Here's a Fresh Look at Max Payne 3's Multiplayer

R* makes horrible multiplayer. More of the same.

@rebgav said:

Looks like shooting dudes.

Bullet Time: New worst multiplayer shooter mechanic. Calling it.

I'm guessing you never played Stranglehold online. Goofy and laughably bad.

Jamie from Mythbusters @ 2:09 ?

Is it still 35GB of pain?

For a moment a minute into the video I could have sworn I was looking at a third-person version of the COD: MW2 multiplayer map, I forget the name of it.

Also, this video did nothing for my complete disinterest in most samey multiplayer experiences these days. I mean not everything has to have a multiplayer, and why is it that most games have multiplayer modes that don't do anything different with the multiplayer capabilities? I'm tired of death match and king of the hill, think of something better guys. L4D was a breath of fresh air damn it! Take precedence from it!

Can't wait for Max Payne's single player, but yeah, even after watching all these vids, I'm still not really interested in the multiplayer. Wasn't a big fan of the multiplayer in GTAIV or Red Dead either so... there's that.

@rebgav said:

Looks like shooting dudes.

Bullet Time: New worst multiplayer shooter mechanic. Calling it.

It looks like they've implemented it well enough, doesn't look more crazy than the other 'bursts' they are doing.

This looks delightfully stupid. I'm interested.

Boy, that blood looks like strawberry jelly.

@D_train_lives: ya it looks relatively deep, easy to learn, but hard to master

Man I accidentally put my age to young in the age gate and I got this message "You're to young to watch this filth in the video.Go to church instead " ha ha ha I love GiantBomb

Looks like shooting dudes.

Bullet Time: New worst multiplayer shooter mechanic. Calling it.

I like how Max narrates the matches, but it could get boring FAST.

This looks pretty cool i could see the crew wars thing being pretty sweet. I home it has as much customization as UC3 did.

What's with everyone running around in the open asking to get shot? I guess this game is more run-and-gun type shooter, but parts of this trailer just made me burst out laughing.

Seems similar to Killzone's Warzone mode.

The aiming looks very sloppy and frustrating

I hope the shooting in this game isn't let down by janky movement, like GTA IV and RDR suffered from.

@G0rd0nFr33m4n said:

@Circ said:

Looks like Red Dead Maxdemption to me.

And that was such good multipla.... wait......

:O

To be honest, Red Dead Redemption's multiplayer wasn't at full fault of it's actual gameplay design - it was more a fault of the setting. The huge Western open outdoor landscape isn't a whole ton of fun to shoot each other in. It was fun to ride around in horses and such for a little while, but that of course doesn't last long.

These urban settings and building designs in a modern landscape should offer a much better experience.

That was pretty epic!

look a lil too hectic for my taste. 
 
I'm also not a fan of how the bullet time is seemingly handled although admittedly i don't see how it could be handled any other way without having unfair advantages and such. 
 
Conceptually it just seems like if one person activates bullet time that everyone might as well be in bullet time too
 
If person A sees person B and activates BT, their both in slow mo. If Person C sees person B, they go into slow mo too. If Person D is looking at persons C....and so on and so forth. Don't know how long the BT lasts or what not but it seems like it just creates a daisy chain of everyone being in bullet time because with how hectic and run n gun the game is, it seems unlikely that there are going to be huge gaps where your not looking at someone or someone isnt looking at you

looks ok although its out at the same time as Diablo 3.

Looks cool

Did somebody say BURST!?

@Jumbs: You know that RockStar has put in multiplayer in all of their games, right? They are hardly "shoe-horned."

This actually looks interesting. Will be fun to see how it actually plays when the game is out.

@Circ said:

Looks like Red Dead Maxdemption to me.

And that was such good multipla.... wait......

:O

@Icemo: Bullet time is viral. Once someone initiates bullet time, anyone in the vicinity will go into slow mo as well. The difference is the player who sets off bullet time gets the aiming advantage while the opposing players get really sluggish.

@Circ said:

Looks like Red Dead Maxdemption to me.

you mean a really fun and solid multiplayer with loads of cool feature and game modes ?

@seannao Yea that is how it works. Along with, if you are in Bullet Time, anyone who you can see or can see you enters Bullet Time along with anyone who can see those people. It's a crazy web mechanic, they explained it in a preview on a different site, can't remember where though.

Looks like Red Dead Maxdemption to me.

Slow Mo in Multiplayer??? What...?

@seannao: you are correct

Looks excellent, but I'm still hoping for horses that spawn halfway in the ground and spasm until you kill them.

Programming is hard.

Eh. The best part about the previous games were the (admittedly shallow) stories. They were just so well done, and to think multiplayer is being shoe-horned in to stop resellers is depressing :(

BURST!

I want it alot!!!!!!!

@Icemo:

as I understand it, if you come into line of sight with anybody in slow motion, you enter slow motion, too. Otherwise, you're in normal speed... Somebody correct me if I'm wrong please! haha. Not too sure.

So, when someone launches Bullet time, does it slow down every players game or does the said player just float in the air slow mo while others run normally? I'm confused of how bullet time could work out in multiplayer ever.

loving it

This looks excellent! I'm impressed.

Can't come soon enough.

I need this game, now.

Just got done watching this. Fuck. Yes.

yoyoyo