Thanks for posting this, it reminded me how completely devoid of personality or originality this game was since I suffered through it years ago.
Atmosphere and writing are cringe, try hard Man On Fire in videogame form with Houser brother shit characters sprinkled in. A huge downgrade from Max 1 and 2's film noir, detective stories with a hint of mind bending Twin Peaks esque elements.
As for the gameplay, it can be good from time to time but its undone but the whole package. Over reliance on cover shooting, horrible control setup like every other rockstar game. Seriously, how the fuck you manage to make a Max Payne game with convoluted controls?
Then there's the constant interruption of the action every 5 seconds to watch the Housers shitty writing shoved down your throat just to be forced into a shitty cinematic action moment which swaps out your loadout and makes you immediately orient yourself in a nearly unwinnable slomo piece you have to play out 3-4 times before you figure out what the game wanted you to do to beat it.
Best Max Payne, my big black ass*.
* Figure of speech - Ass may or may not be big or black
This was one of the games i got on my 360 (didn't own that very long before selling it, but then again i also sold my ps3 pretty quickly at that time, shortly after being mgs4), i was very excited about it... But it didn't grab me and i don't think i got out of the tutorial mission before moving back to FIFA or something.
I think, and this is just a guess, but i have a feeling that any attempt by a game to create a wet and wild, pumpin' nightclub is going to turn me off, hugely.
That said, i trust Cyberpunk.
Ohhh snapYou played FIFA...over Max Payne 3?
Dead to me.
Do you not think the noir stuff in the first wasn't overdone? Cuz it was, intentionally so.
I love the cutscenes so watching em is never a problem for me.
For me they're a part of the experience.
The best was the 1st.
I love the cutscenes too but they get to be kind of annoying when youre just trying to relax and shoot fools but the game won't let you get to the point.
People complained about the tv shows in the game? Why would they do that? Some of the best parts of the game..I can't think of any other game other than MP3 that gives me Jekyll and Hyde syndrome. I really struggle with how I feel on this one.
Even though it's not my overall favorite of the three titles, I've sunk the most hours into this one because of the game play alone. The one thing that R* did right was kill it on the gun play and the mechanics. Best in the series, hands down. It's an absolute pleasure to play. I'd consider it the best TPS out there that's still unmatched.
That said, I've still got a lot of problems with the game. It's so vastly different than what Remedy put out and that puts a bad taste in my mouth. I much prefer Remedy's take on the franchise because this game doesn't feel like a MP game to me. R* Max Payne is too "Man on Fire: The Game™, starring John McClane". If you took out James McCaffrey's voice and the bullet time, would you recognize this as Max Payne? You wouldn't. Completely different setting. Some dark, weird organ theft plot. Bald Max with beard. Max's monologues basically amount to, "Everything sucks, everyone sucks, I need a drink, FML."
Max is way more nihilistic in this game. I understand the reasoning for it but it's off the charts here. The game is full on depressing. That's weird to say considering the first game revolved around the murder of his wife, daughter, and Alex but I never got a "depressing" feel for it. And even in the first game, Max didn't sound like a drunk schlump that wanted to off himself. It was a revenge plot with Max being a man on a mission. And it was counterbalanced by some campiness and lighthearted humor (The John Woo password exchange in the first game or Gognitti running around as Captain Baseball Bat Boy in the second is still hilarious to me). Then you had things like Address Unknown, Lords and Ladies, and The Adventures of Captain Baseball Bat Boy running on the tvs in the background. And I know a lot of people complain about them, but I always loved the nightmare sequences in the first two games. None of that stuff is in the third game.
I don't know. To me, Remedy's storytelling and dialogue is far superior to R*. Sam Lake put thought into the script and it flowed much better. Houser just looks like he's trying to emulate Lake and add some edginess to it. Doesn't work for me. The plot completely sucks. I really didn't care about anything story-wise. Wasn't invested in the least. I didn't care about any of the characters or what happened to them. They were all terrible people.
The music made it feel different as well. As cool as the Health soundtrack is, doesn't feel like MP to me. And you can most likely thank the addition of that soundtrack as the reason we didn't get BC for this game.
Besides all that, I've got the same common complaints as others: Unskippable cutscenes, seizure inducing "drunk vision", forced cover use in a lot of spots, forced cinematic sequences, etc.
I've said this before but if they could take the engine/mechanics of MP3 and apply that to the first two games, that would be the pinnacle.
Ok. Gonna go play Max Payne 3 now.
One of my favourite scenes:
Nah. I'm talking about the dream sequences where you're playing tightrope on the blood trails and have to listen to the baby crying non-stop. People hated that.People complained about the tv shows in the game? Why would they do that? Some of the best parts of the game..
This 100%. I couldn't help but get a headache every time I played it. Wasn't the best shooter I played, but I did enjoy it aside from the headache-inducing lighting effects.- The overused white flash effect they were using for Max's dizziness. I wish there was an option to disable that one. My eyes hated it.
Captain Baseball Bat Boy
Oh yeah, those bits were a nightmare come true!Nah. I'm talking about the dream sequences where you're playing tightrope on the blood trails and have to listen to the baby crying non-stop. People hated that.
Nah. I'm talking about the dream sequences where you're playing tightrope on the blood trails and have to listen to the baby crying non-stop. People hated that.
This is one of those games that I hope gets brought onto the Xbox BC list once the BC team is back into it full time. Didn’t they say that they were going to come back once they finished up the Series X work? I imagine that this is why the OG and 360 games keep getting updated...for more compatibility.
Yep, I have table tennis on BC. I bought Max Payne 3 on sale years ago and never played it before my 360 died. Now that most of my library is BC, I don’t plan to get another 360. Here’s hoping they figure out the licensing someday.It’s something else. Maybe related to music licensing. Who knows. It’s just crazy that Bully, RDR, GTA4, LA Noire, The Warriors, and Manhunt are all available. What about Table Tennis? Is that BC?
But really, it sucks that this was never made backwards compatible with Xbox, let alone a remaster for the newer systems. Even if all they did was finally give you the option to skip cutscenes, I’d pay 60 all over again like a Nintendo fan.
Yep, I have table tennis on BC. I bought Max Payne 3 on sale years ago and never played it before my 360 died. Now that most of my library is BC, I don’t plan to get another 360. Here’s hoping they figure out the licensing someday.
Just played through several levels "last night".
In what world is this game not a masterpiece?
I watched 2 minutes of that and I was like start fucking shoot dodging get the fuck out of cover. Some times it's necessary of course but playing MP3 as a standard cover shooter is boring, I liked shootdodging from cover to cover and playing as ballsy as possible.