But the feature of slowing down time for gunplay has been used by everybody since then, even in ‘Gun’ for Pete’s sake. Come on guys! I know that this feature was revolutionised in Max Payne 1. Which brings me to my other ‘gripe’ about the game. The game play is easy enough, I’ve only died a couple of times, but overall the gun toting bad guys are easy enough to dispatch.

The “world weary hero” having to watch over the vacuous, vain and spoiled rich has been done before…A lot of times before, time to give it a rest Amigos. But now? Everybody seems to be doing it and that’s okay, but geeze guys change the story up a bit. It was great when games first started using ‘ Film Noir‘ as a starting point for their games. Rockstar Games seem to specialize in ‘Game Noir’ at the moment. It seems to work fine under this premise but, the story has been done before. In other words you didn’t have to play the other two games to enjoy it. Rockstar Games obviously set this instalment of the Max Payne story to be a stand-alone experience.

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate the game, I just don’t love it. So rather than rush down to the store and spend my hard earned dinero on buying a copy I went to BlockBuster and rented the game for a week. The one where you just know that you’re not going to get too excited about something, despite all the hype? Well that’s how I felt about Max Payne 3. You know how sometimes you just get that feeling.

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