OXCGN’s Max Payne 3 Review: A Rockstar Without Remedy?

Max Payne 3

A Rockstar Without Remedy?

by Nicholas Laborde

©2012 Nicholas Laborde

If you’re a frequent reader of OXCGN and my work, you’ll already know that one of the most important aspects of any game to me is the writing.

I’ll start off with this: I love Remedy.

Max Payne is a franchise very near and dear to my heart, and I hold Alan Wake in similar regard.

Remedy knows how to combine multiple elements into a seamless package, while topping it off with some of the best writing in the industry.

The lack of their presence in Max Payne 3 is disturbing, and until I played the game, I was extremely apprehensive.

Rockstar somehow managed to do the impossible: carry the everlasting legacy of Max into the future, and at that, under the reigns of a completely different team.

It’s Paaaaaaayne!

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