What a year 2012 was, Dishonored, Far Cry 3, Borderlands 2, The Walking Dead, Mass Effect 3. XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Assassins Creed 3, Halo 4, Hotline Miami, Black Ops 2, Hitman, Sleeping Dogs. All amazing games and some genre defining classics and this game somehow managed to stand on its own along with these juggernauts. While not achieving the same praise as these games and even other Rockstar games, this game has been kinda left to time even today. For all the good the games done like how satisfying the gunplay is and how awesome the bullet time plays, the alright story holds it back for me in terms of it being better the MP2. I loved how goofy the ragdolls were, I loved the story of the hopeless romantic that is Max Payne, I loved the interactivity you had with the game world, and I loved Max's overall character which I would consider quippy in a heavy handed way. Max is still quippy in this game but its like the heavy hand was made of metal filled with concrete. Max quips but its delivered with the classic modern Rockstar edge and I dont know how I really feel about it. I guess thats what I can say about this entire game really, I like this game dont get me wrong but I cant bring myself to really put it over MP2, I can easily put it over MP1 even though the story for MP1 is a bit better but MP2 will always out do this game for me. I guess to best sum up this essay is that I like this game but I cant put it over its predecessor. This game is extremely underrated and personally I think everyone should try this one if they havent already.