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The Answer to the earlier Conection question is Max Payne , a third-person shooter computer game developed by the Finnish company Remedy Entertainment, produced by 3D Realms and published by Gathering of Developers in July, 2001 .

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  The Valkyr drug is a military performance enhancer that turns its users into adrenaline-charged killers who experience hallucinatory images of death.
• Project Valhalla is the government-funded conspiracy that developed Valkyr to enhance the combat effectiveness of US soldiers.
• The computer network in the military base is named Yggdrasil.
• The Aesir Corporation, mentioned frequently in the game and the primary source of the Valkyr drug.
• The nightclub Ragna Rock is a play on the word Ragnarök.
• DEA agent Alex Balder, Max's partner, was shot by an assassin.Alex is killed by his partner BB. In norse myth Baldur's death is set up by Loki, god of chaos and deception, just as BB deceived Alex and Max.
• Alfred Woden's surname (the evil mastermind in the game) refers to Woden, the Anglo-Saxon version of Odin.
• Max meets Woden and the Inner Circle in the Asgard Building.
• Jack Lupino's (the psychotic devil worshipping villain) surname refers to the Fenris Wolf, Lupino being a reference to the Latin name for wolf, Lupus.

The game's allusion to the norse myth was not intended to downcast the legends and heros (with almost all the terms being related to the villains) ,but rather to reinstate their iconic status .
The game's and character's name itself was a pun on a common economic indicator known as the maximum pain theory, casually referred to by investors as "Max-Pain".