Are the original Remedy guys doing this, or is it another bunch of unrelated dudes?

just got the feeling PC always get the last priority just like what happen to GTA 4.

Another chance for Max Payne to bang Mona 

That is of course if the story continues from the alternate ending...

u see the website there's all icon for PS3 and xbox...where is PC? lmao. damn rockstar.i am not gonna support the game.

YES ! My fav antihero returns for the last time.

Question :

That doesn't look like Max Payne at all. He needs his constantly constipated look back. This guy looks like Sam Fisher more than anything..

please put the noir television series back! I like to watch those television series.

"My lord, I can't marry you"

"Why my love ?"

"Because.....I am your sister !!"

*cue dramatic music*

THE FLESH OF FALLEN ANGELS... 

walao...games appearing on PC is getting less n less..

please don relate it to the movie... oh rockstar please...!!!

PS: the banner looks like Chow Yun Fatt to me...

lol. t3chn0m4nc3r what spec u using now??

no hv pc version ?

please put the noir television series back! I like to watch those television series.

"We're starting a new chapter of Max's life with this game," commented Rockstar cofounder Sam Houser in a statement. "

I'd be okay if they went with some place like Hong Kong or Malaysia something, a place with a reputation for underworld, gunplay, etc., so you can have to two essentials of Max - 1. gritty environment, 2. famous criminal org.

Anyway Max peaked with MP1 and Kung FU 3.0, so whatever.

I heard the first two installments were very good.
Don't think I will play them as they are very old. Will definitely give Max Payne 3 a look and going by...

...missing out on Payne 1 and 2 might not affect my joining late

The latest issue of Edge Magazine has the full scoop on Max Payne 3, Rockstar Vancouver’s 2009-announced sequel that went silent that same year. While not in development at its original studio, Remedy Entertainment, Rockstar Vancouver assures fans that its “been involved with Max since the beginning” and that they’re not “picking up this franchise fresh”. Max Payne 3 is a continuation of the series, and Rockstar Vancouver has recruited help from its Toronto, London, and New England studios in creating it.

“We love Max and we want to continue to do right by him,” said Max Payne 3 Art Director Rob Nelson. “That’s the biggest challenge for us: the decisions we come to have to make sense for him.”

Max Payne 3 is set eight years after the events of Max Payne 2, where Payne is done working with the New York City Police Department has now found himself working for rich clients as a private security contractor in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Edge was shown a demo where the wife of Payne client Rodrigo Branco’s wife is kidnapped by the Commando Sombre street gang, and Payne must deliver the ransom to get her back. In the mission, Payne has a full head of hair. According to Nelson, the game is “always playing with time in the story,” going ‘backwards and forwards” using “aggressive editing”.



Aside from story, Max Payne 3 will also feature an online multiplayer mode. The magazine doesn’t go into detail.

Still no release date. As an extra tidbit, James McCaffrey, the voice of Max Payne in the first two games, will return for Max Payne 3.

Quick summary from the magazine:

- Destructible Environments
- Will include online multiplayer
- Bullet-time recharged by killing enemies
- Wheel-based weapon selection window
- New cover system that uses scenic objects
- Hundreds of hours of mo-cap footage recorded
- Original Max Payne voice actor James McCafferty returns
- Comic book panels return. Will use in-game engine to show an animated collage of action footage.

Rockstar sent out a fresh batch of screenshots today for Max Payne 3, showing off lots pointed guns and tense situations. The accompanying fact sheet mentions use of the Euphoria engine, which replaces stock animations with simulated responses to the environments. In this case, it's said to make Max's floor dives and Bullet Time more natural, while letting enemies respond to your bullets more effectively.

James McCaffrey is not only voicing Max but doing motion-capture work for the character. Rockstar also promises "hundreds of hours" of motion capture for sidekick and partner characters, as well as to make accurate enemy movements.

Bullet Cams are also making a comeback for those kills you just have to see up-close, and the bullets can even wreak some havoc on the environment

Rockstar Games is set to give Max Payne 3 its first public appearance early next month according to a GameKings report, who says it'll feature at Firstlook 2011.

It's an expo held in Holland between October 1st and 2nd. Max Payne 3 was announced back in 2009 but since then has completely avoided the public eye.

Rockstar Vancouver is behind the third instalment to the hard-hitting Max Payne series, which was created by a certain Alan Wake developer, Remedy Entertainment. Well the GameKings reckon that Rockstar will be showing off Detective Payne's return real soon.

Firstlook 2011 runs between October 1st and 2nd in a strange and mysterious land called Holland. Max Payne 3 releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC at an undisclosed date.

Max Payne 3 will launch on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in March 2012. That's the word from Rockstar Games, which has been nothing short of enigmatic during the game's protracted development.

