Simply put, it’s 12+ hours of the finest violent video-gaming on the market that should get mouths watering over how Rockstar has plans to top themselves with GTA V. It continues the company’s ever-evolving skill with mind-boggling graphics, long-form storytelling, and lovingly graphic violence. Longtime fans should be pleased, but newcomers can still appreciate it as the next hard R genre movie flavored outing from Rockstar.

Despite the change in locale and color palate, the threequel is still rooted in the endless gunfights and hard boiled crime fiction of its predecessors. At first this visual approach seems excessive, but gradually things calm down and it settles into an eyeball pleasing groove. He’s off the rain-drenched seedy streets of New York and killing legions of bad guys in the sun-burned, poverty-scarred, and war-torn world of South America.įull cut scenes connect the levels rather than animated comic book panels, with a jittery, blown out visual style filled with split screens and abrupt edits to mimic both the visual aesthetic of directors like Tony Scott and the Crank team of Neveldine/Taylor and Payne’s deteriorating booze n’ pain killer fueled mental state. Delving deeper into alcoholism, pain, and failure, our buddy Max is no longer a cop, but a gun for hire. Diving bullet time remains the bedrock of the gameplay this time out, but the visual style and world is a little different. In previous generations, the game came out with obvious John Woo and The Matrix-influenced slow motion bullet slinging ballet, with film noir underpinnings and graphic novel cut scenes.

The series was one of the first to incorporate cinematic storytelling into video games and that is a continued focus here, now taking influence from a wider array of movies to reflect a new era.

In his long awaited return in, glorious HD much has changed, but much has stayed the same. It’s been years since we’ve seen the grizzled sharpshooting detective Max Payne.

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