@@HyperTensionJohnny The music was crazy and period correct as usual just like the GTA games.. Playing GTA IV now. Physics are insane. Just pushing characters to the ground is different every time. Subtle. Elegant.
Been a Religious FAN of the series for over 20 years. I think I'll still revisit the Trilogy every year even after turning 50. Amazing Work on the video. Shows how much you feel and care for MAX PAYNE and the legacy this series has left behind. Cheers!!
This game is so beautiful and holds up strong today I mean this came out on the 360/PS3 and it still looks as good as a modern game on the ps5 and the multiplayer was dope too
21:40 Imagine this shit happening in real life from the multiple headshots midair all the way down to sliding down the stairs and not having even a dislocated shoulder. I would believe that man could single handedly take down multiple street gangs, PMCs alongside a Pharmaceutical company, and multiple brutal Brazilian gangs.
@@HyperTensionJohnny Not to mention he is doing a copious amount of opioids, i guess the mix of lingering near OD, survival instinct (or lack there of, we are talking about Max Payne after all) and simultaneously having a constant adrenaline rush from gunfights manages to push the pain of a dislocated shoulder aside.
You bring up the point about how game companies don’t like to take risks anymore and only play it safe but I think that might change in the near future. This current economic downturn means less people are going to be willing to buy these $70 bloated messes if they don’t feel it’s worth it. Just look at the absurd success of Lethal Company. The late 2010s and the early part of this decade were pretty shit for AAA gaming, but just imagine if enough people decide to skip buying the latest cod or fifa because they think it’s not worth the little bit of spending money they have at the moment. If this continues, I think we’ll see more companies step up their game and start making quality products that people will actually buy.
Nice music bro. Love Max Payne 3 - the scene where Max finally plays his theme on a piano is the highlight of the series. Hope to see your subscriber count grow) RIP James McCaffrey
Loved Max Payne 3 back in the day! Discovered this channel after seeing your video on the first Max Payne title, incredible work and deserving of a bigger audience 👏🏻
Max Payne 3 was a life changing experience. This game made me feel so isolated just as Max did. no subtitles for the enemies and being in a foreign country. The story is so good and the cinematics with the catchy phrases popping up on screen as you hear Max's inner thoughts. The gameplay is as deep as the story, I just wanted to keep going. One of the few games I wish I could play for the first time again
Just got it for $7.00 on sale and played it for the first time on my series X and loved it. Took me 3 days to beat it on hardest difficulty. Never played any of the Max Payne titles either. The story got alittle convoluted by the end, but overall it is a solid 9 out of 10. The edgy neo-noir vibes and synth waves hit hard
Your videos are well edited, well scripted and cool as hell. Great work! The grittyness and artstyle combined with the groundbreaking shooting-mechanics is a winning combination. We share the same love for Max Payne 3 and you did the game justice with this one. Along with GTA 4 and Sleeping Dogs, MP3 is one of my favorite games. Would love to get your take on probably my favorite in-game world, Liberty City through the eyes of Niko Bellic.
Quick story; I applied to be an editor at a gaming magazine when I was 18. I submitted a resume and a handful of review samples, one of them being GTA IV. I got a reply from a senior editor that said, basically, that they really enjoyed reading the GTA IV review, but my resume needed to beef up first. I gave the game a 10 by their scoring system, so I definitely want to talk about it here someday...
The multiplayer was so good for MP3 and the map packs were solid. My favorite was the disorganized crime pack where you got to fight on the rooftops in Hoboken.
It was so much better than it had any right to be. I tried it on a whim, thinking it would be tacked-on and terrible, and ended up loving it. Bullet time worked surprisingly well, too.
Best gunplay,best shootouts i've ever experienced in a videogame,that airport final showdown,i can't remember how many times i have finished this game with all the collectibles and time trials,and Max character is so amazing,his monologues and attitude going from a depressed man who lost everything and cant live anymore to a madman who lost it all but doesnt give a damn nothing anymore but to become a pain in the ass for his enemies,a killing machine fearless off anything they throw at him.
God damn dude, I just watched your Scorpion King, and am going through the backlog of the games I like to see what you did... THIS is freaking amazing. Please keep this up, as best you can, you're killin' it!
I was looking forward to this video since your first max payne video. Amazing work once again, MP3 is also my favorite one actually, but all three are amazing games everyone who likes shooters should play
I'm going to give all Payne 3 players a tip who are on pc, turn off both the crosshair target aquisition from turning itself red when it hovers over an enemy and turn off killmarkers which make it turn into an x momentarily when a kill is achieved; when you do this the shootouts become so, so much more visceral and enjoyable; the results being that instead of seeing everything and enjoying the desperate situation Max is in; you are only shooting when the crosshair turns red-- it keeps you locked into looking only at that; if you turn it off, you begin spraying rounds in the enemies general vicinity and when you don't know when they die, your brain isn't going to get locked in a pattern of only spraying a predetermined amount of lead in repetition; it makes more surpriseing moments and keeps your head clear to enjoy everything so much more. It's much more emergent; and not to mention authentic to the originals!
hey man! i know this is a old video but so far i’ve seen your splinter cell videos and your kane and lynch one… and your really becoming one of my favorite channels, happy to see you consistently posting!
6:36 Ok!To those who said that the 3rd Max Payne is not connected to the first 2 Max Payne,you need to read the 3-part comics of Max Payne 3 or search on YT. It explain what happened to Max after the events of Max Payne 2 plus the backstory of Max is also included on the comics.
I don't know the series, I played only Max Payne 3 on PS3 back then , but I remember that feeling of playing a game that was very different from the other shooters. I was especially amazed by the graphics, and the ambient.
Saw your video on the 1st Max Payne and now I'm here for this one. Keep up the good work man, I really hope you get the recognition you deserve for all the effort you put into your videos
Last year, I played through all the Max Payne games in a row. The first two games for the first time actually, Max Payne 3 for the third time. I've come to love the trilogy very much. Every game is a hit. Yet, I still adore Max Payne 3 the most. It might be due to bias since I played it more often and it being my first game in the series. I love it to death and I cannot help it. It was the perfect ending for Max. For his suffering. He swore off the alcohol and I made my Max swore off the painkillers too once he shaved his head. He is finally free. It's a perfect trilogy with 3 delivering a perfect ending. It made me think that I'd never want a new Max Payne game. The only other game series that really made me feel this way was Hotline Miami. Like you pointed out, the lines of "TEARS" ring true. It really was time to let it go. Simply because the time could've never been more right to do just that.
