Max Payne and Max Payne 2 arrive on Zodita in early access
Both Max Payne games now run on Android phones through Zodita: the first two chapters of each, with bullet time, shoot-dodge and touch controls.
From today, October 18, Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne are on Zodita. Both are early access builds of our Android ports, and each one starts with the first two chapters of its story.
Max Payne: Roscoe Street Station
Max Payne (Remedy Entertainment, 2001) follows a New York detective whose family is taken from him, and who goes after the people behind it over one long winter night. Our build covers Part I, The American Dream, chapters 1 and 2, starting at Roscoe Street Station. It is rebuilt from the original game data, with bullet time and shoot-dodge working the way they did on PC.
Rockstar released an official Max Payne Mobile for phones in 2012. Our port is a separate, unofficial project, made for the same reason as every Zodita game: to run a PC classic natively on an ordinary Android phone.
Max Payne 2: the warehouse and the Vodka club
Max Payne 2 never had a phone version. Our early access build plays Part I, The Darkness Inside, chapter 1 (the warehouse) and chapter 2 (Vodka). The level scripts, dialogue, cutscenes and graphic novel pages run as in the original. Cleaners and mobsters use the original AI commands, and you have the weapons, slow motion and painkillers of the original.
Made for a touch screen
Both games use on-screen controls to move, aim, fire, dodge, slow down time and reload. Max Payne 2 adds aim assist, because aiming with a thumb is harder than with a mouse. Both play offline once they are installed.
Size and phones
- Max Payne: about 200 MB download, 500 MB free storage
- Max Payne 2: about 206 MB download, 500 MB free storage
- Both: Android 8 or newer, 4 GB of memory
- Each game installs as its own app through the Zodita app
Zodita checks every downloaded byte before a game installs, and updates send only the parts that changed, so a small fix does not mean downloading the whole game again.
What early access means
These are working builds, not finished games. Expect rough edges. We fix them build by build, and every update is listed here on the news page. If a game crashes, you can send the report from inside the app; those reports decide what we fix first. More chapters of both games come in later builds.
Pre-orders for the full versions of both games open on Tuesday, October 20, at 17:00 UTC, together with the rest of the Zodita catalogue. The pre-order price is $6 for each game, against $16 after the pre-sale.
Zodita's ports are unofficial community projects. They are not affiliated with or endorsed by the original publishers, and all trademarks belong to their owners.
