I was just playing Max Payne and am about halfway through. And as far as I can tell it is awesome.
Great graphics, Story, Setting and Vocie Acting. The Gameplay is allright but was done better in other Games. As I already said I love the game so far. And this made me think.
Take Two interactive bought the Max Payne franchise for 10 million Dollars in the year 2002. But the 3rd installment turned out to be a financial flop even tough it sold over 3 million copies. And Rockstar Vancouver got shut a few months after Max Payne 3s release. The long development time plus the 10 million thy paid Remedy must have made a huge budget. But if Rockstar would "optimize" the process of development and develop it in 3 years instead of 8-9 it could become very profitable again. Maybe Rockstar could try to reboot the whole franchise.