Max Payne 3 features in new EDGE – multiplay confirmed

Wouldn’t it be cool to have Max Payne 1 and 2 in HD (1080p) in a single bluray disc? I hope this release encourages the developers to do that… IN A BLURAY, not only digital download like the new Resident Evil compilation. I hope Japan makes a bluray and includes english/spanish subs for that.

Maybe you should e-mail Japan and ask them to make it in a Blu-ray and include subs

These collaborative studio efforts seem to be all the rage at the moment. I suppose it real speaks to the ballooning cost of videogame development.

As for Max Payne 3? I remain skeptical. Can a series built on what is now an overused mechanic (bullet time) really have anything new to say?

Here’s hoping.

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Trust me, you don’t want to put anything IN a Blu-ray.

Several doctors and a psychiatrist later, me and Mr. Sprinkle STILL aren’t the same.

“Probably the biggest revelation from the piece is that the game will feature online multiplayer, although it isn’t mentioned how it’ll work.”

couldnt care any less. at all.

“cover system”

Fuck off.

nice…. hoping for CO-op!

One day I’m going to have to play the originals. One day.

Already pretty confident this won’t measure up, but the Deus Ex refresh just might…

With Blerk. I still need to play the old Remedy titles. I will get to that at some point.

I doubt very much this will be anything less than amazing. Given Rockstar’s form so far this gen, I don’t think they’ll allow themselves a dud. Which, I assume, is one of the reason’s it’s been so heavily delayed.

I suspect this will be one of those titles that people will find things to complain about even if it does turn out to be brilliant.

True dat.

chaps, u NEED to play MP1 & 2 ASAP!! ASAP!
Drop everything ur playing atm, and play max payne.
few games come close when it comes to atmosphere.

12/complainage: i just want Max to be how we’ve come to expect him from the last two games. like, exactly not how he looked in the first comncepts for mp3.
but those latest news dont grow my fear of him getting to cheesy.
so i agree with pat, this coudl tunr out huge.
+ rockstar, to me, seems to be a studio that does justice to classics and dont just use them to put a known name to a game.

My PC wasn’t good enough to play them back in the day. I might pick them up the next time they’re on sale on Steam.

Johnny can you provide a link with the full art image you use as a header?

Brand new scans, also showing the Max Payne as we all know him, that last scan looks awesome.

http://forum.xboxworld.nl/showpost.php?p=4203300&postcount=191

How about this link, Lahanas?

Well it’s good to know that he resembles the old Max to start with.

Thanks very much!

Theres a mixture of images in that article that include both the rubbish fat bald Max and a proper update aswell. Whats going on?

Looks like im one of a dwindling number of people that played the original and follow up as soon as they came out and loved them to pieces.

They don’t make games for me anymore, I have a feeling that the controls will be no where near as tight as the Remedy games because every single last Rockstar game that Ive played has horrible floaty, leany, cover bollocks.

Ah well.

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That’s why real Max Payne fans don’t have faith in this game at all

The problem with handing it off to a developer who doesn’t have the same intimate relationship with the ip, is that they’re going to have to piss all over it to mark it as their very own, and for fans that’s rarely a very good thing.

The old Max Paynes are some of the most simple and enjoyable games I’ve ever played. The gameplay is seriously basic, but fun, with lots of scripting to amuse you along the way. That’s a huge triumph in my opinion, even if Max Payne 2 was a little too short for my taste.

@22: Oh shut up, you cock. Comments like this really piss me the fuck off.

“REAL Max Payne Fans”? Fuck you. I’m a real Max Payne fan and i love everything i’ve read so far.

It looks like Rockstar is really putting a lot of effort into this game. Just look at the link from #17. There seems to be shit load of story to tell. Looks like the start off with the Max Payne from MP2 and really develop the character over time. Something greatly missed in videogames. I mean they made the excessive use of Painkillers from the previous game part of the story in this one. How awesome is that?

I’m fucking thrilled for this.

The last scan shows Max as we know him, i bet that’s a part in the beginning of the game.

@24: Grow up please, no one was talking to you I was just saying that #21 is absolutely right, and even you should recognize it… And now please go to some other topic and use such language with erth and the others…

@26: Nope. I don’t and if you were a real Max Payne fan, you’d understand.

If the shooting mechanic is the same as red dead I’ll be happy. Though I’m not keen on the open map freeplay style of mp map. I’d prefer a varied series of tight maps, but we’ll have to wait & see.

There’s nothing to understand. Max Payne with cover system? lol! Now they only have to add shitty controlls, dumb story and some russians to kill* and there you go…

*well okay, I loved Vlad in Max Payne 2

@M.K., and what if cover system?

In the past you did the same, now just only with animation in this gen.

In the past you just stand in front of the wall like an idiot.

M.K. So just because it has a coversystem it fails? Grow up, seriously.

@30: Maybe he just likes standing in front of walls.

lol please stop commenting on my posts, if you don’t even get the idea behind it k? thx.

@32: I doubt you have any idea what you’re talking about. k. thx.

What the hell is your problem? Only because I think that absolutezero is right you think you have to post shit like that? Go play your gta “Max Payne Fan”…

@34: No because you “Fans” always, and i mean always complain about anything new, no matter if it makes sense or not. Hey, here is a idea, if you don’t want your Max Payne to evolve or change at all: Go play the previous titles. Or better, if you want some changes go play Stranglehold.

I’m just one of those guys who actually thinks that Story and Dialog were the most important Parts about the Max Payne Series. But i guess that doesn’t qualify me as a fan, right? Wake up, a game needs to be updated in order to be interesting. Or do you prefer games like Call of Duty?

You’re kidding me right? Now I got it

Took you long enough.

Someone needs a hug.

Just because you welcome a rewrite, it doesn’t mean that we have to YoungZer0. It’s perfectly legitimate for people who loved something in the past, to not want to see it redefined.

Ain’t broke, don’t fix is a legitimate argument. Don’t stop, push forward, ditto. I don’t see a reason to throw a fit about someone seeing it differently.

@38: Don’t just stand there, fucking hug me already.

Holy shit

I can’t remember standing behind walls in either of the Max Payne games, I can however remember diving over things and through doors in slow mo and shooting people in the head. The speed and fluidity of that just does not tie in with a cover system.

The only way I can see it working is if its a fast and intuitive as Vanquish, and without a power slidey suit I doubt thats going to happen. Army of Two spring to mind instead.

Sure I would love to head what happened to Max after two, how far he fell etc but most of the screens seem to have completely disposed of the pitch-perfect noir fell that the others had, the atmosphere is gone and been replaced by the same artwork as every other Rockstar title. Which is where the concerns come from, if the artwork and style is the same what else is?

If this game is good then great we have another great Max Payne game, if its not then fuck it why bother bringing it back in the first place?

@41: Have you ever played WANTED? That game combined both Bullet-Time and Cover System and i’ bear to say that it was very smooth and fast. I also think that it’s waaaaay to early to say a that the atmosphere is gone.

As far as I remember the city where I study is called São Paulo, in Portuguese. Not Sao Paolo, in… whatever language it’s written =P