![]() ![]() The colors separate and glide back together as Payne wanders the room in an old undershirt thinking to himself about his painful past. Changing to double vision, then to three images overlaid when he says, "Let it go, seriously."īits of spoken dialog pop up on the screen. The cutscene plays out from strange angles in the room, like viewed from the floor. The scene also shows off the new look of not just a heavier, more run-down Payne, but the way in which he views the world. The memories of New York, of two names on one tombstone, of a murdered wife and newborn child. The new home in a tawdry apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The inner monologue, and its scathing, self-hating tone neatly bring gamers up to speed, drawing out the things we should know about Payne before we become him. It's the first thing we hear: The mournful, familiar strains of a cello and then of Max Payne thinking to himself. Max Payne is a series embraced for a myriad of reasons and Rockstar wants to make sure that people take the time to notice them all. That might be why Rockstar Games invited Polygon to their New York City offices last week to view the game's cinematic opening and play through three of the Max Payne 3's early levels. Max Payne 3 feels like a game that doesn't just remember Payne's past, but wants him to answer for it. What really adds weight to the experience is Max Payne the person, a broken, whiskey-guzzling drug addict who is as much running from his past as he is toward his certain, bullet-riddled future. This isn't a game just loaded up with blood and bullet time. The game pushes you to push Max, to ignore the overwhelming odds, to leap guns-first through massive windows, down steel bleacher steps, across the gulf between rooftops, and always into a whirlwind of bullets.ĭrifting through the thick air of slowed time, Payne dodges bullets and clears rooms with twin revolvers, twin Uzis, shotgun and pistol.Ībsorbed by all of that cinematic gunplay, those flying bullets and the cacophony of metal jackets skittering across the floor, it's easy to forget what separates Max Payne from all of those other shooters. When things go sideways, as they often do in games with guns, Max Payne 3 is a sublime experience. ![]() ![]() Playing through three chapters of Max Payne 3. ![]()
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