Huh. Have to admit this had fallen completely off my radar. I'll be interested to see how (if?) Rockstar makes this entry stand out when so many games have "borrowed" the elements that define Max Payne.

I just realized that the first game is now a decade...
...
...
...old.

So long bald Max?

The Max Payne games never really resonated with me, it was cool with the bullet time effects back in the day but whether it holds up now is questionable.

I want this game

i wonder how many more times they'll take this game back to the drawing board between now and then.

No noir theme = not a Max Payne game...so I hope it still has noir themes

Nice to hear that this is coming out soon, and the wait isnt a huge while away.

The second one had a perfect ending, not sure that needed a sequel.

Still I' m happy they' ve dropped the "Max is a drug addict and a bum" storyline they were promoting.

@Fjordson said:

@Barrock said:

Patrick, I'm confused. Did they ditch a lot of the stuff that they showed before such as old bald Max? Or is that still in there?

It's still in there. That's fat, washed up Max in Brazil. But we've also seen a younger looking Max since part of the story will show how and why Max left New York, most likely through flashbacks.

Fuck.

No noir theme = not a Max Payne game...so I hope it still has noir themes

Finally!

Let's hope they keep the wonderful Max Payne theme melody in MP3

M-March? Just in time for my birthday...
 
 
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I'm curious to see how their rendition of São Paulo will be.

Noir can still happen in sunny modern Sao Paolo.

Its about the content, not the set.

i wonder how many more times they'll take this game back to the drawing board between now and then.

I really hope this game turns out well. The more I think back to how well this game has aged since the first one and wonder if it might suffer from DNF syndrom.

I want to be proven wrong as I love MP1 + 2 but if I was a def Id find it really hard to change things up to keep them fresh for the player while still maintaining what made Max great in the first place.

......hmmmm maybe have Max constantly in bullet time but then you can go EEVVVVEEENNNNNNNN SLOOOOWWWWEEERRRR!

Max Payne 1 & 2 are two of my favorite games the last decade. Really looking forward to this. ^__^

So it's basically Man on Fire?

The Max Payne games never really resonated with me, it was cool with the bullet time effects back in the day but whether it holds up now is questionable.

    

Yuck. Max deserves better. Not to mention it's basically been given up on by Sam Lake with the Alex Casey stories in Alan Wake.

I think I might be the only human being on the planet not bored of bullet time. It barely shows up in games anymore, and I'm enjoying the hell out of it recently while I've been playing through Mass Effect 2 as a Soldier.  
 
I dunno, I guess I don't see why they can't just lift the mechanic whole cloth from MP2. Slow-mo is so rare in games these days that it'd be fun to play through a game focused on it again!

@Babylonian: Absolutely, plus many games have tried but none have managed to do it just as smoothly as the Max Payne series. It really never gets old in MP2.

I dont know, to me is not a Max Payne if it isnt a Sam Lake game.

So Max is back in due form or is the fat old bald Max still hapening..from the looks of what you're saying above, it still taking place in  Brazil..
 
 
@mattman734 said:

I really liked the look of the old bald version, hopefully elements of that will still be in there

So Max is back in due form or is the fat old bald Max still hapening..from the looks of what you're saying above, it still taking place in  Brazil..

IT'S MAX FRICKIN' PAYNE!
MAX!
PAYNE!
IT'S PAYNE!
 
Loved the mobster voice acting in MP.
 
[In a dream, when it is revealed to him that he's in a computer game] The truth was a burning green crack through my brain. Weapon statistics hanging in the air, glimpsed out of the corner of my eye. Endless repetition of the act of shooting, time slowing down to show off my moves. The paranoid feel of someone controlling my every step. I was in a computer game. Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.
 
/claps

I liked the first two Max Payne games, but a big part of that equation was how personal the story was to the character. The brief snippet of plot in the article seems to show a change in focus for the story, which I'm concerned will just turn this into another generic action game.

I can't believe Max Payne 2 was in 2003. Talking about taking a franchise slowly! It was a shame that the move was so disappointing when the story from the game was so cinematic and then they screw it up.

@GentlemanlyGentleman said:

@Eyz said:

So Max is back in due form or is the fat old bald Max still hapening..from the looks of what you're saying above, it still taking place in Brazil..

Both. Bald Max is the present form in Brazil and Young Max is in the past in New York, from what I recall they go back and forth showing how he got to where he is now.

Sounds promising, and it's Rockstar, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

In other news, fuck multiplayer. If I want multiplayer, I'll play Battlefield, or CoD, or some fucking game that was built for multiplayer, god damn it. Stop slapping on multiplayer, devs, or I'mma start slappin' you.

Here's to the hope that they have a whole level dedicated to a baby crying in the background.

Awesome, thats my city!

@zitosilva: O COPAN tá na capa, muito massa!

Consider it preordered.

I'm still using my Max Payne mouse pad. Yeah I wash it. Hopefully MP3 comes with one and I can finally replace it.

I hope this works out. I really look forward another Max Payne, if it's better than the second one anyway.

@MikeGosot said:

@YoConraaa said:

@zitosilva: O COPAN tá na capa, muito massa!

Brasileiro no GB? Uau. ._.

realmente :P

I fully trust Rock* in their endeavors. Its good to see Max back in the mix.

I wonder if this will continue off the normal ending of Max Payne 2, or go off the real ending that you get when you beat it on the hardest difficulty.

God damn it. Every time I read something about Max Payne 3 I get this unfathomable urge to play the first two over and over. 

Please don't make him bald, please don't make him bald, please don't make him bald...

@CornBREDX said:

This isn't Max Payne and I'l continue to pretend it doesn't exist.

What if it's a damn good game, like everything else Rockstar has done?

Online will probably ruin this for me.

The thing that makes me most optimistic is that the main development team of MP3 were also the team behind Bully. And that game was amazing.

Well, it's good to know that Max Payne 3 will finally be coming out to stores next March, and I'm happy about that. 
 
Also, for those people complaining about Multiplayer, here's an answer for you: If you don't like Multiplayer, DON'T PLAY IT! The game is still going to have a single-player story, so don't worry about it. 

Well, it's good to know that Max Payne 3 will finally be coming out to stores next March, and I'm happy about that.  Also, for those people complaining about Multiplayer, here's an answer for you: If you don't like Multiplayer, DON'T PLAY IT! The game is still going to have a single-player story, so don't worry about it.