Difficulty:

Hard

Time Spent:

20 to 40 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Immersive"

As soon as the game was released, my butt was down at Gamestop looking at my case of Max Payne 3. It has been too many years. When J got home and popped in the disc I noticed that Max had not changed a bit. Max was still the BAMF as we knew him from 11 years ago. For those who are achievement hunters like myself, Max Payne 3 has no shortage of them. The update to bullet time really helps with making smoother gameplay. Shoot dodge is a very helpful tool in Max Payne 3 as is the Last Man Standing. The Last Man Standing automatically triggers when you are killed but you have at least one painkiller. Getting killed with one painkiller will let you fall slowly to your death as you try to find who put the kill shot in you and kill them. At first the story line seems to lag on with all the cinematic cutscenes but as you progress the cutscenes shorten and there are less shown. All together Max Payne offers a slice of action to your daily fix.