The game begins with Max in bad shape, a functioning alcoholic washing down painkillers with liquor, having never gotten over the murder of his wife and infant daughter years before. The long wait was definitely worth it, however, because Max Payne 3 is an amazing game that brought back the series in spectacular fashion and became one of my favourite games of the PlayStation 3 console generation. Welcome back, Max.Īfter a lengthy development process – long enough that I can only assume it took place in bullet-time – Max Payne 3, developed and published by Rockstar, was finally released in May 2012, nearly nine years after Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. Sometimes this isn’t a bad thing, as evidenced by the action-packed third-person-shooter Max Payne 3, which once again drops embattled, world-weary, former NYPD detective and DEA agent Max Payne into a whirlwind of bullets, betrayal and painkillers.

“Time moves forward,” says the titular protagonist of Max Payne 3 at one point during the game, “and nothing changes.”

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