I'm a little late to review this, but better late then never.
So, as many of you know, Max Payne 3 is a third person shooter. The main twist to the whole series is it's bullet time feature. Which is amazing. It feels fantastic to kill five+ guys in one bullet time, all head shots. You feel better about yourself. But, let's get down to the review.
STORY
Max Payne 3 takes place 9 years after the events of Max Payne 2. In the third game, Max is still heavily traumatized by his painful past. Currently, Max is heavily drinking and on excessive painkillers. He feels sorry for himself.
To get his mind off of all that, Max get's a job as a bodyguard for a rich family. However, gangs in Sao Paolo target this family, and Max must protect them. Two daughters of the father, Rodrigo Branco, is kidnapped and Max must find them and rescue them.
Now, we're done with the description. Let's get to the ratings. I'd say that the story is great and the writing is brilliant, however I PERSONALLY didn't feel the characters were fantastic. Even Max himself. I feel Max is the same character through out, drunk, depressed, and sometimes happy. I love seeing characters change through out a story, which I didn't see here.
I never really got too engaged with Passos. I just saw him as a guy who helps me with missions. Sad, I know... but that's how I felt.
GRAPHICS
This game looks beautiful. It's not the textures, shadow quality, or DX11 that impresses me. It's the greatly colored environments and facial animations that really grab me about the graphics.
So far, I have not noticed any pop-in textures at all. They all appear perfectly when you suddenly turn around. Basically, the opposite of RAGE... my lord.
GAMEPLAY
The gameplay in this game is perfect, seriously. As I said before, bullet time feels amazing. The guns feel great. The shotguns feel like shotguns, pistols feel like pistols, etc.
I'd say my only complaint about the gameplay is the bullet time "recovery time" as I call it. When you go into bullet time and, let's say, run into a wall, you fall over and it takes a few precious seconds to get back up. I have died COUNTLESS times from that. But it's seriously only a minor complaint.
I never got bored with the combat, and I feel like I won't for a while.
ARCADE
A new feature in Max Payne 3 that weren't in the other games is it's ARCADE mode. Basically, it takes snip-its from the story mode and the challenge is to complete these snip-its in either a required amount of time, or you need to gather as much score points as you can depending on what mode you choose.
One complaint about it, though. I feel like the Arcade levels are super unbalanced. I had super difficulty with the stadium level whatever it's called, but in the next one in the bar, I did it in one shot. So my only thing about that is it's unbalanced nature at times.
MULTIPLAYER
Yet again a new feature of Max Payne 3 that weren't in the other games, is multiplayer. No shock here, just about any game now-a-days has multiplayer. Even though I haven't been deeply affected by the multiplayer, I've had some good fun with it.
There are some very mundane modes. Deathmatch, Team deathmatch, those sorts of game types. But then there is a mode like Gang Wars, which is where you go through a "story" of sorts, going through 5 stages of a match. These 5 stages contain different objectives. Like planting/defusing a bomb, killing everyone, good stuff.
FINAL THOUGHTS
So my verdict is I'd say, a 9/10. I think this game is awesome despite some minor flaws, and it's well worth $60. I look forward to playing the single player of this game a few times over and over.
If you have not picked up Max Payne 3, I highly suggest you do.
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GF365: "These are our picks for the ten best games to complete 100%. This list includes good games that don't feel like chores to complete."
I got 80% trophy completion on Ragnarok but left a few of the battles. Will come back to it one day.
Dragon Quest XI was such an AMAZING game, I had a blast from the very beginning all the way to the very end, it actually got better the more you played, full of surprises as well.
Another game that I enjoyed from the very beginning all the way to the end of the 100% completion was Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Really, really, really fun game with a great heartfelt story.
Where is Horizon Zero Dawn?? where is Ghost of Tsushima?? I just got my Platinum on HZD and is now trying to finish the Frozen Wild expansion. so much care and love went into that game and it really shows. I especially adore the lore and have sunk many hours listening to the logs and reading journals. the back story is great and the gameplay is awesome. can't wait to replay on the hardest difficulty on NG+. next in my list would be to finish GoTsushima
Ghost was fantastic especially after Iki Island and the PS5 upgrade. 100%'d that, Horizon Forbidden West (not ZD), GoW (not yet Ragnarok), Spider-Man, and R&C: Rift Apart.
Each one absolutely worth it.
100% I would like to add to you list RDR2, amazing as well and the perks from getting the Legend Of The East outfit is awesome.
Sekiro as well, have to play twice to get it but it's worth it!
I agree I'm on my 2nd playthroughs of both horizon forbidden West(zero dawn I played also) ghost of Tsushima except I'm replaying it on PS5 this time, the iki island expansion is amazing
Yeah, GoT was already an AMAZING game on PS4, but playing it on PS5, along with that expansion, just even better.
Okay the title of article should be top 10 , 3rd person games to complete 100 percent. Nine 3rd person games and 1 racing game on this list .
Max Payne 3 is both a game a lot of people love and also one that not enough people appreciate. Remaster time?
I would literally jump and hit the ceiling if they announce a simple remaster of max Payne 3.
If I was doing a list for games to play before you die and had something Max Payne related, it would be the first two games before this one. This had great gameplay and the like but it wasn't very Max Payne like, more like Man on Fire.
Good Review , Rockstar showed the PC some love with this title , the game is gorgeous when cranked up to high + , was certainly worth the 30GB download :D
Rockstar was also quick to patch any problems within a week of release , very impressed.
Just be sure add -nomouseaccel to the command line, R* say it will be added as a standard option next patch so it will do for now :) , source: http://forums.steampowered....
Completed it on hard mode (free aim) the other night, very challenging , enjoyed it from start to finish :)
Why the minecraft pickaxe?
LPH24 - Great Review.
Wern't the graphics amazing!! And the gameplay was indeed tight.
My only gripes are:
it didn't have the Max Payne darkness or twistedness. As beautiful as the environments were they all felt a touch cliche..it could have been Drake or any other recent game hero - I wouldn't have been the wiser.
I loved the NY flashbacks so much and wished the whole game was set in NY again. I kind of wished they had gone with the original max payne digitalized art. Without it, the game just felt like a GTA version of Max Payne. Kind of the way that Lego do Star Wars (slight exageration).
Max Payne had a different voice or character from cutscenes to gameplay. Cutscenes were original max payne, ingame was some other joe blo.
Id give the game a 8.5 anyways
My two cents.
Thanks for the review :)