# Max Payne 3 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 23, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457 "2009-03-23T14:51:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/1 "2009-03-23T14:51:00Z")
[There will be a Max Payne 3](http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=211390) Max Payne 3 will be released this winter, for 360, PS3 and PC The story will be about a older a more world-weary and cynical Max,(:eek:) This makes me happy:); I loved Max Payne:cool:, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne was the closest I ever came to a religious experience:D, The movie was Okay I consider Max Payne one of the greatest accomplishments in story telling in a computer game, and hope the next game continues this Anyone know if Max Payne was the first game with bullet time?(i.e. slow motion action scenes in action computer game) ---
**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/2 "2009-03-23T15:42:21Z")
Max Payne 2 is among the finest action games ever created with some of the most delightfully over the top dialogue written for a game. However, there is a distinct lack of still living characters in that universe. It’s a bit of a gamble as to whether they can pull it off with an almost entirely new supporting cast. It also makes me curious which of the Max Payne 2 endings will be treated as canonical. Chalk me up for cautiously optimistic. ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/3 "2009-03-23T15:57:54Z")
> [@Garula](#): > > However, there is a distinct lack of still living characters in that universe. It’s a bit of a gamble as to whether they can pull it off with an almost entirely new supporting cast. It also makes me curious which of the Max Payne 2 endings will be treated as canonical. Well Mona Sax was killed in the first Max Payne, and was playable in the second one And if you finished Max Payne on the hardest difficulty you might know that Mona Lives oh and some [Max Payne wikiqoutes](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Payne_2:_The_Fall_of_Max_Payne) my favorite one > [@](#): > > The genius of the hole: no matter how long you spend climbing out, you can still fall back down in an instant. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/4 "2009-03-23T16:20:14Z")
> [@willthekittensurvive](#): > > Well Mona Sax was killed in the first Max Payne, and was playable in the second one No, she didn’t She was wounded but clearly able to get out of the elevator on her own power, so her re-emergence alive was no shocker. IN the second, She got so full of lead her grave’ll probably qualify as a Superfund site. If they bring her back after that, uh… she’s a bloody zombie. I think the only named character still alive is Deputy Chief Jim Bravura, who didn’t appear in the second game. ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/5 "2009-03-23T17:14:26Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > No, she didn’t She was wounded but clearly able to get out of the elevator on her own power, so her re-emergence alive was no shocker. IN the second, > > She got so full of lead her grave’ll probably qualify as a Superfund site. If they bring her back after that, uh… she’s a bloody zombie. I think the only named character still alive is Deputy Chief Jim Bravura, who didn’t appear in the second game. actually if you play it on The “Dead on Arrival” difficulty you get this ending [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGER40F0JzE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGER40F0JzE) ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/6 "2009-03-23T18:46:24Z")
Ah, never knew that. I would have believed you before, except you left out the “2” previously. ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/7 "2009-03-23T18:47:28Z")
my bad then ---
**Author:** ![in\_hiding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c5a1d2/32.png) [@in\_hiding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/in_hiding)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/8 "2009-03-23T18:55:02Z")
Wow, that’s so cool! They’d better not screw this one up. And I hope they don’t model the world like it was in the movie… that would suck. The “Gognitty Storage” was a nice touch, but really it should be a sequal to the games, not to the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Hero\_From\_Sector\_7G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@Hero\_From\_Sector\_7G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hero_From_Sector_7G)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/9 "2009-03-23T19:40:05Z")
It is worth noting that Rockstar V is doing it. Looks like the Max Payne crew moved on to Alan Wake. ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/10 "2009-03-23T19:41:44Z")
> [@Hero\_From\_Sector\_7G](#): > > It is worth noting that Rockstar V is doing it. > > Looks like the Max Payne crew moved on to Alan Wake. is that a good thing? bad thing? a thing? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/11 "2009-03-23T21:07:48Z")
I loved the 1st two, happy to hear about 3rd. Awesome games! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/12 "2009-03-24T01:21:38Z")
> [@willthekittensurvive](#): > > is that a good thing? bad thing? a thing? Rockstar Vancouver made Bully, which I’ve heard is pretty good. So it could be a good thing. It’s definitely not a bad thing. And Alan Wake looks bitchin’, so it’s definitely a good thing that the folks at Remedy are doing that. ---
**Author:** ![Hero\_From\_Sector\_7G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@Hero\_From\_Sector\_7G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hero_From_Sector_7G)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-payne-3/490457/13 "2009-03-24T02:56:57Z")
Alan Wake looked good ten thousand years ago when they announced it…