This one’s for you, Jeff.

Yeah, I was supposed to be stealthy, but it was just too easy to lure the guy with the uzi into the room and smack him on the head with my bat. I had just enough ammo in each gun these guys coughed up to kill the next in line and take his gun.

I’d be interested to find out what percentage of shooters contain some sort of capture where you’re stripped of all your weapons and either have to be stealthy to find them all or use your fists to kill someone who has a gun. I’d say about 75% of the ones I’ve played have had that scenario.

Max Payne has a pretty amazing dream sequence where you’re re-living the moment when you found your family dead. You control Max through the dream which contains some great sound design and visual effects. Unfortunately, there’s a weird maze that involves jumping from narrow platform to narrow platform and even though it’s a dream, you die if you fall; which you do often because it’s hard. It’s one of those annoying “quick save after every successful jump” levels where the game comes to a screeching halt and it’s Super Mario time.

Bam!