{"id":374867,"date":"2026-08-11T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=374867"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:12:10","slug":"max-payne-1-and-2-remake-is-now-in-full-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/max-payne-1-and-2-remake-is-now-in-full-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Payne 1 and 2 remake is now in full production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remedy Entertainment says the <a href=\"https:\/\/max-payne.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Payne<\/a> 1 and 2 remake has entered <strong>full production<\/strong>, which is the clearest update on the project we&#8217;ve had in quite a while. The studio has also said it&#8217;s still being developed as one game, not two separate releases. That tells you it&#8217;s well past the earliest planning stage, though you still shouldn&#8217;t expect a trailer, a release window, or a steady stream of updates anytime soon. Rockstar Games is funding and publishing it, and Rockstar also <a href=\"https:\/\/control-ultimate-edition.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Control<\/a>s the marketing and public messaging.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remedy is building the game in its Northlight engine, the same tech behind Control and <a href=\"https:\/\/alan-wake-2.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Wake 2<\/a>, so this looks like a lot more than a simple remaster. Expect the kind of <strong>lighting<\/strong> , detailed environments, and cinematic presentation that fit Max Payne&#8217;s comic-panel storytelling, bullet time, and bleak noir atmosphere. If you&#8217;ve been waiting for Max Payne to return, this update at least confirms the remake is real and moving forward, even if Rockstar Games&#8217; habit of keeping things quiet, the focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/grand-theft-auto-vice-city.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Grand Theft Auto VI<\/a>, and the still-unanswered question of Max Payne&#8217;s voice after James McCaffrey&#8217;s death mean the silence could continue.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can&#8217;t download the Max Payne 1 and 2 remake yet. Rockstar Games will handle trailers, platforms, and <strong>release details<\/strong> when it&#8217;s ready.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remedy Entertainment says the Max Payne 1 and 2 remake has entered full production, which is the clearest update on the project we&#8217;ve had in quite a while. The studio has also said it&#8217;s still being developed as one game, not two separate releases. That tells you it&#8217;s well past the earliest planning stage, though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/max-payne-1-and-2-remake-is-now-in-full-production\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Max Payne 1 and 2 remake is now in full production&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9226,"featured_media":374866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-374867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374868,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374867\/revisions\/374868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374867"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=374867"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=374867"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=374867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}