The third-person slow-mo shooter sees Max traveling to Sao Polo, Brazil, and protecting a family targeted by society's more illicit elements -- he might have gotten better at doing that sort of thing since the first game.

His solo criminal crackdown is accompanied by a multiplayer mode, which marketing guys describe as "a compelling experience that dynamically alters maps and mode progression for all players in a match." You can also expect the obligatory leveling system, clans and load-out selection.

To steel yourself for said "compelling experience," we suggest you stock up on testosterone, John Woo movies (not Windtalkers, obviously) and facial expressions that convey either familial anguish, or excessive chili burrito consumption.

omg what happened to all the noir?

First Sam Fisher and now Max Payne. goodbye Max.. 

LA Noire not Noire enough for you? lol

LA Noire not Noire enough for you? lol

Dan Houser of Rockstar Games says you "have to have originality" in your title, "some kind of interesting message." Rockstar want us to "really feel" a game.

They're "deliberately avoiding" the Western fascination with military-style FPS titles, and Rockstar doesn't even think of Max Payne 3 as a straight shooter.

"We're deliberately avoiding that right now," said Dan Houser, referring to first-person shooters with a backdrop of all out war. "It's in our DNA to avoid doing what other companies are doing." Rockstar has always thumbed their nose at 'what's expected'.

"I suppose you could say that Max Payne 3 is something close to an FPS, but there are really unique aspects to the setting and gameplay there, too, not just in the story."

"You have to have originality in your games; you have to have some kind of interesting message. You could say that the goalpoint of Rockstar is to have the players really feel what we're trying to do," continued the Rockstar co-founder.

The Grand Theft Auto maker also doesn't ever make things to fit a platform; the game comes first and then they pick where it'll fit best.

"Our mobile strategy is not at all different from our console strategy -- in other words, we don't have one," continued Dan Houser in an interview.

"Our focus is purely on making games that we can be confident on the quality of. We've never made something because we felt it was a business opportunity or because we thought there was some niche in the marketplace we could fill."

Fear not, Houser believes mobile gaming won't engulf the games industry. "I don't think mobile is going to swallow up video games, but it's an important topic."

"The massive phenomenon we saw when portable game systems came out has already spread over the mobile market, but we've experienced successes and failures in portables in the past." He wants to avoid being 'stuck' in a particular market, or platform.

"This is my personal opinion, but I think a lot of people in the general mobile industry are more focused on making money than making good products," he said.

"We're a business, too -- we have to think about how to build revenue and we value the knowledge you need for that, but we want to conduct business with superior products. Focusing on nothing but business is depressing to me; it's boring. I want people to understand that we make games for more than just to make money."

Naturally it helps that Rockstar's videogame offerings have sold mega bucks with Grand Theft Auto IV achieving lifetime sales of over 22 million. Next week Rockstar will be airing the first official trailer for Grand Theft Auto V on November 2nd.

Max Payne 3 releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in March 2012.

Dan Houser admits that Rockstar Games keeping such a tight grip on information about their teams and a game's development "might annoy people" but it's to 'better their immersion'.

It's "really important" that games feel "kind of magical," and dishing on their processes would lessen that. Houser wants us feeling "this thing is alive," and losing ourselves in it.

Rockstar Games have quite the reputation for being notoriously stingy when it comes to game details. For a long time GTA: San Andreas was marketed by just a couple of screenshots.

"It's really important to us that the games (feel) kind of magical," Dan Houser told Variety. "It might annoy people that we don't give out more information, but I think the end point is people enjoy the experience."

"The less they know about how things are pieced together and how things are broken down and what our processes are, the more it will feel like this thing is alive, that you are being dragged into the experience. That's what we want." Many studios now like to use developer diaries to help keep the marketing wagon rolling, but not Rockstar.

Silence is golden for the developer, and they prefer to let fans do the hard work of spreading the anticipation. The next big release from Rockstar, other than L.A. Noire for PC this week, is Max Payne 3. "I think the challenge of nostalgia is a profound one, because one thing about videogames is your memory tends to remove the horrendous," he said.

A lot of people remember fond memories of Max Payne and 'forget' its foibles. "(The games) become these great, perfect experiences. … It's definitely a challenge to get the right pitch when you want to appeal to the fans of the original and bring in a new audience," explained the Rockstar co-founder.

In Max Payne 3, Max is no longer a cop but a private security specialist working in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Gangs target the family of the industrialist he works for and, in true Max Payne style, all hell breaks loose and he goes on an action spree, whilst trying to deal with his inner demons. The series has always walked a dark path in story.