First time I played this game I thought it was pretty good. Played it a second time several years later and absolutely loved it. It’s up there with Vanquish as one of the all time favorite 3rd person shooters.
If this is what Rockstar could do with linear games in 2012. Imagine what they could do now. This is, hands down, one of my TOP 5 favorite games of all time
delighted, this video is amazing. 3 was my first real intro to the series, had played the first couple on the xbox years and years ago but was (is) a stupid goopy goblin brain and was only wanting shooty mctooty space machine (whos voice is also like mcafferys max payne ((thats master chief im talking baout btw)). its refreshing to see it not just be blindly fucked on by muh cutscenes muh cover system
@@HyperTensionJohnny yea goopy gloopy brain shooters are great but BUT mp3 brings something to the table no other game i’ve played before or since brings
I play this game on PC in 2021, and found it amazing. Story, ambiance (portuguese voices and subtitles, music in the favelas), and variety are incredible. Intensity is cool and didn't exist in Rockstar open-worlds. I also like gameplay, louder than many TPS, but everything has more impact. It's shorter than open-worlds, but whereas them, I've often launch a chapter (after each game I finish, I play MP3 before choosing a new game). After RDR1 on Switch, I think a port to new platforms will be very cool, and it will be a beautiful game on Switch.
I love Max Payne in general even after he started doing texas road house commercials. Only thing i dislike is how many cut scenes there are on your 5th playthrough of the game. My only gripe. Final boss music at the airport goes super hard.
It felt great to get my hands on this game as a Brazilian 🇧🇷 as we are rarely portrayed by games. Of course it is heavily exaggerated, but so is NYC in Max Payne 1 & 2
Cheers, mateI think that's what I like most about gaming as an art form overall; when developers take real life and exaggerate it and paint real places with a wild brush. Rockstar, in particular, are experts at this.
Really love your review at Max Payne! And music. However I think it may be a little too biased but still, amazing work and I can't wait for more dude. Love ya
Great video as usual. However, since you have made reviews about man hunt 1&2 and bully. You really gotta play the warriors and review it here on the channel, it was such a masterpiece.
Bro. This was the game that made me play as a Walter White cosplayer in nearly every Rockstar game. From: Bully Red Dead 2 Gta 5 Gta San Andreas And any other with char customization. I take that as a Easter Egg to Max Payne 3 in all of those games.
I just discovered this series and am in love, I have no idea what people are on about saying this game is anything but masterful. This is easily my favorite rockstar game. Red dead 2 might be my second
@@HyperTensionJohnny you know it bro! I really hope a DS2 remaster is on the way! Such a badass series. I just finished control and am gonna try Alan Wake 2 next 🤘🏻
I noticed that your profile picture is that mask from Hitman Blood Money's "Dance with the Devil" mission, when are you going to make videos on Hitman?
@@HyperTensionJohnny @hypertensionfilms5439 Both!! I like all of the Hitman games (except for maybe Absolution), and I could tell from watching your Max Payne videos that you actually know your stuff. I've watched a lot of Max Payne videos online, and you're the only one who mentioned that Sam Lake's mother was Nicole Horne and his father was Alfred Woden, most videos I've seen either that don't bring it up or only mention his mother.
@@ironpainting1210 I really appreciate your attention to detail. I love doing research for these videos. I have to edit out so much in the script, lest they go on too long. I appreciate you watching.
Sam Lake writing: "I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings." Dan Houser writing: "YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT MY PROBLEM IS? YOU'RE TURNING HUMANS INTO GLUE! THAT'S WHAT MY FUCKING PROBLEM IS!"
I also look at it as Max has gotten older and years of addiction and alcoholism has slightly deminsed his, let's call it, flair for poetic ways of speaking and is just now so much more blunt and worn down. Also the fact that this is the first game where Max really yells because he know he is so close to ending all this horrible shit that he has been thrust into the middle of. On of my absolute favorite scenes is right after Victor and Becker get away and lock the door and after kicking the door and it not opening Max just screams " GOD DAMN IT" It really creates that sense that while Max has seen some horrific shit, it's nothing compared to what he has been through in Brazil and so instead of speaking in the typical Noir style, he is just fucking feed the fuck up and I think it really works
@@HyperTensionJohnny same. He is a man that has just fucking had enough of this shit and wants it to end. The gangsters and criminals were something Max was used to so he didn't really worry about them but HERE in Brazil he is totally out of his element. I love that you picked up on the Micheal Mann influence in the game. When I first played MP3 the whole time I was thinking " man, Rockstar must really REALLY love Micheal Manns movies"
I like all your videos, you’ve covered games I really like and you’re obviously also a big fan of micheal Mann like myself. But the characters are not wearing double breasted grey suits, they are single breasted, double breasted means it has double buttons on the front like a pea coat.
you're clearly spending a lot of time and thought on the videos and script, its a small mistake that's easy to make when tackling a reference. your videos are amazing.@@HyperTensionJohnny
@@HyperTensionJohnnyNeil does wear a double breasted suit jacket in Heat a few times. Your essay and narration are excellent by the way, the only reason I said this was because of how much attention to detail you included, sorry if I came off as a dick.
Oh, no I didn't take any offense at all, my friend. When I'm wrong, I want to it know it. Thank you for the kind words, and for watching! New video today 🤘🏻
Old school mode is my favorite playthrough of this game. I wasn't a fan of the last stand mechanic, I found it very pace-breaking when I would have rather the punishment of dying and reloading a checkpoint. The practice I got from playing on normal difficulty then going back to get all the gold records and then doing a full playthrough on old school. That was excellent, I would cherish that game safe for if and when i decide to go back to this game from the start.
