Max Payne on the GBA - pretty damn good! If a physical copy of this wasn't $$$ I'd love to have it for a collector's item, even if I don't own a GBA anymore. But playing this on my homebrew Wii (on my 50 inch TV which looked hilarious) was a trip... and thank god for the save states because this game can be bullshit sometimes.

Bullet time on the GBA never looked cooler (and even the slo-mo sound effects are great) and this version is surprisingly faithful to the original, levels are very similar and even certain rooms and details are identical. It's a bit more stripped down/condensed but that's appreciated.

As for the bullshit, since this is isometric and you're thrown into large rooms where you can't see everything, expect to get shot from offscreen enemies constantly. And there are fire obstacles here that can kill you in one hit which can be almost impossible to avoid as you have to be pixel perfect - the isometric view makes this even worse.

Just make sure to save state a ton in the later levels and you'll be fine - absolutely worth checking out if you're a fan of the series and you'd like to see Sam Lake's pixelized face and hear James McCaffrey's voice in all its 8-bit glory