Max Payne 3

I really felt as if I hadn't played a real AAA game for a while, so I was looking forward to this. Unfortunately, I was very soon reminded of this tweet:

Max Payne 3: Like being forced to watch your friend's shitty film, with breaks to play their shitty game.

— Peter Serafinowicz (@serafinowicz) June 11, 2012

I really didn't enjoy this. Games like Halo are basically all shooting, and yet somehow you don't notice too much. Max Payne you do. And the whole "shoot someone else when you're dying to revive" thing is tempremental (a nice way of saying often cheap and buggy). And the writing is often terrible ("I'm not following" "YOU'RE NOT MEANT TO BE FOLLOWING!"). There are some great setpieces, but this feels like a monotonous slog and shows how badly Rockstar can misjudge something when they're out of their comfort zone. 5/10