@@HyperTensionJohnny I meant to say I got good practice when I sought out every gold weapon part * And that I starting from new but having all the gold weapons to do an old school run again is awesome. I prefer to gameplay of Max Payne 3 over the rest of the series, maybe the whenever to remake comes out can best Max pane 3. But I don't know man, I was struggling with quitting alcohol but playing through this game for the second and third time actually made me walk away from it, granted I know it's me who did that but it's just good to see an inspiration like that in a fucking video game. Journalists who hated on this game for the whoa is me attitude of Max Payne clearly haven't dealt with alcohol abuse. Sorry about all the spelling errors, using Google voice and I'm too tired to make it better. Have a good night sir, Your outro music is stuck in my head! Do you have a TH-cam music channel?
@Gator159 Good on you for walking away from the drink; I work with old timers every day that regret not quitting when they had the chance, so keep that going. I don't have a separate channel for music, but I think alongside my next video, I might just release a group of songs as an "album" and timestamp everything in the description. I just finished the "theme" song for the next video, so I have a good stockpile of tunes.
I'm a huge max payne fan. I can't tell you how many times I have finished Max Payne 2. There's only one problem with Max Payne 3 - the story and the writing is complete dog shit
@@HyperTensionJohnny Story was dumb. I played it when it came out, don't remember details but it was just stupid die hard nonsense. The lines Max was saying meant nothing. Compared to Max Payne 2 where every line is a quote, art and pure literature, sometimes mocking the noir style, sometimes being too edgy, but most times very deep. Max being self aware had more weight and pain in his life. He knew he was a broken man and that held him down. in third game, he knows his a broken man, acts out, and that somehow builds rage for him to become Steven Seagull. Second game played great that his personality and deep drepression was torturing him, only 'fun' he could have is when he was killing people and that made it even worse. Everything was perfectly stacked together to give you a complex character with complex issues who just couldn't help himself and turn his life around. Him feeling guilty for his family's death, guilty to feel attraction towards Mona (feeling he was cheating on his dead wife), seeing horrible dreams that somehow, in a twisted sense had logic in them and attack in his weakensses. I don't know man, second game was pure art, third was a Guns palooza bazuuka 'murica gringo shooter. I liked how inventory worked and gameplay, but story was just soooooooooo bad
max payne 3 is playable on normal difficulty, but it becomes a terrible game on hard difficulty, and thats the difficulty you HAVE to play at to unlock gold weapons
You didn't miss out dude. What you see on the screen is a generic GTA clone. The world is completely different, the story is somehow shallow, slow and confusing, all at once, and the guy you are playing as don't look or sound like mp, just has the same voice. The secret ending of mp2 is the end of Max's story and this krap is not cannon.
I have played through this game twice. I think it isn't a bad game at all, it's good, despite console version aiming being terrible. It just doesn't feel like Max Payne game. It lacks that Remedy tongue in cheek humor mixed with drama and action. It is just too serious and the plot imo isn't something incredible, really.
The story in this doesn't fail as a Max Payne story because it doesn't check the right neo noir boxes. The problem is that it's just not a Max Payne story at all. It's more like a GTA game that happens to be more brooding. The Denis Leary Ford F-150 commercial story presentation doesn't do it any favors either. Sam Lake and Dan Houser do not have similar or compatible writing sensibilities and I don't think Houser is a great writer for this game anymore than Sam Lake would be for, say, Red Dead. Lake gave us a a level of subtlety Houser is not interested in giving us. There's also a comical absurdity in both Remedy games that shines through in both background elements as well as the actual narrative. When True Detective season 2 came out everyone made fun of Vince Vaughn's dialogue and I was sitting there looking for Sam Lake's name in the credits. That wasn't an accident either as the drug hallucination scenes in Max Payne made it pretty clear that Lake knew what kind of dialogue he was writing and told us in a subtle way what kind of dialogue he was writing while simultaneously doing it all with a straight face. I'm also not willing to give the game a break in unskippable cutscenes because even though I understood they were making load times it was still poorly conveyed and also highlighted just how egregious some of these load times could be. I can't say enough nice things about the game once I'm done seeing it's cutscenes and playing it finally though. Completing New York Minute mode is still on my bucket list. I endured scores of Russian and, ironically, Brazilian trainer and aimbot users to enjoy the multiplayer because it was that damn good.
Totally fair. And I do prefer the writing from 1 and 2, to be clear. I can definitely see your point. The idea of a Dennis Leary, F150 commercial is horrifying, by the way. Just a hack stealing Bill Hicks material in a shitty truck. Woof.
nah it's not underappreciated it's finally the good ending max always needed i mean it's a shame it was downgraded to cover gameplay to fit console trend of 2013 it's also a shame they made this game only to see if they can nerf euphoria engine for gta 5 but overall it's great
Kane & Lynch video that I loved, Andre The Giant avatar, and now I'm watching another video praising Max Payne 3 and nodding heavily in agreement in the first 5 minutes. You might be the long lost brother I never had or at the very least a co-worker I could shoot the shit with over nerdy stuff while we try to make the best out of another dull day at work. I groaned when reviewers completely missed the cutscenes masking the loading screens and I groaned even louder when the Max Payne 1 and 2 superfans whinged about Sao Paulo being too sunny for a noir story. They acted as if Chinatown, In a Lonely Place and LA Confidential never existed and how much influence the very sunny and bright Los Angeles has had on noir media, arguably more than NYC. Another common complaint was the comic strips were gone (damned if you do, damned if you don't considering they would have been criticized for doing "more of the same/unoriginal design" if they kept them) but Rockstar put their own stamp on the visual design. Also, suddenly they were "ripping off" movies. Funny how a studio known for making games that absolutely wore film influences on their sleeves, and still do to this day, didn't face those same criticisms for Vice City and San Andreas or when they straight up lifted the satire style of Robocop for all GTA games. Vice City may not have been the first but it was the first time I was blown away they got a legitimate movie star like Ray Liotta to voice the main character. The gameplay to this day is still Rockstar's best and I fear they'll never take the time to match it. The transitions from cutscene to gameplay were always thrilling and kept me on the edge of my seat because I never knew what was going to pop off even if I knew SOMETHING was coming. Awesome video and I'm looking forward to catching up on your older videos.
