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PC and console, "new direction".

Take-Two has announced that Max Payne 3 is in development at Rockstar Vancouver and will be released for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC this winter.

The game was originally mooted all the way back in 2004, but things have been quiet since. Original developer Remedy is not involved by the sound of it.

While specific details about MP3 are thin on the ground, we're told that gritty, trenchcoat-loving grumpy-guts Max is now retired but still "embroiled in a world of corruption, turmoil and intense violence".

In fact, Max has left New York behind, and having been double-crossed, is now trapped "in a city full of violence and bloodshed, using his weapons and instincts in a desperate search for the truth and a way out".

We're also promised "more of the classic elements and hyper-intense action that fans have come to love", although the game will be "moving the story of Max in a new direction".

"We're starting a new chapter of Max's life with this game," said Sam Houser, Rockstar Games founder.

"This is Max as we've never seen him before, a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever. We experience the downward spiral of his life after the events of Max Payne 2 and witness his last chance for salvation."

Poor old Max. He only wanted to be loved. And kill people in slow motion. Check out our creaky old reviews of Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne if you've forgotten what the Bullet Time gunplayer was up to back then. (Apologies for the hilarious broken formatting.)

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Lexx87 #1 3 years ago

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Awesome!
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Olemak #2 3 years ago

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"MP3", that is pretty funny.
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Gl3n #3 3 years ago

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Quietly optimistic, let's hope they forgo marky mark's likeness after that awful film.
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woodnotes #4 3 years ago

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'New Direction' better not mean FPS. I wanna see Max when I'm playin Max!
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Snooz #5 3 years ago

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Let's hope the whole game is set in a watery theme park with loads of tiled walls, there were too few in the sequel.
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Spekingur #6 3 years ago

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Max Payne
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PROFIT!
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Physically_Insane #7 3 years ago

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Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!
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R.P_McMurphy #8 3 years ago

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AMAZING
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Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #9 3 years ago

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Good news. Loved the first two.

Anybody else think he looked like Giovanni Ribisi in the first game and Gary Cole in the second?
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muscleblade #10 3 years ago

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This winter means Q1 2010 right? This winter sounds a lot earlier really. Actually "this winter" is right now if you ask me.
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VicViper #11 3 years ago

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I must admit that I'm not adverse to more Max Payne. Certainly kept things quite for it to be hitting this winter and this is the first I've heard of it, I'm sure there would have been more news for a new Max Payne game.
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miiiguel #12 3 years ago

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Err... it's spring, since Friday.
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Rangerwave #13 3 years ago

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I really hope they don't take it out of New York, the setting was just perfect for the previous two games.
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the_mtfr #14 3 years ago

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Sami J�rvi (Sam Lake) as the writer once more PLEASE. And while he's at it, Poets of the Fall for the soundtrack once more PLEASE.
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Razorus #15 3 years ago

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..."in a city full of violence and bloodshed, using his weapons and instincts in a desperate search for the truth and a way out".

Baghdad?
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rudedudejude #16 3 years ago

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Max Payne 3: The getting back up of Max Payne
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Clive_Dunn #17 3 years ago

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Hmm, it'd better have Captain Baseball Bat in it or I'll get very angry.
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OllyJ #18 3 years ago

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if this goes sandbox free roaming i'm going to really actually cry. please don't let that happen.
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roz123 #19 3 years ago

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Good news, i hope its as good as the other games.
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des #20 3 years ago

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"New direction"?
Don't like the sound of it...
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Farfarer #21 3 years ago

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About time, woop
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Darren #22 3 years ago

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New direction = Online multiplayer and co-op gameplay added at the expense of the quality/length of the solo campaign.
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jamie_fear #23 3 years ago

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'New direction' = Max Payne 3: Sea of Dreams

Max travels to Rapture to avenge the death of his aunt/uncle/nephew/father etc after he finds out another junkie, hooked this time on Adam, killed one of them. Expect fighting Big Daddies in 'bullet time'.
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swede #24 3 years ago

