I never was a Max Payne fan. Max Payne 3 turned out to be the game people wanted after they realized realistic gun violence needs a better soundtrack. Instead, the team who developed The Warriors for Rockstar. Original Max Payne developer Remedy Entertainment is too busy working on Alan Wake to create a third title in the pulp noir action series.
He shoots them and the developers made sure it felt mechanically great. This video game stars a white dude in a land of poor people of color. What have you done for me lately Max Payne? Have you upheld all the current tropes in gaming? Yes, you have. I mean “bullet time” became a known term because of Max Payne. Shooting bullets at a slower rate of speed was cool.
Audiences don’t demand a great deal from these franchises.There are these little moments Rockstar developed for you to chose if, or when, to kill a character. I say this as someone who knows what I don’t like about these games, but totally gets why a game ‘should’ sell millions. So I’m taken aback when I see the Tomb Raider’s and Max Payne’s of the world, sell millions of copies and still be considered financially unsuccessful.
But hey, that soundtrack sure is dope right? The difficulty ramps up at illogical times, usually when you’re figuring out how wonky the cover system is. People of color are massacred for the sake of Max Payne’s motivation. But honestly, Max Payne 3 is so bad, I almost want a new Max Payne made as an apology for the mess I had to wade through.Women are killed to progress the plot. When I planned out how I was going to write about this, that previous sentence gave me a great deal of glee. Seems very familiar.We might never see another Max Payne game. Pissed to the point where you get to see more images of a white character gunning down disenfranchised natives.
Thank you in advance Rockstar Games. They are a drain on every aspect of society.