Max goes through a few hair styles in Max Payne 3. Max’s only respite comes from abusing pain meds which can be doled out manually, or they can be administered automatically when your health reaches zero, resulting in a dramatic “last man standing scenario” that we never quite got enough of. That’s right, regenerating health is out the window, which might be a first for a AAA 3rd person action shooter this generation, and we’re happy to see it go. In terms of 3rd person action, Max Payne delivers a shooting fest that easily rivals anything served up by Nathan Drake or Marcus Fenix, but without their fancy regenerating health. And Max Payne 3 serves up the firefights by the truckload. They play them for the brutal gameplay with Matrix-esque gunfights. Sam Lake is missing from the writing staff on Max Payne 3, and it definitely shows.īut most people don’t play Max Payne games for the story. It was serviceable enough to give you reason to pick up your guns again and play each progressive level. It feels too disjointed and unstable for us to say it was “good.” We can’t say it was “poor” either. There are entirely too many flash forwards and flashbacks that lead to the present day that lead to flash forwards. We can’t say we loved the story of Max Payne 3. It wouldn’t be a Max Payne game without bullet time, even at point blank range. He does everything within his gun-slinging power to protect every single family member as they start off living on the top of the world and subsequently falling into an absolute hell. But this time around tragedy doesn’t befall upon Max as much as it does the super-wealthy Bronco family. With his own family life in absolute shambles, he takes a private protection job for an absurdly wealthy family known as the Broncos. He’s held up in Hoboken and would rather spend his time at the bottom of a bottle than filling out a job application. Max has just about given up with… everything. The 2012 landscape of gaming is almost unrecognizable compared to 2003 and fans have come to know and love a level of expertise from Rockstar Games when it comes to their favorite noir crimefighter. And while he may wish that someone would just put a bullet into him and end his misery, for the sake of our vicarious enjoyment, we hope he keeps coming back to us with more and more misery.īut it’s been almost 10 years since Max Payne 2 and Max Payne 3 has some rather large expectations to live up to. Because on bad days he gets to jump through the air in slow motion firing off his iconic twin pistols in the faces of New Jersey’s criminal scum.
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