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And a lot of the Cleaners, their Mook coworkers, and the brother from "Lords and Ladies" are the goddamned Batman.
The Other Darrin: Series writer Sam Lake modelled for Max in the first game but was replaced by the irreconcilably different-looking Timothy Gibbs in the second, owing to the project's bigger budget (see Progressively Prettier). Lampshaded in one of the second game's fourth-wall-breaking dream sequences, when one of Max's doubles looks at himself and says "I've been switched! I didn't used to look like this!" Additionally, James McCaffrey (as Max) was the only actor to reprise the role for the second game.
In addition, Max's likeness in the third game is now being modelled after Mc Caffery's likeness, himself looking noticeably different from Timothy Gibbs as well as having his voice again.
Sequel Gap: 8 years between the second and third games. Also counts as a Time Skip since Max has also aged in real time since the second game, and has an appropriately more jaded worldview.
In the second game, a mobster sings the line, "for I'm a rain dog too" before stepping out into the rainy night.
The Captain BaseballBat Boy comic strips from the first game are an obvious style homage to Charles Schultz's Peanuts, though the second game's adaptation of the comics into a TV show moves farther away from the source material.
The fourth level has a blood splattered room, where if you follow outside to an adjacent room find a guy with a stake through his back. Before he died he managed to write in his blood Buff...
A news bulletin on a Television set at Asgard Building in the first game reports that some people are worried about Aesir Corporation being a greater monopoly than Mi- ... CRR ... -soft was.
This segment was, naturally, removed from the Xbox port of the game.
Max describes Rico Muerte as "a regular Keyser Soze".
The scene of Max tapping a water bottle of the muzzle of his Taurus PT 92 reeks of being an homage to Steven Seagal doing the same trick in On Deadly Ground.
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The Cameo: James McCaffrey, who voiced Max in the games, appears as an FBI agent.
Hey, It's That Guy!: R&B singer Nelly Furtado appears as Alex Balder's wife Christa.
Never Trust a Trailer: The trailer heavily implied the film to be a supernatural thriller, rather than a detective story with some Mind Screw elements. This ended up alienating both casual audiences and fans of the series; the former because it made the film look generic, and the latter because it looked as if the filmmakers had totally disregarded the game's storyline.
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