Max Payne 3
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Relentless realistic gunfights against human enemies with heavy blood spray, and a slow-motion kill-cam that lingers on final bullets tearing into bodies.
The player restores health by swallowing painkillers, and Max is portrayed as a heavy drinker; the plot revolves around a favela drug trade.
Bleak story of addiction, grief, corruption, favela poverty and an organ-trafficking conspiracy that preys on the poor.
Suggestive scenes in a nightclub and VIP-lounge setting; brief innuendo in dialogue, nothing explicit.
Frequent strong profanity throughout the dialogue and Max's internal monologue.
Women in revealing club attire appear in party and nightlife scenes.
Organized crime, kidnapping, and gang violence are depicted as the world Max fights through.
Captives and a torture/execution subplot are referenced and shown in cutscenes involving bound victims.
Max is written as a self-destructive alcoholic who narrates suicidal, self-loathing thoughts.
A close-up final-kill camera lingers on bullets tearing into and wounding bodies, and the plot centers on a ring that harvests organs from the poor.
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What it is
Max Payne 3 is a cinematic third-person shooter in which a former New York cop, now a burned-out alcoholic and painkiller addict, takes a private-security job in São Paulo, Brazil, and gets pulled into a violent conspiracy of gang warfare, corruption, and a ring that traffics in the organs of the poor. Gameplay is built around intense, realistic gunfights with slow-motion 'bullet time' and a graphic final-kill camera showing blood and bullet wounds. The game features frequent strong profanity, constant on-screen alcohol and painkiller use tied to the health system, drug-trade plotlines, suggestive nightclub scenes with women in revealing attire, and bleak adult themes of grief, addiction, and exploitation. An online multiplayer mode with other players is included.
How it's framed
The game frames Max as a haunted, self-destructive antihero rather than a role model; violence is stylized and gratifying to perform, but the narration dwells on guilt, addiction, and futility, and the criminal exploitation at the heart of the plot is portrayed as monstrous.
Details
- Developer
- Rockstar Studios
- Publisher
- Rockstar Games
- Released
- May 31, 2012
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