Not the best Rockstar -Game ... but the love of cinematic story is true.

Max Payne 3 to evaluate really hard for me.
After I started the game full of anticipation and looked at these these wonderful, Rockstar typical beginning, some disillusionment followed after a shorter season.

No question, you can see the Rockstar-typical features, the love of graphic details, music, dialogues ... perfect, but ...

... Here's the first small criticisms:
* Subtitle - please what you thinking? I have very good eyes, playing on a 4m diagonal screen and have me fucking effort to read the subtitles. Much too small advised!
* AI - Here was apparently forgotten the fine tuning. Especially in later levels you need overturn countless hits to the opponent. Unfair, though perhaps realistic Flankieraktionen.
* Technical fault - Crosshair error? It is in the crosshairs sighting red once I have an enemy in his sights, but the bullet does not hit yet, or the opponent does not respond.
* Tone errors - Every now and then Dialogaussätzer in the cutscenes
* Overall, a very high degree of difficulty, this is also due to the devious AI.

General ...

The graphics are absolutely in the green zone, though Rockstar has already delivered games with nicer graphics. When MP3 is much like edge flares etc. masked by the desired light, mirror, -Doppeleffekte.
The story is like so often insziniert with passion. Dialogues, cuts, everything is perfect! The music is any movie just worthy.

The gameplay itself is really unfortunately after a few levels a bit monotonous. Again and again the same processes. Cover, enemy waves, Shooting ... so you have at least a bit of variety may be looking "golden arms" and gather evidence.
On the whole, May Payne 3 seems to me a little unfinished. As if the developer had pressed for time and has not been corrected trifles.

Cute gimmicks like the Bulletcam are beautiful to look at, but, unfortunately, often disturb the gameplay.
Likewise, the control, was as far as the weapons change not optimally occupied just for example. In critical situations you should not only R1, then looking for a weapon consisting of a circle, then confirm and then to shoot first. This takes ...

The multiplayer I've tried only briefly.
The maps that I have seen act unanimously and graphically they are managed. The flow of the game right and also seem to be the server to operate at least at present flow smoothly.
Overall, I had to think about very Uncharted. The similarity seems to not be able to completely deny.

On the one hand such a great movie, on the other hand I miss the alternation I am actually expect from Rockstar.

It should be mentioned that MP3 actually authorized by the USK 18 classification has. The story is hard, sometimes brutal badly told and shown. For this, the issue is actually even worth a thought and not as a pure play usual fantasy story. Here are approaches in the history that were not necessarily caused by the hair. For a plus!
Strangely, however, has very grabbed me the ambition. Despite the slight negative points to responding to the still very high level of difficulty. I now have been playing the third round, after "heavy, old school now follows Hardcore".
Max Payne 3 is not easy to assess.
I give it 5 stars because I think it's fair. For the gameplay itself, it would be max. only 3- 4 stars. Through the whole package is sufficient for 4-5 stars. A solid third-person shooter, which, unfortunately, nothing new has to offer, yet convinced.
Rockstar may halt ...