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Wonder if he still looks like he's 'curling one down'?
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Retroid #25 3 years ago

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New direction = leaping diagonally through the air firing two shotguns in slow motion
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Evolution #26 3 years ago

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So he's gonna look like Mark Wahlberg now?
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siro #27 3 years ago

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What was the score of the first one? Somehow that old article is incomplete.
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Tyranix #28 3 years ago

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"A new direction" huh? I bet it's a vehicle game.
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swede #29 3 years ago

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Oh yeh, incomplete review for PC anyway - 7 on PS2 and 6 on XBox. However I would personally give it an 8. In it's day possibly even a 9. Very enjoyable - let down by frustrating and bizarre 'dream sequence' levels.
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skillian #30 3 years ago

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New direction = Online multiplayer and co-op gameplay added at the expense of the quality/length of the solo campaign.

Max Payne 2 was about 5 hours long, so you'd hope it can't get much shorter than that.

The quote in the article makes it sound like gameplay will be much the same, but it's the story that will have a new direction. But who knows? I'm just happy to get to play some new Max Payne - the first two are right up there with my favourite games.
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sneetch #31 3 years ago

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@Retroid
New direction = leaping diagonally through the air firing two shotguns in slow motion

God, I hope so.

Sadly though, it's a platformer, where you build your own vehicles and race them. Obviously.
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sneetch #32 3 years ago

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@20charactersmax

Even cheaper (if you've no religious objections to Steam, that is) although I still have the original discs somewhere:

http://st ore.steampowered.com/search/?te...
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smoothpete #33 3 years ago

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PLEASE no blood trail tightrope walking sections
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makeamazing #34 3 years ago

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Loved 1 and 2, cant wait for 3. Hope they dont make it too different as 1/2 really worked. Hmm now question is PC or PS3... normally i would get these types of games on PC as I have two left hands when playing shooting games (just not as enjoyable for me usually). I dont want to buy it twice
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kangarootoo #35 3 years ago

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I feel mildy worried at talk of a new direction. MP1 and 2 were great with a capital "awesome", and any major deviation will obviously bring new risks.

Those screens of MP2 still look good at a glance after all this time.
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andywilkie35 #36 3 years ago

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I'm not surprised Remedy aren't involved considering they're still working on Alan Wake
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UncleLou #37 3 years ago

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I am a bit skeptical. While I don't doubt that Rockstar will get the setting/story/mood right, the Max Payne games were so perfectly playable, and polish in that area isn't exactly Rockstar's strength.
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Doctor_What #38 3 years ago

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Max Payne Goes Fishing. It comes with its own rod and reel accessory for controlling it.
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hiddenranbir #39 3 years ago

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I don't understand how much lower Max can go... I mean, not even the second managed to match the trauma of his wife and baby were raped and murdered in his own home. He got to have mad sex with Mona in the second, it is more of an upswing in comparison.
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Eraysor #40 3 years ago

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Please don't fuck it up, they first two were epic. And keep the cool style in the cutscenes.
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des #41 3 years ago

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New Max Payne,

[link url=http: //www.hardgame2.com/www/noticia-45086.html
]http://ww w.hardgame2.com/www/noticia-450...[/link]

Wtf?

He just had an extreme makeover,lol

Edited by 1 at 23/03/09 @ 13:35
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skillian #42 3 years ago

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Those screens of MP2 still look good at a glance after all this time.

I played it recently and it could honestly still pass for a contemporary game, with the added bonus of being able to push res and aa up to the max. It did look amazing when it came out though, and MP2 included quite fancy Havok physics which is basically the most recent big feature to be added to game graphics/design and something that definitely dates older titles.

I don't want to be the dick that complains about games being made for consoles then ported badly for the PC, but it does ever-so-slightly worry me that they might do it that way round this time.
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Ryuken #43 3 years ago

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Hopefully it won't be as awfully ported to PC as other recent Rockstar titles... mod support and slowmo multiplayer pls.
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UncleLou #44 3 years ago

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"t did look amazing when it came out though, and MP2 included quite fancy Havok physics which is basically the most recent big feature to be added to game graphics/design and something that definitely dates older titles"

Shooting tiles in MP2 never gets old.

