*** THE OFFICIAL MAX PAYNE 3 THREAD ***
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This game is ruddy awesome, to anyone that dosent have it yet....get it! If you like slow-mo, lots of shooting, guns and adult themes then you will love this.
Rockstar really have layered on the polish with this game, the storytelling, cinematics and dialogue are fantastic, Ive even laughed out loud a couple times with the dialogue which I think is very rare for me. Its like watching/playing a movie. The 'retired ex cop' hiding in the toilet in mission 2, love it.
I dont know why but it reminds me of the tv series 24. I can see Jack Bauer in Max for some reason, I think its the similar voice and general 'cool guy' act he portrays.
Im on Mission 4 at the mo and loving every second, I find myself replaying the missions a lot, I love just getting those awesome kills.
9.5 if not 10 out of 10 for me. Well done R*.
Rockstar really have layered on the polish with this game, the storytelling, cinematics and dialogue are fantastic, Ive even laughed out loud a couple times with the dialogue which I think is very rare for me. Its like watching/playing a movie. The 'retired ex cop' hiding in the toilet in mission 2, love it.
I dont know why but it reminds me of the tv series 24. I can see Jack Bauer in Max for some reason, I think its the similar voice and general 'cool guy' act he portrays.
Im on Mission 4 at the mo and loving every second, I find myself replaying the missions a lot, I love just getting those awesome kills.
9.5 if not 10 out of 10 for me. Well done R*.
So have I....but not in a good way
Loving the game so far, but some technical issues are kind of spoiling it a bit for me. Getting stuck on scenery, bullet-time wigging out etc. Plus I am not a fan of some of the cinematic effects tbh.
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I didnt really enjoy the gameplay tbh, the bugs for starters made things unplayable secondly the story line seems kinda boring. The game became a task to complete rather than recreational fun.
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I won't go into spoilers, save that a couple days but, seriously consistently start to finish basically every decision he makes is retarded, completely. The story is horrifically poor, the dialogue embarrassing.
I did find the gameplay more fun as it went through, though FAR too many enviroments where bullet time just isn't that useful and the painfully slow getting up, the really dodgy stand off moments where slow mo gets me stuck against a wall for ages.
The most criminal part of the game for me though is the room to room aspect of it. How many points throughout the game do you fly through a door for no apparent reason to be left at one of the more difficult rooms to clear, where you start off standing, with 7-8 guys in the room all shooting at you, poor cover, few options for diving in bullet time. Because of the insistance of the ruddy stupid video's between almost every room there are so many points where every other game, and this one(if the daft through a door dramatically with video and its locked behind you), would let you choose when to attack, would let you back track to a previous room if you needed, etc, etc.
There are just a few too many rooms where you die, way to easily then restart at the same point in a room that's just absurdly difficult. I guess one of the reasons the game runs well is its very very small bits of enviroment loaded at any one time, the door closes behind you, two more rooms, then another door lets it only keep a very small number of area's loaded at once.
Thing is, some gameplay quirks, some bugs, that happens in all games, the unforgiveable thing is the hours of awful video you have to sit through, and thats before you factor in the god damned half subtitles and the drunk effects, both of which are so utterly awful you have to wonder how the hell such a large group of people could not realise how awful it is.
I did find the gameplay more fun as it went through, though FAR too many enviroments where bullet time just isn't that useful and the painfully slow getting up, the really dodgy stand off moments where slow mo gets me stuck against a wall for ages.
The most criminal part of the game for me though is the room to room aspect of it. How many points throughout the game do you fly through a door for no apparent reason to be left at one of the more difficult rooms to clear, where you start off standing, with 7-8 guys in the room all shooting at you, poor cover, few options for diving in bullet time. Because of the insistance of the ruddy stupid video's between almost every room there are so many points where every other game, and this one(if the daft through a door dramatically with video and its locked behind you), would let you choose when to attack, would let you back track to a previous room if you needed, etc, etc.