"If games are to be the next major form of creative consumption, art, cultural expression or whatever the correct term is, then strong narrative has to be part of that," he says. "If the mechanics are fine and the story is ridiculous, the experience is much diminished." Multiplayer won't be completely devoid of any narrative, hints Houser.

"We wanted to put some elements of single player into the multiplayer so the multiplayer will have a lot more detail and have elements of story in it and have a sort of an immersive quality," he continued. "We think that's something that is underexplored in multiplayer."

Rockstar are sticklers for detail, and they go to some great lengths for a project.

"We are building a film set, but it's a 360-degree film set that has to join together and feel real," he explains. "Some of the stuff we end up being most obsessed by are the things that join between walls. And where a lot of other games fail is their models may look great, but they don't sit together very well."

Houser feels Rockstar is more a film studio than a traditional games developer, as they shoot the equivalent of a feature film in motion capture every few weeks, he reveals. One area that they aren't interested in pursuing, unlike most others these days, is 3D. Max Payne 3 maybe 3D-compatibile but it's not been seriously invested in.

"I don't think anyone has solved the riddle of how you make 3D an integral part of the gaming experience," noted Dan Houser. Recently Rockstar released a trailer for the newly announced Grand Theft Auto V teasing its location and place in time, but in true Rockstar style they haven't released any specifics about it. Does that annoy you?

Max Payne 3 releases on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in March, 2012.

As Max Payne reinvents himself for the modern generation, don't expect him to lean too hard into the brave new world of 3D. Rockstar's Dan Houser told Variety he's still unimpressed with the tech (even if it's possible Max Payne 3 will include it on PC).

"I don't think anyone has solved the riddle of how you make 3D an integral part of the gaming experience," he told the publication.

We'd like to take a moment here to take a firm stance in favor of utterly non-integral gaming innovations. Isn't that the whole point of 3D, sort of a George Mallory on Everest "Because it's there" type thing? We want to say here and now that the moment 3D has a purpose, we're gonna start pushing for 4D, and just wait until you see the glasses you'll need for that.

Wow, it looks good to me. especially the animation of AI getting hit.

If you're absolutely certain you'll want Max Payne 3 in a really bad way, and you're already financially and emotionally prepared to drop a Benjamin on it, has Rockstar got the deal for you! Between now and January 15, roughly two months before the game's March release window, you'll be able to order the Max Payne 3 Special Edition, "while supplies last."

What will your $100 pre-buy you, besides the game itself? Ready? Here goes: A 10" tall Max Payne statue; "game-inspired Original Still Life Art Prints," for your art collection; a bullet-shaped keychain with screw-off back (for your drugs!); the obligatory multiplayer character pack, including Max Payne favorites like Mona Sax and Vladimir Lem; the similarly obligatory multiplayer weapons pack; and lastly, the game's original soundtrack.

Curiously, this Special Edition really is special, in that it actually is limited ("while supplies last") and won't be available after release. If you want to wait, be warned that eBay scalpers are probably circling the waters already.

Good news: You could get shot if you win Rockstar's Max Payne 3 contest, which gives entrants the chance to appear in the game. Rockstar needs more face variants for its gang members in Max Payne 3's multiplayer component, and if you tweet using the #MaxPayne3 hashtag (from now through January 13th) your mug could make it in.

You'll also need to follow @RockStarGames, and note that the company reserves the right to turn you down once you've been chosen for consideration -- sorry, Eric Stoltz. Also, Cher.

(Actually, either one might make a good ruthless gang leader, now that we think about it. They both know a lot of bikers, after all.)

Rockstar Games has announced the "official" release date for the upcoming third-person shooter sequel, Max Payne 3. And by official, they apparently mean we should ignore the last announcement they made about it a few months ago, saying it would arrive in March. Because instead, we'll be getting the game on May 29th in NA and June 1st in Europe, a couple weeks after the console versions land this May 15th.

    For Max, 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, he 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.

    Featuring cutting edge shooting mechanics for precision gunplay, advanced new Bullet Time® and Shootdodge™ effects, full integration of Natural Motion’s Euphoria Character Behavior system for lifelike movement and a dark and twisted story, Max Payne 3 is a seamless, highly detailed, cinematic experience.

    In addition to an expansive single-player campaign, Max Payne 3’s multiplayer offering brings the game’s cinematic feel, fluid gunplay and kinetic sense of movement into the realm of online multiplayer. Building on the fiction and signature gameplay elements of the Max Payne universe, Max Payne 3 features a wide range of new and traditional multiplayer modes that play on the themes of paranoia, betrayal and heroism, all delivered with the same epic visual style of the single-player game.

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Max Payne 3 release date delayed by two months


Source: Firingsquad

Gawddamnit, delayed. I hope pre-order comes out early on Steam...
Wanna use Rockstar 50% coupon. ;I