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Miss Max Payne’s original face? This mod puts Sam Lake’s mug in Max Payne 3“Yes, you will see how Sam Lake shaves his head!”
“Yes, you will see how Sam Lake shaves his head!”
Image credit:Rockstar Games / AlexSavvy
Image credit:Rockstar Games / AlexSavvy
Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind several wonderfully odd shooters, have a fun trend where they put writer turned creative director Sam Lake on-screen in many of their projects. He’s playingan FBI agent in the upcoming Alan Wake 2, but the trend started with the studio’s breakout hitMax Payne, where the titular tortured man’s face was modelled after Lake’s. One new mod now brings back his grimacing face in the bullet time threequelMax Payne 3.
OnNexusmods, creator AlexSavvy recently released a mod that restores Lake’s likeness in the third entry, permanent Max Payne squint included. According to the mod’s description, Lake’s head mod has been modelled specifically for the game, and “this allowed the head to be fully integrated into the game with the preservation of facial expressions and materials.” Every face wound that Max endures is still intact with the mod, and even “drops of sweat flowing down the character’s face” have been saved.
All 14 hairstyles in the game work with the new face model too, alongside every single costume, which have been tailored to fit Lake’s physique. That includes “the leather jacket with Hawaiian shirt from the first game, modelled specially for chapters in New York.” Overall, the mod replaces “98 models and 66 textures” across the game, including the scene where Max shaves his head: “Yes, you will see how Sam Lake shaves his head!”
The modders doesn’t recommend playing the game’s multiplayer modes with the mod installed, however.
For those yearning for Remedy’s weirder brand of shooty-shooty action: good (albeit old) news! Remedy Entertainment areremaking the first two Max Paynes, reviving their hard-boiled detective. I’m very, very interested to see whether Sam Lake reprises his role in glorious HD.
