Max Payne 3 Review Thread

From Eurogamer:


The Gametrailers one mentioned this too. Didn't one of those slick marketing videos promise that the cutscenes would always reflect what kind on gun Max was holding in gameplay?

You always keep the same loadout, it's just that most of the time the cutscene ends/gameplay begins with Max using his sidearm, so if you went into the cutscene firing a rifle it can be a little jarring. I honestly hadn't noticed until someone pointed it out, I was mostly impressed with the way the game handled inventory to begin with.
 
The IGN review is awful. How the dude managed to score it a 9 from the text written I dont know.

Watched the GT review. Read the Edge and Eurogamer review and pre-order cancelled. Looks a decent game but not day 1 purchase for me.
 
Really? Damn.

Do you know if they got actual actors from brasil or did they get american ones and try to make them sound like they're from brasil?
Haven't seen the full credits, but the few I have seen are actually Brazilian. Few of them are from Portugal since a few characters are from there as well.
 
Haven't seen the full credits, but the few I have seen are actually Brazilian. Few of them are from Portugal since a few characters are from there as well.

Can't wait to see this in the news. Everytime a portuguese person or portuguese person related .. thing shows up anywhere, it's in the news :lol
 
Can't wait to play this and find all the mistakes they made with the use of Portuguese

Already found one in a review

Was it "Pesssoa Desaparecida" or other?

Can't wait to see this in the news. Everytime a portuguese person or portuguese person related .. thing shows up anywhere, it's in the news :lol

I bet it's Quimbe. That guy is always doing awful voice acting in every fucking game.
 
The IGN review is awful. How the dude managed to score it a 9 from the text written I dont know.

Watched the GT review. Read the Edge and Eurogamer review and pre-order cancelled. Looks a decent game but not day 1 purchase for me.

Game reviewers should really move away from their 20-point structure(or worse 100 for some places), and just do 5-point scores, with no half points in between. It'll undoubtedly lead to more honest scoring, doubt people would be giving out constant 5/5 scores. I'd also completely fuck up the metacritic bullshit going on currently, which would be a nice bonus. Do away with individual categories too.

Read the IGN review, hell just read the category box at the end, never does it sound it's an "amazing" 9/10 game.
 
Eurogamer 7

Unfavorable review, more or less.

Eurogamer said:
My favourite is the sequence early on where Max is downing scotch in a nightclub VIP lounge when paramilitaries appear out of nowhere and snatch his boss's wife. With no hesitation, Max bulls the nearest guy backwards through the glass wall overlooking the dance floor, and then soars through the smoky air, firing all the way down and using the bad guy to cushion his landing.

Anyone got the gif to this? I saw it around here.

Eurogamer said:
Little niggles quickly start to pile up, too. When cut-scenes finish, the game switches you back to a single pistol, forcing you to fumble with the inventory every time you retake control.

Oh god, bad Witcher 1 memories of having to equip my swords after each confrontational cutscene.

Eurogamer said:
If anything's going to stop you trading in Max Payne 3, though, then it's more likely to be Max himself. "He was as slick as an oil spill on an iceberg and about as toxic." "I didn't know what to think any more - this town had more smoke and mirrors than a strip-club locker room." "I had a hole in my second-favourite drinking arm."

Dan Houser is no Sam Lake, that's for sure. It's almost like fan-fiction. "Second-favourite drinking arm"? Is Max Payne a Hindu god now?
 
Game reviewers should really move away from their 20-point structure(or worse 100 for some places), and just do 5-point scores, with no half points in between. It'll undoubtedly lead to more honest scoring, doubt people would be giving out constant 5/5 scores. I'd also completely fuck up the metacritic bullshit going on currently, which would be a nice bonus. Do away with individual categories too.

Read the IGN review, hell just read the category box at the end, never does it sound it's an "amazing" 9/10 game.

How about no scores?

Just write up your review and use a last paragrah to sum up your opinion on the game.
 
Anyone got the gif to this? I saw it around here.



Oh god, bad Witcher 1 memories of having to equip my swords after each confrontational cutscene.



