Max Payne 3 looks stunning, sporting the same basic level of visual fidelity we saw in Rockstar’s Red Dead, only with a gritty modern setting.īullets ricochet off of and even through walls, leaving convincing marks on the surfaces that they strike. While the action is a mirror of the gameplay we saw in the series’ first two releases, the benefits of Rockstar’s RAGE engine and its use of Euphoria for animations are immediately apparent. Daddy DeMarco is justifiably pissed, and he intends to visit bloody revenge on his son’s killer.Ī shootout ensues in the halls of Max’s apartment building. Max apparently had a run-in with DeMarco’s son, one which ended with an exchange of gunfire and the young man dead on the floor. The newcomer is local mob boss Anthony DeMarco, and he’s brought along an army of gun-toting wiseguys. They’re just getting into the fine details when squealing tires outside alert the two men that things are about to get interesting. Old NYPD pal Raul Passos is there to swill some brown liquor and present his friend with an opportunity to do some private security work in Brazil. This is the state we find Max in at the start of the demo, in his crappy Hoboken, NJ apartment. The character’s neo-Noir underpinnings have always been there, and little seems to have changed for our tortured hero, at least in terms of his mindset. He’s no longer with the NYPD, he’s a big fan of booze and he’s wallowing in a black pit of self-loathing depression. The story in Max Payne 3 finds Max in a pretty rotten place. It’s also shaping up to be one of the most beautiful games of this generation, no surprise for a title built on the newly-modified back of the same RAGE engine that made Red Dead Redemption such a visual stunner.įirst, a little background. This is still very much a Max Payne game, true to seemingly every facet of the original two releases.
I stopped by the developer’s New York City offices for hands-off looks at two different slices of action from the upcoming game. Now we’re quickly bearing down on Rockstar’s planned March 2012 release of Max Payne 3, which picks up an unspecified number of years - “several,” Rockstar says - after the events of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. Games like Tomb Raider had tread on similar ground by the time the first Payne was released, but Remedy’s work on Max Payne effectively translated the feel of a John Woo film for an interactive medium. Rockstar Games touts his first appearance back in 2001 as “the birth of the cinematic shooter,” and it’s not an incorrect assessment. It’s been almost 10 years now, but Max Payne is coming back with guns blazing.
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