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The challenge for players banished to this rule-free land comes not just from the normal battle for headshots, but in the shadowy meta-game where hackers battle to see who can massage the code to give them the ultimate advantage.
While this at first seems like poetic punishment for those that would try to skirt the game's rules, we're a bit intrigued by the potential for the "Cheaters Pool" to evolve into a new mode of play that some players might actually prefer. Rockstar says it might eventually decide to absolve some of these players, allowing them back into the general gameplay population, but that any further cheating after that point "will result in their indefinite banishment." Rockstar is taking a slightly different tack for online play in Max Payne 3, however, letting cheaters continue to play in a quarantined, cheaters-only area where they can't infect the healthy mass of law-abiding players.Īs discussed in a recent Rockstar blog post, anyone confirmed to be using hacks to gain powers like invincibility, infinite adrenaline, or modified scores in Max Payne 3 will be placed into a "Cheaters Pool" for online matches, where they'll get a taste of their own medicine by playing only with other cheaters.
In the meantime, check out the latest game video and screens.Most online game developers deal with the persistent problem of in-game cheating by simply issuing blanket bans, hoping to eliminate the problem players from their universe entirely. But from the outside looking in, Max Payne 3 - which was written by Dan Houser, the writer behind several of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto games as well as Red Dead Redemption - feels like an unnecessary course change that sends Max into the familiar “blistering sunset” aesthetic of Rockstar’s other games.
I’m all for bold choices in game design we need all of the envelope-pushing we can get. And maybe I’ll feel differently if/when I get the chance to play the game for myself. Not to mention the screenshots that show this older Max going all John McClane, sporting a newly bald head and wife-beater.Ĭall it a classic case of cognitive dissonance if you want. No matter how much research Rockstar conducts to ensure serious realism. And no matter how many trailers and developer videos that Rockstar releases showcasing how they’re using the latest technology to create a Max that’s more gee-whiz eye-popping than ever - and the tech does look impressive, I’m not disputing that - I just can’t get my head around this new setting. Max Payne 3 picks up the story and the character eight long years after the events of the second game, and rather inexplicably changes the formula in very drastic ways. The second game was pretty much “more of the same,” but at least the developers were smart enough to know not to screw up a smart formula that worked. It was a tightly-woven tale wrapped in a game that pushed the medium forward with John Woo-style gun play and bullet time physics - long before Woo or The Matrix came to video games. The first Max Payne was a revelation, immersing players in an emotional story of righteous revenge in highly original ways. What is Rockstar Games thinking with Max Payne 3?
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I just don’t get the idea of taking a series that’s built on hard-boiled, noir-y darkness, and moving it to exotic, sun-soaked Brazil.
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