![]() Max still hasn?t moved on nor forgotten what?s happen to him, and this is apparent as he still seems a mess when he?s not currently shooting through an army of bad guys. Max is still dealing with everything that?s happened to him, but in a way that involves bottles of liquor and painkillers, just to maintain. Don?t fret though, as James McCaffrey returns once again to voice Max, though this time a heftier and slower Max than what he once was all those years ago. While some of the cutscenes still have that feeling of comic-style, it?s not the same as it once was. You?ll be leaping through the air in slow motion in the signature Max Payne style while shooting hundreds of enemies, but the narration has taken a different turn this time around and the comic panel visuals have been ditched for a more grimy flair of storytelling. Here we are almost a decade later, and Max returns once again, battling his inner demons complete with all the tricks that Max taught us so many years ago. When Max returned two years later, it may not have been the revolution that the first game was, but it was done very well and felt like natural progression in the series with small additions and mechanic changes. Max wasn?t the standard hero figure though, as he was fighting his own demons and trying to cope with what happened to his family. It was new and nothing had really done anything like that before, Max Payne was a tale about an ex-cop who lost his wife and child told in a comic book panel style complete with mass violence. Max Payne came out in 2001 and was immensely popular for its noir style storytelling and the creation of what we now call Bullet Time. Well, about half way through the game when you find Max?s reasoning to shaving his hair and growing his beard, it eventually grew on me, even if Max seems to have a new face that I?m not quite used to yet. I have to admit, when I first saw that screenshot of Max and it looked absolutely nothing like the Max we?ve come to love over the past decade, I was a bit weary, since it wasn?t being developed by Remedy either. It also feels like it?s been forever that I?ve been waiting for Max Payne 3 ever since that first screenshot of a bald Max was shown back in 2009. It?s hard to believe that it?s almost been a decade since we?ve last visited with Max Payne and his grim story.
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