This sequel doesn't just remember that, it embraces it.ДЄt first glance, Max Payne 3 may look familiar to fans of video game shooters. Max Payne is a functioning alcoholic and drug addict, a byproduct of all of those lives lost in previous games. Max Payne 3 is, in the vernacular of video games, a third-person action shooter, but in the hands of Rockstar's deft artists the game approaches an interactive character study, an antidote to the consequence-free, non-reality of most video games. The latest game from the people who created the rich, wide-open world of Grand Theft Auto is a comparatively singular experience, the story of a man whose wife and daughter were killed, who has taken hundreds of lives and who survived so many shootouts with a seemingly endless supply of painkillers. Max Payne can't cope without a glass bottle in his hand, or a plastic one in his pocket. Colors separate, glide apart to form double, triple visions of the same scene. The lights are so white they bloom and bleed together. just not what I wanted from a Max Payne game at all.Max Payne 3 is a character study about a damaged, addicted ex-cop A lot of my disappointment came from comparing it to Max Payne 2. I just wish that it was more fun to actually play. Great sound, good visuals at the time, awesome cut-scenes, and superb voice work. Like I said, the presentation was really awesome. I was extremely disappointed with Max Payne 3 at the time. The game just constantly pushes you forward and the only humor comes from Max pointing out all the 'gaming conventions' he has to deal with like pressing buttons a lot or enemies seemingly showing up constantly, which doesn't help alleviate how annoying those conventions actually are to deal with. No listening to hilarious guard conversations, finding awesome easter eggs, etc.

It also completely lacks the humor of Max Payne. Just shoot, shoot, cut-scene, shoot shoot, end. No more police precincts, apartments, Mona's place. No turning on sinks and showers, no ripping out paper towels, no opening lockers for painkillers and ammo. Yet nine years later with far superior technology, you couldn't interact with ANYTHING in Max Payne 3. This might have been less of an issue on PC, but it was really annoying on consoles.ДЄlso, In Max Payne 2 you could interact with EVERYTHING. that wouldn't be such a big problem if the AI wasn't so relentless with Max being about as durable as a glass window. Go play Max Payne 2 for a few minutes and you can really feel the difference. He's so slow and clunky it's just unbearable. Not to mention that Max moves like a sloth in this game. That wouldn't be such a problem if the enemy AI didn't hit you with 100% accuracy when you're not in slow motion. If Max hits the tiniest thing while dodging then he goes out of slow motion and lays on the ground like a deer in headlights for two seconds. It's great that these devs made an awesome animation system where Max really looks like he's hitting things hard when he lands but they basically made the shoot dodge useless. Not only was the story bland and uninteresting compared to the previous games, but the gameplay was not nearly as satisfying. I don't generally hate change just for the sake of it but the developers really didn't get what Max Payne was all about. the last gameplay sequence in particular was just laughable and completely NOT Max Payne. By the end of 3 it felt like a mix of Man on Fire and a fucking Die Hard movie. You could replace Max with any generic action hero and it still works, whereas Max Payne 1 and 2 were all about Max and his character.

But the story and the gameplay were terrible in comparison to Max Payne 2 and even 1.The story was very generic but the main problem that I had with it was that it had absolutely nothing to do with Max himself. Some of the levels were really cool and the presentation was top notch. Honestly I didn't like it nearly as much as I wanted to.

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