Max Payne 3 = too much GTA?

I always wanted to ask, so gonna steal some attention, why Michael and Max Payne look so similar, Rockstar used same 3D model?

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Welp MP 1 and 2 was made by Remedy (those who made the Alan Wake series) and the third one was entirely made by Rockstar so their ideologies of the franchise are of course different that's why you have a different vibe than the previous ones :V

MP3 is a blast man! Yes, it's not the same dark and sinister atmosphere from MP1 (Lupino was the most memorable character for me) but it's one of the best TPS I've ever played, tons of fun and a nice story, as always a little over the top but hey, it's MAX FCKING PAYNE! He closes bullet holes and stops hemorrhage with just a couple of pills and we like him like that.

Give him a try, do not expect a dark and twisted story but a more urban story about gangs, corruption and betrayal, in which you need to open your ways across tons and tons of human filth, it's the same gameplay we love with a new flavour.

MP 3 is as good as MP 1 IMO. It is different but it's one of the best shooters ever created. IMHO.

Max Payne 3 (I refuse to call it MP3) is a great game, you should really give it a chance.

Your comment about Mona makes you sound like one of those women-hating stereotypes. Seriously, you don't like her, but she's in no way a female dog.

MP1 was really cool, MP2 had def a different tone, maybe trying a bit too hard?? idk., i liked MP3 the action is great but it def feels like building upon MP2 rather than 1, still i would say all 3 games are worth playing.

Are you fucking kidding? Max Payne 2 is BETTER than Max Payne. First of all, the story is AMAZING. It's like a neo-noir graphic novel. And for that reason Mona was A FANTASTIC character. Because what neo-noir novel is complete without a dame to die/kill for?

The themes it explored: getting a new shot at love and a chance to rebuild a broken life, the guilt of doing so... Do we just forget our loved ones and move on? Can we really do that? Having blind faith in a friend, only for a friendship to be torn apart by love? Another one torn apart by betrayal... Was Vladimir ever Max's friend? Was the lady cop his friend? When did she stop being? And did she really betray him just out of love fro Vladimir? Love certainly makes us do crazy things. But can Max really judge her? Did he not risk everything for Mona too? That sex scene between the two of them...incredible. One could actually picture one's self in Max's shoes and almost experience all the feelings he had in those moments. And Mona's tragic death, followed by Vlad's horrendous one at the hands of the man he still called his best friend, despite trying to have killed. How can that compare to Max killing some useless tool of a broad who sold madness inducing drugs on the streets and whom Max never even knew until working that case and losing his family? Two times Max got his revenge, but both times in was empty, hollow, meaningless... Because the first game was just the beginning of his spiral towards self-destruction. This is a man that tried to rebuild his life after a terrible tragedy that would have sent any other to the loony bin and the second time was an even bigger fail than the first. It's a grim exploration of fate and how some people can't ever find happiness, no matter how much they try. Mona was PIVOTAL to Max's character ark, because only through a new love could Max try to put his family's death behind him. And she had to be portrayed the way she was, because she had to be the complete opposite of the women that Max thought made up his type, the complete opposite of his wife Oh yeah, let's nto forget how the monologues are incredible.

As for the game-play, it''s the same fucking game!!! Why would you complain? Having a more varied assortment of weapons? Imagine that... How awful... Playing with Mona? Really? It was short-lived, for once and also, it was AWESOME!!!! Mona having bullet-time proved how she was the same as Max, only the complete opposite, two sides of the same coin, two numbers equal in module, but with different signs, Even the game-play in this game served the story. And Mona is BAD-ASS. She wields a Dragunov, ffs (aka best weapon in history). Imagine if in a Humphrey Bogart movie, the female lead, instead of being some rich, high society, lying, damsel in distress is instead a hired assassin that fights together side by side with him. How is that anything but awesome? Well, understand that Max Payne is a Humphrey Bogart character put in a game. That's why poor Marky Mark could NEVER have played this character well in a million years. He just doesn't have the talent.

