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox and a tie-in game for the Game Boy Advance were later released by Rockstar Games. Max Payne is a third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Gathering of Developers in July 2001 for Microsoft Windows.
