- "I walked straight in, playing it Bogart, like I'd done a hundred times before."
- ―Max Payne describes his trip to the hotel.
Playing It Bogart is the third chapter of Part I in Max Payne.
Plot[]
Max decides to first head off to Lupino's hotel to find Jack Lupino whom Max thinks is responsible for Alex's death. He meets up with the Finito Brothers, owners of the hotel, to find the whereabouts of Lupino. However, the brothers reveal to Max that he is exposed as an undercover cop. Soon, a gunfight ensues with Max killing the brothers.
After dealing with the mobsters outside of the office, Max looks around and sees a letter from Vinnie Gognitti, Lupino's right hand man, about a Valkyr deal with a notorious criminal, Rico Muerte, supervising it. It also mentions 313, the room where Rico is staying. Max can't leave the hotel easily as the elevator is broken down and the stairs are locked by the mobsters, so he has to leave through another way and face the mobsters in the hotel.
As he leaves for the roof, he hears a newscast on the radio about the Valkyr Case with Alex's death mentioning Max as a suspect. Max fights his way through the hotel's 3rd floor against the Punchinellos and Valkyr Junkies. On his way, he sees the news on the TV and a body on the bed. He reaches Rico's room only to find it booby trapped. Max avoids the trap and enters the room to find a letter from the head of the Punchinello family, Angelo Punchinello, about the Valkyr deal. Max finds it useless as he is a fugitive and already at war with the Punchinellos.
He heads for the second floor through a hole he makes with an exploding boiler and fights his way through the enemies. He enters the room of a prostitute named Candy Dawn and reads her diary about selling sex tapes to the highest bidder, where he also sees the collection of tapes in a secret room including a secret camera behind a painting near a bed. He soon reaches an elevator that takes him to the hotel's basement.
Characters[]
- Max Payne
- Alex Balder (mentioned)
- Jack Lupino (mentioned)
- Vinnie Gognitti (mentioned, voice only)
- Finito Brothers (killed by Max Payne)
- Rico Muerte (mentioned)
- Candy Dawn (voice only)
- Alfred Woden (mentioned)
- Nicole Horne (mentioned)
- Kyra Silver (TV)
Weapons[]
- Beretta
- Desert Eagle
- Pump-Action Shotgun
- Sawed-Off Shotgun
- Molotov Cocktail
Transcript[]
- Main article: Playing It Bogart/Transcript
PS2/Xbox[]
On the PS2/Xbox version, this chapter is divided into three sub-chapters: Playing It Bogart, Without Warning and A Few Hundred Bullets Back.
Obtainable Accomplishments[]
Complete 'Part I Chapter 3: Playing It Bogart' on any difficulty
10 POINTS
Gallery[]
Video[]
Trivia[]
- The title is an homage to actor Humphrey Bogart, star of many 1940s noir films, from which Max Payne takes many of its stylistic cues. Payne's explanation that he is "playing it Bogart" means he is conducting his investigation with extreme self-confidence and acting "as though he was supposed to be there," which describes the methodology of many of Bogart's characters.
- Max refers to Rico Muerte as "a regular Keyser Soze," which is a reference to the Keyser Söze character from the 1995 film The Usual Suspects. This is the first of two references to the film in the game; the second reference can be overheard in the chapter In the Land of the Blind when two Mercenaries are debating about best movie endings.
- Past Rico Muerte's room is a cracked wooden door which can be shot through. Once inside climb out onto the ledge and walk across to the next room. Inside the room is a dead man holding a gun while lying on the floor with a stake driven into him, surrounded by syringes of Valkyr. Some molotovs and painkillers can also be found in the room. The man wrote "Buff" in his own blood before dying, which is most likely a reference to the American TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Coincidentally, "the mystery hag" mentioned in Candy Dawn's diary is later revealed as Nicole Horne, who used Candy to blackmail Alfred Woden.