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Max Payne

Time as a spendable resource: the player directs their own action scene.

Released 2001 Developer Remedy Entertainment Publisher Gathering of Developers Platform PC Genre Third-person shooter Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics this game introduced

These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.

Combat & Conflict · 2001
Player-Controlled Bullet Time
Player-controlled bullet time slows the game clock on demand while leaving aiming at full speed, letting the player sp…
Origin: Max Payne

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Max Payne inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

In-Engine Cutscene 1984True Polygonal Free-Look Space 1996Trailing Follow Camera 1996Ragdoll Physics 1998

Directly influenced

Superhot 2016

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