Max Payne 3 Comments by Robert Purchese

@ BadBoyBonner

And yet, how can tell this looks like less fun than any other TPS when you haven't seen any footage or played it?! A few still images is no place to ploclaim that this is seemingly better or worse than any other example in the genre.

"Just Cause 2 and Uncharted 2 look like great fun - I have yet to see anything from this that looks anything other than generic."

But-there's-only-six-fucking-screenshots! Maybe part of the game will be set in Sao Paulo, maybe it will have interesting ideas to stand out from the rest of the market, maybe it will be a good, solid TPS but nothing amazingly original. How can you possibly make judgments on how entertaining the game is, knowing so little about it...?!

I'm all for change (I'm apparently one of the few that liked the splinter cell change before they wussed out and what back to the drawing board), but they've clearly lost the NOIR in this. You really can't have that neo-noir setting with colours and sunshine and samba music in the background.
The game could've still been set in new york (or any other city, chicago perhaps?) but, like this version, could've gone for a open-world setting.

Max Payne with a beer gut > Chris Redfield steroid freakshow

WTF? Max Payne is Captain Birdseye?

Well there's one gamer I won't buy.......how the fuck did ANYONE developing this game think this is the way to go?

Gritty film based action or fucked up beardy baldy morris dancing with desert eagles?

QQ....just QQ

ha ha ha! looks like a cross between COD4 and Uncharted but hopefully it will be as fun as the originals

um, whatever... nice palm leaves.

Rockstar needs more devs with tormenting memories and guilty consciences working on this game. Like Remedy.

Well....

Maybe towards the end of the game he'll discover the conspiracy leads back to NY, he'll put on a leather jacket and go back to the NY winter. You never know

Great another game that seems to be set in Africa. Seems like Africa is the new New York when it comes to games these days..

'You can't have noir with neo-noir technicolour' isn't entirely true, though. It's not about whether it's drawn in black and white and grey, it's about the murkiness of the subject matter.

But having said that it would take one hell of a developer to manage to pull of a bright and breezy colour palette and draw a contrast with the dark manoeuvrings of the plot. Think of Blade Runner, essentially.

@BabyJesus: Since when did South America become the new Africa?

meh.. it's only an art style change...

if the gameplay is the same - what's the worry?

that and as long as you can still cheat and play as a naked lady.. im all for it

Can't say I understand why the ambient attitude is so conservative about this. Generally speaking, change is GOOD, on top of it being inevitable and necessary. What matters is gameplay. It's not as if it's actually ugly, and I'm all for more credible protagonists.

@ oktava

I was thinking that too. At least they're keeping him realistic and not giving him a physique that makes him look like he's just created a nationwide synthol shortage.

what made max payne 1 and 2 so greate was just as much the setting and atmosphere as it was the gameplay. the allways dark snowy new york, dark and gritty, film noir. This is just some jungle shotter with the name max payne tagged on it. the game might be good but imo judging from these screens it doesnt desverve the name Max payne.

I think it's misleading to say that people are being 'conservative' about this. I'm all for change and development. But look at it this way: what were the two stand out things about Max Payne? The storytelling and art style (the comic book panels, the lovably overwritten narration, the music and atmosphere) and bullet time. Every game has bullet time now, so they should (I would think) really have to push what made the originals a success in terms of aesthetic. I'm not saying they can't tell a good noir story in Brazil, but it's a visual U-turn for the series which makes me question why they wouldn't just make a new franchise.

It'd be a bit like if the developers of Bioshock felt like having slottable 'magic' powers was the USP of Bioshock and made a sequel set in modern-day NYC without the art-deco aesthetic or water.

I Liked the seedy, nasty, foreboding New York setting tbh. And the jacket. It doesn't look like Max Payne.

@Saxo
what made max payne 1 and 2 so greate was just as much the setting and atmosphere as it was the gameplay. the allways dark snowy new york, dark and gritty, film noir. This is just some jungle shotter with the name max payne tagged on it. the game might be good but imo judging from these screens it doesnt desverve the name Max payne.

As you apparently have not realised that the screenshots are actually of a city and not of the jungle I don't think you should be judging anything from these screens.

Looking beyond the fact that there are more than 5 different colours shown IMO declaring that it's not Max Payne because they've changed the setting is ridiculous, what made Max Payne for me was the narrative and the "comic strip" over-the-top storytelling more than anything else. They were great games but New York was just a backdrop if the second game was set elsewhere it'd be as good.

Just to recap: having a palm tree does not make it a jungle (if it did then my office is a jungle) and you can tell a dark story in a dark fashion in a sunny place: in the Maltese Falcon Humphrey Bogart goes to Istanbul (and if sunshine is good enough for Humphrey it's good enough for you :P) also the entirety of LA Confidential is set in, well, LA not exactly renowned for its snow.

Have some faith. The first two were great, so long as they keep the same general story style I'll be delighted. (Also, that last screenshot in the warehouse is textbook "noir".)

If you were thinking of 'first screenshots to be released of Max Payne 3' what things would you stick in that bunch? Maybe something that told people they were continuing the stylised storytelling of the previous two. Not just 'fat guy duel wielding in a generic setting'.

OH MY GOD!!! THIS IS MAX PAYNE? THEY ARE MAKING THIS GAME ON GTA 4 GRAPHIC ENGINE!THAT'S WHY THE VISUALS ARE SO POOR. ROCKSTAR SUKS! THERE GRAPHIC ENGINE IS SO POOR (IT IS GOOD ONLY FOR GAMES LIKE GTA) WHERE IS REMEDY? NO REMEDY NO MAX PAYNE!!!! MAX PAYNE 1 WAS GAME OF THE YEAR FOR 2001!

Fat Payne.


That is all.

This is supposed to be a max payne game ??? Didn't the developpers get the point of the whole dark atmosphere and comic style thing ? If I want to play farcry I'd do so ffs. I hope this is all a terrible mixup and these are screens from something else because if this really max payne 3 it will be AN EPIC FAIL ! God I'm disapointed....

Maximilliano Doem, é que você?

The E3 news gave me an info overload, I gave EG a break just because... im still playing BF2... here I come back to "yer'olgamer"™ and games start to look even more the same, the comments get votes, is this just a bad dream?

Max payne 3 should have tiled walls only, "Max Payne 3|the turkish baths" -"it's hamam time!"