And there are a slew of other improvements over the original, like better graphics (no more horrible, nightmare inducing facial expressions from the characters), better level design, the comic-book strip cut-scenes are much more evocative and stylized, the painkillers are much more reliable and consistent (don't heal different amounts of damage in different situations), no more stupid escort mission trying to save a companion with an imbecilic AI. Better game in EVERY WAY. Only down-side to it is that it's tad shorter than the original, but all awesome things come in small packages.

Saying that Max Payne 2 is a disappointment just proves you're very shallow and lack the understanding of subtle undertones that is required for a game of this caliber of complexity. Go ahead and [play Max Payne 3. You'll love it, it's a good game, undeniably .But it's nowhere near as profound or heart-ache inducing as the other two, especially the second one. the story is just Max complaining and being a whiny bitch about how his life sucks, despite the fact that he lives in fucking Brazil now and his rich employers pay him to be a douche, getting attendance to luxurious yacht parties, getting hit one by beautiful women and getting drunk, which is his favorite activity. It does have its shares of complexities and tells it how it is:neither black nor white, slipping somewhere in there the pain of one getting old and useless, but pales severely when looking back at what was. And you only play as Max.. There, you got your wish if that's all you think matters... Happy now?

i remember playing mp1 for hours, probably went over 200hs at that time when i was really young :3 spend much less with mp2, played it once and when i finished it i never touched it again.

i saw some friends playing mp3 and it looked really awesome (at least the 30mins i watched).

Considering that the only GTA game that looks even remotely like Max Payne 3 is GTA V, I don't understand why you think Max Payne 3 was too GTA like. If anything, it would be the opposite. Don't forget that Max Payne 3 is not a direct sequel to Max Payne 2. It's a reimagining of the series on next gen systems.

Play & think of them as standalones. it'll make the pain go away. there ain't gonna be another max payne 1.
arguing with people like masteryoda will only make it worse.
walls of text bashed over internet stranger who stick to there opinion with superglue & duct tape & for what? no positive outcome at the end of thread.

I also consider MP1 as one of the best games ever, its atmosphere was amazing! I really enjoyd MP2 as well, I found it a totally worthy sequel. Now, MP3 is a really good game, with great graphics and interesting plot. But despite my feelings for the franchise I can't say I enjoyed it as much as the first two. Maybe the years have passed and I don't enjoy hardcore shooters as I used to, maybe MP is for me connected with spooky and dark urban atmosphere. That said, I still consider MP3 as a very good game itself...

I had a similar feeling for Mafia II. I consider the first Mafia as the best game I've ever played. Though Mafia II was a very good game itself, I couldn't get of my mind the atmosphere the first game had.

I really enjoyed MP3. The beginning is a bit jarring, since we're used to Max in a gritty, noir world, but things develop nicely. The story progresses, and eventually you realize that it doesn't need to be solely shades of black to make a noir-game. The game is brutal and dark, even when Max is wearing a flowery Hawaiian shirt.

Plus, the mechanics in MP3 are great. The Bullet-time has evolved nicely, and the physics interact well with windows/furniture/etc, including what happens when you miss a window.

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Sadly, we'll never get a game like Max Payne (the first and original one) again. MP3 is a decent game on its own, but nowhere close to MP1 in the terms of story and atmosphere.

Max Payne 3 is a good game, but a bad Max Payne game. I totally disliked the story for a Max Payne game (as a standalone game it would have been ok), but the mechanics are nice and gameplay also. I actually was pretty pissed of while playing it (I finished it though), the whole character of Max Payne is reduced to a guy who hangs around obnoxious spoiled rich people (not that all rich people are like this, but they were) while being drunk. The Max from the previous games liked to get his hands dirty and didn't do shit for money + enjoyed being a cop. He was dead inside already at the beginning of MP1 and not caring for himself anymore, just fucking with those who deserved it (reminds me of the original Robocop who was also a family guy, but in the end didn't have anything to live for except stopping bad guys).

IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT -> DON'T PLAY IT ! SIMPLE

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Whatever we may think of the Max Payne games, there is something we can all agree on:

The movie sucked.