Now, see Oblivion, where it’s possible to become master of every single guild, saviour of every town, etc. Some of the quest chains, especially those revolving around the various houses and guilds, are so much more interesting than those in Oblivion because very often the quests will conflict with one another, sometimes even totally excluding you from certain options, or requiring you to lose favour with one group and appease another. It doesn’t really hold your hand when it comes to telling you what to do, where to go, etc., and expects you to figure things out the same way you would in the real world: by asking questions, exploring, and experimenting. Morrowind, for all its gameplay flaws, is actually an extremely complex game. But from where I sit you’re turning gold into lead. Rockstar, I will be happy – delighted even – to eat these words if this game isn’t a soup of mindless battles, perfunctory boilerplate dialog, and sticky-cover based combat.
#MAX PAYNE 3 BALD SERIES#
Metacritic scores:Ĭhanging a unique series so that it can be more like other, less interesting, less successful titles makes no sense. The usual explanation when something like this happens (as with Xcom) is that they’re just harvesting the brand name to garner a few sales, but, it’s not like Max Payne is this obscure, struggling series that needed an overhaul to make it more “mainstream”. Now it looks like Kane & Lynch, the poster child for bland and unlikeable. They took a game which was thematically unique – the one active noir franchise – and made it into something else. It’s not like noir is this overcrowded genre where they needed to break away so they could stand out. Even if it turns out to be a great movie, I shouldn’t call it Spider-Man 4.
#MAX PAYNE 3 BALD MOVIE#
If I made a superhero movie about a guy who doesn’t have any powers, doesn’t dress up, and makes no effort to fight crime or be heroic, then I didn’t actually make a superhero movie, did I? I just made some other movie and then mis-categorized it. But if you drop all if them, then it sort of defeats the purpose of calling it “noir”. In fact, it’s common to change a couple on purpose. You don’t need all of these things to make a noir story. Hats? Ties? Jackets? Cities at night? Moody lighting? Mobsters? Down on his luck detective? Neon? A protagonist who is NOT a hulking badass? Snappy dialog with clever dames and world-weary cops? Does any of this sound familiar? Has anyone related with this project ever familiarized themselves with the concept of noir? This is Max Payne 3? This is bald musclebound redneck is supposed to be John Woo-inspired bullet-time specialist Max Payne?Ī beefy slob in a dirty wifebeater, gunning down terrorists in a sun-drenched ghetto.
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