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Here's Exactly What Max Payne 3 Looks Like

Fat, bald, and surly--wait, you already knew that part.

Rockstar sent out the first official screenshots of Max Payne 3 today. We already knew about Max's new older, paunchier look, and now we have some idea what kind of game this is actually going to be.

Well, sort of. I can tell you with confidence from looking at these shots that the game will involve guns, and shooting. Max will shoot guys. With guns. This will happen in some kind of tropical shantytown. How's that for in-depth analysis?


Truthfully, you can't get much of a sense of the game from these shots, but you can at least absorb the art style. How does it strike you? Do you think Naughty Dog ought to be getting upset yet? I'm all for changes in creative direction, but I certainly don't see anything in these shots that really screams "Max Payne!" at me.

Well, OK, that silhouette kind of fits.

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Edited By 88Fingers

At first I liked the new look... but now, thinking about it...
he's missing his "character" The Black Leather Jacket.
Hopefully there will be at least one level in the game where
he puts it on...
That would make a climactic last level even more ...climactic.

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Edited By Lyphen

New York City during a snowstorm was as much a character as Max. I'm preemptively labeling this game is an abomination!

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Looks meh.

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Edited By taco484

the first 2 games were awesome........ so Im on board, looks fun.

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Edited By Benjaminvdv

Yes his look is very disappointing. It's a good thing when they try new things with games, but he doesn't look like Max and nor does the environment, these images simply don't feel like Max Payne at all, and with their major screw up with GTA 4 (it's a great game, but compared to the 3 before it was imo a major screw up), I really don't know if the gameplay will feel like Max Payne either.
Imo if you don't want to make it anything like the first 2, then just don't call it Max Payne.

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but..but... where is the snowstorm?, where... wheres the jacket? where is the darkness? WHAT THE FUCK HAVE THEY DONE????

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Edited By Iceland

Oh comon you guys... Noir New York in a snow storm and a leather Jacket does not a Max Payne make, just look at the movie version! I think they could take the Noir style into the daylight... The blistering sun constantly shining in your eyes can be just as depressing as the blackest night. 
I'm more worried about: 
A) Cover based shooting (WHY GOD WHY?!)  
B) Not the same voice actor for Max (could work out okay though) 

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Edited By j_drace

I've seen these screenshots a while ago so they can't be new.  I don't like the new art style or the fact that Max looks like a bum.

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It seems like they are completely changing the gameplay, the art style, the look of the character, the environment....  probably no mafia... and nobody can write that "ham-handed" (as brad would say) story line quite like remedy.  Is he not going to be smelling stinky cheese??  How can they remove him from the tragedy of losing his wife when thats so central to the character?  So whats left of Max Payne??  I'm sad.  Maybe i'll play the first two games again and mourn the loss. 
 ... this feels worse than the movie.  

"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over. To make any kind of sense of it, I need to go back three years. Back to the night the pain started."

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Edited By 9cupsoftea

This is great. I was getting tired of all those atmospheric noir shooters. A macho bald man shooting foreigners is just the refreshing change we need.

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I continue to be partially excited for this.

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This is not Max Payne, as far as I'm concerned. No Remedy..check! Different writer..check! I'm sorry, but you can plaster the name all over the game as much as you want, but that doesn't make it Max Payne. I'm not saying this will be a bad game, in fact I'll be quite shocked if it's anything worse than good, given the Rockstar track record, but it could easily be named something else. Obviously the MP name is profitable, so we see the justification in that. I'm just going to pretend I never saw this, like it was prior to seeing this thread. Max Payne only has one sequel, and that's how it will remain in my world.