With the story and campaign on a tight, but pain-stakingly detailed track of revenge, the gameplay offers a bit of variety in the way you execute Max’s killing spree.īullet-time obviously returns and comprises the main hook of the gameplay. Max Payne 3 focuses Rockstar’s talent of producing a compelling gameplay experience, condensed into a solid and relatively linear experience – but it’s a good thing, because Max Payne’s progressive and narrative-focused campaign requires that degree of detail. It’s one of the strongest points of the game, and in typical Rockstar fashion, they deliver the voice-acting and performances in the most impressive of ways. The story is visceral, brutal, and most of all, it’s sad. Max’s awareness of his problems, his continual commentary, and his self-loathing makes the somewhat distant themes seem relevant and close to home. His self-destructive lifestyle is highlighted throughout the game, showing his alcoholism consuming his thoughts and actions. The themes here are dark, touching on everything from desensitised violence to poverty, but the real grit comes from Max’s own introspective look on himself.
The story is conveyed through cut-scenes, primarily filled with Max’s own thoughts as he narrates and comments on his spiral down to an all-time-low.
STORY OF MAX PAYNE 3 SERIES
Max Payne’s journey for redemption throughout the series has always been ill-fated, marked with sorrow and grim determination in the face of despairing odds, and Max Payne 3’s story is darker than ever before. The story jumps back and forth through time showing how Max ended up in his current unpleasant predicament. The Sao Paulo vocation isn’t all sunshine and beaches though, as the wife of the wealthy family is kidnapped, sending Max on a journey of resentment and retribution for himself and those around him. Max has undergone a serious career change, as the once-celebrated New York cop is now serving as private security for a wealthy Brazilian family. The story of Max Payne 3 picks up a little while after the events of the second game.
For Max, age is just a number – he’s in the best shape ever with the third outing in the series.
STORY OF MAX PAYNE 3 FULL
She obviously didn’t get a look at Max Payne 3 ahead of its launch.įilled with depression, anger and resentment, Max Payne 3 returns the eponymous bullet-dodging hero to form – full of cynicism and more weathered and beat-up than ever before. Last week, Ubisoft’s Jade Raymond said that games need to “grow up”.
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