TechDeville: "Max Payne 3 is a game franchise that first originated in 2001 on the PC, back when it was the best platform for shooters. Remedy Entertainment developed the game, and what a game it was! It set a standard for all future third person shooters and introduced the bullet time mechanic, which has not been used in any other game franchise. It is solely the property of the developers and the franchise itself. This is what distinguishes Max Payne from all other third person shooter games.
Recently, the third installment in the series was released. A wonderful game, without a doubt, but quite different from the previous parts. Max Payne 3 feels different and plays different. It’s the same basic formula, but a new form of execution. Or rather, the wrong form of execution in this case.
Perhaps the changes in the franchise can be blamed on Rockstar Games, who have developed this new installment instead of Remedy Entertainment. Perhaps Rockstar failed to understand what a Max Payne game feels like. Because this didn’t feel like the same Max Payne at all."
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THIS. The game was perfectly competent as a TPS, but it did NOT feel like a Max Payne game at all. It felt like another Rockstar 'gritty crime drama' game. Personally it made me utterly unable to enjoy the game.
It perfectly felt like a modern day Max Payne to me and how it should be. MP3 was a great and fun game and this is why this is a opinion piece and not fact.
the setting changed to detail environments and had some previous settings with old max payne. suddenly not max payne? and another poor reason of not understanding the language...so you go to a foriegn location everyone needs to know english? making them speak like that made the locations much more realistic.
the character clothing he went to a sun lit location obviously he would wear loose clothing who said he still has to wear a long coat like before? he doesnt need to wear same clothes in order to be max payne.
basically all these points are not very good at all.
The constant barrage of cutscenes, the editing, the lens effects, the pacing, the setting, the story, etc. etc. None of it played out like a Max Payne game at all. Sure, they wrote it into the story contextually and it does make SENSE, but that doesn't mean that it feels like a Max Payne game. It's very much a gritty action/crime setting in line with a lot of R*'s other games.
IF anyhting Alan Wake felt more like Max Payne.
There's an option to play it with a classic Max Payne skin.
What could have been an awesome multi-player is suffering from all types of problems, and serious lag.. I mean there is lag on everything once you play with someone lagging your whole game is messed up, which is really sad.
I thought a big company like Rockstar would be on top of this and fix the problems.. boy was I wrong..
It seems the bigger these games get the worst the support for the game becomes.. Maybe the code for these games is just too long - whatever the problem is it's sad because these companies are killing their own sales..
I told every one I know just rent the game, don't bother buying it because the multi-player is broke and you will not enjoy it for more then a few days.. and replay value on this one is Lame, once your done your done.
It's hard to want to go back and do it again when it's the same thing every time... There was a lot that could have been done here to really add replay value but none of those things were done, so it's a one trick pony..
and sadly that get old really quick..
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Still playing the MP which I really really like ! Bullet time in MP works surprisingly well...
"He realized he was too drunk and needed to get serious. But tell me, what does that have to do with shaving your head off?" Clearly he wasn't thinking straight at this point in the game and impulsively shaved his head. What's the problem? And he was hardly fat, just a bit older and out of shape.
And unless you wanna retcon the series you can't have Mona. Hardly a negative anyway. Got a better backup character as replacement in my opinion anyway.
If this article was written about MP2 the writer could have made the points "Adding an unnecessary female protagonist - MP1 was all about you and Max Payne blah blah blah Mona was rubbish blah blah blah playing as a female isn't right for the series..." "Max isn't Max - The character design of Max has changed from 1 to 2 bring back original Max blah blah blah..."
Weak points all round. Max wasn't changed that much compared to 1 to 2 and the style and pacing of the games are the same.
On a side note I would like to address the author's take on the characters speaking "Brazilian". The Brazilian language is called Portuguese and it's not gibberish as he would like us to think, just as English is not gibberish to someone who wouldn't understand. It's simply a language that some people may not understand. When you write an article be careful with the use of language because quite frankly the author came across as an uneducated and angry. Those two combinations do not bode well for any person.
So I'll say that I loved Max Payne 3 despite the new style and setting. It's worth noting that Noir is a broad term and doesn't have to be a bleak, urban snowy setting to portray it.
I thought the gameplay was fluid and addictive and the story interesting. Max still remains a great, great character. It bothered when people got annoyed because he shaved his head and doesn't wear his leather jacket for most of the game. Well, Max's character goes beyond simple 'image'. He has depth.
So yes, I love them all and I dunno how many playthroughs I've done of MP3. Can't get enough.