hints and tricks
Secret Tutorial Room	Play the tutorial till you reach the end, where you can practice shooting enemies. Jump up on the big van located there, then over to the ventilation fan on the wall next to the van. From the fan, jump to the stairs and climb up to the top. Break through the window. You will find an Ingram in the room.
Part 1, Chapter 6 Secrets	There are two secrets when you get to the basketball court. Look up in the basket. There is a Beretta stuck in the net. Then, go to the chain link fence next to the street. Wait briefly and an SUV will pass by. Shoot it, the car will screech to a halt, and a man with a shotgun will get out and shoot at you.
Part 1, Chapter 5 Secret	After the shootout in the laundry room, get into the elevator and you will hear music playing. Look up and shoot the speaker. The music will stop and Max will say "Thank you."
Why Reload When You Can Shootdodge!	While playing around in some of the earlier levels, I discovered a bug in the game. The sawed-off-shotgun instantly reloads when you shootdodge. Im sure this will be fixed in a patch, but for now it is pretty helpful when dealing with multiple enemies. All you have to do is constantly shootdodge with the sawed-off-shotgun drawn, and keep tappin' that trigger.
Shootdodge!	Everyone is always saying bullettime is great. But come on. It uses your little meter up way too fast. I hardly ever use it. I recall using it one time. What I did use was shootdodge though. Its GREAT! Shootdodge as much as possible, around corners, through doors, up stairs, everywhere. If you just aim at the peoples head and neck region and allow yourself the time to recover from the shootdodge then this is all you will need. Forget about bullettime.
Test Everything	Like my little tip about the soldier of fortune room, this one is about windows and background stuff. I found out early in the game that the environments are very interactible. So, I test everything. Thats how I found that secret room and the one in the tutorial. Test cabinets and drawers and yes, even kitchen appliances. I found many useful things by doing this.
Soldier Of Fortune 2 Secret Room!	During the "rooftops" level in part 1 there is a part where you walk across some pipes and find some gangsters watching some pelican thing on tv. After you kill them and go through their room and out the window to a platform. Turn left,you will see a row of ordinary looking windows. Go to the last one and jump through it. You will be in a room full of shotguns and ammo with two Soldier of Fortune 2 posters on the wall! Submitted by: monkeywrench
Big Bomb	In the tutoral mode walk uo to the 1st van you see (right at the start) and walk alongside it so you are squashed between the wall and the van. Get your lead pipe and walk up to the canster look to the floor and the hit it. You should know when you have found the BIG BOMB!

 

easter eggs
Easter Egg Number 1	In Act 3: Level 4 (the garage), there is an Easter Egg featuring members of Max Payne`s production team and some surprises. After the opening animation ends, take out the four guys that the car has dropped off. Now, before entering the garageon the right, face the garage and look just to the right of the opening. There are 3 barrels (one, and then two on top of each other), and an A/C unit coming out of the wall. Jump from one to another to reach the roof of the garage. You will now be facing a little shack on the roof, with a door-shaped section painted slightly lighter than the rest -- shoot this with any weapon, and it will fall away, leading to a room with a small grating on the floor. Stand on the grate, and you will fall into a room with a dead hostage, a sniper rifle and ammo, and a radio that plays a conversation between members of the production team with a bit of humor at the end.
Easter Egg Number 2	In the rooftop chase sequence there`s a room you can get to that has a poster of Soldier Of Fortune II and some other useful goodies.
Easter Egg Number 3	In Chapter 3 when you start on the roof of the multi-storey car park you can jump on the barrels and then onto the roof near the exit ramp. If you shoot the peculiar looking metal wall you`ll see it collapse. Then go through the opening, drop through a nearby vent in the floor and you`ll end up in a small room. You`ll find a sniper rifle and some ammo and a radio. "Use" the radio for some laughs.
Easter Egg Number 4	When you walk in on the bank robbery, you can shoot the wailing siren to stop it. Do this and Max will thank you.
Easter Egg Number 5	When you find the piano on the manor level, if you "use" it Max will play the title theme. Shoot the lid support out to drop the lid and then try playing the piano again.
Easter Egg Number 6	When you find the drum kit in the Ragna Rock bar, "use" it to play some beats. You can also get the guitar on the floor to squeal and if you "use" the stage microphones Max will say: "Karaoke was never my thing".
Easter Egg Number 7	In Chapter 1 level 3 you can find the handiwork of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Once you have found Muerte`s Room (313), turn right when you exit the room. At the end of the hallway turn left and you will see a bathroom on the left side and a wooden door that is partially broken on the right side. Using any weapon break through the wood. Go through the room until you get to the broken window. Go through the window onto the ledge and follow the blood on the ledge. You will come to another boarded up doorway which is partially broken. Again using any weapon break through. Inside the room you will find a body with a stake in it and "Buff" written on the floor.
Easter Egg Number 8	After you leave the inner circle and get to the main guy`s office you pick up the tape. Two rooms after that there is his inner office. Shoot the painting off the wall and youll find a button. The couch raises up behind you which hides a staircase. Go down and youll find a big screen TV that will play a parody of a star trek episode. In the next room is a bed with chains on it and a closet full of bondage stuff.

