Conclusion: All in all, Max Payne 3 is an excellent game that shooter fans will definitely want to pick up. It offers a fun and lengthy SP campaign that is surprisingly replayable on...
Excerpt: Things change, and we have to accept that. Max Payne has moved from the endless falling snow in more ways than one, leaving behind his Nordic developers and residing...
Excerpt: Much like when a well-known film series gets a new director, there’s always a little risk involved when a familiar game franchise switches from its original developer to
Max Payne 3 Review: Justice is served on PS3 in Max’s third outing
Gaming Target
4 July 2012
Summary: Max Payne 3 has our favorite former detective traveling to Brazil, and not to set up for the Olympics. Find out what we thought about his latest.
Conclusion: Max Payne 3 is a worthy addition to the Max Payne saga, with Rockstar keeping the spirit of the first two games alive despite some changes.
Pros: Bullet-time gameplay still separates Max Payne series from crowd, Preserves spirit of first two games, with Rockstar-level polishEuphoria engine looks great during fir...
Cons: Some unnatural physics and rough spikes in difficulty, Single player gameplay often feels repetitive, with too little story
Summary: Max Payne 3 won’t revolutionize the action genre, nor does it solidify the marriage of gaming and cinema, but it is a very slickly produced and highly addictive game.
Excerpt: On occasion, a fresh developer tackling an established series can be a good thing, with the possibility of them breathing new life into familiar mechanics and perhaps
Conclusion: Despite some minor issues (and a couple that aren’t so minor), Max Payne 3 still manages to be a first-class third-person shooter and is thus one of the better games of
Pros: Plays like a classic Max Payne; the tight controls, flying through the air with the greatest of ease; James McCaffrey’s classic noir voice acting
Cons: Max’s insistence on switching to weaker guns after a cutscene; those same cutscenes’ jittery digital video effects