Max Payne Interview

As a home-based gamer with an internet connection that varies between slow and hideously crappy (thank you, Earthlink), I have absolutely no interest in multiplayer games. I wish there were many more games made for single players only, and whenever a game ships that has multiplayer support I'm always suspicious that the single player option may have been thrown in at the last minute just to trick gamers like me (Quake, anyone?)

However, that doesn't mean I'm going to salivate all over May Payne. Ever since I attempted to play the demo for the very first Tomb Raider and found it to be crappy beyond belief, I've never touched third-person games again. The big problem I found was lack of control over view and even movement, and I don't suppose these problems have been solved despite the passage of five years. Sure, Max Payne looks great, but it's still third person.

As for the poster who questioned which came first, Max Payne or "The Matrix", I have a Max Payne movie from over a year ago which showed a very different looking Max--no high-definition photo-realistic skins there, just a tech demo whose main attraction was the realistic way his trenchcoat swung as he ran. Perhaps the massive overhaul to the present system was launched in the wake of Nocturne, which trumped even that minor achievement.

C'mon, it's easy to claim that "nobody would want to play 3rd person multiplayer", but if MaxP's single player is fun, why would it suddenly "magically suck" when you play against another human?. It sounds like a strong enough game that there's gotta be more to it than that.

If you ask me (and you didn't), seeing all the multiplayer being cut out of third person games lately (Max Payne, FAKK2, Oni), I imagine there's a lot more difficulty in making it work than anyone ever thought. From the little I know about the stuff that makes Quake(X)'s multiplayer smooth over a laggy connection, it likely gets ten times as complicated when you throw in player animation, camera control, etc. It's entirely possible that they couldn't handle it, or at least couldn't handle it and get the game out soon...

How many games so far have managed to pull off third person multiplayer well (as a technology), anyway?

/\strakhan

I thought Heretic II was kick@ss mp in third person and that was the only way I played Jedi Knight mp. Just my copper duece.

TimmAH!

in those days, can you even release a game withoput multiplayer?
i mean, some games are fine, but first-person-shooters???

btw, did anyone attend the discussion about multiplayer at e3??

On the "Which came first, Max Payne or Matrix" I'd like to add this quote from the interview.

"Seeing that Max Payne is using a lot of movie-like camera angles, by which movies were you inspired?

We've been watching closely all John Woo Hong-Kong movies (like The Killer and Hard Boiled), additional inspiration has been drawn from movies like Die Hard, Blade Runner and naturally The Matrix :-) "

Take from that what you will. TimmAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

According to how Stomped.com read this interview, Max Payne won't have multiplayer support...

hey look. i'm in a story on the shack.

"...run this puppy."

nevermind.

pup (entertaining myself)

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