It wasn't hard to picture a fat pimp sweating with headphones on, listening to his hookers talk dirty and fake orgasms over the web of party lines; the blood veins of New York.—Max Payne, describing the hotel's telephone switchboard
The Blood Veins of New York is the fourth chapter of Part I in Max Payne.
Plot[]
The old service elevator descends into the Hotel's laundromat. Max encounters multiple mobsters in the laundromat and kills them. A TV news report mentions the news forecast: heavy snowfall for the forseeable future. Max leaves the laundromat and reaches the boiler room, where a dead man tied to a chair lay on the floor next to a baseball bat and a Captain Baseball Bat Boy comic strip. Max goes into the kitchen and kills a few mobsters before reaching the ground level. There, he intercepts the previously mentioned V-deal, killing all the mobsters in the Cabinet. He acquires the Bar Key and heads for the Bar, where he encounters Rico Muerte and Candy Dawn having an intercourse. A gunfight ensues and Max kills them along with a few mobsters. After leaving the Bar, Max stumbles upon a switchboard in the Reception area where he hears a fatally-wounded mobster reporting to Vinnie Gognitti about Max Payne attacking them, which angers Vinnie. Max proceeds upstairs for the Casino where he kills a couple of mobsters and finds a way into the entrance hall, through the skylight. Max breaks the window of the skylight and jumps onto a pile of crates. Suddenly, another wave of mobsters ambushes Max and another gunfight ensues, in which Max kills all the mobsters. The chapter concludes with Max opening the entrance door from the Reception area and leaving the Hotel.
Characters[]
- Max Payne
- Rico Muerte (can be killed)
- Candy Dawn (can be killed)
- Vinnie Gognitti (voice)
- Frankie Niagara (hinted)
- Captain BaseBallBat-Boy (comic strip narration)
- Kyra Silver (television)
Weapons[]
PS2/Xbox[]
On the PS2/Xbox version, this chapter is divided into three sub-chapters: Caught in the Crossfire, Rico Muerte Big Time Hustler and The Blood Veins of New York.
Obtainable Accomplishments[]
Complete 'Part I Chapter 4: The Blood Veins Of New York' on any difficulty
10 POINTS
Video[]
Trivia[]
- The loading screen for this chapter is a picture of the Tower 53 Condominiums on 7th Ave and 53rd Street.
- Near the end of the chapter, when he reaches the reception area of Lupino's Hotel, Max discovers an old telephone switchboard. The switchboard is likely used by the pimp of the hotel's prostitutes, who also work as phone sex operators, to listen in on their conversations with their customers; Max describes the telephone lines that connected the prostitutes and their 'johns' as the "blood veins of New York."
- It's possible to complete the chapter without killing Rico Muerte and Candy Dawn.
- The Captain Baseball Bat Boy strip depicts Captain Baseball Bat Boy, talking about being undefeated in superhero deathmatches, and a six pack of root beer "getting him every time". This is a direct reference to an upcoming chapter, "The Baseball Bat", in which an antagonist named Frankie "The Bat" Niagara keeps Max tied to a chair, beats him and says that he'll come back and kill him after going to the bathroom and drinking a root beer at the Bar. This turned out to be what "got him". More on that in the aforementioned chapter.