From Max Paynes brutal one liners and hard truths to the yet unmatched bullet-time mechanics and great set pieces. The graphics still hold up even today and I can think of very few games that deserve another entry as much as this gem!
I loved every second of it! I want more. You don't play as the hero. You play as Max, a deeply flawed badass motherfucker
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It’s obviously not *quite* as tight as the first two Remedy written installments, but it still fucking rules. That last stage in the airport is an all-timer.
Well, given the voice actors passing, Rockstar’s one game every 8 years cycle, and Max Payne 3 not making them a billion dollars….I doubt we’ll see this franchise again any time remotely soon.
Multiplayer was so much fun
Sadly, this game is missing our man Vinnie Gognitti, the best character in the franchise.
**”PAYYYYYYYYNE! I’LL KILL YA, YA LOUSY FREAKIN COP!”**
The multiplayer for Max Payne 3 was so much fun.
Is a piece of shit popular just because its surrounded by flies?
After all I did and tried and endured they >! Killed the poor hostage girl in the Favela !< I was so shocked I had to close the game and took a break.
I really like how MP3 breaks Max out of his archetypical noir cop fate, and gives him a happy ending.
Loved playing, just didn’t like the past tense commentary while I was exploring. “I knew I had to take the stairs” yes Max, I’m looking for gold gun parts here.
I’ve also been to Brazil around the time this came out, and they absolutely nailed the bright, vibrant, colorful poverty and desperation of the favelas. Made the game so much more memorable.
Same, one of the most underrated OSTs
One thing i liked is every time the bad guys or the rich family you have to protect speaks portuguese No subtitles the player is as lost as Max when they talk
I wish there was a way to turn off all the screen effects. The game was unplayable for me, which sucked because I loved it.
Don’t tell me there was a way….
I Remember playing this game for the first time in 2012. My jaw dropped when I saw the graphics.
My only complaint is that for some reason they took out the ability to use grenades in single player.
Wanna hear a funny sad story about this game?
So i was just a poor little kid with a ps2, and max payne 3 came out.
I waited thinking that maybe they’ll release it on the ps2 as well. But it didn’t ☹
Oneday while browsing the store, i saw max payne 3 on the ps2!!!! I instantly got it(5$) and ran home to play.
Turns out that the disk cover was max payne, but the actual game was GTA 3 😅
When i brought it back to the store, the store owner said, yeah that’s how ps2 games are now💀.
I couldn’t return it and around a year later, i got a used ps3 and played it.
Weird times.
I feel like I’m the only person who prefers MP3 over MP1 and 2. Not that they’re bad, all the games are amazing, but MP3 just has the best action and set pieces imo. The story feels like a good action movie, and the writing / acting is as good as ever. My only nitpick is the constant visual glitches / flares. I get that it represents his disheveled mind but it’s still a bit annoying at times.
Anyway, they’re all awesome, can’t wait for the remakes!
Rockstar did like the bare minimum against hackers in the multiplayer, killed any longevity it might have had
I have played this game on Xbox 360, PS3 and was the first game I got when I finally got a gaming PC. I think it has the best third person cover based game play I have ever seen. You can enter a pristine office and by the time everyone is dead nothing will look the same.
The airport level is insane but my personal favorite is the entire police station. The way the cops are moving in on you. How they put pressure on you with shotguns. The lobby part when they throw smoke into the lobby and all you can see is the laser sights from the guns.
Ah fuck i’m redownloading it this weekend.
oh yeah i had forgotten about “Max unskippable cutscene Payne 3”. a good game, which could have been much better just by removing 50% of the cutscenes.
ps: sorry about the broken english
Me and my buddy describe places as “Baghdad with g strings” frequently, love the one liners
This game was so good. It was a great sendoff for Max.
Maybe one day I will play this game. Or really any of the Max Payne games.
This game was so criminally underrated when it first launched.
It also shaped Rockstar into the PowerHouse development team they are with all Studios working on one game.
My only issue was the Man on Fire, Tony Scott editing. I fucking hate the constant cuts and zooming in. I’ve been an alcoholic, its not like that lmao.
Yeah, this game lives rent free in my head. Easily in my Top 10 of all time; I have played through this game so many times – the writing is phenomenal, McCaffrey’s performance is exceptional – for me, it’s perfect.
I still think about the walk up to Becker at the end of the game and Max is ranting about Capitalism and you “get what you pay for.”
I’d play this game way more if they sorted the loading times and unskippable cutscenes.
I just started replaying this yesterday. Weird.
I installed this a few months ago and meant to start it, but still haven’t. Need to fix that.
First game was a great start, iffy but it had good moments to make people like Max
Second game, that’s where Max as a character got fully fleshed out and became known for what he is today
Third game, man that was just a love letter and a fantastic send-off for the character as a whole. Giving us a new spin on his tired cop act and then letting him find some sort of peace.
“Don’t you realise that I don’t speak your fkn language?!”
*headbutt*
The shadows rushed me
“I had a hole in my second-favorite drinking arm.”
I was able to play an alpha build of this at PAX forever ago. I own it now, but never did get around to playing it. Still have all the swag Rockstar gave me too, (a t-shirt, a ziplock bag filled with stickers of all shapes and sizes, a bullet pen, a flask in the shape of a gun magazine, a pill box, a duffel bag and an ashtray that looks like it was forged from bullet casings).
I wish there was a comprehensive list of mainstream titles like this that were big in the early 10s so I can remember all said titles and see which ones never got a follow-up game.
Back before this launched, my closest friend at the time had been a huge fan of the franchise and talked me into buying Max Payne 3 on the 360 at launch. I fell in love with the character and gameplay, and my friend and I got pretty good at the multiplayer.
Later in 2012 he passed away. We played a lot of MP3 and downed a lot of beers together. Eventually I settled on a tattoo of two beer mugs clinking together with a quote from MP3, where Max encounters a piano and plays a few bars of the theme song and says “…and the band played on.”
Miss you, Mike