Max Payne 3 Announced

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• Shit, I totally messed that up. : Legolas5

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• Or the stupid demon things from the goddamn movie. : Legolas5

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  If you look at the fullsize picture it looks more like a beard not just a 'stache. : Fish_Bulb
  • True. I guess he's not the pervert I thought he was. : Sturm08
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  there comes a point when males embrace their masculinity rather than run away from it, as seems to be the... : Cihte
  • When I turn 50 I'm going BEARD and never going back. : Psigun
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  Its so they can use Beard time, an even slower version of bullet time. : Beady
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    *slaps forehead* Along with added movement for the beard? Let me guess, one programmer dedicated to real... : monchipeters
    • gotta have beard physics. : xgeriatricsx

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• It's not neccesarily a known fact. But we have strong suspicions based on R*'s release of GTA4. For all w... : fade2black244
• Rockstar is a really kind of PC bias company, most of their games only end up on consoles, and many other... : Sunny_Iron

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• Damn, you are missing out on some good times. : voodooraze
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  I'm not a fanboy or even really a "fan", but Payne 1 and 2 were some of the best 3rd person action games ... : at0micgarden
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    I suspect the issue is that I find the words, "3rd-person action" & "best" to be incongruous. I just fin... : wytefang
    • On PC, I'd agree... with the lack of analog control, but Payne controlled much more like an FPS, very smo... : at0micgarden
    • MP's controls are far from clunky. : Orange Pylon
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      Yeah, Max Payne is an FPS game where you can see your actor. None of that bad 2d cursor nonsense. : AxeMan808
      • Pretty much. They did TPS the way it's supposed to be done in MP. Just try it. : Marrbe
• I played it for the first time (both games) last month and I was not disappointed about the hype. : Psigun
• The game holds up very well too. : adsriordan
• Max Payne is a 2001 PC Game which still looks and plays amazingly. PLAY NOW. : retarded talking dinosaur
• essentially, you missed out on two of the best single player games I've ever experienced, and I'm sure ma... : PlanetPerfecto
• I am going to go ahead and disagree with everyone in this subthread. I have played both games and you are... : GreatGooglyMoogly

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• * seeing as Remedy ARE NOT making it. Fucking typos. : MeestaNob

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• Do yourself a huge favor and make it a priority. : dognose
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  I hadn't played it myself until recently. I'm sorry I put it off; the game is fantastic. A fun ride the e... : Orange Pylon
  • days hours : marmite
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  it's only 4 hours long, just do it. : headbone
  • More like six. At least for people who actually like to enjoy their games and not rush through without wa... : VisitorQ
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  it had the graphics of half-life 2 before half-life 2 was released- as well as gameplay and ambiance to d... : PlanetPerfecto
  • Agreed. This game is fantastic. : 69gooch69

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  i hope Rockstar doesn't go the way of GTAIV and try hard to make it as realistic as possible. Rockstar's... : xgeriatricsx
  • GTA IV was pretty far from realistic. : SockMonkeh
  • As awful as it would be, I still find the idea of Max Payne going on dates to be hilarious. : jet-poop
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    Rockstar doesn't do realism. Maybe in terms of city size and scope. But their games are more like comic b... : Godhatesfatpeople
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      When i say realism i am thinking squarely about GTAIV. And by them trying their hand at realism, I mean ... : xgeriatricsx
      • If I don't get to bullet dodge while blowing guys away, set inside a dark, gritty, film-noire-esque setti... : monchipeters
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  they are raping him they are raping max payne they are raping all our memories : nomaad
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    to clarify: I want to see Rockstar's take on Max Payne. Enough time has passed since MP2 to see what new ... : nomaad
    • Why not. Max Payne's gameplay is simple enough that I'm not afraid of having a different studio do it, if... : Marrbe
  • Wah wah wah no one said that. What I am saying is that Rockstar can't do anything to refresh this franchi... : SpaecKow
• I read they did a crap job porting Bully too. I'm more worried about how well the port turns out than any... : Popedispencer
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  the story was produced by Rockstar- which is the only part I really care about. A 3rd person shooter with... : SniperWolf22
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    Do you mean Remedy? : dognose
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      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Payne_2 no... I mean rockstar. : SniperWolf22
      • According to your link, MP2 was produced by 3DRealms. What are you trying to say? : dognose

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  yeah, the formula is just waaay to difficult to pull of for anyone else. : waxthirteen
  • It really honestly is. There's a real mixture of comedy, drama, noir, and love in Max Payne. I just don't... : retarded talking dinosaur
  • Think of all the games that use Bullet Time, and stack them up against Max Payne 2. Only F.E.A.R. comes ... : AxeMan808
• Rockstar Vancouver who made Bully, so I'm optimistic : slackshoe
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  I just woke up and was so fucking exited to see a Max Payne 3 announcement ! Way to ruin the moment for ... : Cashh
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    That an eventual third Max Payne game would be made by another development studio than Remedy, probably R... : Kristian Joensen
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      wow you really have been following this closely : kn1fe
      • Actually believe it or not, I haven't really been following MP3 that closely at all. I just have been fol... : Kristian Joensen

