Max Payne 3 does a lot of things right — from the relentless, blood-soaked gunplay to HEALTH’s astonishing soundtrack.
Whatever was bothering the Xbox Live Marketplace download of Max Payne 2, which some purchased to brush up on the series during Max Payne 3‘s release week, the problem is now over. Users report the title now downloads fully, which I just confirmed for myself.
Someone on GTAForums.com pried apart the files inside Max Payne 3 and found a vehicle list shot through with callbacks to past makes and models from the Grand Theft Auto series.
This only marginally qualifies as a spoiler alert, because if you’ve played Max Payne 3 for longer than 20 minutes, you’ve encountered this mission already. It revolves around a shootout in the locker room of the Galatians FC in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which, as a quick internet search plus common sense reveals, ain’t a real team.
Max Payne 3 throws a lot of highly stylised violence at you, and almost all of it is beautiful to look at. But you’ve got to keep moving through Rockstar’s latest release in to order to get Max the answers he desperately craves, which means you can’t necessarily enjoy the ambiance as much as you’d like.
Now that Max Payne 3‘s out, maybe you figured you’d catch up with Max Payne’s drug-addled life by playing through the character’s previous games. A great thought!
Today, Rockstar was kind enough to send me a copy of Max Payne 3, along with some very (but cool) promotional swag. A bullet keychain, a t-shirt with some bullets on it, another bullet in a box and… a pill container. Also, a nifty ashtray that I could probably melt down and make into bullets.
