tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post7218171996077347466..comments2024-03-28T13:43:13.495+00:00Comments on Super Adventures in Gaming: Max Payne 3 (PC)Ray Hardgrithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18436491500347661133noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-90359114733323339672016-02-14T06:47:21.928+00:002016-02-14T06:47:21.928+00:00When I heard there was going to be a Max Payne 3 I...When I heard there was going to be a Max Payne 3 I thought "Okay, sounds interesting. Remedy's not involved but I'm sure they'll give out something worthwhile" and even the location change, I thought it was an odd location but I thought a good story would pull through even with Max looking like the lovechild of Agent 47 and Obidiah Stane... No.<br /><br />The plot is that Max is asked to protect a family in Brazil because... Why the hell not? (to be fair the body count in both the previous games might go up to the 1000's) and they get captured but you stop them. Only for one chapter later for them to get captured... is this Max Payne or "Max Payne in Super Mario Bros."? Seriously, these people are captured more often than Princess Peach. So Max rescues all but one and the rest of the game is pretty much you running around trying to save this person.<br /><br />Okay, so my biggest problems with this is the story. The characters of the Bronco family might have been likable characters or at least worth a damn to run around leaping around corridors shooting people... the big problem is nobody and I mean NOBODY is interesting enough aside from Max. Nobody is given any development aside from what you played in the last 2 games.<br /><br />The continuity is literally all over the place. Let me explain why, at the end of Max Payne 2, Max is in a US Senator's mansion and he is shot by the main antagonist. Max picks up his gun because in the chaos he loses it and decides to kill him and when that finally happens he hears his love interest say her last words as cops raid the place. Now he got off the hook for killing the people in the first game because of a deal he made with "The Inner Circle" of which the US Senator was a part of, and guess what - THEY'RE ALL DEAD! So naturally killing hundreds of Russian mobsters and having his fingerprints on a gun that killed a US Senator would have him either in jail or fleeing the country... TOTALLY FORGOTTEN IN THIS GAME! No, literally, Max not only talked his way out of the whole "gun on the US Senator" thing but also got rid of the Russian mafia... anyone else think we missed a much better Max Payne game in-between the ending of the second one and when he got his job offer in the flashback levels? Because if I saw "Max Payne 2.5" basically chronicling that, I'd play it.<br /><br />Oh, how there's more for me to harp on. There are no nightmare sequences in this game. That to some people was one of the best things in those games, it showed what Max is really going through. Here? Although he's worse off than before - gone! Hey, if you wanted to change so much and displace people like me - Reboot it!... I am literally suggesting to turn over a new leaf with this series because the story of the first game has a lot of potential (although if the Mark Whalberg movie taught us anything, that can also backfire) and if they did that, while it wouldn't be as good - They wouldn't be screwing the continuity sideways and it would be good to actually see these memorable characters again.<br /><br />If you want to play this game with the intention of maybe connecting to a video game series you know and love, this isn't it. However if you have no knowledge of the previous games (or at least the bare minimum) then this will be a fun ride. It doesn't really offer that much in terms of story but if your sole intention for buying this game is to leap around corridors and shoot everyone like you're in the Bestheda game WET without the acrobatic stuff then you will get your money's worth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-41938642074437393312014-09-14T00:22:11.751+01:002014-09-14T00:22:11.751+01:00Chuckled while reading this lazy review: he can o...Chuckled while reading this lazy review: <i>he can only carry two and a half guns at once now instead of the 15</i><br /><br /> <i>like a vampire he can sap the lifeforce from others to sustain himself and cheat death</i><br /><br /> <i>they could've added high scores</i> and the next screenshot shows points<br /><br /><i>drunk enough to see random words floating in front of him</i><br />Fagusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10137575628973890680noreply@blogger.com