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Wow...worst main character design since...Old Snake. | |
As long as he no longer looks perpetually constipated I'll be happy. | |
He doesn't look THAT fat. | |
Max looks awesome! This is what games are all about, evolution. It's not really believable that a man that had all of Max's experiences would be clean cut and sane. We all know Max is crazy, glad they're making him look the part. | |
like. | |
The fat bit doesn't bother me as much as the baldness. Baldness...so creepy. | |
As long as they keep the inner max comic style. | |
*Thumbs up* It's good they finnally made a realistic mentally unstable main charecter in a game... ah, the memories though... young, enthusiastic, full of promise... and bullets... | |
Looks brutal. Like was said before,a man like Max Payne would not really bother keeping in shape after all he's beeing through. This is the same as MP2, where he looked older and more...... "rugged" than in MP1. | |
He looks like he doesn't even need guns to kick ass anymore. | |
Looks badass to me. I should really get round to playing those Max Payne games, I hear they're quite dandy. Now all I need to see is a game protagonist in a bathrobe and slippers toting a shotgun. | |
The heavy build doesn't creep me out. The baldness combined with that does. He looks like a suspect from a Law and Order episode. | |
What is Bruce Willis from Die Hard 4 doing in Max Payne? | |
Just get the left stick stuck in the forward position towards a wall and he should lose a few pounds, considering he has the endless vitality every other video game protagonist seems to have. | |
I'm just glad that this should disprove any fears I had of Max Payne 3 being just another action-adventure. Just need it all to be tied into a film-noir plot with plenty of Norse mythological references, some meta-fiction and a less ridiculous physics engine and I'll be happy with it. While the gunplay is fun, Max Payne is all about the mood to me. Although Rockstar could easily take his new direction too far, I have faith in them. | |
The only really creepy part is the baldness. | |
hmm shame about the baldness | |
Looks like the baldness is possibly voluntary, if that's the signs of a shaved head (with a receding hairline) I'm seeing there. He looks a bit slovenly, but look at those arms- it's pretty obvious that he hasn't spent his time watching Address Unknown reruns and downing Bon-Bons. Did people expect him to go through the hell he experienced in the first two games and come out happy and well-adjusted? He looks like he's had about 15 years of painkiller addiction and unresolved grief wearing him down... I say bravo, it's good to see characters actually change with time. | |
actually he looks abit like serial killer now | |
The term "ultra-violent" has me picturing Raiders in Fallout 3 getting cleanly decapitated by a 10mm pistol. God I hate the blood and gore obsession. | |
I like the new look to be honest, a lot more real, this looks like a man who has been to hell and back. | |
and he's working on his pedo beard yay =P | |
That | |
Is it just me, or did anyone else think | |
He looks a little bit like Bruce Willis in the picture (Think "Live Free or Die Hard" Bruce Willis, but with extra weight and facial hair). EDIT: Crap, I was Ninja'd. | |
hmm ultra violent i tend think of films when i hear this term | |
maybe there will taking level to a higher level to reflect his descent as a character and madness | |
He looks very Sam Fisher circa *urgh* Double Agent. Sam now looks more spritely and rejuvinated now. | |
The new look is indeed awesome. I concur with "evolution of character" crowd. | |
i agree as long as they dont take it to fair from the original we still want good old max just brought forward not remake remarketed | |
Wait. Old,fat,bald,a kick ass beard and addicted to meds. He could have been Bill. In all serious though he kinda looks like Sam Fisher from Double Agent. Only fatter,and he has a beard. | |
im speechless just WOW now i will always remember what the series was putting max through just by the avatar of the game | |
Old Snake is pure gold and you will burn for your lack of faith. After all our complaints that we're sick of generic action, how can we turn down the opportunity to be shown a deeper character... alongside Max Payne style Ultraviolence? As an Ultra myself, I say with clarity that Ultra is better. | |
lol ultra is better | |
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Max Payne Puts on Pounds, Sheds Hair For New Game
Max Payne has really let himself go since the end of Max Payne 2 if shots of the latest issue of Game Informer showing a bald, overweight Payne in Max Payne 3 are to be believed.
Guess he didn't try hard enough to get the good ending to Max Payne 2, because Max is not exactly looking like his old self in this alleged photo acquired by VG247 of the newest issue of Game Informer, which has a Max Payne 3 cover story, is to be believed. Don't click through if you don't want your perception of the hard-boiled hero to be changed forever.
If you did click through, well you saw what I saw. Max Payne looking overweight, now bald and rocking a dirty wifebeater and cargo pants. Sure he's got a big gun in one hand, but otherwise, this is not the Max we knew from the first two games.
Details from Deeko corroborating the alleged Game Informer reveal that Max isn't just overweight and bald, but also addicted to pain killers. That last part I could have seen coming, considering he downed about 3,000 pills over the course of the first two games.
To get away from it all he's found himself in Sao Paolo, Brazil, where the game takes place in an Uncharted 2-esque setting with fully destructible environments (so long New York). Gameplay unfolds in Brazilian slums and features a "more visceral and ultra-violent" take on the series' bullet time mechanic. There's also online multiplayer.
Still in denial that Max could let himself get in such bad shape? Well, this is all rumor until more people get their hands on the issue, so it could all be bogus. But I don't know. Max was pretty close to going crazy in Max Payne 2. If that game was The Fall of Max Payne, I guess Max Payne 3 is the depressing aftermath.
UPDATE: This is official, guys.
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