The violence is brutal and unapologetic, yet it never felt inappropriate, and I realized why during a viewing of RoboCop.
If you play it you will understand what I mean the first time you shoot a bad guy in the neck and see him collapse to his knees while blood spurts out of the gaping wound. I’m shocked we never saw it as part of a Fox News anti-gaming tirade or in front of a Congressional committee on videogame violence. Max Payne 3 might be the most violent videogame I’ve ever played. I remember thinking, “I can’t believe this is about to happen” while I slowed down the action with the press of a button and then literally watched the poor bastard’s chest evaporate into a cloud of red and gore as I pumped shell after shell into him in slow motion.
When I think about Max Payne 3 I think about a camera shot tracking tight on a cluster of sixteen or so shotgun pellets as they slowly fly towards some poor bastard who’s about to catch the round in the chest.
