Sounds like Vickers has played a lot of Max Payne and did this entire barrage in Bullet Time(tm).

With extra clips in his office to boot. The account I just sifted goes into detail on the Max Payne-ish moves he pulled to take down the shooter. Amazing.

I was put off pre-orders by Max Payne 3 and Diablo 3 but may now go for Xcom. I really hope its going to live up to the early Xcom titles.

This is what Max Payne should be. Not fat and balding. Not Mark Wahlberg. Just kickass!
(Though it's missing Sam Lake's constipated facial expression . . .)

I still don't understand how painkillers help Max Payne recover from bullet wounds...

So Max Payne stole most of its plot from a sub-plot in "Man On Fire"? Sounds like a great game...

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Forget D3. What is the song from the Max Payne 3 commercial?

>> ^sillma:

Probably doesn't have the Max Payne feel because it's not developed by the same studio who did 1 and 2. Guessing it's going to be more of a GTA-esque max payne, looks a lot like the latest GTA.


Yeah, that's one reason. Rockstar are developers that just seem to watch movies. They watch movies, they write their games like movies, their games feel like movies.
Remedy on the other hand seem to read. Max Payne 1 and 2 was written to feel like a graphic novel. Alan Wake was written to feel like a novel. I bet Max Payne 3 will feature more in game movie-like cutscenes and less graphic novel cutscenes.

Probably doesn't have the Max Payne feel because it's not developed by the same studio who did 1 and 2. Guessing it's going to be more of a GTA-esque max payne, looks a lot like the latest GTA.

From all the stuff I've seen so far, it look like it doesn't have that Max Payne feel, the nighttime, bleak, noir setting. How the events take place over only a day or two and Max gets more and more beaten to shit over time.
Looks like it's going to be a good game, but I don't think it'll be a genuine Max Payne game. Sao Paulo? No

Did Max Payne "break bad"? (Shave his head)

I can't tell if he's the bald guy or not....seems like he might be. Maybe he'll get a porkpie hat and we can call him Heisenberg.

I hear ya, but it looks like all of the cinematics in this one are in the game play engine. If you are interested, they have some game play previews...not really feeling like hunting down a link now but I'm sure they are easy to find at Rockstar's website.

The Max Payne formula is pretty solid. Bullet time + gritty plot = fun.

I agree with you in principle but s**t man, relax. It's only the internets. >> ^jackhalfaprayer:

argumentum ad hominem. it's not my job to do better; it's rockstar's job to do better. we weren't talking about me or anyone else until you changed the subject. i'd say that bethesda has been doing better open world games since the mid-to-late 90's, konami's silent hill series has been better at telling stories (read: making one feel like playing through a movie, which rockstar wishes they could accomplish), and just about any third-person game from tomb raider to max payne has a better 3-rd person targeting system than that broken-ass excuse rockstar has been trying to fix for 10 iterations or so. so pretty much everything that GTA has been mashing up into a huge meaningless sandbox of drivel has been done before in a less broken fashion, with more variety, less linearity, less repetitive gameplay, and without falling back on hopelessly cliche, hackneyed mafioso stereotypes and slipshod driving mechanics.
but if you wanted to give me money to write a game and pay some programmers and artists and designers, absolutely! i'd be happy to present to you a game that is better than anything rockstar has produced to date. until then, fanboy, defend this mediocre studio with some actual points instead an ad hominem logical fallacy... or just stfu about what i or anyone else should be doing better than rockstar. rockstar puts out unoriginal crap with semi-impressive tech and people like you eat it up, bloat their egos, and line the pockets of corporate lackeys that are afraid to do anything new with an old IP. there's better work out there. you must not hear about it because it's not mentioned in your gamepro subscription. so go preorder this re-hash bullshit, and rest ignorant of the knowledge that people like you are destroying this industry, and this community, by buying into the hype machine of some fake gangster-sim crap with nothing new to offer since version III. and don't tell me that I should put up with it because there's nothing better out there, wtf sort of defense is that?
>> ^Yogi:
>> ^jackhalfaprayer:
GTA III was the last time there was any innovation in this series. I'm tired of sandbox missions with a half-assed organized crime drama throughline. I'd rather watch Goodfellas or something where there's real writing and acting. Rockstar games are overhyped and underdeveloped.

You...or ANYONE do better. Seriously we've seen other sandbox games try and fail...this is like criticizing WoW for being what it is. Do something better or accept that this is as good as it gets right now and shut up.