Max Payne 3
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…
Max Payne 3 is a shooter developed by Rockstar London, released 15 May 2012 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $5.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 11.6 hrs to finish.
What Max Payne 3 is
Max Payne 3 is a shooter game developed by Rockstar London and released in 2012. It was published by Rockstar Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Euphoria Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Throughout the single-player mode, players control Max Payne, a former detective who has become a vigilante after the murder of his wife and daughter. Nine years after the events of the second game, Max becomes employed as a private security contractor in Brazil, but quickly becomes entangled in a quest filled with death and betrayal.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, sandbox and thriller. It supports multiplayer for up to 16 players online. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 67 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Max Payne series
Max Payne 3 is the fifth of 7 entries we hold in the Max Payne series. It arrived 4 years after Max Payne Bundle. The next entry was Max Payne 3: Special Edition in 2012. Its critic score of 89 is 10 points above the series average of 79. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Max Payne 3 holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 1,174 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 11.6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 22 hrs, roughly 1.9 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $5.99, that works out to about $0.52 per hour of the main story, or $0.27 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Dual Core 2.4 GHZ - i7 3930K 6 Core x 3.06 GHZ / AMD Dual Core 2.6 GHZ - FX-8150 8 Core x 3.6 GHZ, 2GB - 16GB RAM and NVIDIA® 8600 GT 512MB VRAM – NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680 2GB VRAM / Radeon HD 3400 512MB VRAM - Radeon HD 7970 3GB VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 35GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $5.99 at Steam, 70% below its usual price. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Indonesia is the cheapest region we track at Rp 60,000 (about $3.35), while United Kingdom pays £5.39 — 2.1 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 4 on Steam, which is about $4.49.
What it launched against
Max Payne 3 launched on 15 May 2012, within three weeks of The Walking Dead, Diablo III, Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition and Prototype 2. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Walking Dead, Diablo III, Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Prototype 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Max Payne 3 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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