Publisher:
Rockstar
(GameStop)
Price: Xbox 360 (PRE $24 NEW $30) PS3 (PRE $28 NEW $30) PC ($40 Digital
Download)
Release Date:
2012
ESRB: Mature
17+
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Plot
Backstory (It follows the hero cop max Payne he has lost his
wife and his daughter). He fills this void with alcohol and pill addiction. I know
what you’re thinking that is so generic, but within the first 5-10 minutes I
was converted. Max Payne cimea is well written and visual you have to get used to
it but after a while you don’t even notice. It has sort of a weird noire setup.
Basically Max Payne gets in some trouble by killing mobster son(he sort of
a jerk) in a bar but a guy named Passos(
who just happens to be in the bar ) who went to academy with Max offered a nice
retirement cushion job babysitting wealthy rich Sau Palo(South America). In
these circum stances he really has no choice so he goes with Passos. While
watching these rich snobs you see the interesting perspective of Max. About all
these shallow people it makes us question how we think of other people and how
shallow lives are. Majority of plot is about the beautiful Fabiana is kidnapped
there also a BIG plot twist. Max has pulled himself together too hopefully and
more successfully than (wife and daughter) save the girl.
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Gameplay
Max Payne is father of slow-mo. (Bullet time) shooter. Countless games
have used same concept even Red Dead Franchise.
It was oblivious then that it was going to make a comeback. They also have a
cool kill cam when you ever clear a room the camera will follow your bullet and
show bullet entering and leaving the body with all the blood gore you want.
Impressive A.I (computer you fight in single player campaign) they will flank
and listen to your foot steps and fight you and hunt you down. Rockstar will
also help you when you’re on your last leg you will go into bulletime and be knocked
off your feet then with rest of your clip kill the guy who shot you in first
place so instead of dying you stay alive. This is helpful but annoying if you
have a empty clip you are unable to do anything, this can be frustrating. Also Rockstar
helps by giving you extra pain pills (health packs) when you’re stuck on a
checkpoint. Max Payne 3 has no loading screens while playing through campaign.
Loading screen are cleverly disguised as cut scenes. Some people don’t like
lack of control caused by the frequent cut scenes. Cover system can be a little
sketchy at times. The only reason I bring this up it because it make Max Payne
3 feels little repetitive if you play through the game on hard, old school and
hardcore. So after third play through if
your compeltionist ( someone conquers everything in the game) campaign might
get stale by 2nd or 3rd play through but then after that
you have arcade what replaying campaign but this time you have do it perfectly.
So game gets repetitive after a while
but in a sense every game get little repetitive once in a while. Then there are
collectables golden guns, clues will keep you busy for a while. Then there
single player grinds there like Call of Duty multiplayer challenges, but then beat one it doubles so if you complete
get 25 headshots then next one is will be 100 headshots.
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Multiplayer
The multiplayer is actually quite chaotic fun with bullet time
at full use during it . Soft lock is a control type it auto locks on enemy this
may anger some people. Clans /crews are in full swing and Rockstar actually has
a lot of hem from previous games like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead. You can
create your own classes and your own avatars. Max Payne 3 Is in Xbox’s top 100
played games so theres still plent of people.
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Graphics/Presentation
It’s one of the most visual stunning games I have ever seen. During
cut scenes certain words are highlighted making their importance very apparent
to the players. Max Payne 3 has several environments offices, favela (poor
South American neighborhood) and the graphics show how far video games have
came since the first Max Payne, which was in 2001.
The verdict
Max Payne doesn’t try
win you over you relate with him everyone has been on their back once in your life and everyone has lost
someone so maybe max Payne is trying send us symbol that people aren’t perfect or life can be flipped flopped at any
time. Max Payne is easily looked over for being a videogame by most people but
I guess they will never expirence story
of max Payne.
9.5/10
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