The game truly is amazing but I can say as a brazillian that the portuguese suuuucks. Wich is a shame, we got amazing dub actors. Also, even living as far as it gets from Rio or São Paulo, I can tell they aimed for São Paulo but hit Rio hahaha
Another thing is this game has no leftist agendas, propagandas and censorship at all! True gem and the best TPS ever created, at least gameplay wise. This is my all time favourite game since it came out back in 2012, pushing Manhunt to number 2.
Considering the game depicts the rich and wealthy as complete immoral assholes and it’s made by rockstar(a company that consistently makes fun of right wingers) I would say it’s fairly left leaning if you absolutely had to look at it through a political lens. Believe it or not a majority of what’s considered the best media out there is extremely left leaning. Bioshock being a good example that most people misconstrue to be a right wing game.
Max Payne 3 is the worst in the series. It doesn't even feel like you're playing a Max Payne game. it's just a shitty generic Rockstar game. I could tell that Rockstar didn't really care when they were making this game. They were about to change the voice actor as well.
"Generic Rockstar game" what does that even mean. Mate, did you even play any Rockstar games in the PS2/Xbox and PS3/360 days? They were one of the most unique studios/publishers out there, before GTA Online ruined everything by earning them a billion dollars a year in profits from total suckers, making stuff like Manhunt, Bully, The Warriors, Midnight Club, Red Dead: Redemption, a fucking phenomenal Table Tennis game of all things and published a hell of a lot of games. They did the console port of Max Payne 1 and published both games. They were the ONLY choice for a third Max Payne game since Remedy wanted to do something different and Remedy might not even be around today if they didn't sell off the rights. To say they didn't care is just disrespectful to the developers and untrue. They were about to change the voice actor, true, but what changed their mind again? The fans and they listened and corrected it. Who's developing the Max Payne 1 and 2 remakes now and who's funding those remakes? Remedy and Rockstar, respectively. I dislike nowadays Rockstar with their ultra greedy MTX and "console ports now, full priced buggy ass PC port a year and a half later" strategies as much as anyone but calling their catalogue of games "generic" is blatantly false and comes off as fanboy whinging.
@@mandu6665"generic" as in unoriginal and interchangeable. This could have been an adaptation of Man on Fire or the any other action franchise and look and play exactly, and i do mean exactly the same. It's a shooty boom boom game with no depth or class. That's all it is.
@@czarnakoza9697 lmao, I expected Max Payne, a deep, resilient, complex character, in a noir setting with interesting writing and dark humor, not a generic shooter in Brazil with a sad addict as the protagonist.
I cannot overstate how much this game blew me away
Right? Way ahead of its time
Max Payne 3 was rockstars best game when it comes to ragdolls and shooting physics
This and GTA IV 🤌
@@HyperTensionJohnny The music was crazy and period correct as usual just like the GTA games.. Playing GTA IV now. Physics are insane. Just pushing characters to the ground is different every time. Subtle. Elegant.
Yessir. Game is a masterpiece 🤙
Also story IMO. Manhunt 2 could be the one with the most interesting story, but they have f**ked it up hard.
Best game ever made period
Been a Religious FAN of the series for over 20 years. I think I'll still revisit the Trilogy every year even after turning 50.
Amazing Work on the video. Shows how much you feel and care for MAX PAYNE and the legacy this series has left behind. Cheers!!
Cheers to another 20 years of Max 🍻
Thank you for watching ✌️
This game is so beautiful and holds up strong today I mean this came out on the 360/PS3 and it still looks as good as a modern game on the ps5 and the multiplayer was dope too
my love for this game is why my friends say the vibes i give off are "cigarettes" lmao
You, sir, have good taste.
Dude's liver must be stone solid.
Drinking skill level 100.
21:40 Imagine this shit happening in real life from the multiple headshots midair all the way down to sliding down the stairs and not having even a dislocated shoulder. I would believe that man could single handedly take down multiple street gangs, PMCs alongside a Pharmaceutical company, and multiple brutal Brazilian gangs.
To be fair, he WAS wearing a polo shirt. Truly a man with nothing to lose.
@@HyperTensionJohnny Not to mention he is doing a copious amount of opioids, i guess the mix of lingering near OD, survival instinct (or lack there of, we are talking about Max Payne after all) and simultaneously having a constant adrenaline rush from gunfights manages to push the pain of a dislocated shoulder aside.
That's why we love him. Our favorite addict 💊 💊
You bring up the point about how game companies don’t like to take risks anymore and only play it safe but I think that might change in the near future.
This current economic downturn means less people are going to be willing to buy these $70 bloated messes if they don’t feel it’s worth it. Just look at the absurd success of Lethal Company.
The late 2010s and the early part of this decade were pretty shit for AAA gaming, but just imagine if enough people decide to skip buying the latest cod or fifa because they think it’s not worth the little bit of spending money they have at the moment. If this continues, I think we’ll see more companies step up their game and start making quality products that people will actually buy.
I sincerely hope you are right
Max Payne 3 has the best shooting in ANY game ever. and the music by Health is soooooooooooo good.
Agree with you on both points, man. The soundtrack is incredible ✌️
Nice music bro.
Love Max Payne 3 - the scene where Max finally plays his theme on a piano is the highlight of the series.
Hope to see your subscriber count grow)
RIP James McCaffrey
Thank you, man. Welcome 🤘🏻
Indeed, RIP. I sneaked in a little reference to James in the intro to my Bully vid.
The long intro to this video was IMMACULATE!
Cheers, Will. I appreciate that. I often wonder if people like the intros, but then I remember that I think they're awesome 🤘🏻
Loved Max Payne 3 back in the day! Discovered this channel after seeing your video on the first Max Payne title, incredible work and deserving of a bigger audience 👏🏻
Thank you, buddy. Hope you enjoyed the trilogy, thanks for sticking around ✌️
FUCK the heat scene with hyper tension JESUS CHRIST the music this channel wins the aesthetics game of 2023 onward
One of the greatest films ever 🤌
Max Payne 3 was a life changing experience. This game made me feel so isolated just as Max did. no subtitles for the enemies and being in a foreign country. The story is so good and the cinematics with the catchy phrases popping up on screen as you hear Max's inner thoughts. The gameplay is as deep as the story, I just wanted to keep going. One of the few games I wish I could play for the first time again
Agreed. I think I've finished it 6 or 7 times now. So good 😃
Just got it for $7.00 on sale and played it for the first time on my series X and loved it. Took me 3 days to beat it on hardest difficulty. Never played any of the Max Payne titles either. The story got alittle convoluted by the end, but overall it is a solid 9 out of 10. The edgy neo-noir vibes and synth waves hit hard
Nice, dude. Try the first two, if you can.
