Environments are rich, the hordes of enemies you gun down have a decent amount of variety to them in terms of looks and the cutscenes are interspersed with subtitles for important pieces of information in a cool graphic novel kind of style. By the time the plot actually starts going anywhere again there are at least 3 different gangs out for Max's blood and the wrap up of the fight against each gang is incredibly disappointing and short enough to scream "we spent all the money on making the voice actors more gravelly and completely ran out of time, we're really sorry". But as good as those sequences are they don't actually bring the main story anywhere and really just pad out the main game with an idea that was entirely deserving of its own game or even a high quality DLC title. Max shot his son in a bar fight, it makes perfect sense for DeMarco to want revenge and the grieving father angle gives him more legitimacy than anyone in Brazil who are to the last money-grubbing jerks with no morals. The mob boss DeMarco is a far better bad guy than any of the main villains. On their own merits these are great sequences, they give room for Max to be a bitter lonely man in a setting that suits far better than Brazil. At intervals throughout the game there are flashback missions that go back to Hoboken New Jersey, before Max was recruited to go to Brazil. Then the whole plot just falls off the rails for about 3 hours, as you grind your way through a mess of horrible foreshadowing and flashback sequences that don't move the actual story forward in any real way. Max is a clearly a shell of a man, the classic film noir detective and though he does tend to ramble on about how he's ruined his life, the claustrophobic, depressed and almost desperate feel all adds to the atmosphere. These early sequences have a lot of depth to them. The initial attempt fails but a second attempt gets 2 members of the family and Max is sent to recover the victims and get to the bottom of exactly who wanted them taken. He's wound up working private security in Sao Paolo when a local gang attempts to kidnap the head of the family he's protecting. The plot picks up not long after Max Payne 2 and finds Max a broken down alcoholic with a painkiller addiction dealing with the death of his wife and child. The whole campaign is about 10 hours and boils down to a single extended mission with a few flashbacks, but who exactly you're meant to be fighting changes so often it gets muddled over time. Who exactly the "bad guy" is is a question that could've done with some consistency. MP3 is cut from the same cloth as a lot of Rockstar games, it's a third-person shooter based on the Euphoria engine with sloppy cover mechanics, about a gravelly guy with a troubled past who is in some way being used by "the man" to kill "the bad guy". After an 8 years hiatus Max Payne is back, older, fatter and more gravelly than ever.
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