'The goal with the trailer was to set the scene for a new chapter in Max's story one that would make sense both from a thematic point of view and from the point of view of Max's character arc. It doesn't take long before Max and old pal Raul Passos are employed by real estate mogul Rodrigo Branco and his family.

Sao Paulo apparently is 'very alien' for poor Max (who doesn't speak a lick of Portuguese), but at the same time, it's familiar and bears many similarities to New York.

There are, of course, plenty of great shooters out there, but the game's combination of urban and criminal setting, the cinematic third-person action that is at the heart of the game, and the really amazing character that is Max are still a pretty unique proposition.'Īs we know, Max has moved to Brazil to find work, hoping to gain employment as an executive security freelancer (fitting, for a disgraced cop). 'As the games are so old now,' says Barrera, 'Plenty of people who would like Max were simply not gaming back in 2003 (and, yes, we are depressed by how old we are getting!). Unfortunately, it seems like many gamers have also forgotten about Max, or simply never knew him in the first place. Max has spent most of the time since the last game drinking and trying to forget. Jeronimo Barrera, VP of product development at Rockstar, recently sat down with Gamespot to spill the beans on what was in store for everybody's favourite, cranky NYC cop. Rockstar Games, on the other hand, figure that 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it,' promising that Max Payne 3 will be full of the things we know and love from the first two.

A lot of them are taking the unusual approach of changing virtually everything about the game in order to release their new, loosely-affiliated project. In a world where sequels, 'spiritual successors' and long-overdue reboots are getting thrown around like nobody's business, developers are struggling to keep all the people happy all the time.

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