Tag archive: Max Payne

It's been almost 10 years now, but Max Payne is coming back with guns blazing. Rockstar Games touts his first appearance back in 2001 as “the birth of the cinematic shooter,” and it's not an incorrect assessment. Games like Tomb Raider had tread on similar ground by the time the first Payne was released, but Remedy's work on Max Payne effectively translated the feel of a John Woo film for an interactive medium. Now… Read More

Want to know what Max Payne 3 looks like? You're not alone. Your wish will be granted next week when Rockstar Games unleashes the trailer for its action-shooter, the latest in a series that hasn't been seen since 2003. The trailer is coming on September 14, next Wednesday, at 12 p.m. EST. Rockstar also confirmed earlier this week that Max Payne 3 will be out sometime in March 2012. The same press release revealed that the game will… Read More

Rockstar Games released a couple of new screens today for Max Payne 3, which you can check out above and below. The images don't bring any great revelations about the game, but they do demonstrate just how beautiful games can look with Rockstar's RAGE engine (see also: Red Dead Redemption. Max Payne 3 picks up roughly a decade after the events of the previous game. The titular modern-day gunslinger has left his job as a New York… Read More

In a sign of the growing popularity of Web-based game stores like Valve's Steam, Microsoft has announced its own digital games download venture dubbed Games for Windows Marketplace. The online store will host a healthy lineup of PC games available for on-demand download and will launch in mid-November. “With Games for Windows Marketplace, we set out to create a digital store built for PC gamers end-to-end,” said Kevin Unangst,… Read More

When Vivendi Games dumped Wet late in the production cycle nearly a year ago, the future for the title looked bleak, even though it was nearly completed by most accounts. Fortunately, Bethesda  swooped in and bought the rights to the title earlier this year, and the newly reincarnated action shooter was out in full force at this year’s E3. Bethesda calls it an “acrobatic” shooter, and it becomes apparent why as soon… Read More

These last two weeks have been interesting. Before CES, Warner Brothers basically gave up on HD DVD and Toshiba (in what was an amazing lack of good judgment) clearly putting HD DVD on the ropes (and the newly lowered prices came too late to make a difference). This was followed by CES which really lacked anything that I would call a true break-out new product of the iPod or iPhone caliber. This week we had MacWorld, and while it is… Read More

It just became a lot easier to buy titles from Rockstar Games. The publisher has signed a deal with Steam todistribute its title over the Internet, joining several others companies, such as Eidos.   Given the continued rise of Steam, which now boasts 13 million subscribers, it seems like a naturalmove to create deeper market penetration. Initially the company will be making 10 titles available, including  the Grand Theft Auto series,… Read More

Quote from the review at HardOCP: “Please keep in mind that we have increased our resolutions and AA/AF levels as to bring more of a challenge to these cards. Both have been marketed on their DX9 abilities to deliver “cinematic” effects and that is what we want to hold them to. In Max Payne 2 the BFG Asylum 5700Ultra did show noticeable improvements over the 5600Ultra. It allowed for a more consistent FPS above… Read More

Quote from the review at The Firing Squad: “As long as you realize you're buying a John Woo shootout sim and not a story-driven narrative with lots of cool weapons, locations, characters, and multiplayer longevity, Max Payne 2 won't be a disappointment. Although it's using some slick cutting-edge technology, in other regards, it's ultimately a modest game that easily meets it own modest ambitions.” Read… Read More

TDK Mediactive owns a variety of key franchises, many of them in the kids market – which Take-Two has little presence in at present. Among the franchises which the company will acquire as part of this deal are Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean, Robotech, The Muppets, The Land Before Time, Masters of the Universe, Ultimate Fighting Championship and Star Trek. “The addition of TDK's mass market and children's licensed… Read More