Some of the levels are pretty well-designed and have some entertaining moments. There is some fun to be had here, if you're willing to sit through a grim slog to get to it. There are flashes around the crosshairs to show if you kill someone, but they're easy to miss. The Euphoria system can actually be a detriment at times, making it hard to tell if a bad guy has died or just fallen over. Painkillers are also rare, which means having low health is pretty common. This game shows that a cover system works best with regenerating health of some kind if you get caught behind cover with only a sliver of health left and no way to get it back, you might as well reload your game - from a checkpoint, as there is no quicksave option. However, the cover mechanic isn't as good. The actual shooting and flying through the air work fine, although the game is incredibly stingy with bullet time, for some reason: simply going into slow motion for an easy headshot is rarely an option. This is possibly an attempt to emulate the comic panels of the originals with none of the style. Leaving the darkness aside, cutscenes are lengthy, often unskippable, and punctuated with annoying effects: colors randomly breaking apart like a bad TV screen, words characters have just said hanging in the air, and sudden split screens. Eventually, it just becomes a nonstop cavalcade of grimness, and it's hard to root for anybody. This is not helped by the setting change the tone of the previous games was moody but not relentlessly so, while this game seems determined to constantly throw the worst São Paulo has to offer at us. Cardboard cutouts get killed left and right with little time for characterization, while Max himself spends a good portion of the game drinking and talking about what a piece of shit he is. With some modification, a sequel to this could be good, but as it stands now, Max Payne 3 is a different creature from it predecessors that doesn't quite hit the mark.Įasily the biggest issue is the drastic shift in tone from the first two games: it's just so fucking dark. Max Payne 3 starts off strong, but gradually shifts into unpleasantness as it goes on, eventually wallowing in despair by the end. VideoGame Max Payne 3: Halfway Decent, but Disappointing It even contains the true ending of Max Payne as an Easter Egg! If you want the real Max Payne 3, play Remedy's Alan Wake. Rockstar didn't even have the guts to give Max the tragic death in the snow he deserved! Fans of 3 should be ashamed for defending this garbage and its appalling to see most of the tropes on the page be for 3 instead of 2 or even 1. Max Payne 3 is easily among the worst games made in the past 5 years and an insult to Sam Lake's nigh-peerless writing. Rockstar claims that Max Payne 3 was developed with input by Remedy, but there's no sign of Remedy's Signature Style to be found here so I'm convinced they were lying. I'd probably hold them in slightly better regard if it wasn't for the constant Interface Screw the game throws at you. The soundtrack dumps the Awesome Music of the second game for grating electronic stuff and the graphics and animation are just okay, but don't hold a candle to the groundbreaking graphics of the second game. The gameplay also suffers from not knowing if it wants to be a cover shooter or remain true to the laughably outdated gunfighting styled after The Matrix, and ends up unfocused and overly difficult. That's bad enough coming off of Max Payne 2's story, which was close to True Art as video games go, but unskippable cutscenes make it utterly insufferable. Max himself is little more than a Man Child awash in his own Wangst who lacks any of the self-awareness or morals he had in the last two games, nor does he look or sound anything like how he did before. The cast is completely made up of petty, vain, Grand Theft Auto style caricatures who die horribly. At best, it's Rockstar's attempt at a video game version of Man on Fire. A bald, bearded, fat Max Payne in the slums of Brazil? Serving as a bodyguard for the rich? What nonsense is this? When Rockstar first announced Max Payne 3, fans were outraged and fearful.
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