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Max Payne 3
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The long-awaited third Max Payne game finally arrived in May 2012, courtesy of Rockstar Vancouver. Eight years after the end of Max Payne 2, an aging, burnt-out Max finds one last chance to redeem himself while working as a bodyguard for a rich family in Brazil.
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"Rockstar Games modernizes and makes Max Payne its own, creating something grittier and more grounded in reality, if not quite as singular."
5 ★ (26)
4 ★ (33)
3 ★ (13)
2 ★ (2)
1 ★ (0)

A game that forgot its roots and started taking itself way too seriously.

Ditching any semblance of parody that was present in the last two games, Max Payne 3 tells a straight-faced and not-very-good story in a setting completely unrelated to the first two games with a pola… Read more

Spectacular

The game is spectacular in it's depiction. Max's bald-head-with-a-beard look makes him to be even more adorable. That colorful Brazilian shirt suits him well. The best part is that there are no loadin… Read more

Old School Hero!!!!!

“Max Payne 3” is an intense, brutal and incredibly satisfying and rewarding shooter. It just isn't a very good Max Payne game. They dont make´em how they used to anymore! The main problem with the gam… Read more

Max Payne 3 Review

I'm going to just start with I've never played the previous titles, so I walked into this game not knowing much of what has happened, and as I've been told several times, don't even dare to bring the… Read more

Nearly There: Incredible Core, Uneven Wrapper

Max Payne 3 is an excellent, but flawed new take on the franchise. At its core, the nugget of gameplay that makes Max Payne so fun (almost unfairly fun, really), the slow motion shoot dodging , is smo… Read more

Download This Game For Free

It is a one of it's kind game people. So stop comparing it with other and enjoy it the way it is. Btw if you are looking to try it out go to http://mygame9.com before buying and get yourself a free sa… Read more

Get This Game For Free..Now

One of the most top games of the year. If you want to try it out I will adviceyou to visit mygame9.com and get a free sample copy of the game. One of the most top games of the year. If you want to try… Read more

Very strong action.

The action is good. The story is stylishly done, but looking back on it, not particularly interesting. This is a game about the action, the shooting, the jumping, the moment-to-moment gameplay, the "w… Read more

Max'imum Max

When I saw Max Payne was back I was so excited due to the original Max Paynes being my two favourite games of all time. So I purchased Max Payne 3 on the Playstation 3 as I get nearly every game on th… Read more

No es bueno

It's unfortunate but Max Payne 3 is not a good game. It's a mediocre game. And for a few reasons that are easy to spot but I assume difficult to fix, because they shipped the product with them. And it… Read more

Bold and Back on the Sauce

Max Payne 3 is Rockstar’s follow-up to Remedy’s Max Payne 2 from 2003. It’s been nearly 10 years since Max’s last outing and he’s returned old, jaded, and on the sauce. This time the slums of New York… Read more

No excuse for bugs

Okay this game would have been a 4 star but I removed 1 star for a glaring bug. There were several points in the game where if I was in cover Max would get stuck and remain in cover unable to move at… Read more

Rockstar Ruins Max Payne's Heart and Soul

As a huge fan of the originals, so I was a bit skeptical when I saw that Rockstar was going to develop their own Max Payne game. I loved the noir and the grittiness that Remedy crafted with the first… Read more

Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun.

After nearly a decade we are finally offered up another Max Payne game by none other than Rockstar. As someone who was not entirely a fan of the originals from Remedy I went into Max Payne 3 with vari… Read more

John Woo people in the face and forget the consequences

Max Payne has got to be the most down on his luck and depressingly grim character gamers will have ever been invited to inhabit. Not only is the guy chronically addicted to painkillers (a health devic… Read more

A Fantastic coupling of action and story-telling

There is always unease and a certain amount of skepticism when a beloved franchise that has long since closed it's doors is uprooted for one last ride. Perhaps that unease comes from the reasoning tha… Read more

A Slow-Mo Drama

While not the most innovative game I've ever played MP3 is still a fun and rewarding game on both the singleplayer and multiplayer fronts. True to form the game has all the blood, bullets, and slow-mo… Read more

No easy retirement

Max Payne is now retired, but has not been able to get over the unfortunate events that plagued his life as a New York detective. He now spends his days in bars, slowly drinking himself into nothingne… Read more

A cut-and-paste job that loses the soul.

