pezus said:
Is it just shitty in general or in comparison to the original 2 games? It feels way too much like a Rockstar game instead of a Max Payne game (only played 1-2 hours). |
To my great shame I never played the first 2, I just don't like MP3.
Using Max's trademark bullet dive usally gets you killed, you can easilly be killed by enemies that spawn beside or behind you without ever seeing them, there are too many long cutscenes and checkpoints often start where you have to watch 5-10 secconds of cutscene before playing, checkpoints can be quite far apart and you can die in a couple of secconds (I played on hard) if you get exposed meaning you play though a lot of sections repeatedly, in fact some sections seem like they were designed as a memorisation test, having to repeat sections due to cheap deaths throws off the story pacing, the plot is stupid and cliched and rather predictable, half the time there is a small cutscene in the middle of the mission they will have max using his handgun but after the cutscene it will leave you with the handgun sellected and not the rifle you were using even if the handgun has no ammo, when Max is getting up after a dive or being knocked down the animation takes to long and you can't aim or shoot properly for a seccond which will get you killed.
Oh and there are also dificulty spikes through the campaign, and from what I have heard a lot of people are complaining about the dificulty when they played it on easy for the story, frankly it feels like the game was tuned for regenerating health or quicksaves but then didn't add those things. The minute to minute gameplay is generic 3rd person shooting with some bullet time thrown in, and an overwrought story that doesn't really go anywhere but is told in 4 hours of cutscenes aparently but really would barely carry a 120 minute movie if that.
And whoever decided that you should have to watch the intro before you can change you graphics settings including the resolution in the PC version should be fired immediately. ALso when I first launched the game the Rockstar social club pull down thing was not scaled properly so didn't fit in it's window so I couldn't input my serial number, of course at this point I couldn't change the resolution... Ended up having to use launch commands to force into windowed safe mode to register the damn game.
/rant
It is a highly polished turd tho with increadible production values, and runs great on PC (despite some bad design and instability).
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