Joseph_Joestar wrote on Yesterday, 14:05:

Decided to try Max Payne 3 on my Xbox 360. For some reason, I never played this game before, despite being a fan of the first two. Time to rectify that.

First impressions are kinda mixed. Taking Max Payne out of New York and putting him in South American night clubs just doesn't feel right. They also ditched the noir aesthetic and replaced the stylish visual novels with in-engine cutscenes. On that note, there's one of those after practically every fight, which feels a bit disruptive. In terms of gameplay, it looks like the devs couldn't decide if they were making a cover based shooter or a bullet time run and gun. So you have to mix and match between both approaches, which sometimes feels clunky. On the plus side, the controls are pretty smooth and kinda remind me of CoD, albeit with a slightly different button layout.

I like that they got Max Payne's original voice actor to reprise his iconic role. Also, it's nice how they occasionally reuse the main theme from the first two games. But the writing and atmosphere are very different here. So far, the plot feels more like GTA and less like Max Payne, though I'm still not very far into the game. We'll see how it goes, I guess.

I feel like this is what happens when the GTA team tries to make a Max Payne game.

Exactly. It's GTA in disguise. Not Max Payne. 🙁

I was pretty disappointed by it...

Joseph_Joestar wrote on Yesterday, 14:05:

Decided to try Max Payne 3 on my Xbox 360. For some reason, I never played this game before, despite being a fan of the first two. Time to rectify that.

First impressions are kinda mixed. Taking Max Payne out of New York and putting him in South American night clubs just doesn't feel right. They also ditched the noir aesthetic and replaced the stylish visual novels with in-engine cutscenes. On that note, there's one of those after practically every fight, which feels a bit disruptive. In terms of gameplay, it looks like the devs couldn't decide if they were making a cover based shooter or a bullet time run and gun. So you have to mix and match between both approaches, which sometimes feels clunky. On the plus side, the controls are pretty smooth and kinda remind me of CoD, albeit with a slightly different button layout.

I like that they got Max Payne's original voice actor to reprise his iconic role. Also, it's nice how they occasionally reuse the main theme from the first two games. But the writing and atmosphere are very different here. So far, the plot feels more like GTA and less like Max Payne, though I'm still not very far into the game. We'll see how it goes, I guess.

Gameplay wise, it felt a lot like GTA but more contained and focused in combat, I enjoyed it, but surely is not the same as the previous games in that regard.
The atmosphere was absolutely the best part for me, but that's because I'm Brazilian and could fully understand the many references to our culture, not to mention the Portuguese voices which were brutal...the acting, the anger, the extreme cursing, felt a lot like the cop movies we are used to. Thats probably why the game didn't feel too far of from the previous two for me as it still felt very much like a depressing cop story, just with different weather conditions.