By far the best-designed and best-feeling gameplay in the series. The animation-based shooting can be a little annoying when my cursor is over an enemy and I have to wait for Max to move his fat fingers in the right direction but this wasn't frequent enough to ruin my experience.

My only gripe with this one is that the story is kinda really shit in comparison to the other two. idk if all Rockstar games have this kinda writing but Max Payne was such a dolt for most of the story. There would be times when I would barge in through a window and headshot a dozen enemies before I even hit the floor and then the next second in a cutscene Max walks in on three enemies with his gun aimed at them but instead of doing anything to stop them he just kinda watches them kill his clients directly in front of him. This sort of situation somehow happens twice. There are also several times where Max is threatened out of his guns and weapons by common thugs and he puts up no fight, always saying some stupid shit like "no hablar espanol."

I did like the little nods to the previous games but I still feel like this one's attempts to separate itself from the other two only really hurt it in the long run. Story gripes aside, Max Payne 3 is still a really solid 3rd person shooter that at its best, has nothing else really like it.