Movie noir unhappy sack Max Payne is getting his due with a full remake of the primary two video games, developer Treatment Leisure introduced at this time. The brand new compilation will embody each Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max and be unique to PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC.

Remakes of the PS2-era video games are a part of a brand new publishing settlement with Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar Video games. Treatment will develop the video games utilizing its proprietary Northlight sport engine, which made 2019’s glorious paranormal thriller, Management, whereas Rockstar will fund the manufacturing.

The Max Payne video games combined collectively conventional crime noir tropes and comedian ebook storytelling to weave collectively a grim story of a detective whose life spirals uncontrolled after his drug and mob connections result in his household’s homicide. The video games had been additionally well-known for their then-unusual bullet time mechanic.

The studio says growth will likely be “in keeping with a typical Treatment AAA-game manufacturing” and that it’s nonetheless within the idea stage. It’s years away, in different phrases, which might be why it’s not coming to PS4 and Xbox One. However within the meantime the studio has been doing simply high quality for itself.

Treatment has been making plenty of massive strikes recently. Following the success of Management, it launched a remaster of the unique Alan Wake final yr. Then in December it revealed that Alan Wake 2 was in growth and anticipated someday in 2023. Treatment can be engaged on two new Management video games, a sequel with the working title Condor, and a multiplayer spin-off.

It additionally discovered time to work with Smilegate on the Western launch of lackluster first-person shooter CrossfireX, and has a cope with Tencent to launch a brand new on-line sport that’s at present code named Vanguard. Treatment at present solely consists of some 300 staff. It’s additionally notably one of many few remaining large-scale impartial studios within the video games business, as others get snatched up left and proper by Microsoft, Sony, and others. Offers like this are a method for it to remain that approach.