There was something disturbingly familiar about the letter before me. The handwriting was all pretty curves. "You're in a speedrun, Max" The truth was a blazing green chasm in my head. Running past my enemies, rolling to my destinations, using glitches to reach impossible speeds and heights. I was in a speedrun. Funny as hell, It was the most horrible thing I could think of.

Most efficient cop ever

12:58 - when you are such a fast speedrunner you litrally run past your own character with your own character

31:38 I love that scene where the two blonde spooks kill that technician and go "I think he's dead already". They shoot forward for about fifteen seconds and never change their aim to account for the victim being dead and not standing up anymore. They're even aiming above their eye level. They've got these angry looks on their faces while they unload full mags in to thin air. Looks ridiculous.

Wait. At Rosco street station you can save the security guy who opens the door?! My entire life has been nothing but lies.

The fight against Lupino was priceless.

44:46 you made the true perfect ending there, I love how the corpses are all over the place and Max is the only survivor :)))

This speedrun just turned my entire childhood upside down. Insanely impressive.

Of all the speedruns I have seen, I feel like this is the one that requires the most knowledge of the game to be accomplished. Awesome run dude, it's unfortunate you didn't do one for Max Payne 2, that would have been awesome to see.

You truly know Max Payne 1 extensively. Such a true masterpiece of a game for its time...

My childhood has been ruined… I must have spent weeks constantly playing this. Such an awesome game and an awesome speed run. Kudos!

There was something disturbingly familiar about the letter in front of me. The handwriting was all pretty curves. "You're in a KZfaq video Max." The truth was an icy green chill in my brain. Constant inane babble, screams of rage when I die and return that aren't from me, constant freezes in time while the video buffers. I was in a KZfaq video. Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.

19:30 thats not how you play hide and seek Max

25:35 "It didn't take me long to run into the trio" Very true statement

Ragnarok just made me cry.

Oh God, this video brought back great memories. Hearing the voice of Max Payne and the whole audio of the game brought tears in my eyes. Such a great, great game.

Been watching KZfaq videos for ten years and this is my first comment... because this is the greatest thing I've ever seen

9:45 "Trust me, you don't want - ICE!"

One of the most impressive speed runs I've ever seen.

cut ridd3r some slack. people griping about bugs and glitches should really look up summoningsalt’s videos...he documents the history of certain games’ speedruns and the subsequent speedrunners who defined the history of those games online. people don’t understand I think how difficult it is to perfect glitches and bugs within a game to perform them as perfectly as ridd3r or many other speedrunners do. glitches and warps are accepted for most games and given their own category in speedruns, so it’s not cheating by any speedrunning standard either. what ridd3r did is pretty fucking cool and I’m sure took hours of gameplay...Thanks for sharing this with us. I couldn’t sleep and wanted to rewatch gameplay of one of my favorite childhood games and I got to see this amazing spectacle because of it. Kudos to you and all the work you put into it

9:10 It's all ok guys, I'm passing through... xD

10:12 That blew my miiiind.

Hey, I wanted to tell you that I truly thank you for everything you've done for Max Payne speedrunning. You certainly inspired me to push boundaries while speedrunning it. I'd love to talk with you if you're active on here!

19:31 - FAIL!

This is so messed up, this is blowing my mind

You did an amazing job, this blew my mind. 👏🏻

16:28 wtf? he's flying man!!

11:32 fucking badass

Great speedrun, congrats

3:54 YAAAAAAY 4:08 wait...

in train cutscene he fell - because tre train pushed him, smth like that. So, that was enough damage for max to die. But you can't die in a cutscene, so we have the walking dead, and enemies think that you are already dead

That Ragnarok run was amazing. Jumping around like Albert Wesker

27:31 damn, I was sleeping when this loud scream came up. That was scary as shit😳

Lol why do the enemies just watch him run past them

17:20 "I'm the wolf@-$-&- *cuts off*

41:13 Was that a flashback or something? :D

Because I skipped their trigger zones, usually by super jumping.

By nullifying the greatness of the story, I now grant you the "Genious" title! Jokes aside, this is really genious. Like if i read the whole Harry Potter franchise in an hour or two. "...then he kills Voldemort, then he arises and again..."

Glitching or not, this is awesome! I forever give you props.

yeah, just forget about it! hey, forget about it. Just forget about it.

Some of the stuff done in this video is unbelivably impressive, well done!

Incredible run! So much optimization it's like poetry. :) keep it up!

19:22. " all I had was Niagara's bat, sticky with my own blood." *the way he says blood in haste*

This is incredible, one of the best speedruns of all time.

