Max Payne 3 PS3 Review

Before I review this game, here is the history of gaming legacy series called Max Payne.

History of Max Payne Series: 

Back in 2001, Remedy Entertainment and Rockstar Games brought the crime-action TPS game called Max Payne, which is one of the most intense and entertaining game in 6th generation consoles. It has wonderful story development, awesome main character himself, unique gameplay action, and more suspense atmosphere, which makes the best original game on the series. 

In 2003, there's the sequel called Max Payne 2:The fall of Max Payne, which follows the event after the first game. However, it receives positive reviews from critics, but the game didn't sold well as the first game. In my opinion, I say the sequel sounds pretty disappointing with boring campaign and underwhelming storyplot compared to first game.

Finally in 2012, Max Payne 3 got made for 7th generation consoles and what can I say? It's a damn good game, honestly. It much far more improved than the MP2, which the Rockstar games have offered the greatly improved gameplay, brilliant graphics environment, superb storyplot, exciting single player campaign with much more action shooters and very cinematic cutscenes. ok'ay let's move on to review and see why this game is fun and worth to play?    

Max Payne 3 PS3 Review

Max Payne 3 is the third person shooter for PS3, X360 and PC, which developed by Rockstar Vancouer and published by Rockstar Games. This game takes place after the event of second game, Max Payne, a former NYPD Detective, meets Raul Passos, who gets him the job as a private security contractor in Brazil.

He quickly finds himself, which constantly encountering difficult situations, which leads him on search for the culprits of death and betrayals. I say the story on the game sounds quite different from the previous game. It has more storyplot and great dialogue, which makes the story sounds interesting and worth to watch cutscenes. The characters are still decent, even the main character is still badass as hell, that shoots the tons at bad guys. Max Payne isn't about being cop, it's about being more aggressive and serious vigilante characters. I like the some of the villains characters are seems to be good as the others from previous games. Bottom line, the story and characters in the game are genius as ever and very entertained action sequences.  

This game has 14 chapters for single player campaign, arcade mode and online mulitiplayer. The gameplay is like the predecessors, where you just the crap of the enemies, but with addition of cover mechanic, which allows your player to hide behind the wall or objects. You can also use dodging moves to avoid the enemy's attack. It also make the return of the bullet time, which you can use it as the slow motion mode during the combat gameplay. It helps you avoid the enemy's attack very easy and you can shoot them easily, when slowing down the combat gameplay, but I love the shootout on kill cam, which is sounds awesome. Your player can run by pressing the sprint button, but the running controls feels little too slow for this game. The combat gameplay plays very well on this game. The aiming controls feels very accurate with assisting targeting and the weapons are quite good for shooting range and the rate of firing. You can change it to dual weapons, which you can only hold two weapons allows you to give double damage to the enemies, which feels very precised and unique. However, you can't carry more weapons just like on predecessors has one, you only can swap weapons in the game, which concerns me.

You can use painkillers to heal your character's health just like the first game, which is quite useful for single player missions. The game will also automatically save the checkpoints, when you move on to the next level, but there's no quick save features, which is sounds quite shame that you might get even fraustraighted more, when you have to start fighting the bad guys over again in low health. I say the gameplay plays very well with awesome campaign, good controls and great shootout atmosphere, which makes this game worth entertaining. 

The graphics looks pretty outstanding with fantastic animation, superb visuals, great performance, which runs the same graphics engine as the GTA 4 and spectacular look on character's design, backgrounds and textures are awesome as ever.   

The music and sounds are pretty decent. The original music in the game sounds like the predecessors, which sounds pretty awesome with atmosphere, emotions and sounds fitting, but I'm not in to Brazilian music. 

The sound effects has the best shootout backgrounds and blood splatting noise. The voice acting sounds fantastic for characters cast with fitted voice and great accents. 

The special features offers some interesting DLC pack, like Gorilla Warfare, Local Justice, Hostage Negotiation, Painful Memories and Deathmatch Made In Heaven. The unlockable features has alternative costumes, character select, more difficulty and unlockable cheats.

Advantages

Outstanding gameplay

Fantastic graphics

Decent music and sounds

Superb story and characters

Great special features choices

Disadvantages

Running controls feels too slow

You can't able to carry all weapons 

Lack of quick save features

Final Verdict

Here is my final verdict.

Gameplay 8.5/10 - Outstanding combat gameplay and great movements.

Graphics 9.1/10 -  Fantastic animation, superb visuals, great performance, and spectacular look on character's design, backgrounds and textures.   

Music and sounds 7.9/10 - Awesome original music, great sound effects and superb voice cast.

Special features 8.5/10 - Nice DLC pack choices and handy unlockable features.

Overall 8.5/10 - Max Payne 3 is far most improved sequel and very intense shooter. I'm very glad that Rockstar Games have fixed the mistakes that they did it on second game. It bring us the great gameplay experience with more action, bloody violence, best shootout, being aggressive characters to become badass and by far it has the wonderful story cutscenes with interesting plot line and dialogue, which makes this game lot better than the second game. Holy shit! you got to play this game right on your own home and get ready to lock and load, bitches!

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