>first game has a good story and awful gameplay
>second game has decent gameplay and a meh story
What should I expect from the third one?

>>715390049 (OP)
the best gameplay in the series and YOURE TURNING HUMANS INTO GLUE

also unskippable cutscenes

>>715390049 (OP)
How is the gameplay awful?

best third person shooter in the market and unskipable custscenes

>What should I expect from the third one?
For Max to go full retard at the most plot critical moments

>>715390049 (OP)
If you can get past the rockstar DRM Max Payne 3 is one of the best 'story games' that came out that decade. The game must also be played with a half gallon of cheap whiskey or your soul gets sucked out.

>>715390049 (OP)
"max payne" in name only, the character, writing, tone and feel of the game are completely gone, as well as the humor and the insanity sequences. some people seem to like the gameplay though

>awful gameplay
zoom zoom zoom

>>715391783
Max Payne 3 is hilariously grim, though. There were a few bits that were so over the top brutal and absurd punctuated by a Max Payne ruminating about his absurd barely understood slaughter of brazilian paramilitary goons that had me giggling.

>>715391783
>"max payne" in name only, the character
all the painkillers and whiskey took away his humor
its a "literally me" game for when youre going through a breakup / divorce

>>715390049 (OP)
B A G D A H D W I T H G S T R I N G S

max and his parrot shirt were the source code for the "proud boys" and "boog boys" for the newfags

>>715390049 (OP)
MP2's gameplay is fucking terrible though
>shit level design full of pointless empty space where there will be 30 doors, 25 just background textures, 4 lead to an empty room, and 1 is the critical path
>ridiculous amount of cutscenes/narrative sections constantly bogging down the action. You start skipping them and realize so many chapters have less than 30s of action
>bullet-time is completely broken and any semblance of balance is thrown straight out the window. It lasts 5x as long as the first game, makes Max move at superhuman speed, gives instant reloads (complete with a pointless gay ballerina twirl), and regens to full in just a few seconds
>unsurprisingly, this way overtuned bullet-time system and enemies that die way quicker than MP1 makes the combat a complete pushover joke. There is only one starting difficulty and you must do two full playthroughs to unlock the others despite them making minimal changes; even max difficulty is a total breeze
>To compensate for this non-existent challenge, the game doubles down on shitty platforming sections, fills rooms with explosives, and constantly has enemies that just poof into existence behind you from rooms you already cleared. The game is still very easy, but your few deaths will be to cheap gotcha bullshit rather than actual combat
>two enemy types the whole game copy-pasted hundreds of times
>>motions blur effect looks fucking nauseatingly awful, and they base entire levels around it

>>715390049 (OP)
>What should I expect from the third one?
if you're a completionist you're gonna hate collecting the golden gun parts

>>715395596
>(complete with a pointless gay ballerina twirl)
I usually dont reload in bullet time just to specifically avoid this gayness

>>715395596
>the mp2 hater again