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No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to São Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. This complete edition of Max Payne 3 includes the complete original game and all previously released downloadable content.

Max Payne 3 is a action, third-person shooter and bullet time game developed by Rockstar Studios and published by Rockstar Games.
Released on May 31st 2012 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 57,076 reviews of which 49,420 were positive and 7,656 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam with a 70% discount.


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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10 64 Bit
  • Processor: Intel Dual Core 2.4 GHZ - i7 3930K 6 Core x 3.06 GHZ / AMD Dual Core 2.6 GHZ - FX-8150 8 Core x 3.6 GHZ
  • Memory: 2GB - 16GB RAM
  • Hard Drive: 35GB of free HDD Space
  • Graphics: NVIDIA® 8600 GT 512MB VRAM – NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680 2GB VRAM / Radeon HD 3400 512MB VRAM - Radeon HD 7970 3GB VRAM
  • Sound Card: 100% Direct X 9.0 compatible – Direct X 9.0 compatible supporting Dolby Digital Live

Initial activation requires internet connection and Rockstar Social Club (13+ to register); software installation required including Sony DADC SecuROM; DirectX, and Microsoft’s Windows .NET Framework, and Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86).

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March 2025
Rockstar put their story telling and directing skills into this third installment of the the MAX PAYNE Trilogy. And they do not disappoint. Weather you are playing from the first two stories, or just getting into the franchise they keep Max true to pill popping form; And fill in the blanks to his past enough to slide into the nightmare that is Max's life. Still voiced by the Late James McCaffrey (RIP); It's Quite a way to end the series. If you are looking for a story rich action game. This is it.
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Jan. 2025
One of the most underrated games ever made by Rockstar. The story can be slightly less compelling than first two games but I enjoyed the story. The combat is so frickin satisfying, some of the best I have ever seen in gaming. The realism is on another level, this game is more realistic than GTA 5. Top notch music and some of the actions scenes are on par with movie action sequences or even better. Rockstar really put a lot of care and money into this game(100 million dollars apparently) and it's sad that the game was a financial disaster. Amazing game. 9.5/10
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Nov. 2024
the amount of pure AURA this man has while jumping down a staircase in slowmo and gunning down a squad of gangsters in a split second with akimbo pistols all while listening to this absolute BANGER of a soundtrack, makes me wanna become addicted to painkillers too.
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July 2024
Just finished the story mode on hard. As a Brazillian, born and raised in the state of São Paulo, I can say that the team responsible for getting the info about the favelas, criminality, corruption and stuff based themselves primarilly on the 2007 movie "Elite Squad", which shows a little bit how things work in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, with lots of gang wars, the infamous "microwave" scene, kidnappings, the police incursions with bulletproof vehicles and stuff. In São Paulo, the organized crime is not as brutal as in RJ, of course we still have al lot of the things depicted in the game, but it's not as common. Also, if someone walks into a crime-taken favela as dangerous as they made Nova Esperança look like, that would be just a death sentence. Max would be dead before he could think of what he did wrong. Also, I've noticed quite a few lines that either were spoken with the wrong accent (in SP there is mostly an accent of our own, or the northeastern one, and in the game it's possible to note both the RJ accent and also a little bit of Portugal natives too), or just wouldn't be spoken by any brazilian at all. It's the kind of thing that was not written in portuguese, and the translation job was good, but not perfect. On the other hand, there are some lines that just someone from SP would say, and those lines really shine throughout the game. It's amazing to play a game developed in a foreign country, by a foreign team, where you can hear someone cursing just like your neighbors do on a daily basis. Misconceptions aside, it IS a really good game, with an interesting story, most people who play it can't understand shit in portuguese and/or have never been in Brazil so those things I just pointed will make no difference at all, and even for someone like me, those mistakes are just something that adds some sort of funny touches to the game. Putting it in short words, excellent game, but looks more like Rio de Janeiro than São Paulo.
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June 2024
Max Payne 3 is the greatest 3rd person shooter of all time, the combat and gunplay are unmatched to this day. Wish we would get Max Payne 4.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Max Payne 3 is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam.

Max Payne 3 is currently available at a 70% discount. You can purchase it for 5.99€ on Steam.

Max Payne 3 received 49,420 positive votes out of a total of 57,076 achieving a rating of 8.52.
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Max Payne 3 was developed by Rockstar Studios and published by Rockstar Games.

Max Payne 3 is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Max Payne 3 is not playable on MacOS.

Max Payne 3 is not playable on Linux.

Max Payne 3 offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Max Payne 3 offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

Max Payne 3 does not currently offer any DLC.

Max Payne 3 does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Max Payne 3 does not support Steam Remote Play.

Max Payne 3 does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.

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Max Payne 3 PEGI 18
8.5
49,420
7,656
Game modes
Online players
423
Developer
Rockstar Studios
Publisher
Rockstar Games
Release 31 May 2012
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