Max Payne 1 was the killer app for Transform & Lighting on Geforce cards. It blew me away! I was nuts about the movie "The Matrix", and playing this materialized my movie fantasies with my own part of action!
MP 2 was good too, but nowhere nearly as overwhelming as the 1st one. The story was absurdly sad and self-defeating it was actually a bit funny!
I'm really hoping that MP 3 will be at least as enjoyable as the 1st one (needs a positive story that's always nicely-paced throughout the game, even better action and controls than MP2, and hopefully as adrenaline-packed as Stranglehold (one of the first UE3 games, which was wayyy under-rated):