The politics of the game actually aren't that bad for what it is. The white savior stuff is addressed, with Max himself realizing by the end the only thing he's good at is killing people and being addicted to painkillers. He fails to have meaningful relationships with anyone and even in situations where he's around normal people, it's either awkward or he's actively in a firefight. The plot mainly involves Max uncovering a scheme that a São Paulo city councilman, Victor Branco, is attempting to become mayor by paying off a fascist special police force to do assassinations and organ theft. I remember the game being pretty honest and directly calling Branco a right-winger a few times. There are also more than several points made about how the USA bullies and colonizes central and South America.
The only questionable politics I remember have to do with a dichotomy being made between good cops and bad cops, but it's a Max Payne game where a lot of the characters are themselves cops, so that's just gonna happen.
The politics of the game actually aren't that bad for what it is. The white savior stuff is addressed, with Max himself realizing by the end the only thing he's good at is killing people and being addicted to painkillers. He fails to have meaningful relationships with anyone and even in situations where he's around normal people, it's either awkward or he's actively in a firefight. The plot mainly involves Max uncovering a scheme that a São Paulo city councilman, Victor Branco, is attempting to become mayor by paying off a fascist special police force to do assassinations and organ theft. I remember the game being pretty honest and directly calling Branco a right-winger a few times. There are also more than several points made about how the USA bullies and colonizes central and South America.
The only questionable politics I remember have to do with a dichotomy being made between good cops and bad cops, but it's a Max Payne game where a lot of the characters are themselves cops, so that's just gonna happen.