You can occasionally find them for sale cheap still when a store decides to clear out old inventory. They've been out of print on physical media for some time now. These games were both released some years ago when the Xbox 1 was the current console from Microsoft.
Microsoft used to give this away for free for awhile via "Backwards Compatibility", and that still does work, but they stopped working on free updates to that right about the time that Originals came out on the 360.Īnyway, available now on Xbox Originals are the first two Max Payne games. If you'd like to read more about the details of the originals program, you can do so here. This is a feature where complete Xbox 1 games can be downloaded from the Marketplace, and you can play them on your Xbox 360. Retrieved on April 30, 2011.One of the lesser noticed features on Xbox Live is something called "Xbox Originals".
The first game of the series, Max Payne, was released in 2001 for Microsoft Windows and in 2002 for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Apple Macintosh a different version of the game was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. The series' first and second installments were written by Sam Lake, while Max Payne 3 was primarily written by Rockstar Games' Dan Houser.
The series is named after its protagonist, Max Payne, a New York City police detective turned vigilante after his family was murdered by drug addicts. Max Payne is a neo-noir third-person shooter video game series developed by Remedy Entertainment ( Max Payne and Max Payne 2) and Rockstar Studios ( Max Payne 3).