Your videos are well edited, well scripted and cool as hell. Great work! The grittyness and artstyle combined with the groundbreaking shooting-mechanics is a winning combination. We share the same love for Max Payne 3 and you did the game justice with this one. Along with GTA 4 and Sleeping Dogs, MP3 is one of my favorite games. Would love to get your take on probably my favorite in-game world, Liberty City through the eyes of Niko Bellic.
Quick story; I applied to be an editor at a gaming magazine when I was 18. I submitted a resume and a handful of review samples, one of them being GTA IV. I got a reply from a senior editor that said, basically, that they really enjoyed reading the GTA IV review, but my resume needed to beef up first.
I gave the game a 10 by their scoring system, so I definitely want to talk about it here someday...
@@HyperTensionJohnny Will defintely look forward to that.
The multiplayer was so good for MP3 and the map packs were solid. My favorite was the disorganized crime pack where you got to fight on the rooftops in Hoboken.
It was so much better than it had any right to be. I tried it on a whim, thinking it would be tacked-on and terrible, and ended up loving it. Bullet time worked surprisingly well, too.
Dude your videos are fantastic, keep it up
Thank you, man. Happy to have you along. Will do 🤘🏻
I didn't get this on release and watched a playthrough. I fell in love with the soundtrack and didn't realize it until that airport mission.
Yeah HEALTH really nailed the vibe of the game. That airport scene is phenomenal 🤌
This game runs and looks like it came out yesterday in 2024.
10/11
Given Rockstar’s rocky history with PC ports, Max Payne 3 runs like a dream
this game has the best sounding gun sounds in any game ever theyre punchy and satisfying but not overkill its perfection
Best gunplay,best shootouts i've ever experienced in a videogame,that airport final showdown,i can't remember how many times i have finished this game with all the collectibles and time trials,and Max character is so amazing,his monologues and attitude going from a depressed man who lost everything and cant live anymore to a madman who lost it all but doesnt give a damn nothing anymore but to become a pain in the ass for his enemies,a killing machine fearless off anything they throw at him.
God damn dude, I just watched your Scorpion King, and am going through the backlog of the games I like to see what you did... THIS is freaking amazing. Please keep this up, as best you can, you're killin' it!
I'm truly flattered. Thank you for watching and for the kind words. And welcome 🤘🏻
I was looking forward to this video since your first max payne video. Amazing work once again, MP3 is also my favorite one actually, but all three are amazing games everyone who likes shooters should play
Hell yeah, buddy. Thank you for being here 🤘🏻
I'm going to give all Payne 3 players a tip who are on pc, turn off both the crosshair target aquisition from turning itself red when it hovers over an enemy and turn off killmarkers which make it turn into an x momentarily when a kill is achieved; when you do this the shootouts become so, so much more visceral and enjoyable; the results being that instead of seeing everything and enjoying the desperate situation Max is in; you are only shooting when the crosshair turns red-- it keeps you locked into looking only at that; if you turn it off, you begin spraying rounds in the enemies general vicinity and when you don't know when they die, your brain isn't going to get locked in a pattern of only spraying a predetermined amount of lead in repetition; it makes more surpriseing moments and keeps your head clear to enjoy everything so much more. It's much more emergent; and not to mention authentic to the originals!
Hmmm I really need to try that 🤔
Wooooaaaw what a nice chanel you just got a new fan keep it up this video made my night better thank you bro
Welcome, Cris. May you continue to have better days 🤘🏻
hey man! i know this is a old video but so far i’ve seen your splinter cell videos and your kane and lynch one… and your really becoming one of my favorite channels, happy to see you consistently posting!
Thank you! I'm super stoked to hear it. I'm going to do a much nicer Splinter Cell 1 & 2 sometime, too. New video soon.
I still have my collectors edition figure on my desk at work. Also the artwork is still hanging on my living room wall.
6:36 Ok!To those who said that the 3rd Max Payne is not connected to the first 2 Max Payne,you need to read the 3-part comics of Max Payne 3 or search on YT. It explain what happened to Max after the events of Max Payne 2 plus the backstory of Max is also included on the comics.
Marvel customs. They were GREAT!
I don't know the series, I played only Max Payne 3 on PS3 back then , but I remember that feeling of playing a game that was very different from the other shooters. I was especially amazed by the graphics, and the ambient.
Have you played the first 2 since?
@@HyperTensionJohnnyNo...I play old games only if I have already played them as a child x)
Wow I just finished the game like 2 hours ago and here you are... Couldn't have been timed any better
That's rad. Sounds like a good Wednesday to me 🤘🏻
Saw your video on the 1st Max Payne and now I'm here for this one. Keep up the good work man, I really hope you get the recognition you deserve for all the effort you put into your videos
I'm flattered, man. Hope you enjoyed the series! Stay tuned for a lot more ✌️
Last year, I played through all the Max Payne games in a row. The first two games for the first time actually, Max Payne 3 for the third time. I've come to love the trilogy very much.
Every game is a hit. Yet, I still adore Max Payne 3 the most. It might be due to bias since I played it more often and it being my first game in the series. I love it to death and I cannot help it.
It was the perfect ending for Max. For his suffering. He swore off the alcohol and I made my Max swore off the painkillers too once he shaved his head. He is finally free.
It's a perfect trilogy with 3 delivering a perfect ending. It made me think that I'd never want a new Max Payne game.
The only other game series that really made me feel this way was Hotline Miami.
Like you pointed out, the lines of "TEARS" ring true. It really was time to let it go. Simply because the time could've never been more right to do just that.
Well said. 3 had a wonderful ending. Very fitting.
I love Hotline Miami. THAT ending was...oof ☢️
The effort they put into making Sao Paolo is just amazing. They dont put so much effort thesedays. The streets, favelas, everything.
First time I played this game I thought it was pretty good. Played it a second time several years later and absolutely loved it. It’s up there with Vanquish as one of the all time favorite 3rd person shooters.
