And that’s not even half of what the video shows off. The environment will also have a huge array of things shattering, breaking apart, burning, and interacting with Max all during gunplay.

Those excellent and stylish in-engine cutscenes are horizontally cropped, however. Max Payne 3 is a joy to play at 21:9 - that is as long as youre only counting the gameplay. There’s also a custom panel generator that will dynamically incorporate in-game footage in real time to give it the classic comic book presentation. Ive posted over in the Max Payne 3 thread about this issue but figured this would be the right place.

It’ll use innovative cinematic tricks to seamlessly move from cutscene to gameplay and back again without ever seeing a loading screen.

Rockstar is putting together a series of “Design and Tech” behind the scenes videos to show off just how truly impressive Max Payne 3 is. The game features interactive cutscenes which transition seamlessly into continuing gameplay there are no loading screens across gameplay and cutscenes. The story is where they fucked up (along with Max's redesign), and why I can't really consider Pax Mayne 3 a proper Max Payne. It’s that sort of stuff that is incredibly inspiring to me. It doesn't reach the 'All the angels in heaven were taking a piss at the same time' level that Max Payne 1-2 had for Max's verboseness) Gameplay seems fine, but that isn't really hard to fuck up.

But it’s really cool to hear how games were put together and have some things pointed out to you that you would never notice or appreciate without the developers specifically showing you how hard they worked on something. There’s a certain “man behind the curtain” thing associated with videogames or any type of entertainment medium.

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