There are just a few too many rooms where you die, way to easily then restart at the same point in a room that's just absurdly difficult. I guess one of the reasons the game runs well is its very very small bits of enviroment loaded at any one time, the door closes behind you, two more rooms, then another door lets it only keep a very small number of area's loaded at once.
Thing is, some gameplay quirks, some bugs, that happens in all games, the unforgiveable thing is the hours of awful video you have to sit through, and thats before you factor in the god damned half subtitles and the drunk effects, both of which are so utterly awful you have to wonder how the hell such a large group of people could not realise how awful it is.
No you wont need too have played them!
As far as I can tell (Chapter 2), not a single character from MP1-2 has been carried over to the Third game (Max Payne, been the only exception.
)Dont Read if your playing Max Payne 3:
I hope Mona Sax makes a re-appearance in Max Payne 3 
But both MP1-2 were AAA games in there day, sure there graphics will be very dated at this stage, but they are amazing games when played together!
If you buy MP1-2, get them from Steam, they have been updated too support higher resolutions (The CD Versions won't) Like 1920x1200 an Higher!
As good as MP3 is, I still prefare MP2!
All three games, have LOTS of bullet time, guns, goons an adult content! You have been warned!
Firstly, I am totally shocked to discover you not saying a single positive thing about something in one of your posts dm!
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I completely agree with this
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I completely agree with this
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Uninstalled. Wish I can get my money back :'( Oh well time to wait for sleeping dogs now.
Spend less time firing 20 bullets into someone after the first shot in the head kills them, no matter how awesome it looks in bullet time this is why you are lacking ammo.
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Delete the progress file in my docs / rockstar / max payne folder - you have to start from the beginning again but it fixes the not saving thing!
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Spend less time firing 20 bullets into someone after the first shot in the head kills them, no matter how awesome it looks in bullet time this is why you are lacking ammo.
Now that i do too often lol , one whole clip in to there body is just too awesome in bullet time ha
The game is quite fun and runs pretty smooth maxed on my rig @ 1680x1050 [i5 3570k, nvidia 560 gtx, 8gb ram], i had an fps drop to like 30 on one mission where there's a crowd dancing in Brazil.
I think the old Max Payne games are a lot better and I feel they should have kept the comic book type thing from the old games instead of these transition type effects.
I don't think I will replay the game straight away as I have heard you can't skip some / all of the scenes.
The only annoyance I had with the game is although I was playing on normal some of the situations the game puts you in can be quite annoying and the diving around bullet time is pretty much useless I feel because if there is more then 3 bad guys and you don't take them out quick enough you just end up dead half the time and you end up using the normal slow down 90% of the time or at least I did.
I must say I did use bullet time a lot during my play through but it felt no where near as 'epic' as previous games due to the amount of damage you take in this game you can't go around diving 24/7 like in the old games its a bit more slow paced.
I would certainly recommend this game hands down to any fan of Max Payne though because it is a good game.
and on a side note I had like 4 crashes through out the entire game but thankfully you can just jump straight back into it.
I think the old Max Payne games are a lot better and I feel they should have kept the comic book type thing from the old games instead of these transition type effects.
I don't think I will replay the game straight away as I have heard you can't skip some / all of the scenes.
The only annoyance I had with the game is although I was playing on normal some of the situations the game puts you in can be quite annoying and the diving around bullet time is pretty much useless I feel because if there is more then 3 bad guys and you don't take them out quick enough you just end up dead half the time and you end up using the normal slow down 90% of the time or at least I did.
I must say I did use bullet time a lot during my play through but it felt no where near as 'epic' as previous games due to the amount of damage you take in this game you can't go around diving 24/7 like in the old games its a bit more slow paced.
I would certainly recommend this game hands down to any fan of Max Payne though because it is a good game.
and on a side note I had like 4 crashes through out the entire game but thankfully you can just jump straight back into it.