Vanquish is a game I've owned for some time, but have yet to try. Need to get to that...
If this is what Rockstar could do with linear games in 2012. Imagine what they could do now. This is, hands down, one of my TOP 5 favorite games of all time
delighted, this video is amazing. 3 was my first real intro to the series, had played the first couple on the xbox years and years ago but was (is) a stupid goopy goblin brain and was only wanting shooty mctooty space machine (whos voice is also like mcafferys max payne ((thats master chief im talking baout btw)). its refreshing to see it not just be blindly fucked on by muh cutscenes muh cover system
Nothing wrong with a bit of the old shooty mctooty from time to time
@@HyperTensionJohnny yea goopy gloopy brain shooters are great but BUT mp3 brings something to the table no other game i’ve played before or since brings
I play this game on PC in 2021, and found it amazing.
Story, ambiance (portuguese voices and subtitles, music in the favelas), and variety are incredible. Intensity is cool and didn't exist in Rockstar open-worlds.
I also like gameplay, louder than many TPS, but everything has more impact.
It's shorter than open-worlds, but whereas them, I've often launch a chapter (after each game I finish, I play MP3 before choosing a new game).
After RDR1 on Switch, I think a port to new platforms will be very cool, and it will be a beautiful game on Switch.
Agreed, my friend. That would be lovely! Hope you enjoyed the video
I love Max Payne in general even after he started doing texas road house commercials. Only thing i dislike is how many cut scenes there are on your 5th playthrough of the game. My only gripe. Final boss music at the airport goes super hard.
"I love this game like a son!" -Caddi
It felt great to get my hands on this game as a Brazilian 🇧🇷 as we are rarely portrayed by games. Of course it is heavily exaggerated, but so is NYC in Max Payne 1 & 2
Cheers, mateI think that's what I like most about gaming as an art form overall; when developers take real life and exaggerate it and paint real places with a wild brush. Rockstar, in particular, are experts at this.
This game needs to be re-released ASAP
It would be awesome for the console versions to get an FPS boost. Steam version works surprisingly well for a Rockstar game.
This is in my top 5 video games
Out of genuine curiosity, what else would be on that list?
Really love your review at Max Payne! And music. However I think it may be a little too biased but still, amazing work and I can't wait for more dude. Love ya
Love to you, too. Grateful to have you here ✌️
I wonder how many people will get the Robert Kelly "not you" reference XD
You're the only one thus far 😆
Great video as usual. However, since you have made reviews about man hunt 1&2 and bully. You really gotta play the warriors and review it here on the channel, it was such a masterpiece.
Hell yeah, buddy. One of my favorite games ever. Will be reviewed someday.
Very well done. I loved the game as well.
Thank you for the kind words, Adrian!
I love max payne and i love this video :D
If you're happy, I'm happy 👻
Already a banger vid !
Yeah, budday! 🤘🏻
Bro. This was the game that made me play as a Walter White cosplayer in nearly every Rockstar game. From:
Bully
Red Dead 2
Gta 5
Gta San Andreas
And any other with char customization. I take that as a Easter Egg to Max Payne 3 in all of those games.
That's actually tight, dude 😆
i got this on launch i enjoyed it but after the 1st playthrough all the cutscenes felt like they were dragging on i wish you could skip them
I can't think of a game that has better 3rd person gunplay
Easily the best part of max payne 3 was the soundtrack. Holy fuck did HEALTH nail the sound track
Yup, they really did
I just discovered this series and am in love, I have no idea what people are on about saying this game is anything but masterful. This is easily my favorite rockstar game. Red dead 2 might be my second
I see Isaac Clarke. A man of culture.
@@HyperTensionJohnny you know it bro! I really hope a DS2 remaster is on the way! Such a badass series. I just finished control and am gonna try Alan Wake 2 next 🤘🏻
Movie get the gringo with mel gibson reminds me of this game and vice versa for some reason, it also came out in 2012.
I noticed that your profile picture is that mask from Hitman Blood Money's "Dance with the Devil" mission, when are you going to make videos on Hitman?
Good eye, mate. One of my favorite series ever. Which would you like to see? The old ones? World of Assassination? Both?
@@HyperTensionJohnny @hypertensionfilms5439 Both!! I like all of the Hitman games (except for maybe Absolution), and I could tell from watching your Max Payne videos that you actually know your stuff. I've watched a lot of Max Payne videos online, and you're the only one who mentioned that Sam Lake's mother was Nicole Horne and his father was Alfred Woden, most videos I've seen either that don't bring it up or only mention his mother.
@@ironpainting1210 I really appreciate your attention to detail. I love doing research for these videos. I have to edit out so much in the script, lest they go on too long. I appreciate you watching.
LETS GOOOOO! Been waiting on this!
Hell, yeah! Hope you enjoyed it ✌️
@@HyperTensionJohnny I didn’t like it….I fucking loved it
@@clarkestomps My man 🤘🏻
YOU WILL LOVE EACH OTHER
Finally...someone gets it 🤘🏻
Modern masterpiece
Ok. OK. RELAX. I'm reinstalling it, jeeez.
🏃♂️QUICKLY!
Max Payne 3 is phenomenal but it feels like GTA 4.5 than a Max Payne game
Sam Lake writing:
"I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings."
Dan Houser writing:
"YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT MY PROBLEM IS? YOU'RE TURNING HUMANS INTO GLUE! THAT'S WHAT MY FUCKING PROBLEM IS!"
😆 I get what you're saying, but I love how intense James McCaffrey was in that scene in 3.
I also look at it as Max has gotten older and years of addiction and alcoholism has slightly deminsed his, let's call it, flair for poetic ways of speaking and is just now so much more blunt and worn down. Also the fact that this is the first game where Max really yells because he know he is so close to ending all this horrible shit that he has been thrust into the middle of.
