Max Payne 3: Ghost, Goons, and Graveyards
Posted: 8/15/2012 6:01:27 PM
By: WebPimp

Rockstar Games, the awesome company that they are, has released some new information today about Max Payne 3. In order to get things right, the developers and artists needed to do research. LOTS OF RESEARCH.  That means there was a lot of time spent roaming about Hoboken, Newark and New York city taking photos, and probably consuming some beers, until they got enough inspiration to make things legit.  "Corporate greed, nightclub shootouts, helicopters, vertigo-inducing rooftops, pill-popping, even Captain Baseballbatboy — the more things change for Max in Max Payne 3, the more they stay the same. Our beleaguered NYC cop pursues the promise of a fresh start working in São Paulo, Brazil, but as a couple of turning point flashback sequence levels reveal in the game, this descent into the volatile South American city's chaos is sparked by a chance encounter that took place back in the snow and darkness of New Jersey — where the butchering of his family many years ago began Payne’s downward spiral — and with death-dealing gangsters again in hot pursuit. In Max Payne 3, we find our protagonist planted on a barstool at Walton’s Bar near his Hoboken hovel, busy drowning eight years of horrific memories in drink. A dispute with a young hothead from the local DeMarco crime family rapidly escalates to pistols drawn, then gunfire and a mob of angry Mafiosi out for Payne’s blood."

Check out some of the images by looking at the gallery here.