“Yes, you will see how Sam Lake shaves his head!”
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.
For the uninitiated, Max Payne and its sequelMax Payne 2: The Fall Of Max Paynewere third-person shooters developed by Remedy Entertainment. But then Rockstar Games bought the series’ rights and rounded out the trilogy with Max Payne 3, a romp that took the action out of New York City for the first time. Sam Lake’s likeness was heartbreakingly not used in the two sequels.
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.