On of my absolute favorite scenes is right after Victor and Becker get away and lock the door and after kicking the door and it not opening Max just screams " GOD DAMN IT"
It really creates that sense that while Max has seen some horrific shit, it's nothing compared to what he has been through in Brazil and so instead of speaking in the typical Noir style, he is just fucking feed the fuck up and I think it really works
@@HyperTensionJohnny same. He is a man that has just fucking had enough of this shit and wants it to end. The gangsters and criminals were something Max was used to so he didn't really worry about them but HERE in Brazil he is totally out of his element. I love that you picked up on the Micheal Mann influence in the game. When I first played MP3 the whole time I was thinking " man, Rockstar must really REALLY love Micheal Manns movies"
I preferred 1&2, but Max Payne 3 was a fantastic game in its own right.
I like all your videos, you’ve covered games I really like and you’re obviously also a big fan of micheal Mann like myself. But the characters are not wearing double breasted grey suits, they are single breasted, double breasted means it has double buttons on the front like a pea coat.
Oh wow, I don't know how I missed that. Great catch 🤙
you're clearly spending a lot of time and thought on the videos and script, its a small mistake that's easy to make when tackling a reference. your videos are amazing.@@HyperTensionJohnny
@@HyperTensionJohnnyNeil does wear a double breasted suit jacket in Heat a few times. Your essay and narration are excellent by the way, the only reason I said this was because of how much attention to detail you included, sorry if I came off as a dick.
Oh, no I didn't take any offense at all, my friend. When I'm wrong, I want to it know it. Thank you for the kind words, and for watching!
New video today 🤘🏻
@@HyperTensionJohnny also thank you for including Opie and Anthony.
Old school mode is my favorite playthrough of this game. I wasn't a fan of the last stand mechanic, I found it very pace-breaking when I would have rather the punishment of dying and reloading a checkpoint. The practice I got from playing on normal difficulty then going back to get all the gold records and then doing a full playthrough on old school. That was excellent, I would cherish that game safe for if and when i decide to go back to this game from the start.
Agreed! Love playing Old School.
@@HyperTensionJohnny I meant to say I got good practice when I sought out every gold weapon part *
And that I starting from new but having all the gold weapons to do an old school run again is awesome. I prefer to gameplay of Max Payne 3 over the rest of the series, maybe the whenever to remake comes out can best Max pane 3. But I don't know man, I was struggling with quitting alcohol but playing through this game for the second and third time actually made me walk away from it, granted I know it's me who did that but it's just good to see an inspiration like that in a fucking video game. Journalists who hated on this game for the whoa is me attitude of Max Payne clearly haven't dealt with alcohol abuse. Sorry about all the spelling errors, using Google voice and I'm too tired to make it better. Have a good night sir, Your outro music is stuck in my head! Do you have a TH-cam music channel?
@Gator159 Good on you for walking away from the drink; I work with old timers every day that regret not quitting when they had the chance, so keep that going.
I don't have a separate channel for music, but I think alongside my next video, I might just release a group of songs as an "album" and timestamp everything in the description. I just finished the "theme" song for the next video, so I have a good stockpile of tunes.
@@HyperTensionJohnny I look forward to checking the description in future videos lol
Great vid n a legendary game.
I'm a huge max payne fan. I can't tell you how many times I have finished Max Payne 2.
There's only one problem with Max Payne 3 - the story and the writing is complete dog shit
😆 you didn't like it? Which is fair, by the way, I respect your opinion. What didn't you like?
@@HyperTensionJohnny Story was dumb. I played it when it came out, don't remember details but it was just stupid die hard nonsense.
The lines Max was saying meant nothing. Compared to Max Payne 2 where every line is a quote, art and pure literature, sometimes mocking the noir style, sometimes being too edgy, but most times very deep.
Max being self aware had more weight and pain in his life. He knew he was a broken man and that held him down.
in third game, he knows his a broken man, acts out, and that somehow builds rage for him to become Steven Seagull.
Second game played great that his personality and deep drepression was torturing him, only 'fun' he could have is when he was killing people and that made it even worse. Everything was perfectly stacked together to give you a complex character with complex issues who just couldn't help himself and turn his life around. Him feeling guilty for his family's death, guilty to feel attraction towards Mona (feeling he was cheating on his dead wife), seeing horrible dreams that somehow, in a twisted sense had logic in them and attack in his weakensses.
I don't know man, second game was pure art, third was a Guns palooza bazuuka 'murica gringo shooter. I liked how inventory worked and gameplay, but story was just soooooooooo bad
if you enjoy MP3 and Gears 2, i highly recommend RE4 and/or its remake.
One of my favorite games of all time. RE4 is like family to me 😆
Did you like the remake?
GOAT.
max payne 3 is playable on normal difficulty, but it becomes a terrible game on hard difficulty, and thats the difficulty you HAVE to play at to unlock gold weapons
Yeah, it's a crucible. I beat the game on Insanity difficulty on PS3. With a DualShock 3. Shit was intense
I’m gonna admit something. I’ve never played this, not sure why, I love Max Payne 1 and 2. I’m about to remedy this . I’ve missed out
Never too late! Please let me know what you think of it.
You didn't miss out dude. What you see on the screen is a generic GTA clone. The world is completely different, the story is somehow shallow, slow and confusing, all at once, and the guy you are playing as don't look or sound like mp, just has the same voice. The secret ending of mp2 is the end of Max's story and this krap is not cannon.
@@vlastelinprislic286 "gta clone"
did we play the same game?
I have played through this game twice. I think it isn't a bad game at all, it's good, despite console version aiming being terrible. It just doesn't feel like Max Payne game. It lacks that Remedy tongue in cheek humor mixed with drama and action. It is just too serious and the plot imo isn't something incredible, really.
its definitely different from the first 2 games but i dont think thats a bad thing
The story in this doesn't fail as a Max Payne story because it doesn't check the right neo noir boxes. The problem is that it's just not a Max Payne story at all. It's more like a GTA game that happens to be more brooding. The Denis Leary Ford F-150 commercial story presentation doesn't do it any favors either. Sam Lake and Dan Houser do not have similar or compatible writing sensibilities and I don't think Houser is a great writer for this game anymore than Sam Lake would be for, say, Red Dead. Lake gave us a a level of subtlety Houser is not interested in giving us. There's also a comical absurdity in both Remedy games that shines through in both background elements as well as the actual narrative. When True Detective season 2 came out everyone made fun of Vince Vaughn's dialogue and I was sitting there looking for Sam Lake's name in the credits. That wasn't an accident either as the drug hallucination scenes in Max Payne made it pretty clear that Lake knew what kind of dialogue he was writing and told us in a subtle way what kind of dialogue he was writing while simultaneously doing it all with a straight face.
