Take for example the Last Man Standing approach to death - if you’ve got a bottle of painkillers left, and you’re about to die, the world enters slow motion for you to pick off your assailant. The game doesn’t rely on immersion-breaking quick time events or button-mashing - it’s a solid, traditional third-person shooter with a polished and minimal approach. Max Payne’s signature shoot-dodge and bullet time gameplay elements form a large part of the game. It’s believable, it’s well paced and we found the entire narrative thoroughly enjoyable and immersive. There’s plenty of set changes, costume changes, flash-backs and twists.
The story is around 10 hours long, and every second of it feels like a big-budget blockbuster. There’s just the right compromise between bring back old memories from the previous titles, and pandering to gamers who haven’t played a Max Payne before. While we’re not going to spoil the story - it’s worth playing and uncovering yourself - we do like its mix of present-day and flash-back action. Abductions, assaults and intrigue means our anti-hero is arrayed against an army of gun-toting paulistanos.
Intervention from an old police academy buddy sees Max in São Paulo, Brazil, running security for a wealthy family. The game is constant action, with no let-up and no down-time.Īfter the gruesome happenings of Max Payne and Max Payne 2 - if you haven’t played them, the second game’s The Fall of Max Payne byline should provide some insight - grizzled ex-cop Max has washed up after years of drinking and popping painkillers.
MAX PAYNE 3 GAMEPLAY MOVIE
Max Payne 3 feels a lot more like a modern action movie - in both setting and feel it evokes plenty of Tony Scott’s Man On Fire, with lashings of Michael Mann’s Heat and Collateral and the Pacino-Penn vehicle Carlito’s Way. Max Payne and Max Payne 2 were video games that felt like graphic novels: action progressed in fits and starts, with an overarching story built by comic book panel cut-scenes often dipping into the surreal and macabre.
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