Have fun practicing those pistol headshots, you'll have about a second before they unload. For extra fun, regardless of which gun you were using when the cinematic started, by the end of it Max will always be holding the pistol, even if it ends with a bunch of guns with shotguns barging into the room right ahead of him. Like, say, kicking the door into the room chock full of bad guys, and running to the most wimpy piece of furniture that can still be used for cover - standing in precisely such a location that enemies running in through any door will get a convenient shot should Max peek out. What's worse yet, the whole purpose of those periods of no control seems to place Max in precisely the point where he (you!) will have the hardest time dealing with oncoming waves of enemies. Then it's another two-minute unskippable cinematic. Whew, now that the cinematic is over, I can haz some slo-mo pistol headshots and stuff? Yup. Practically no real essence in those lines, overall. Again, very repetitive, pointless and annoying.

The rest of his talk is mostly bitter complaining about how bad things are and how much worse they're going to be. Max goes for irony in every second line he speaks, but it's all pretty stale and shallow, and gets boring very quick. they tried real hard to copy the gritty wittiness of the original Max Payne, and failed just as hard. I understand that all the shaking and the occasional visual glitch effect is intended to convey the perma-drunken state of the player character, but WTF? I GOT IT ALREADY, NOW STOP IT, MY HEAD HURTS! Dialogue. While we're at it, the camera just drives me nuts. For extra fun, you can't even quit the damn game while it's playing, either - the only button you have is to pause it (thanks for that! no, seriously, after the first 2 minutes of that intro I went and made some tea so I could have something to do while watching the rest of it). The first thing that comes out it you is a lengthy cinematic. Boring story, boring gameplay, boring dialogue, and no graphic novels. It keeps going, and going, and It's hard to spoil that kind of game - the recipe is simple and all one needs to do for a successful sequel is to follow it to the letter - but Rockstar managed to screw it up just fine.

It's hard to spoil that kind of game - the recipe is simple and all one needs to do for a successful sequel is to follow it to the letter - but Rockstar managed to screw it up just fine.

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