 

more game hints
Part I: The American Dream
Chapter Two: Live from the Crime Scene	Right at the beginning, there is a hole in the bricks in the wall. Cheat yourself a grenade and throw it in. Your mission objectives now say "I had declared a war against rats". A bit later, after walking through some water and taking out a few enemies on a train platform, walk up the wide stairs. In the room at the top are a bunch of rats... with Desert Eagles! Now shoot at one of the ceiling lamps that`s off. Hit the base of the lamp and it will fall. The rats will now battle each other. If "your" side wins, the remaining rats will take up defensive positions around you. If your side loses, the remaining rats will come after you.
Chapter Two: Live from the Crime Scene	You can shoot the wailing siren in the central vault area and Max will thank you.
Chapter Three: Playing it Bogart	If you walk past Rico Muerte`s room to the end of the hall, you can shoot away a boarded-up door. From this room you can walk across the ledge and shoot away a boarded up window to find a dead body with a stake in it lying next to the word "Buff" in blood (as in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), as well as some other goodies.
Chapter Six: Fear That Gives Men Wings	As you ride the elevator up from Luigi`s Laundry, shooting the speaker playing sappy elevator music will bring another "Thank you" from Max. Shortly thereafter, as you leave out the window from the room sporting the thug in the bathroom and the TV news report, walk to the left and there will be a window you can jump through to a room with two Soldier of Fortune 2 posters and a stash of shotguns. If you didn`t destroy the elevator speaker earlier, you should be able to hear the music from within this room.
Chapter Seven: Police Brutality	When Gognitti reaches the locked door, there is a satellite dish behind you on the ledge. If you jump from this corner to the ledge across the alley, you can drop down into the fenced area and open a door to a room with a nice assortment of ammo and a poster proclaiming "Dopefish Lives!" Dopefish is quite possibly the most prolific character in Easter Egg history.
Chapter Seven: Police Brutality	At the basketball court, there is a Beretta stuck in the net. Also, if you wait by the fence, an SUV wil drive by. If you shoot it, it will crash and the driver will get out to shoot at you.
Chapter Eight: Ragna Rock	When you reach the inner stage area, you can "use" the drum kit and microphone and step on the guitar for some interesting effects and dialogue.
Part II: A Cold Day In Hell
Chapter Five: Angel of Death	When you reach the grand piano, you can "use" it and Max will play the title theme. You can get a different effect by shooting out the lid support and trying again.
Part IV: A Bit Closer To Heaven
Chapter Four: Backstabbing Bastard	At the entrance ramp to the car park (from where you start), there is a stack of barrels and an air conditioning unit that you can jump on to reach the roof of the garage. Shoot the off-color panel of the shed there and it will fall away. Inside, you can jump on a grate to fall into a room with the grafitti "R Thanks", a radio you can "use" to hear audio from the production team, and a sniper rifle with ammo.
Chapter Five: In the Land of the Blind	In the small room after Woten`s office (where you find the Aesir building plans), there is a small picture that you can shoot off the wall, revealing a button. Pressing it will raise the couch on the other side of the room, revealing a staircase down to a "private area". In it there is a big screen TV you can use to play a 3DRealms-themed parody of Star Trek. In the adjoining room there is a bed with chains next to a closet full of bondage gear.