/shower of shards
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space_ace #45 3 years ago

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moving the story of Max in a new direction - QTE?

anyway, this is exciting news
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vegard #46 3 years ago

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"moving the story of Max in a new direction" means a hip-hop soundtrack and a max voiced by avon barksdale
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kangarootoo #47 3 years ago

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So he has grown and beard (and probaly shaved his head). Splinter Cell all over then.

"I don't want to be the dick that complains about games being made for consoles then ported badly for the PC, but it does ever-so-slightly worry me that they might do it that way round this time."

At least all versions might work if they did it that way round. The console ports of MP1 and 2 fundamentally borked the stick controls, ruining the experience completely (for me anyway).
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JayNitro #48 3 years ago

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About Time
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muscleblade #49 3 years ago

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@miiiguel

I know, i know. But since "this fall" usually means Q4 i would say "this winter" must be Q1 right. We are still in Q1 so.
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Lukree #50 3 years ago

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I am really missing those one page reviews! No clicking - no hassle!
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dloob #51 3 years ago

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Mirrors are more fun than television...
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RobertDeZero #52 3 years ago

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New direction? Heh...

http://ww w.eurogamer.net/articles/dead-t...
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mexalen #53 3 years ago

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Poor old Max. He only wanted to be loved. And kill people in slow motion.

That just made my day
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bodypopper #54 3 years ago

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A free roaming city maybe? Maybe Max moves from Noo Yawk to Liberty City .
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assache #55 3 years ago

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"'New direction' = Max Payne 3: Sea of Dreams

Max travels to Rapture to avenge the death of his aunt/uncle/nephew/father etc after he finds out another junkie, hooked this time on Adam, killed one of them. Expect fighting Big Daddies in 'bullet time'."

I know that was supposed to be a joke, but, sounds brilliant!
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marilena #56 3 years ago

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If there ever was a series that didn't need a new direction, it was Max Payne. It was unique in what it did and I'd have very much liked it to have kept going that way, although arguably the chances of that ever happening went out the window when the original crew was removed from the equation.

Speaking of the original crew, where the fuck is Alan Wake?
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Spekingur #57 3 years ago

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It's Rockstar Vancouver (formerly known as Barking Dog Studios). As Rockstar Vancouver they have made Bully.

Under their former name they made Homeworld: Cataclysm, they had a hand in developing Counter-Strike with Valve, made Global Operations and a Treasure Planet game (linked to the animated movie).

Perhaps we'll see the first Max Payne RTS game? :-o
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fisherpot #58 3 years ago

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I have seen his face now and he looks like hes been through hell and back! Got a cool beard and looks older in a good way not forgetting he still has that stone cold stare! They better not mess up this game with the new direction or I will be really dissapointed as I loved the first 2 !
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shogo10 #59 3 years ago

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Would've been a time that I would be excited for this, but its been too long since the last game. Not to mention Remedy isn't making it. I thought the second game had a pretty good conclusion or closure to it so a third to me doesn't seem necessary, still can't hurt to keep an eye on it. Also the movie was utter shite.
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shotgun44 #60 3 years ago

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The Max Payne games were awesome. I bought a new PC for the first one (and DOOM 3) as my voodoo 2 just wasn't gonna run it! If its gonna go in a new direction please be the Rapture spin off!
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Machetazo #61 3 years ago

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More Max Payne. Yes, that's a good thing.
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Sesonic #62 3 years ago

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I absolutely loved Max Payne 2, This and the Matrix were the games of 2003.
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Superastic #63 3 years ago

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Well, now...I couldn't leave the comment count to 69. Not NOIR enough.
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Superastic #64 3 years ago

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mp3 is so '90s
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space_ace #65 3 years ago

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assache

+1
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FornicatingBaboon #66 3 years ago

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So... modified story, same old action?

They did the exact opposite of what I was hoping.
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