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  amen to that, i STILL use my max payne mousepad to this day : Chemist6913
  • Just retired mine a few months ago. I have it sitting somewhere. : dudehoyt

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  Nobody crucial died except Vlad, Max escaped the hospital (which was coincidentally raided to get him) an... : Meadows.TR
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    "Nobody crucial died except Vlad" or "Everyone except Max died." Mona also survived in the hard ending, b... : SockMonkeh
    • That's a lot. In the first game, only Max survived any of it (and Mona, but we haven't really seen her m... : Meadows.TR
  • Ah mustn't have been paying attention, I was very bored at that point. : Splinebastard
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    Jim Bravura lives too IIRC, they said it in passing at the end of the game between some cops. : Sailor of Fortune
    • That's what I said to SockMonkeh. : Meadows.TR
  • which ending is the "canon" ending though :P : RikiTiki2
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  That was Mona, not Max : Cowburn199
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    In the real (hardest mode) ending neither of them died. : Psigun
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      That's true but I would assume the game will follow from the normal ending as that is what most players w... : Cowburn199
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        I didn't experience the hard ending but I looked it up on youtube and it was much more satisfying. : Psigun
        • i thought it was more of a cop-out. the story is supposed to be tragic, at least the way i saw it : RikiTiki2
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        Remedy have stated in the past that the hard ending is not canon. She's dead, jim. : retarded talking dinosaur
        • What Remedy says means jack shit in this case. Rockstar decides what they take as canon. : Kristian Joensen

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  I could play GTA 4 fine on pc the day it was released. : Johnnsen
  • Same here. : CrustaR
  • I've wondered if the people who say GTA4 ran fine on PC ever played on 360 or PS3. On 360, it was an exam... : Rooster Cockburn
• My computer was well over a year old when GTA 4 came out and it ran it fine. : Jimbo Ro
• My computer ran it fine, but I wish I could crank the detail levels a little higher (higher memory vid ca... : djdisco

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  the ending where mona dies in MP2 is canon. She's not coming back. : retarded talking dinosaur
  • we thought she died in the original, though, too : RikiTiki2
  • linky me proof, she lived in hard mode! : SniperWolf22

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  Remedy aren't developing it, see here: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19494832#itemanchor_19494832 ... : Kristian Joensen
  • I should read articles before I write something right? :p : Snipergen
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    Wtf is up with Remedy? :( I'm starting to worry about them. They're too quiet about Alan Wake, and the... : code-e255
    • Games in this day and age take along time to make. Considering that the teams that release yearly games i... : Kristian Joensen
    • Do you want them to hurry up like Crytek did? It's good if they don't overhype it, too, because that can... : Meadows.TR
• show us pics of the wall! that must of turned out badass. : mastarp

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  Marilyn Manson pleases angsty teens and those who are into various types of metal cringe whenever he's me... : SniperWolf22
  • I don't get YOUR comparison. Silent Hill was AWFUL. I regret seeing it. And I haven't seen the MP movi... : xgeriatricsx

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  no, winter of 09, so q4 09/q1 2010 : Maarten Goldstein
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    Maarten, that's soon! Does that mean they have been working on it for a while? : CrustaR
    • They always have been working on the game for a while when they announce it. : Johnnsen
    • 2+ years : et72
  • But wouldn't it be "this winter" then? : Johnnsen
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  they probably drafted the Press Release before the end of this last winter, before the current Spring. : Sailor of Fortune
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    The Press Release ism't what says "Next Winter" it says "Winter 2009". It is the news articles that say ... : Kristian Joensen
    • Well the news articles should put up the Press Releases then to avoid all this ambiguity. : Sailor of Fortune
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  Yeah, no way it's gonna be done in the next 12 months. They're just saying "winter 2009" to get people ex... : code-e255
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    You have no idea how long this has been in development. Games typically are in development for several ye... : Kristian Joensen
    • When it comes to game releases, I'm pessimistic. And maybe I'm also used to Blizzard-like announcement st... : code-e255
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  I'd rather they just finished Alan Wake... : Nglemb
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    Remedy isn't involved. At all. : Chris Faylor
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      oh wtf, who is making it then? : deathofrats
      • bah...rockstar. lame. : deathofrats

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• Who wants to take bets on whether or not he's grown a mustache? : SockMonkeh
• hope that's a "PAYNE!" as Vinnie Gognitti only would be able to yell. : azuvatar

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  I clicked because I thought I saw cock and balls. Turns out it's just Max Payne. :[ : My Documents
  • i find it hilarious that you frowned when you found out it was MP and not cock and balls. : xgeriatricsx

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• Right you are, thanks. : Chris Faylor

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  also "This is Max as we've never seen him before..." bothers me. DON'T change the feel of max payne cuz i... : Jockiboy
  • Hes bearded up and scruffy. We havent seen him like that before. : pimpium