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Max's subtle yet harsh reaction of disgust is priceless. Said tourist unintentionally hints that the prostitutes he was 'enjoying' may have been a bit underaged.

One of the hidden 'Clues' involves Max running into an American tourist at the favela strip joint/brothel.

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Beating the Story Mode on Old School difficulty, you think that your reward is a simple achievement/trophy? No, Rockstar does one better with another blast from the past, namely a fully rendered and rigged skin of Max Payne's character model from Max Payne Advanced (the Game Boy Advance port of the first game) in all his pixellated glory.

Speaking of the constipated face, one of the skins you can use in the game's Arcade mode is 'Old School Max', which is Max from the very first game.

They then show an artist's sketch, Max's constipated looking face from the first game.

One of the television clues show a news report where apparently Max has been blamed for the office building blowing up.

Towards the end of the game, when Max is in a firefight in an airport, if a mook manages to throw a grenade at you Max will sarcastically wonder 'How did they get that past the TSA?'.

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Lords And Ladies is a costume drama series that is so painfully hammy and sappy (deaths via 'rapier-under-the-armpit' impalement count as a dramatic climax), so horrendously scripted (most of the dialogue just consists of 'my lord!' as well as 'my ladeh!') and so cheesily casted (the evil matriarch is played by Sam Lake in drag bearing a permanent devious smile) that it hardly ever fails to put a smile on a player's face.

Still, the way he ends up dying in it is more than sobering. The entire concept of him slipping into the squeaky mascot suit of a cartoon figure he just happens to be idolising that was given to him by his arch-nemesis, Vlad, and then finding it to be booby-trapped with a massive bomb and then has to be evacuated from his own headquarters by no one other than Payne himself is just as insanely obscure as it insanely hilarious.

Six words: Vinnie Gognitti in the mascot suit.

However, if you dislike excessive thematic darkness, you should give this game a pass. Some of the levels are pretty well-designed and have some entertaining moments. There is some fun to be had here, if you're willing to sit through a grim slog to get to it. There are flashes around the crosshairs to show if you kill someone, but they're easy to miss. The Euphoria system can actually be a detriment at times, making it hard to tell if a bad guy has died or just fallen over. Painkillers are also rare, which means having low health is pretty common. This game shows that a cover system works best with regenerating health of some kind if you get caught behind cover with only a sliver of health left and no way to get it back, you might as well reload your game - from a checkpoint, as there is no quicksave option. However, the cover mechanic isn't as good. The actual shooting and flying through the air work fine, although the game is incredibly stingy with bullet time, for some reason: simply going into slow motion for an easy headshot is rarely an option.

This is possibly an attempt to emulate the comic panels of the originals with none of the style.

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Leaving the darkness aside, cutscenes are lengthy, often unskippable, and punctuated with annoying effects: colors randomly breaking apart like a bad TV screen, words characters have just said hanging in the air, and sudden split screens. Eventually, it just becomes a nonstop cavalcade of grimness, and it's hard to root for anybody. This is not helped by the setting change the tone of the previous games was moody but not relentlessly so, while this game seems determined to constantly throw the worst SГЈo Paulo has to offer at us. Cardboard cutouts get killed left and right with little time for characterization, while Max himself spends a good portion of the game drinking and talking about what a piece of shit he is. With some modification, a sequel to this could be good, but as it stands now, Max Payne 3 is a different creature from it predecessors that doesn't quite hit the mark.Д®asily the biggest issue is the drastic shift in tone from the first two games: it's just so fucking dark. Max Payne 3 starts off strong, but gradually shifts into unpleasantness as it goes on, eventually wallowing in despair by the end. Max Payne 3: Halfway Decent, but Disappointing

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