At first when I played this game, I was a bit cold on it. It just felt like a confused game, unsure of what it was. It was a third person shooter with a cover mechanic, but it never felt like the cover system got a lot of thought put into it. There because that's what games do, but not there for a Max Payne game. As a Max Payne game though it should be about a bullet bullet as you dive around taking out enemies. It sucks to do that when you hit cover and it takes you right out of bullet time. Then Max has to get up with the help of the overly animated animation which hurts momentum and can hurt Max. So the game seemed at odds with it being a modern cover based TPS and a Max Payne game.
I also quite hated the tone and personality of the game. It's clearly not like the other ones lovingly serious comic booky noir personality. This is more of a Rockstar crime story toned down ,but still Rockstar. Not as many zany take offs of modern american society characters like the GTAs, but they still appear. A crime story that in the end still tackles what GTA does which is modern crime. Then comes Max tacked unto it as he spouts the Houser's general social commentary lines. Max says so much to a point that it becomes tiring. It's not the overly poetic noir that he talked about in the previous games, it's rockstar social "haha clebs" commentary written for an ageing man. It kind of works, but it dosen't feel like Max Payne.
In the end the story left me uninterested. Though it does work as an end for Max where he can walk off into better days as he's finally managed to do some good. So I would honestly be fine with no more MP games.
Also the game looks great on 360.
Later I bought the game also through steam and played through the PC version with a 360 controller. The game looks even better of course and it's amazing at 60 fps.
But then I realized, as a shooter it is pretty good. Some of the problems are still there, but as a shooter it feels very good. Mechanically it uses "realism" rules so of course head shots kill, but since the gunplay is well done and responsive it really does work.
It's a good shooter.
The personality dosen't work for me. The story has some hickups as I don't really like the body organs part. I feel like that was just over the top and them just being an overly powerful private security group tied to the brother and hence the conflict would have been fine. Some power struggle with the the brother/Security group that used the gangs as pawns would have been just fine. I don't know about interesting, because I can't say I was ever really into the story. I was interested in sad sack Max overcoming that and maybe the game did that ok.
So as a game it's pretty good. It's really good. As a Max Payne game, it's ok.
I also quite hated the tone and personality of the game. It's clearly not like the other ones lovingly serious comic booky noir personality. This is more of a Rockstar crime story toned down ,but still Rockstar. Not as many zany take offs of modern american society characters like the GTAs, but they still appear. A crime story that in the end still tackles what GTA does which is modern crime. Then comes Max tacked unto it as he spouts the Houser's general social commentary lines. Max says so much to a point that it becomes tiring. It's not the overly poetic noir that he talked about in the previous games, it's rockstar social "haha clebs" commentary written for an ageing man. It kind of works, but it dosen't feel like Max Payne.
In the end the story left me uninterested. Though it does work as an end for Max where he can walk off into better days as he's finally managed to do some good. So I would honestly be fine with no more MP games.
Also the game looks great on 360.
Later I bought the game also through steam and played through the PC version with a 360 controller. The game looks even better of course and it's amazing at 60 fps.
But then I realized, as a shooter it is pretty good. Some of the problems are still there, but as a shooter it feels very good. Mechanically it uses "realism" rules so of course head shots kill, but since the gunplay is well done and responsive it really does work.
It's a good shooter.
The personality dosen't work for me. The story has some hickups as I don't really like the body organs part. I feel like that was just over the top and them just being an overly powerful private security group tied to the brother and hence the conflict would have been fine. Some power struggle with the the brother/Security group that used the gangs as pawns would have been just fine. I don't know about interesting, because I can't say I was ever really into the story. I was interested in sad sack Max overcoming that and maybe the game did that ok.
So as a game it's pretty good. It's really good. As a Max Payne game, it's ok.
