His dry internal monologue that you hear throughout the game is hilarious, and deep down he has a heart of gold, trying to make things right and failing dismally. You'd think that'd make him a misery to play as, but the opposite is true. As mentioned before, Max is a miserable character with an unhealthy addiction to painkillers. It never stops being entertaining.Ĭombine that with the story and the way it's told, and you've got the complete package. You dive through windows, over tables, through doors, off boats whenever you feel like it in glorious slow motion. Other shooters have scripted events where you dive through a window and shoot the bad guys, but that is the entire game of Max Payne. And the best part is they're all natural.
That's an almost ubiquitous feature in games these days, but Max Payne does it better than anybody else.Ĭombining bullet time with the ability to do full-length dives creates the most exciting, outrageous and entertaining sequences in a shooter I've ever had. Max Payne is famous for its ''bullet time mechanic'', which slows time to a crawl and enables Max to efficiently dispose of the thugs accosting him. In my opinion, this is the finest third-person shooter available on PS3/Xbox360. I loved it (obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be writing this), but there are many fans of the previous games in the series that found it massively disappointing. Max Payne 3 was pretty contentious when it came out in 2012. In Max Payne 3 he's starting a new life as hired muscle for a wealthy Brazilian family and, of course, it all turns to custard, with members of the family being kidnapped and thugs shooting up the place, forcing Max to once again face (or indulge) his demons and attempt to rescue them. Max isn't your happy-go-lucky action hero, he's a cop (soon to be ex-cop) who loses everything, gets addicted to painkillers and is constantly being shot. The Max Payne series of games are depressingly brilliant epics.
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