There are points where you can't go five steps without triggering a cutscene, and it obliterates the flow of what could have been the best entry in the series. It's just a shame Rockstar is so reluctant to let you play the damned thing. Looking back, I think this plan was largely successful, while the traditional mechanics of Max Payne blended elegantly with Rockstar's technical fortitude, particularly its wondrous animation systems. So Rockstar took the idea of Max being a man out of place and time, and made it a focus of the game, ditching the snowy and drab streets of New York for sun-soaked and crime-ridden Sao Paolo, and casting Max as a man trying to fit into a society where he sticks out like a NPC thug's bonce from behind cover. Bullet-time, once a stupendously exciting prospect, is now so common in games we barely register it at all, while Remedy's aping of cinematic styles and tropes is equally well-trodden ground.īoth these things are baked deep into Max's character, and Rockstar knew they couldn't change or remove them. Games do funny things to the old noggin sponge, don't they?īut as Alec succinctly pointed out, Max is a man of his time, and that time has passed. “Max in Brazil? BALD?!? WITH A BEARD?!?!?!” I don't think I've ever been so angry at a beard before. The farther time drifts away from the release of Max Payne 3 the more I appreciate what Rockstar tried to do with it. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.
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