We sent Agent Smee back to Rockstar HQ with another mission: to uncover Max Payne 3. This is what he found.

First things first. The main meat of the game may be set in Brazil, but the preview begins familiarly enough with Max trapped under gunfire in his shambles of a New York apartment, a furious mafia mob boss screaming Max’s name hysterically into the winter night’s air in a nasal Italian-American accent. It’s unmistakably Max Payne, complete with battered trench coat and crap tie. The sudden attack interrupts him from drowning his sorrows in a whisky bottle, the mafia thugs positioned at the end of the corridor shooting out his windows. But Max is unconcerned as he’s basking in the impervious safety of a cover system, hunched up to the side of his front door, gun in hand.(more…)