I'm also not willing to give the game a break in unskippable cutscenes because even though I understood they were making load times it was still poorly conveyed and also highlighted just how egregious some of these load times could be. I can't say enough nice things about the game once I'm done seeing it's cutscenes and playing it finally though. Completing New York Minute mode is still on my bucket list. I endured scores of Russian and, ironically, Brazilian trainer and aimbot users to enjoy the multiplayer because it was that damn good.
Totally fair. And I do prefer the writing from 1 and 2, to be clear. I can definitely see your point.
The idea of a Dennis Leary, F150 commercial is horrifying, by the way. Just a hack stealing Bill Hicks material in a shitty truck. Woof.
@@HyperTensionJohnny It's not an idea. it's real and it can hurt you th-cam.com/video/2qfjaFtsjUM/w-d-xo.html
I bought Max Payne 3 over GTA 5. Best decision I made back then.
Inshallah you become famous
Just want to make people happy, brother. Thank you for the kind wishes ✌️
nah it's not underappreciated
it's finally the good ending max always needed
i mean it's a shame it was downgraded to cover gameplay to fit console trend of 2013
it's also a shame they made this game only to see if they can nerf euphoria engine for gta 5
but overall it's great
You are underappreciated
Ah, thank you ✌️
I’m not a huge fan of Rockstar games. This game is a fucking masterpiece. It’s an actual video game if you know what I mean
Kane & Lynch video that I loved, Andre The Giant avatar, and now I'm watching another video praising Max Payne 3 and nodding heavily in agreement in the first 5 minutes. You might be the long lost brother I never had or at the very least a co-worker I could shoot the shit with over nerdy stuff while we try to make the best out of another dull day at work.
I groaned when reviewers completely missed the cutscenes masking the loading screens and I groaned even louder when the Max Payne 1 and 2 superfans whinged about Sao Paulo being too sunny for a noir story. They acted as if Chinatown, In a Lonely Place and LA Confidential never existed and how much influence the very sunny and bright Los Angeles has had on noir media, arguably more than NYC. Another common complaint was the comic strips were gone (damned if you do, damned if you don't considering they would have been criticized for doing "more of the same/unoriginal design" if they kept them) but Rockstar put their own stamp on the visual design. Also, suddenly they were "ripping off" movies. Funny how a studio known for making games that absolutely wore film influences on their sleeves, and still do to this day, didn't face those same criticisms for Vice City and San Andreas or when they straight up lifted the satire style of Robocop for all GTA games. Vice City may not have been the first but it was the first time I was blown away they got a legitimate movie star like Ray Liotta to voice the main character.
The gameplay to this day is still Rockstar's best and I fear they'll never take the time to match it. The transitions from cutscene to gameplay were always thrilling and kept me on the edge of my seat because I never knew what was going to pop off even if I knew SOMETHING was coming. Awesome video and I'm looking forward to catching up on your older videos.
Happy to be of service, bro. That's my whole goal...to make people's day a LITTLE better occasionally
The game truly is amazing but I can say as a brazillian that the portuguese suuuucks. Wich is a shame, we got amazing dub actors.
Also, even living as far as it gets from Rio or São Paulo, I can tell they aimed for São Paulo but hit Rio hahaha
Another thing is this game has no leftist agendas, propagandas and censorship at all! True gem and the best TPS ever created, at least gameplay wise. This is my all time favourite game since it came out back in 2012, pushing Manhunt to number 2.
Considering the game depicts the rich and wealthy as complete immoral assholes and it’s made by rockstar(a company that consistently makes fun of right wingers) I would say it’s fairly left leaning if you absolutely had to look at it through a political lens. Believe it or not a majority of what’s considered the best media out there is extremely left leaning. Bioshock being a good example that most people misconstrue to be a right wing game.
There are just too much cutscenes.
That's fair. But that gameplay...
@@HyperTensionJohnny There's also stuff about enemies being kinda bullet-spongy, but maybe that's because they are wearing armor.
Nah
The story was BY FAR not subversive enough. Max Payne 1 simply had the best story of the bunch.
Agreed
This game was awful.
Max Payne 3 is the worst in the series. It doesn't even feel like you're playing a Max Payne game. it's just a shitty generic Rockstar game. I could tell that Rockstar didn't really care when they were making this game. They were about to change the voice actor as well.
Thankfully they kept Jim McCaffrey, and he crushed the role.
"Generic Rockstar game" what does that even mean. Mate, did you even play any Rockstar games in the PS2/Xbox and PS3/360 days? They were one of the most unique studios/publishers out there, before GTA Online ruined everything by earning them a billion dollars a year in profits from total suckers, making stuff like Manhunt, Bully, The Warriors, Midnight Club, Red Dead: Redemption, a fucking phenomenal Table Tennis game of all things and published a hell of a lot of games. They did the console port of Max Payne 1 and published both games. They were the ONLY choice for a third Max Payne game since Remedy wanted to do something different and Remedy might not even be around today if they didn't sell off the rights. To say they didn't care is just disrespectful to the developers and untrue. They were about to change the voice actor, true, but what changed their mind again? The fans and they listened and corrected it.
Who's developing the Max Payne 1 and 2 remakes now and who's funding those remakes? Remedy and Rockstar, respectively.
I dislike nowadays Rockstar with their ultra greedy MTX and "console ports now, full priced buggy ass PC port a year and a half later" strategies as much as anyone but calling their catalogue of games "generic" is blatantly false and comes off as fanboy whinging.
@@mandu6665"generic" as in unoriginal and interchangeable. This could have been an adaptation of Man on Fire or the any other action franchise and look and play exactly, and i do mean exactly the same. It's a shooty boom boom game with no depth or class. That's all it is.
payne 3 is about payne letting go and changing his life what did you expect lmao
@@czarnakoza9697 lmao, I expected Max Payne, a deep, resilient, complex character, in a noir setting with interesting writing and dark humor, not a generic shooter in Brazil with a sad addict as the protagonist.