Game

Max Payne 3

2012 · PlayStation 3 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac · Xbox 360 · Shooter

86IGDB player score
1,174 ratings

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1,174 ratings at an 86 clip. Solid numbers for a solid game. A shooter, from the studio behind Grand Theft Auto with thriller, sandbox in its DNA — loud, fast, and built for repeat runs. Worth it for the campaign alone — the multiplayer stuck around and became its own thing.

About this game

Max Payne 3 is a third-person shooter in which the player assumes the role of its titular character, Max Payne. A new feature to the series, introduced in Max Payne 3, is the cover system, which allows players to gain a tactical advantage, and avoid taking damage from enemies. To progress through the linear story, players take on enemies throughout levels. The game features interactive cutscenes which transition seamlessly into continuing gameplay; there are no loading screens across gameplay and cutscenes.

Throughout the single-player mode, players control Max Payne, a former detective who has become a vigilante after the murder of his wife and daughter. Nine years after the events of the second game, Max becomes employed as a private security contractor in Brazil, but quickly becomes entangled in a quest filled with death and betrayal.