I waited patiently for eight years to experience this game. Remedy formally leaving the franchise for Alan Wake was a blow to me that I thought tragic. If only younger me knew of the greater tragedy:… Read more

Max Payne 3 Review

Max Payne is a fish out of water - a weathered soul from a previous existence. Living in a self-induced purgatory of painkillers and whiskey he works as a bodyguard protecting one of the richest famil… Read more

A Modern Day Max Payne for Better and Worse

When Rockstar set out to make the next Max Payne game they planned something different. From the very first press images we got of a bald, bearded Max running around a sunny, tropical paradise it was… Read more

Rock Payne

Max Payne 3 isn't really a Max Payne game. At least, it's not like Max Payne 1 or 2. This game is its own game - and while it might star a character called Max Payne, voiced by the same voice actor, i… Read more

Much like pain killers, this game is addictive.

Having not played the other Max Payne games, I wasn't to sure what to expect from this. After putting the disc in and watching the first cutscene, I knew I was in for something special. I'll break thi… Read more

My Best Attempt at a Review

You know, I was just starting to slightly lose hope in video games. Do game companies now expect us to pay 60 bucks for an essentially glitch, unfinished game and shell out an extra 30 bucks to pay fo… Read more

FIFTY-SOMETHING KILLS BRAZIL

“A Max Payne game by not-Remedy? Such dribble. I do not condone such sacrilegious language. Such a sequence of words is and forever will be prohibited,” you spit out to the Internet. “Yes, yes, yes,”… Read more

A great addition to the franchise.

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present Max Payne. New York's finest, with the biggest mobster bodycount ever. It’s been almost 9 years since we’ve last seen Max Payne. Rockstar Games had a lot to p… Read more

A Welcome, Yet Mixed-Bag Of a Return.

Max Payne 3 swings in as another heavy hitting game from Rockstar studios, and it should surprise no one. After pumping out mature title after mature title for the past few years, creating Max Payne 3… Read more

Max Payne 3 Review: Man on Fire

I never played Max Payne 1 or 2, so I went into Max Payne 3 pretty blind regarding expectations from the series. Remedy was the developer behind the first 2 games in the series, but Rockstar took deve… Read more

Max Payne's Return.

It's been a while since we've last played a Max Payne game. If you remember, Max wasn't in a great situation at the end of the second game. This is still apparent as Max is even more depressed and fru… Read more

Where's the coin slot?

Boy oh boy did I hope this one would be amazing. Been such a long wait! Well I stepped up and bought it day one, eager to jump back into some Film Noir inspired bullet-time madness, and sadly I found… Read more

Shattered My Expectations

Max Payne has a long and storied history. Originally developed by Remedy, Max Payne was a tongue-in-cheek noir thriller that was the first game to utilize the bullet time effect made popular by The Ma… Read more

More grim, more booze, more bullets

Whilst waiting the extra two weeks for the PC version of Max Payne 3 to come out I've been playing through the first and second game to reacquaint myself with Max and his dark, noire world. In some wa… Read more

Awsome return

I found max payne 3 great it can be difficult I read complaints of not being able to clear a room while in bullet time I did not have this problem also max slow to get up after a bullet dodge I just c… Read more

Max Payne 3 Review

Following soon after the premier of the first Matrix film, and not long before the second, Max Payne was one of the first video games to truly capture what it felt like to be a badass action movie her… Read more

The flesh of fallen angels

Max Payne 3 reviewed by Doc D Strange As a long time fan of the Max Payne series, Max Payne 3 is finally fucking here! WOW! I never thought I would be saying that. Rockstar Games took the reigns as th… Read more

Max Payne 3: A Bullet In Time

The origins of everyone's favorite pill-popping time manipulation aficionado slash ex-cop trace back to the rise and subsequent reign of the PlayStation 2. Our introduction to Max Payne's tragic unive… Read more

Gritty Follow up to a Classic Game but not without its Faults

For those who want to relive the kind of gritty noire game that was Max Payne 1 and 2, Max Payne 3 is an apt update and well worth your time. The comic book style of the first two games has been moder… Read more

An incredibly satisfying shooter experience.

It's been some time since the last Max Payne game and the franchise has since swapped hands, going from the folks at Remedy over to Rockstar. I know more diehard fans of the series have had concerns a… Read more

Rockstar delivers on action and spectacle, sans Max Payne-ness

Though some would argue that he never left our hearts, Max Payne’s belated arrival on this generation of consoles comes with a set of laden questions for the ardent fan. The words on lips of gamers wi… Read more

Pleasure In Payne

What do you get when you mix dual-wielding, slow motion, mountains of dead criminals, and an excessive amount of pills and booze? You wouldn't be too far off if you guessed "one hell of a Friday night… Read more

My Max Payne 3 Review

I never played either of the first two Max Payne games, they seemed to slip past me during a time that gaming wasn’t all that important to me on the PlayStation 2. So I came into Max Payne 3 cold and… Read more

It wears Max and Me Down

Max Payne 3 , and many video games like it, are filled with excuses. The effort and sweat required to create a conflict and sustain it, like so many attempts by other non-military shooting video games… Read more

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