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Max Payne has always been a series where cover played an important role, but Max Payne 3 is the first game to feature an actual mechanic for employing it, allowing the player to hide behind objects, lean out, and blind-fire. He’s such a joy to listen to that players will likely be scouring environments in search of more pearls of wisdom, and those who do will be amply rewarded for their diligence.Ĭontrolling Max is also more satisfying than ever before.

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He’s still clever and just as full of pathos as ever, but without giving the impression that his words are forced or disingenuous. Gone are the overwrought metaphors in Sam Lake’s version of the character Max doesn’t once try to compare telephone lines to a human circulatory system or any such pretentious crap. While the bits of text are used to great effect throughout, the blur wears out its welcome over time and feels a bit tedious eventually, but it appears so often that it eventually becomes easy to ignore through repetition.īetter still, the writing of Max has been elevated. During cutscenes, bits of phrases in Max’s narration will pop up on the screen to provide emphasis, and Max Payne 3 makes heavy use of a blurring effect aimed at giving the game a modern, cinematic tone and connecting the player with the sense of disorientation Max feels. There’s a lot of visual style imparted on these sequences. Nevertheless, they are entertaining and effectively maintain immersion by never disconnecting the player from the narrative. One has to wonder if some of the rather lengthy story sequences are of the length they are simply to cover up the fact that the player is playing a game, particularly upon discovering that many of the longer scenes cannot be skipped until they’re almost completed. The non-interactive sequences give the impression that they fold in and out organically, but serve another function as cover for the game’s lengthy loading sequences. Max Payne 3 transitions almost seamlessly from cutscenes to gameplay sequences and back, rarely giving the player an opportunity to have the time to think about doing anything but playing further and driving the story forward. The tale may be dark, but the presentation is flashy as hell. Yes, there are secrets to be learned and villains to be punished, and Max is still the guy who gets stuck in the middle of a bad situation. In some ways, you can make the same argument about Max Payne 3, but it doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny. He’s the guy who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time, either through no real fault of his own or due to the concerted efforts of others surrounding him. Throughout the series, Max has always been the unfortunate victim of circumstance.

But the job doesn’t turn out to be the cakewalk it was supposed to be, and a drunk Max fails to protect the family when a local street gang targets them, leading to a series of events which will leave hundreds dead in the wake of his efforts to redeem himself. That pursuit doesn’t stop just because he’s hired by a wealthy Brazilian family to work as a bodyguard, with the promise of good pay for babysitting socialites.

By this point in his life, Max has effectively hit rock bottom and has been spending all of his time searching for meaning in a bottle.

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