Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Max Payne 3

Late as ever, one would think this 2012 title would be patched already.

I mean it's a Rockstar title for F's sake.

Nope - I've broken it at least twice. Once so bad my save/restart point ended with me just dropping off the world into emptiness (well, it changed to orange before it changed to a black limbo) and forcing me to start the whole level from the beginning.

While it's fun to follow the adventures of Max The Fumbling Alcoholic Nervous Breakdown (tm), the immersion is somewhat broken when you run into an enemy "boss" that is glued to a location so forcefully that rolling and dodging behind him prevents him from turning around and shooting at you. (I'm talking about you, the armored, helmeted machine gun guy in the corporate lobby!)

And how to make the game limbo?

Easy; just go past some pre-programmed place and the game slowly, slowly, slowly starts to go bonkers on you. First you'll notice everything loading slowly (the memory is probably running out because the game is not releasing resources which you already went past and won't ever see), then 90% of the enemies just won't load. And finally the game can't load anything fast enough to keep you "afloat" and you'll end up falling through the world.

And all this because I jumped a railing in a warehouse instead of going through a "control room" and triggering an event where you'll shoot a dozen guys across the hall.

Sheesh. I mean... Rockstar? Really? Rockstar Bangladesh? Rockstar Nigeria? Who made this game?

Maybe you should give it back to Remedy, at least we Finns know how to make working scripts... :P


Score: 6.5

(Bugless it would be 8 - Remedy would've probably made it into a 9 game.)