When Remedy launched Max Payne back in 2001, amazed the world with a game of solid and amusing shooting, unbelievable graphics, bullet-time effects and a melancholic atmosphere unseen in the genre. The story of the cop whom has lost everything and goes out on a vengeance quest might not have been one of the most original, but the way the narrative unfolded was great enough to reach a mark in gaming history. Two years after, the sequel improved the basis of the original game, keeping all characteristics of the series untouched.
In 2010 the new Max Payne will be released by Rockstar, from GTA and Bully, who shocked the world by trading the shadowy New York for the mazes of Brazil’s São Paulo slums.

Max Payne 3 gives us a very different man from that beautiful character we used to know. The new Max is older e tougher, marked with the scars of his downfall, even though he still is a man of violent action. The world around him moved on and so did he.

In case you’re wondering just how much has Max Payne changed, all you have to do is to check out the pictures from the game in this article. The bald and bearded man in the cover has little resemblance with the lead of the previous two games of the franchise. He aged so much after the events taken place in Max Payne 2, that if it weren’t for this game’s title, there was no way we would recognize him.

The third chapter of this saga takes the hero where he’s never been, while perfections the action that created its great reputation to begin with.

Regardless of the set, the essence of the Max Payne’s experience are the fights, filled with exciting shootings in slow motion. In fact, Bullet-time mechanics is so well done and successful in the first games that were adopted by several other games of the genre in the past eight years.

In several ways, Max Payne 3 is the type of game quite near to Rockstar own style; matching ultra-violent action with dark and real themes in dramatic and original ways.