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Max Payne 3 - PC
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- Experience the latest and most grim chapter to date in the Max Payne saga, in the first Max Payne game released since 2003
- An explosive multiplayer experience, bringing Max Payne's signature Shootdodge and Bullet Time gameplay, along with a range of new and expanded special abilities into the arena of competitive online multiplayer
- A wide range of firearms and other weapons that can be dual-wielded
- A dark storyline full od seedy characters and gangs to interact and battle with
- Enjoy special game-related features including soundtrack info, achievements, and special events and contest opportunities for fans and Rockstar Games Social Club members
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| ASIN | B00178631E |
|---|---|
| Release date | June 1, 2012 |
| Customer Reviews |
3.9 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank | #79,922 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games) #2,882 in PC-compatible Games |
| Pricing | The strikethrough price is the List Price. Savings represents a discount off the List Price. |
| Product Dimensions | 7.5 x 1 x 5.5 inches; 7.2 Ounces |
| Type of item | Video Game |
| Language | English |
| Rated | Mature |
| Item model number | 31607 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 7.2 ounces |
| Manufacturer | Rockstar Games |
| Date First Available | April 21, 2009 |
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For Max Payne, the tragedies that took his loved ones years ago are wounds that refuse to heal. No longer a cop, close to washed up and addicted to pain killers, Max takes a job in São Paulo, Brazil, protecting the family of wealthy real estate mogul Rodrigo Branco, in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. But as events spiral out of his control, Max Payne finds himself alone on the streets of an unfamiliar city, desperately searching for the truth and fighting for a way out.
Combining cutting edge shooting mechanics with a dark and twisted story, Max Payne 3 is a seamless, highly detailed, cinematic experience from Rockstar Games.
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There have been some pretty scathing reviews from the Amazon users, but I beg to differ. So I'll give you the good and the bad from my perspective.
First it's a huge game, it comes on 4 DVD's. I bought the disks because I knew it would take forever to download.
What do you get on all of those disks? You're getting an interactive movie for good or ill. That brings us to the "cut scenes". This really plays like a movie. The acting and dialogue are top notch. The buddy movie type banter between Max and Passos, while you've seen it before in most buddy cop movies, they've done a good job here, there are some solid laughs. James McCaffrey does the voice for Max and Julian Dean does Passos and both are excellent, I especially like the interaction when Max and Passos are dealing with the mafia baddies in New Jersey. It almost makes you forget you're playing a video game. Many reviewers complain the cut scenes are too long, but they are important to the story, and the action weaves seamlessly between the cut scenes and where Max goes to work. If you want to just go blast stuff, you can do that in the "Arcade Mode", but if you want to work through the story, the game really pays off.
The graphics and the look of the game are great, almost cinematic in quality and the sound quality is also great. The background neighborhoods and buildings and are well done and the characters move well and have a great look. There's an excellent feel to the whole game.
What about the gameplay? It's a tough game. I died many, many times at Medium difficulty. As the game goes on, you have to aim better to get a kill. This means you basically have to get a headshot to drop the bad guys towards the end. SInce this is a third person shooter, the controls can be a little awkward and clunky, but the motion capture they've done works extremely well. There are some nice little touches, like the routine when Max tries to get through a locked door, it's not the rattling of a door knob like on most games, he thumps it with his body; they've done the little things to get it right.
The down side of the third person shooter is the aiming and moving around the environment. You can't jump over things, or climb on things. You're pretty much stuck on the ground. I also found it hard to locate the aiming dot when coming out of a cut scene or coming out from behind a barrier when you're surrounded and getting shot up. It takes a lot of finger dexterity to keep Max from standing up from behind a safe spot and to get him to fire at the bad guys without exposing himself to some withering gunfire. Until you get this down, you will die. A lot.
In order to protect yourself from getting shot to pieces, they've added a cover mechanic, so you can hide protected behind a wall or a column and then peek out to fire from the position. They've also brought back bullet-time and you can dive forward, to the side or backwards and fire at the bad guys in slow motion. There are many, many times that this is the only way to get through the level without getting killed.