Dan Houser is no Sam Lake, that's for sure. It's almost like fan-fiction. "Second-favourite drinking arm"? Is Max Payne a Hindu god now?

In MP1, he compared Vinnie to an Energizer Bunny. Is Vinnie a cartoon character now?
 
The IGN review is awful. How the dude managed to score it a 9 from the text written I dont know.

Watched the GT review. Read the Edge and Eurogamer review and pre-order cancelled. Looks a decent game but not day 1 purchase for me.

I'll look at picking it up once it gets down below $30 since I don't care about the multiplayer.
 
and before that

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and before that

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I know what you're trying to say here and I played all of those games at the time they were released (Winback goes all the way back to N64 even), but I don't think any of them nailed the third person cover mechanics quite like Gears of War. There is a reason it became a popular choice in the wake of Gears and not those other titles.
 
I know what you're trying to say here and I played all of those games at the time they were released (Winback goes all the way back to N64 even), but I don't think any of them nailed the third person cover mechanics quite like Gears of War. There is a reason it became a popular choice in the wake of Gears and not those other titles.

No doy dude =P we're just saying that those two and Manhunt paved the way for Gears.
 
Dan Houser is no Sam Lake, that's for sure. It's almost like fan-fiction. "Second-favourite drinking arm"? Is Max Payne a Hindu god now?

The fuck? That is classic Max Payne right there. I thought that was hilarious. He's such a drunk that when he gets shot in his off-arm he calls it his second favorite drinking arm.

Hindu God? Now, that sounds like fan fiction.
 
Dan Houser is no Sam Lake, that's for sure. It's almost like fan-fiction. "Second-favourite drinking arm"? Is Max Payne a Hindu god now?
Honestly, the writing in Max Payne 1 and 2 was no less cheesy.
 
Oh, please, it's not like Same Lake wasn't cheesy as hell in Max Payne 1, too.

And much more. With flowery and heavy noir-ish monologues with plenty of metaphors that were far more memorable than anything that seems to have been said in this new game.

"The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper, more terrible it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it's like looking down into the grave of your love, or kissing the mouth of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, ready to blow your head off."

"Your past is like pieces of a broken mirror. You try to pick them up, but you only end up cutting yourself."

"When you're looking down the barrel of a gun, time slows down. Your whole life flashes by, heartbreak and scars. Stay with it, and you can live a lifetime in that split second."

"I had a bomb ticking in my head. No amount of painkillers would disable it."
 
I know what you're trying to say here and I played all of those games at the time they were released (Winback goes all the way back to N64 even), but I don't think any of them nailed the third person cover mechanics quite like Gears of War. There is a reason it became a popular choice in the wake of Gears and not those other titles.

Well, that and Gears is a multi million seller, and Kill Switch is not.

Gears certainly perfected it though.

And much more. With flowery and heavy noir-ish monologues with plenty of metaphors that were far more memorable than anything that seems to have been said in this new game.

"The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper, more terrible it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it's like looking down into the grave of your love, or kissing the mouth of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, ready to blow your head off."

"Your past is like pieces of a broken mirror. You try to pick them up, but you only end up cutting yourself."

"When you're looking down the barrel of a gun, time slows down. Your whole life flashes by, heartbreak and scars. Stay with it, and you can live a lifetime in that split second."

"I had a bomb ticking in my head. No amount of painkillers would disable it."

Yup that kind of stuff I will be missing :(.
 
Just an FYI but I found my Max Payne 3 review worries melting away while watching Giant Bomb's quick-look.
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-max-payne-3/17-5971/

Your mileage may vary of course, but as soon as I see that slow-mo euphoria in action I need to pay this damn game.

Max be considered semi-spoilerish. Didn't watch it all, but it'd be impossible to do a quick look without spoiling something. That said I didn't see any major plot-points in what I watched.
 
Eurogamer's editor confirmed on their latest podcast that they are still blacklisted by Rockstar and don't officially receive games for review or get invited to events, but they got Max Payne 3 in time for review because they were passed a copy of the game by a Rockstar employee.

I think their 7/10 means they'll continue to be blacklisted for years to come so hopefully their unofficial source for review code at Rockstar won't get found out.
 
