
"The PC is the only platform where you can really max out the high end if you want to, and we wanted Max Payne 3 on PC to have the potential to look beautiful on the highest possible resolutions on the biggest monitors available." "We developed the PC version in parallel with the consoles instead of a direct port," says Rockstar.
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The downside is that the game now needs 35GB of space to install too, though that's hardly an issue for modern SSDs. Rockstar claims that every single game asset has been retreated for the PC version, with texture sizes now four times larger than they were on the console release. There's been a slew of graphical updates made to the game, making Max Payne 3 one of the most gorgeous PC shooters we've seen in recent years.įor once, these improvements aren't just general tweaks that only slightly - or imperceptibly - improve the look either. The good news though is that, now it's released, the PC version of Max Payne 3 is revealed to be a significant improvement on the previously released console version of the game. It's a worryingly common pattern for major releases nowadays.

Instead, what annoyed us was that Max Payne 3 was initially only released on consoles, with the PC version delayed until earlier this week. It has its flaws, mainly in the form of a few incongruous turret sequence, but these don't bother us too much. Not at the game Rockstar's interpretation of Remedy's PC classic is faithful to the tone of the original games and features some of the best bullet-slinging we've seen this year.

We may as well admit it, but when Max Payne 3 was first released after a nine year gap in the series, we were a little disappointed.

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