So this brings us to the parental advisory. This is a game for mature gamers. The language is very course, they don't hold backon the cursing, and it is pretty gory. You will see, close up, what the damage that guns and machetes do to the human body. There is one particularly gruesome scene where Max tracts down a machete wielding slum gangster who has just done a whole body necklace on a poor retch (burning someone in a stack of tires), and then Max goes hand to hand with the thug. If you miss the blocking maneuver you get the full effect of a machete to Max's neck. It's not pretty. There's lots of blood and gore, but that's what you sign up for when you get involved with Max.
Once you've gotten through the story, there's a multiplayer feature for online play. I've only done this a little, but the maps are very good, the action is well done, and the gameplay (for the short amount of time I did it) was very fair. Even as a new player I was able to get in some very decent game play without massacred every time I spawned. This should be very playable for a long time to come, and makes the game a very good value.
What are the downsides? Having to install and go through Rockstar's Social Club is kind of a pain. You have to log on to your account through the Social Club to play the game. It's not as bad as EA's Origin, but I'd like to play a game I paid $50 for without having to log on through your anti-piracy game control to play my game.
Also as I said before the controls are a little awkward and the camera is in a few spots hard to manage, but this is easily dealt with. One small personal gripe, I'd like to be able to explore a bit without being told exactly what to do. Like put the explosives here, push this button or pull this lever, or use this keyboard combination to fight the bad guy, or do through this particular door. But this is happening with all games, so I suppose that players expect this from the game makers.
As far as the mechanics of the game, I had no problems with loading from the DVD's or getting the game authorized through Rockstar. I played a 1024x768 with all of the graphics set on High using a middle of the road graphics card, and the game looked and played great. I suppose those with a high powered gaming rig would have even a better experience.
In summary:
Don't believe the bad reviews here on Amazon. The gaming sites and magazines all gave this game excellent reviews and I agree with them. It's not perfect but it's pretty damn good. This is definitely a worthy successor to the first two Max Payne games.
**Great Game Play
**Excellent acting and story line, I liked the dialogue between Max and Passos.
**Don't mind the cut scenes, they really make for a solid story
**If you want to shoot things up and avoid the story and some (but not all) cut scenes, go to Arcade mode
**Outstanding graphics and sound
**Lots of nice little touches
**Multiplayer looks very promising for long term play
**How can you go wrong with an depressed alcoholic ex-cop with a death wish who doesn't take s*** from anyone?
If you're sitting on the fence on whether to buy it or not, I'd say go for it if you liked the first two Max Payne games and if you like third person shooters.
As far as the actual game play goes though, it's really quite good. There are plenty of weapons for you to shoot in slow motion bullet time and each one is satisfying to use. If you have the cross hair set to "white dot" though, be prepared to squint a lot. I recommend setting that option to "weapon specific" because, I don't know, maybe it was because I played the game on 1920×1080 but a tiny white dot is really hard to see, especially on graphics this amazing. This time, bullet time is recharged over time as opposed to getting kills for it and new to Max Payne series is the ability to hide behind cover, which is incredibly useful. Beware of the slow motion dive though - if you decide to do a shoot dodge and if that means you'll end up flying over a railing and into a canal, or off the edge of a building, it'll actually make you fall off. Basically my advice is, literally look before you leap. Max can also sprint, but quite frankly I don't think it adds any speed and is probably the most useless sprint feature I've ever seen, I wouldn't bother using it.
Payne is also limited in the number of weapons he can carry. He can use two one handed guns at the same time, but he'll have to drop any two handed guns he is carrying. He can also holster one of the one handed weapons and use only one, but also carry around a two handed weapon. Basically the most you can carry is two one handed weapons and one two handed weapon. This changes the game play as it makes it more realistic (because you know, the crazy stunts that Max pulls off is what someone would do in real life) and it has you searching for ammo all the time. Ammo is not exactly hard to come by, but you won't have bags of it either. In fact, before you move on to the next room it's best to search for a weapon with the most ammo and refill before moving on to the next room. Which will most likely start off with a cut scene, where sometimes Max pulls out one of the one handed weapons you are carrying. If you previously were using a two handed weapon like an AK, and in the cut scene Max pulls out a Desert Eagle, for instance, you'll start that next section of the level with that weapon pulled out. So make sure you have ammo for it, or remember to switch back to your two handed weapon. This can sometimes be a real pain (sorry).