Eurogamer's editor confirmed on their latest podcast that they are still blacklisted by Rockstar and don't officially receive games for review or get invited to events, but they got Max Payne 3 in time for review because they were passed a copy of the game by a Rockstar employee.

I think their 7/10 means they'll continue to be blacklisted for years to come so hopefully their unofficial source for review code at Rockstar won't get found out.

Sorry for asking but why is Eurogamer blacklisted?
 
Eurogamer's editor confirmed on their latest podcast that they are still blacklisted by Rockstar and don't officially receive games for review or get invited to events, but they got Max Payne 3 in time for review because they were passed a copy of the game by a Rockstar employee.

I think their 7/10 means they'll continue to be blacklisted for years to come so hopefully their unofficial source for review code at Rockstar won't get found out.

That is beyond pathetic on Rockstar's part. This industry is amazingly childish (journalists are just as guilty).
 
Eurogamer's editor confirmed on their latest podcast that they are still blacklisted by Rockstar and don't officially receive games for review or get invited to events, but they got Max Payne 3 in time for review because they were passed a copy of the game by a Rockstar employee.

I think their 7/10 means they'll continue to be blacklisted for years to come so hopefully their unofficial source for review code at Rockstar won't get found out.

Hilarious. Rockstar is such a shit company.
 
How about no scores?

Just write up your review and use a last paragrah to sum up your opinion on the game.
...and watch as you get fewer and fewer hits with each passing day. Fact is that gamers LIKE scores and numbers and such things that are easy to digest. Not having a review score would make your website obsolete.
 
...and watch as you get fewer and fewer hits with each passing day. Fact is that gamers LIKE scores and numbers and such things that are easy to digest. Not having a review score would make your website obsolete.

Sad, but true. Most people seem to only care about the number at the end of the review, the actual content of the review is just a wall of text to scroll past. Plus, why bother if Metacritic won't list your review?
 
...and watch as you get fewer and fewer hits with each passing day. Fact is that gamers LIKE scores and numbers and such things that are easy to digest. Not having a review score would make your website obsolete.

But it shouldn't

It's hardly fair to just pick a number that represents the quality of the many aspects of a game.

You are right though and there's no way I can disagree with that
 
Actually I believe Eurogamer first got blacklisted from 2K because of their 4/10 Mafia 2 review:



http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-08-23-mafia-ii-review

I believe they've been blacklisted since and had to buy a copy of DNF in stores to review.

As a consumer of course I want Eurogamer's reviews but if I were 2K I kind of understand.

That quote is so true about Mafia 2, wow.
A terrible terrible story with some repetitive gameplay stretched on for countless hours and some lazy, uninventive missions design, masked by amazing graphics and oozing atmosphere.
 
Huh. I liked the story. It was the typical 'drive around and kill a hundred dudes' mission design from the school of GTA4 that turned me off.

The other thing about Eurogamer is they truly use the 10 point scale, so a 4 from them is like a 6 from anywhere else. Not that it really matters other than it plays hell with the Metacritic average so that may be another reason 2K was mad.
 
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-15-eurogamer-net-podcast-112-i-am-error-37
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Tom Bramwell (did MP 3 review) in video-form on that podcast is a very funny guy!

On MP 3's controls (08:00): "You don't feel like you're piloting a man who's trying to carry a poo around in his pants all the time which is obviously an issue with the stars of the GTA games. Especially when they're jumping, looks like they're mounting a horse from behind."

Glad they're sticking with their principles.
 
Quite an interesting review in German by German magazine "Der Spiegel". They say that it's pretty good, has an interesting story and good playability. They don't rate it with numbers or in percent. So, definitely great:

"Max Payne 3": Betrunken und gefährlich - SPIEGEL ONLINE

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/max-payne-3-im-test-betrunken-und-gefaehrlich-a-833364.html

Der kaputteste aller Videospielhelden ist wieder da: Nach sieben Jahren kehrt Max Payne auf den Bildschirm zurück. Er ist nicht nur faltig und ständig voll, sondern auch der Held eines der mutigsten Spiele des Jahres: "Max Payne 3" ist brutal, zuweilen zäh, aber trotzdem großartig.
 
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