- For the achievement in Max Payne 3, see It's Fear That Gives Men Wings.
Gognitti would be moving fast. I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings.
Fear That Gives Men Wings is the sixth chapter of Part I in Max Payne.
Plot[]
Max deduces that the bombs have destroyed all the stairs up to Lupino's office and that the alternate route would be the adjoining rooftops. The stairs of the fire escape that lead up to the roof have also been destroyed, so Max heads down the fire escape for the ground level. Nearby, two junkies stand by a barrell lit with fire, complaining about the freezing weather.
Max enters a nearby building and stumbles upon a laundromat, through which he must pass in order to reach the elevator to the top floor and to the roof. However, the laundromat is guarded by mobsters who refuse to let anyone in.
Max then heads for another building in which he encounters an unarmed mobster whom he threatens to kill if he doesn't let him inside the laundromat. They head for the laundromat. As he is granted access, the mobster who led him inside alerts other mobsters of Max Payne setting them a trap. Max kills him and all the gangsters in the laundry shop and proceeds to the top floor using the elevator. Max then stumbles upon a TV and hears the news about his actions back in Lupino's hotel.
He exits to the roof and uses the pipelines to gain access to the other rooftops. After passing through the building, he soon re-enters the tenements where he fights more of the mobsters. He reaches Lupino's office where Vinnie is scolding his men. Max enters the office to confront Vinnie who starts to taunt and tries to shoot Max but Max manages to shoot him first. Vinnie soon runs away, bleeding from his abdomen and orders his men deal with Max.
Max neutralizes his attackers and before pursuing Vinnie, and finds a letter detailing Lupino's insanity and its effect to the business. Max begins to chase after Vinnie. Vinnie jumps off the rooftop onto a passing train. The chapter concludes with Max following suit.
Characters[]
- Max Payne
- Vinnie Gognitti
- Kyra Silver (television)
Weapons[]
PS2/Xbox[]
On the PS2/Xbox version, this chapter is divided into four sub-chapters: The Alternate Route, A One Man War, A Citywide APB and Fear That Gives Men Wings.
Obtainable Accomplishments[]
Complete 'Part I Chapter 6: Fear That Gives Men Wings' on any difficulty
10 POINTS
Gallery[]
Video[]
Trivia[]
- When the junkie Max is using reaches the locked door,the man on the other side teases him by asking him to say the password: John Woo. This is a tribute to Director John Woo, whose signature bullet time is used throughout the series.
- There is yet another tribute to John Woo in the game mode Hard Boiled, which is a reference to his film Hard Boiled.
- Following the confrontation with Gognitti and Gognitti ordering his men to kill Max, Max says that he "makes like Chow Yun-Fat." Chow Yun-Fat was John Woo's primary star in Hong Kong, starring in many of John Woo's hits including A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled.
- In the elevator Max can shoot the speaker playing the music and, in a similar fashion to Live from the Crime Scene, Max will thank the player.
- At the top of the elevator, Max enters an apartment with an Ingram on the kitchen counter and a mobster in the bathroom. This appears to be a reference to the movie Pulp Fiction, which had Butch kill Vincent in the bathroom with his own MAC-10.
- After jumping through the first window, turn left and the furthest window can be shot through and entered. Inside the room are Soldier of Fortune II posters and several pump-action shotguns with shotgun ammunition.
- The same scream heard in the Address Unknown episode playing in one of the apartments can also be in the prologue of Part III in the maze whenever Max falls off the line of blood.