Some gamers have been waiting for a very long time to see a new Max Payne.
There's considerably more plot in "Pride and Glory" than in "Max Payne, " but it's only marginally less predictable.
Other games like Max Payne 3 and Far Cry 3 that came out this year are similarly dark.
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Based on a video game, "Max Payne" takes a rudimentary plot and boils it down still further, to the point where it's worse than predictable.
Other titles, like "Resident Evil Revelations, " "Max Payne 3, " "Borderlands 2" and "Grand Theft Auto V" will also be must-play games in the upcoming year.
Max Payne 1 and II each sold 3.5 million copies life-to-date.
The violence in these games is always against human beings, and in Max Payne 3 in particular the violence extends far beyond the point-and-shoot variety.
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Rockstar will not be drawn until after the launch of their current megasequel, Max Payne 3, but a Christmas launch of GTAV makes good commercial sense.
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But Rockstar reaffirms that Max Payne is still a heck of a cop, and "Max Payne 3" is the proof, easily the best game in the series.
Max Payne, an alcoholic and drug-addicted virtual character, could inject much-needed new life in May after such a weak April, and down sales for most of this year.
Like Max Payne, he's stepped away from the street to nurse his own grievances -- he bears an ugly scar down his cheek from an incident referred to only obliquely.
According to the charts from GfK, Max Payne moved 8, 000 more box copies than Diablo 3, and you should be able to spot the error in calculations almost immediately.
So consider: Last week the top box-office draw in the country was "Max Payne" with Mark Wahlberg as an obsessed cop tracking down the killer who murdered his wife and child.
Overlooking the fact that Max Payne was released for PC, PS3 and Xbox, while Diablo 3 is PC only, GfK does not track digital downloads of the game, only box copies.
In closing, the game is great and is likely selling very well online, but I do want to get my hands on a (box) copy of Max Payne 3 as well.
Rockstar Games returned the hardened gunman to action this week with "Max Payne 3, " a stunning sequel that jams a whopping amount of action into both its single-player story and multiplayer modes.
Activision, he says, would benefit from taking control of Take-Two franchises like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne, Bioshock, Mafia, Civilization and Midnight Club and upcoming properties including L.A. Noire and Agent.
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That said, purchasing is easy and fast, and we had no problems streaming in the highest-available quality on our 10Mbps cable connection -- Max Payne didn't look super-awesome in SD, but it was certainly watchable.
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