Max Payne 3 Review Thread

DECOY-LDN said:
EDGE - 7

http://www.edge-online.com/reviews/max-payne-3-review
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Was a little worried after the gametrailers shock review, but since the other ones since then have mostly been 9 - it's probably great.

EDIT: And now EDGE comes in and...
 
Jay-B said:
That's a possibility. Another one would be that after years of pop and shoot TPS the reviewer had a hard time getting used to MP's specific type of gunplay.
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Actually read/watch one of the reviews. Gametrailers says that Max Payne 3 is still very much a pop and shoot TPS. You CAN use the slomo dive, but in most circumstances it's a stupid thing to do.
 
Ventilaator said:
Actually read/watch one of the reviews. Gametrailers says that Max Payne 3 is still very much a pop and shoot TPS. You CAN use the slomo dive, but in most circumstances it's a stupid thing to do.
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damn, this can't be true, they must doing it wrong. Because previews gave a completely opposite conclusion.
 
brandonh83 said:
Wow the random words that flash during cutscenes is a really stupid touch.

BANGING WAITRESS
TANNED
STRIPPER
CAKE

Gameplay also looks very repetitive and the story doesn't seem interesting at all. Think I'll pass.
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Is that trying to 'be' Sherlock?
 
After watching the GT review. Gotto say this game looks so cliche, typical 'mature' game with a crappy story. And the cutscenes look like they will make you throw up after a while.
 
From the CVG review

CVG said:
Why so serious, though? Remedy's Max Payne games were moody and hard-boiled, sure, but there was a surreal edge, and a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour. Max's tortured film noir metaphors were intentionally overwrought, and there were moments of brilliant insanity, like the trip through the Address Unknown amusement park. Rockstar's Max has none of this. They've stripped away all the subversive humour, and it has very little charm as a result. The first two games had hints of the supernatural and the mythic, and a dreamlike apocalyptic tone; all gone in favour of a straight tale of revenge and conspiracy.
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That's really disappointing. I mean I knew it'd be this way, Rockstar doesn't have the chops that Sam Lake does but still, they could have at least tried.
 
As usual, watch the Gametrailers review only if you want to have half the story spoiled. And yeah with that disparity in score I'm guessing clickbait
 
I only care about single player so from the reviews looks like I should pick it up some time after price drops.
 
May pick it up on PC when it's cheaper as I never intended to buy it day 1. Seriously though, don't let the Metacritic scale tip you against or for buying it. I do get it if a game gets 3/10's across the board but it's obvious that it's a quality game.
 
I started reading some reviews, but I've stopped now. I don't want to get too spoiled or whatever. I'm getting it tonight, I'll judge for myself.

But it's getting good scores. That's awesome.
 
LiquidMetal14 said:
May pick it up on PC when it's cheaper as I never intended to buy it day 1. Seriously though, don't let the Metacritic scale tip you against or for buying it. I do get it if a game gets 3/10's across the board but it's obvious that it's a quality game.
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It's a shame there's a dearth of humour, especially coming from R*, one of the few devs whose games have made me sincerely laugh at loud over the years. Still day 1 tho.
 
corporate cheerleader said:
I'm curious how the bullet time is implemented in multiplayer, GT said that it was done well but they didn't elaborate on it.
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From what I've read, if you trigger bullet time, any players visible by your model within a 360 degree field also enter into bullet time. Same occurs when any player triggers it.
 
Coolwhip said:
After watching the GT review. Gotto say this game looks so cliche, typical 'mature' game with a crappy story. And the cutscenes look like they will make you throw up after a while.
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Wtf are you even talking about?

Did you even play the first two games? This game isn't trying to be omg mature.

Or is this a dumb joke post and I fell for it

Sinatar said:
From the CVG review



That's really disappointing. I mean I knew it'd be this way, Rockstar doesn't have the chops that Sam Lake does but still, they could have at least tried.
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Yup that's really a shame. I just knew it too. Actually quite disappointing indeed.
 
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