So this game is more taxing than me running 3 instances of BF3 on Ultra.

That 2nd screenshot looks like a scene from the first game. After max is being tortured with the baseball bat.

It certainly will be a pain to run this game on max settings.

Apparently they are just the lowest and highest systems they have tested the game on rather than traditional "Recommended" System requirements.

The HDD space will be the 4 hours of (possibly 1080p) video

And doesn't even look as good... This smells fishy.

Dohohoho, would have earned full cookie points if you spelled it as payne.

Would've been too obvious

Hm 35GB?
Who cares - My po...äh fun folder is bigger than 1TB

The GTX680 is the only big deal - Everything else shouldn't hurt that much.
I think this game isn't really good optimized but who cares...Finally something to test my GTX680
There won't probably anything else till Crysis 3 or something like that that really can profit from such a card.

Those screens look good - Im happy only paying 30-40 while console gamers have to pay 60-70 and won't even see the wall 5 meters ahead.
Next Gen Consoles are needed

I'm really having a hard time with this one, the screens don't look that much, and the specs are way high, it seems like a very poor PC optimization.

Sorry but there won't be demo

http://www.gamespot.com/news/no-plans-for-max-payne-3-demo-6370584