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2003-2012. Nine years is almost an eternity in the world of video games, especially when the face of your landscape has changed from referring to it as well. For a series that goes back to enter the market after such a time the outlook (and the consequent risks of failure) is manifold: the sequel to all the effects? Ownership of this and that aspect of random fashion, just to ride the wave, without shame for themselves or for the fans? Reboot? Returning the very same baby food, whistling as if nothing had happened? Leave everything at the touch of a button to win? Judging from what has allowed us to see it in her studies in London, for Max Payne 3 Rock star seems to have chosen the first way, the simplest, plausible, natural, but perhaps also one of the most difficult and courageous. Besides, even if once you were what gave the form, substance and method to modern third-person shooter, can not be easy to decide to return to the field, certainly not after the Gears of War will have risen from under the chair my ass, making you fall behind in the era of cover shooter to the ground and surrounded on all sides.

In nine years many things have changed, not only in the life of Max Payne. Michael Mann and Vince Gilligan have shown that you can tell stories of damnation even under the sunlight, while films like City of God Trope de Elite, and brought to the fore new devastating reality, fertile humus to stage an unprecedented flurry of contradictions, new extremes to which human life can escalate up to stretch like a violin string and get irreparably torn. These are some of the references explicitly made ​​by Rock star for the return of Max Payne from hell. Indeed, for what promises to be a descent to a group located more deeply.

The news leaked so far have confirmed 100%: Max Payne 3 will see us in the shoes of a protagonist who has lost even more compass, a real and right elbow with the outcast and the pain always easy to reach. A man who is hopelessly defeated by life, like the Mickey Bourke of The Wrestler, but maybe able to prove to himself he knows that if you want to fight back, not without tripping and stumbling again, attempt after attempt.

Part as a new urban thriller Max sees that in the warm and sunny St. Paul, who was forced to move between the air dirty and sticky the fovea and the frigid and dry the unbridled luxury, involved in something bigger than himself: the kidnapping of the wife of one of three wealthiest Brazilian brothers whom he provides his services as a security guard. A devastating blow to the certainties of three men who appeared at the top of the world, which will soon be a breakthrough leading to a real war without quarter. And if we consider that the fuse is triggered in a situation where violence is already very entrenched and has no problem to occur constantly in everyday life, in all its brutality, we can only imagine the level of ferocity that will take the events.

In the midst of this storm, our Max, shaved, his beard and vest. Treason? But maybe not. Rock star Games is among the software companies definitely ahead in terms of customization and definition of tones and nuances that give depth and maturity to a story, and now has full control of a saga in itself has always proved brilliant in narrative terms that we can not expect sparks. Especially when you also have the consent and advice of the close of the series creators, Remedy.

For example, at the Max tanned like a sociopath will come in stages. The first will put us in the leather jacket of the Max we all know what we have left at the end of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. The developers want us to live on our skin so the progressive changes of a character that has always been very good at appearing faceted and human, to establish a direct line to the player, and that these conditions could make a leap in quality than ever appropriate, which could lead to new levels of identification with him. You name it if you want to become a psycho-drama noir, or third generation.