Wow, this is a low for gaming journalism, first Diablo 3 and now Max Payne.
of course game reviews are subjective, people can like certain games and not others, but I'm really surprised that reviewers are not really digging into the flaws of Max Payne 3.
i'd like to see if anyone else has experienced this
Pros
1) Excellent dodge-shoot tech
2) Great environments even though not too noir-ish
3) Dynamic difficulty on checkpoints (if you die too often at a certain checkpoint, the game makes gives you more health and ammo gradually)
4) Same cheesy dialogue
Cons
1) Ridiculous amounts of cutscenes,
-People complain about scripted events in COD, about the cutscenes in Uncharted and the non interactivity of Heavy Rain. For a shooter, MP3 is much worse. There is a painful amount of cutscenes and the play time is just sparse, especially in the opening chapters.
2) Going away from the core of the series
Max Payne 1/2 has always been about diving into or away from groups of enemies, making yourself hard to hit, destroying the environments as everything explodes around you.
Max Payne 3 has a COVER SYSTEM and not even a particularly good one at that. You can't traverse corners, or at least the tutorial doesn't teach you how. There's no point in using bullet time as there appears to be some sort of aim assist, even in the PC version.
3) Change of art style.
So no graphic novel type cutscenes, ok fair enough (there are some semi reverse comic panels) Instead you get endless cutscenes filled with unnecessary MTV styled overlays that distort the image every few seconds. Yes Max Payne is an alcoholic and he has a hang over. WE GET IT.
4) Constantly changing your weapons for cutscenes
Related to the cutscenes, as you enter one every few minutes, it changes your weapon to the default single hand. Regardless of what you had before (dual wield or rifle). What's the point of using different weapons then? They even give you achievements for getting kills with different weapons.
5) Dynamic difficulty dumbed down
I had a boss fight which I died 7 times in a row. I thought, "wow a challenge finally" At my next revival, the game made the boss take 2 hits and die. *eyebrows raised*
So Max Payne 3 would be playable, if you've never played a MP game before or if you want to play it to see what happens to our luckless hero. But it certainly doesn't deserve all the praise that has been given to it so far.
of course game reviews are subjective, people can like certain games and not others, but I'm really surprised that reviewers are not really digging into the flaws of Max Payne 3.
i'd like to see if anyone else has experienced this
Pros
1) Excellent dodge-shoot tech
2) Great environments even though not too noir-ish
3) Dynamic difficulty on checkpoints (if you die too often at a certain checkpoint, the game makes gives you more health and ammo gradually)
4) Same cheesy dialogue
Cons
1) Ridiculous amounts of cutscenes,
-People complain about scripted events in COD, about the cutscenes in Uncharted and the non interactivity of Heavy Rain. For a shooter, MP3 is much worse. There is a painful amount of cutscenes and the play time is just sparse, especially in the opening chapters.
2) Going away from the core of the series
Max Payne 1/2 has always been about diving into or away from groups of enemies, making yourself hard to hit, destroying the environments as everything explodes around you.
Max Payne 3 has a COVER SYSTEM and not even a particularly good one at that. You can't traverse corners, or at least the tutorial doesn't teach you how. There's no point in using bullet time as there appears to be some sort of aim assist, even in the PC version.
3) Change of art style.
So no graphic novel type cutscenes, ok fair enough (there are some semi reverse comic panels) Instead you get endless cutscenes filled with unnecessary MTV styled overlays that distort the image every few seconds. Yes Max Payne is an alcoholic and he has a hang over. WE GET IT.
4) Constantly changing your weapons for cutscenes
Related to the cutscenes, as you enter one every few minutes, it changes your weapon to the default single hand. Regardless of what you had before (dual wield or rifle). What's the point of using different weapons then? They even give you achievements for getting kills with different weapons.
5) Dynamic difficulty dumbed down
I had a boss fight which I died 7 times in a row. I thought, "wow a challenge finally" At my next revival, the game made the boss take 2 hits and die. *eyebrows raised*
So Max Payne 3 would be playable, if you've never played a MP game before or if you want to play it to see what happens to our luckless hero. But it certainly doesn't deserve all the praise that has been given to it so far.
The cover system could be a bit better too.
