Review: Max Payne 3
Considering that the score is already there for you to see right at the top of the screen, I’ll do my best to not drag this out any longer than I have to. Max Payne 3 is an uncompromising and occasionally brutal title that eschews many modern game design conventions in order to deliver one of the most pure and enjoyable shooter experiences that I’ve ever played. With that out of the way we can dive headfirst into this review and hopefully dodge some bullets on our way down. Max Payne 3 opens with Max sucking down alcohol like nobody’s business, and it’s obvious that Max has backslid from the relative peace he had earned at the end of previous title several years back. With nothing left for him in New York, Max has left the snowy locales that have defined the series thus far for the sun drenched and paradoxical duality of Brazil’s opulence and crushing poverty. Working a cushy bodyguard job protecting a wealthy family alongside new partner Raul Passos, Max hopes to make a new start and