Reviews - The Punisher-WarZone: CaseBox 01 mod for Max Payne 2

Mod could be great, but the camera shake, the bullet-spongy bosses, and low level of polish hold it back. The creator is also rude to his followers and I can't support someone who has no respect to the people that make them what they are.

Cool but bad gun playing...

Сама идея сделать мод про Карателя хороша. Главным достоинством евляется то что мод сделан по игре про карателя и следует ему. Однако это касается только уровней.
Из нововедений можно отметить уровни на выживания в которых можно регулировать все что душе угодно скин персонажа, тип врагов и боссов (да в игре есть боссы), даже погоду можно менять.
Персонажи сделаны хорошо, мне особенно черная вдова понравилась.
В оригинальной игре в роли Макса...естественно каратель, а вы кто думали? Было бы странно если бы кто то другой.
Теперь о грустном:
1) добиваний нет, хотя стоит обратить внимание что в некоторых мини роликах каратель добивает врагов. Но этим все и ограничивается.
2) Самый очевидны косяк мода его установка, ... это геморно и если вы все правильно сделали забудьте о кодах и спец клавишах.
3) что сказать об оружии, есть моды где очень мощное оружие но нет врагов против которых их можно применить, здесь наоборот есть мощные враги но нет оружия которое может с ними справится.

This mod has brought the world of the punisher on Max Payne 2 to the maximum power so far.

The story
is perfectly accompanied with good sounds and even good level design, sometimes with some shallow, or not enough polishing, but the variety,and the quality of the characters in the mod is sufficient to not affect too much on the game experience.

The gameplay
is very challenging and innovative and this is a big point in favour, but I found a bit unfair the choice to enable enemies to see through the wood doors.Also the level "Day One" seems not completed in terms of graphics(or it is made by a different hand in comparison with other levels), is a bit empty and with some errors in placement of the map objects.

I recognize the effort and the difficulty to use the Max FX 2.0 to make something special with it, because first of all I am a modder too, and see nowadays that max payne mods are still developed fills my heart of happiness.

10/10 best mod ever

To the creator of the mod, you're a big hypocrite, the mod looks really promising on the screenshot but once in game this game is stripping everything good from max payne 2 and adds really dumb sh*t, you claim you won't give players an option to turn off the attrocious screen shake because of "realism", yet you add this huge crosshair in the middle of the screen and make enemies bullet sponges (same as the punisher), where's the realism? only where you want it to be? what's realistic about enemies taking 50 shotgun shells to the head (every mini-boss fight) or a huge guy struggling with a 9mm recoil? (also the fact almost every weapon can be shot as a full auto if you hold fire) let's not even talk about the music choices.

Only good thing about this mod is the big middle finger to cheaters.
And maybe the punisher playermodels, they're pretty well done but that's where the upsides of this mod end.

You need to lower your ego buddy, not everyone has to play the game in the exact way you want them to (not talkin about cheaters tho, they suck)

Incredible Mod, I never have so much fun a mod like this, and has a lot of content. I think you can serve as an example of a good developer. Great Job!

I love the mods combat and homages to the comics, movies, webseries, and The Punisher game as well as the option to play as other great Marvel characters like Deadpool, Nickfury, etc and surprisingly Duke Nukem too. there is a lot of great content in this mod that makes it very replayable.

The new models, assets, animations, sound effects, etc. look, sound, and feel great and it's clear that a lot of talent and effort went into this mod. There's a lot of fun you can have here. Unfortunately, the game is held back from its full potential by a lack of gameplay polish and some bugs.

Enemies are too much of damage sponges and the ammo is too limited for how the game usually plays out. On top of that, the AI and collision detection is still kind of messy, as they can easily see and shoot you through doors and some walls. This gets very annoying fast.

The health and bullet time systems have both been revamped, but in my opinion, it kind of hurts gameplay more than anything. The new regenerating health system isn't too bad, but you take a lot less damage to die, which can be a serious issue when combined with the messed up enemy AI and their large numbers. The changes to the bullet-time system is more important, as it doesn't last as long and it doesn't regenerate like in the vanilla game (you have to kill people to get it back). This kind of stinks because the bullet-time as it was was your great equalizer against the hordes of enemies in the regular game. Here, you're facing tougher enemies and you no longer have that so much. It also means you waste more of your ammo per enemy because you can't slow down time and line up headshots or whatever on demand.

Also, the fact that you can no longer pick up weapons and ammo automatically is annoying. Manually having to press a button to do it is un-intuitive and a needless step backwards, especially during a tense firefight where every second matters.

The loading system is messed up as well, so when you die, you won't automatically reload the game/checkpoint like in the vanilla version and most other mods for this title. After each death, you must manually pause the game and reload from your saves. Very annoying after awhile.

It's definitely not a bad mod by any stretch and there's still a ton of future potential here, but it needs more polishing and fixes. It definitely pushes the old Max Payne 2 engine to its limit. Unfortunately, the end result is an experience that can also easily lead to frustration and annoyance, even for seasoned Max Payne 2 players. Nothing wrong with a challenging game, but it has to work well and be fully functional or the experience will suffer. This mod is a case of that.

A good mod, but it's still got some serious issues that hurt it, so it's a 7/10 in its current state.

Great mod!