Max is looking....different.

#1 Posted by RHCPfan24 (8608 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Game Informer's new cover story is none other than Max Payne 3. And his look is quite different. Check it out.

I am getting a Jeff Bridges-Obidiah Stane/Iron Man vibe from this look. What about you?

#2 Edited by Al3xand3r (7574 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Very John McClane + beard. How did he get so bald so fast?

#3 Posted by JazzyJeff (387 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

He looks awesome.

#4 Posted by End_Boss (3216 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Colour me excited.

#5 Edited by Teptom (2043 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Yeah, looks like Die Hard.

Which is pretty awesome.

#6 Edited by TheMustacheHero (6654 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Looks nothing like Max Payne :/ but...I mean a decade after...maybe time does that to you?

Also apparently the game takes place in Brazil.

#7 Posted by buzz_killington (3532 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

look at that beer belly!!! he has gotten FAT....

#8 Posted by Scooper (7880 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Can't wait, loved the first 2 games.

#9 Posted by Absurd (2934 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

No...

Please

#10 Posted by FiestaUnicorn (1552 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

At least they're making a new Max Payne at all.

#11 Posted by Tebbit (4359 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Needs more grimace:

#12 Posted by Gizmo (5382 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Looks excellent, the old Max Payne looked like he was taking a shit.

#13 Posted by Diamond (8634 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

@TheMustacheHero said:

Also apparently the game takes place in Brazil.

It's an open world prison dating sim.

#14 Posted by Al3xand3r (7574 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Doesn't really even look like him.

Are we sure it's him?

#15 Posted by Tebbit (4359 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

I dunno If I can believe in a Max Payne sans black leather jacket.

#16 Posted by CL60 (16906 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Are you sure that's him? Looks nothing like him at all...it better not be him..

#17 Posted by RHCPfan24 (8608 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

@Al3xand3r: It could not be him....but that is highly unlikely.

#18 Posted by Al3xand3r (7574 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Bet he's become some crappy ol drunk but will at some point go back to being a complete badass, putting the shirt & jacket back on :>

#19 Posted by Tebbit (4359 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

at the Max Payne website, there is one wallpaper, and it's this bald bearded dude, so either he's a really important villain or Max Payne needs to wear a hat when outside for more than half an hour.

#20 Posted by JJOR64 (18129 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

I hope I get that issue soon.

#21 Posted by Coolarman (577 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

My guess is that ever since Mona's death he's become a drunk and he looks like this now

#22 Edited by TheMustacheHero (6654 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

@RHCPfan24: Technically no one has said that it IS Max Payne....

plus he has no Leather Jacket! HOW CAN HE BE MAX PAYNE WITHOUT THE JACKET?!

#23 Posted by Tru3_Blu3 (2981 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Worst. Concept design. Ever.

This man looks like he's incapable of actually fighting. I know R* is trying to be original, but come on now! This is absurd.

#24 Posted by HandsomeDead (11863 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Looks like shit. I think i'm done with Max Payne 3 already.

#25 Posted by Fr0Br0 (3066 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

First look at Rachet and Clank, fuck ya! Who the hell is this old dude on the cover? Fat and bald Old Snake? Lol. Wait... Max Payne? FUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

#26 Posted by RedSox8933 (2410 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

I'm digging this older look. Now excuse me while I go check my mailbox.

#27 Posted by Brendan (6780 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Ugh, I won't knock the game without knowing anything about it but...if that's Max Payne, there should be some kind of visual connection, shouldn't there?

#28 Posted by Guerrilla_Mason (455 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Looks like he's been eating a lot of Cheetos.

#29 Posted by RHCPfan24 (8608 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Hey, remember Ethan Thomas people! Looking like a hobo and all disheveled is in!!!!!

#30 Posted by RedSox8933 (2410 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Hey! Someone got Axe in my Game Informer!

#31 Posted by Absurd (2934 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

@Tru3_Blu3 said:

"This is absurd."

Now you're just disrespecting me

#32 Posted by papercut (2968 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

When am I going to get my happy go lucky Max Payne?

#33 Posted by jakob187 (20685 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Just because he doesn't have the jacket doesn't mean he isn't Max. Personally, the CHARCTER of Max is more important to me than his apparel.

#34 Posted by Keyser_Soze (1186 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Looks awesome. Play as drunk old dude. Best. Concept. Ever.... Well probably behind old Snake, but then there was an outcry against that as well, oh noes Snake is old, however will I be able to play as him now.

#35 Posted by BigBoss1911 (2254 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

At least he doesent look like ethan thomas in condemned 2.

#36 Edited by Origina1Penguin (3500 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Any word if Mona will make an appearance?

EDIT: She lives if you beat Max Payne 2 on the highest difficulty.

#37 Posted by jakob187 (20685 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

@BigBoss1911 said:

" At least he doesent look like ethan thomas in condemned 2. "

Good...fucking...point. Also, they didn't have Greg Grunberg voice him either, which made things worse.

#38 Posted by Stephen_Von_Cloud (1532 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

I'm a huge fan of the Max Payne games and I was really worried with Rockstar taking over the reigns, but this looks pretty awesome. It seems fresh to see a middle aged character. It's ballsy and it sounds right. Why would Max really stick around NY after Max Payne 2? The game is his fall, and afterward there's nothing for him.

I'm still a little worried, but this is convincing and interesting to me. Cautiously optimistic.

#39 Posted by Vinny (1345 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

I can kind of see it. I gave him a little grey, because, you know what? Dude has been through some stuff!

Staff

#40 Posted by Al3xand3r (7574 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Now looks even more like McClane.

#41 Posted by Snipzor (3316 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

@Vinny said:

" I can kind of see it. I gave him a little grey, because, you know what? Dude has been through some stuff!"

But the real question is, what stuff?

*cue lightning*

#42 Posted by TooWalrus (11834 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

I uh... I don't know... Damn.

#43 Posted by ImperiousRix (2933 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

I'm digging the new... er... old look.
Makes him look even more world weary while also looking like he can still kick some ass.

#44 Posted by Ineedaname (4319 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

He looks like he's been on crack with those veins as oppose to pain killers.....

Still can't wait for this, I need more money for all of these games =(

#45 Edited by MrKlorox (11082 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

Yeah. Didn't they reveal this as the new Max a few months ago?

EDIT: @Ineedaname: Yeah because you totally shoot up crack to get high on it... oh wait. You actually can't do that.
Pain killers on the other hand... quite a different story.

#46 Posted by Milkman (14008 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

What I said in the other thread:
This is awesome and exactly why I love Rockstar. Who else could this ultimate slow-mo dual wielding bad ass like Max Payne and make him fucking bald?

#47 Posted by Jiggah (307 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

It's as if they were thinking, "if this gets made into a movie, who do we want?....Bruce Willis!!!"

#48 Posted by Snail (7850 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

I don't think that's Maxy-boy we're looking at.

#49 Posted by mracoon (4583 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

He really let himself go.

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#50 Posted by Gizmo (5382 posts) - 3 years, 11 months ago

@Snail said:

" I don't think that's Maxy-boy we're looking at. "

It better be, or this'll be like Bruce Wayne dying in Batman.

Max Payne 3

The long awaited third Max Payne game finally arrived in May 2012, courtesy of a new developer for the series, Rockstar Vancouver. Set eight years after the conclusion of Max Payne 2, an aging Max Payne faces one final chance to redeem himself.

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