Max Payne 3 · RAWG · Courtesy of RAWG
Game data
Metacritic 87- Released
- 2012-05-15
- User rating
- 4.26 / 5
- Genres
- Shooter, Action
- Platforms
- PC, macOS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
- ESRB
- Mature
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Game details · IGDB
Max Payne 3 is a third-person shooter in which the player assumes the role of its titular character, Max Payne. A new feature to the series, introduced in Max Payne 3, is the cover system, which allows players to gain a tactical advantage, and avoid taking damage from enemies. To progress through the linear story, players take on enemies throughout levels. The game features interactive cutscenes which transition seamlessly into continuing gameplay; there are no loading screens across gameplay and cutscenes.
- Released
- 2012
- Genres
- Shooter
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Engine
- RAGE, Euphoria Engine
- Franchise
- Max Payne
- Developer
- Rockstar New England, Rockstar Vancouver, Rockstar London, Rockstar Toronto
- Publisher
- Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive
Key facts
- Developer
- Rockstar Studios
- Publisher
- Rockstar Games
- Producer
- Steve Martin
- Designer
- Sergei Kuprejanov
- Programmers
- Kevin Hoare Hugues St. Pierre Lewis Gordon
- Artists
- Paul MacPherson Joshua Bass Rob Nelson
- Writers
- Dan Houser Michael Unsworth Rupert Humphries
- Composer
- Health
- Series
- Max Payne
- Engine
- RAGE
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 Windows OS X
- Release
- May 15, 2012 PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 NA : May 15, 2012 PAL : May 18, 2012 Windows NA : May 29, 2012 PAL : June 1, 2012 OS X WW : June 20, 2013
- Genre
- Third-person shooter
- Modes
- Single-player , multiplayer
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Encyclopedic overview
Max Payne 3 is a 2012 third-person shooter game developed and published by Rockstar Games. It is the sequel to Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003) and the third entry in the Max Payne series. In the single-player mode, the player controls Max Payne, a former NYPD detective. Nine years after the events of the second game, Max finds work as a private security contractor in São Paulo, Brazil, but becomes entangled in a plot involving death, corruption and betrayal. An online multiplayer mode is included with the game, allowing up to 16 players to engage in cooperative and competitive gameplay in recreations of single-player settings.
As part of their research for Max Payne 3's setting, the developers conducted field research around São Paulo throughout development and captured footage for the design team. Development duties were shared between Rockstar's studios worldwide. The game was first released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on May 15, 2012; a Windows port was released on May 29, followed by an OS X port on June 20, 2013. It is also backwards compatible on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Max Payne 3” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.