@zackyee1 No it's not a TAS, this run specifically took me about 130-150 hours. Obviously I've done other runs etc. and spent more time than that on this game.

@1Ridd3r Wonderful. I admire your runs, it's amazing what you squeezed out of this game. i thought this game was done with your last run, but you couldn't let it go ;) I will enjoy the commentary ones it has been posted. cheers and keep being that awesome!

37:45 "WHAT THE HELL!?!" Literally dude what the hell?

Max Payne Legend right here.

9:57 my words exactly to the idiots standing around and max is literally a sneeze away from dying

They are somehow like slanderman.. if you don't look at them, they don't shoot

dude, you're awesome! cant imagine this game is possible to complete in 25 mins even 42. fukken came! 1st and 5th levels are just epic

25:50 I lol'd.

Dat Lupino fight...

I don't remember enemies having this stormtrooper-worthy aim XD

When Max trained legs a lot in gim 39:11

"My Lady! "My Lord?"

You saved the door opener guy!

You are also playing in cutscenes

Played this so much back when I was coming out of high school/starting college. Don't know how I could get so much done and still play hundreds of hours. Good times.

11:32 operator as fuck

I SAW THIS ON GUINESS WORLD RECORDS GAMER'S EDITION 2011!!! THATS WAT BROUGHT ME HERE!

Those dream sequences scared the absolute fuck out of me when I was younger.

9 years later and still can't wrap my head around this

Why did the enemies feel so stupid? I feel like you would be right in front of them and they wouldn't fight or shoot.

@FatGingerKid5 It has been verified and accepted, just waiting for it to be posted (should be next PC update). I don't cut off anything relevant. All saves and reloads are shown, I just cut out the messing around in between.

Which Max Payne game is better? Max Payne 1 or Max Payne 2, I prefer Max Payne 1. Great job on the run man, I'm proud of ya. I will never do such a great run like you. But It's nuthin'.

cant believe this game is already 17 years old... the game had mind blowing graphics for 2001 game.

High Jump had never been so useful in vidya before. Amazing speedrun man

Can I find speedrun without cheats

great stuff i never knew the game had so many glitches

This was just filthy

Really impressive stuff. Great job!

Woooow,ridd3r,men it was really good!!!

Sorry I'm not a speedrunner, so I'm not sure about terms like "pro2" and "pro3" but anyway I was referring to the cutscene that appears at 18:13. A jump into the living room will let you skip the trigger for that cutscene, so it doesn't even appear. But it'll be slower than your roll + save glitch. Just thought you might want to know...

Just forget about it

this was so good and nostalgic! thanks

This video makes me forget that you can bulletdodge in this game. GJ m8 :)

Its looks like matrix not max payne. :)

lol the ai thinks max is a ghost.....

Why aren't the enemies shooting at you?

i like the final overkill

The one game im BEGGING for a REMASTER

This fucking game was ahead of it's time GUN EM DOWN! P.s this shit looks so much smoother on pc

max payne: the chemists have been using the workstation when he died. the *half-life* of the lab rat had ended online me: half-life x max payne >:3

@iliasemmanuil Commentary is done, run has been verified. Just waiting on it being posted now.

Fucking God Gamer. Massive Respect from India with ❤️

Great! I really enjoyed watching this video

Perfect speedrun, thanks a lot

A fantastic game, revolutionary.

Just re-watched it again and I love it as much as I did the first time I saw it.. Anyways do you have any other MP Speedrun project in mind?

@HuskyTdC I was skipping a cutscene. It occurs there because I skip the killer suits at the mona cutscene. The killersuits end up running into the laser fields for some reason.

and I thought I could speed run this game legit!

this game contributed to my pill addiction

This was an awesome run. And the very end I cracked up, because I knew everybody liked to blow themselves up at least once :)

41:14 screamer

"Alex, ALEXXXXXX!", that's what Max's expecting BB.

OOOH now it makes sense! BTW, did you use a macro for super jump? How did you get it so consistent? Because my macro only works maybe 30% of the time at 60 fps.

Why arent the enemies attacking him

Can someone explain to me why every speedrunner looks down at the ground majority of the games? Is your aimbot to powerful that it wont show unless you aim it at the ground, until the right moment? What is the benefit? Aimbot is the only thing I can think of. so your mouse doesnt race all over the place and you wont get caught. Or is there some secret to it that makes you run faster? The fuck is that?

Highlight either the desert eagle or the commando and keep the panel up, when you need to jump, start bullet time and select that weapon and jump at the same time, it's be something like weapon# - - - leftclick+rightclick+space in that order.