The cut scenes themselves are incredibly long too. Luckily the game auto saves at the right moments so if you die, you won't have to watch it all over again. But to prevent yourself from dying, you take pain killers, just like in the previous games. The main reason for you dying would probably be because an enemy decides to walk up to where you are hiding behind cover and attempting to shoot you. Enemies stay behind cover a lot and take pot shots at you, but they also move around, forcing you to also move around and move from cover to cover. Enemies also throw grenades, which I didn't actually find any in the singleplayer, only the multiplayer had grenades.
The multiplayer also isn't as bad as I thought it would be. It's like the third person equivalent of Modern Warfare, complete with XP, achievements and customizable loadouts, kits and appearance. All of which can be unlocked through playing the multiplayer and the singleplayer modes on higher difficulties. Bullet time is also in multiplayer as well and it actually works quite well. Completing singleplayer on harder difficulties unlocks more things, but there are other singleplayer modes, like arcade, where you try and rack up as much points as you can in each level, and New York minute returns, where you must complete every level in under one minute, gaining extra time with each kill and even more time with head shots.
The multiplayer however is really secondary, especially if you're a Max Payne fan. What you really got the game for was the story. If you haven't already, I recommend you play the first game. You don't really have to, but it's quite interesting to watch the character development. In the third game, Max finally gets the chance to grieve for all the people he lost in the previous two games, including his wife and baby girl. As a result, a lot of the cut scenes are quite dark and even depressing and he drowns his sorrows in alcohol and a mid life crisis. Payne takes the job as a bodyguard (a word of advice - don't hire a drunk for a bodyguard) for a rich family in Brazil and is recruited by a new character by the name of "Passos". He is actually quite a likeable character, since not only Max likes him, but they also share the same sense of humor. There are plenty of wisecracks in the game and the dialog, although painfully (okay, I'll stop) cheesy is very well written. This game is pretty much an interactive movie and I think even the scripting is very well done. The story is also no longer told through a graphic novel. Is that good or bad? Not really sure, I miss the graphic novels, I don't really know of any other game that tells the story this way, but the cut scenes, despite being incredibly long are still really good.
Voice acting is really well done too, in fact everything to do with sound in this game is perfect. The soundtrack is really amazing and really sets the tone for the theme of the game. I feel that Rockstar really went above and beyond in using sound to create an authentic atmosphere. The weapons also sound beefy enough, even in slow motion and it makes them a joy to use.
The graphics look amazing too. The levels have lots of variety, which you'll have a lot of fun shooting the crap out of. Environments aren't as destructive as say Battlefield, but you'll find that certain points of cover don't last long as they get shot up by your enemies. Going into slow motion lets you see bullets traveling through the air and also makes them easier to dodge.
Despite how good it is, I'm not particularly interested in the multiplayer and I wish Rockstar had spent more time on making the singleplayer experience longer. Although the different modes do offer quite a bit of replayability and so in all honesty I'm not really ready to put this game away yet. If you were worried, like me, that this game wouldn't live up to the standards of the previous ones in the series, then don't worry, Max fills those concerns with bullet holes with amazingly fun gameplay, despite that only feeling like it's half of the singleplayer experience and for those who want it, the multiplayer is well worth the money too. Overall a very fun game.
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この価格だったらコンシューマ機用(持っている人はですが)を買った方が良いですよ。
グラフィックはGTX670で快適に動きます。
DVD4枚をインストールするのはかなりめんどくさいです。
キーボード&マウスでシューティングゲームをやるのに慣れている人には良いですが、
コントローラに慣れている人は、XBOX用コントローラしか対応していないので注意が必要です。
PS3用は言うに及ばず、iBUFFALOも使えませんでした。
ゲーム自体はおもしろいです。
導入部がかなり長く、スキップもできないので、2回目はイラっとしますが(笑)
ストーリーモードはコントローラでやっても照準ロックができる設定にすれば楽にできますが、
タイムアタックモードなどストーリーモード以外ではマウスによる照準あわせが必須です。
「PC用シューティングはキーボード&マウスでやるもの」という人にはオススメですが、
コントローラ使用を前提とされているならコンシューマ機用にするべきです。
自分は2700円だったのでアリだと思って買いましたが、今の価格なら間違いなくコンシューマ機用を買っていますね。
ストーリーや主人公のキャラは、一言でいうと「ダイハード」です(笑)
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何か点線が、横に並んでいますが、これでは全然解りません。





