Max Payne 3 is a great-looking game, and the nods to movies like Man on Fire and Collateral - from film grain to framing to split-scenes and narrative text appearing on screen - are effective.

The first was that while Max Payne 3 does have a cover system, it is by no means a cover-based shooter. The game encourages you to run-and-gun, utilize Bullet Time and bullet dodging.

Max Payne was a cinematic experience with great audio, graphics and cutting-edge game mechanics, but Max Payne 3 takes things to a whole other level with glittering production values and non-stop ...

Though it sold 4 million copies within a year of release, this fell short of Take-Two Interactive's sales expectations ...

Max Payne 3, throughout its campaign, maintains a sense of consistency in terms of gameplay variety. Ad. Rockstar's signature attention-to-detail and polish is on full display.

Max Payne 3 does something like that 14 times. After every level, the chapter title appears in the air ominously, foreshadowing some quip that Payne will grunt after killing a few hundred gangsters.

Max Payne 3 has far more sunlight and color than earlier Max Payne games, but the menaces Max faces here are at least as dark as those he's faced before.

No, it’s not. What Max Payne 3 delivers on a moment-to-moment basis is not in tune with with most of the other current-gen third-person action games the put a gun in your virtual hands and drop ...

Max Payne 3 is set eight years after the events of Max Payne 2, but it’s been over a decade since thugs murdered Max’s wife and child. Yet he can’t. Stop. Talking. About.

Hopefully, “Max Payne 3” will do the same for its franchise. Max Payne 3 Videos . Max Payne 3 Screenshots (Click on image to view in gallery) More. Share this post: ...

Max Payne 3 takes places several years after the events of the previous game … or so it would have you believe. The truth is that there aren't a whole lot of nods and references to the last ...

Max Payne 3: Local Justice Map Pack Official Trailer. The Local Justice DLC pack for Max Payne 3 drops on July 3 for Xbox 360 and PS3 and July 17 for PC. Jun 28, 2012 9:00am.