Played through the game and constantly found situations where max would say things where he touched upon an immediate upcoming event that he couldn't have possibly known would happen and i'm not talking about any of the flashback levels.
 
Example-

Despite having played both a bajillion times, I don't really remember specifically, but...

I can't remember other Max Paynes, but I'm willing to bet he narrated in past tense, because that is the noir standard.

Max Payne was all flashback. Max Payne's 2 mostly flashback sans the last level, and Max Paine 3 is 95% flashback. That has been a nice consistant feature throughout the series.

I'm glad they went as far as they did with Max's inner monologue. They definitely didn't skimp out at all on that section of the character. It's definitely a bit more matter-of-fact and not as metaphorical as it was in the previous games, but it's there in full force.

I hadn't even considered that essentially
 

He always talks from the end of the game. Works that way for all three. Also, @DrDarkStryfe, MP2 is all flashback too. It doesn't start with the hospital, it starts with the very end, then goes back to the hospital. The only exception in the series is that you notice that once he loops back around to the point shown at the beginning of MP3, the narration stops.

@hbkdx12 Never really thought about it. I guess he's talking to us. He's just talking to the same mysterious unseen person that all people narrating stuff talks to. But yeah, sure, he's talking to us. I'll go with that.

lol fair enough