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'Max Payne 3' now available for Xbox 360, PS3

By Hector Cortez May 16, 2012, 23:55 GMT

The long-awaited Max Payne 3 is now available at retail stores across North America for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

The long-awaited Max Payne 3 is now available at retail stores across North America for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Max Payne 3 will release internationally on May 18, 2012, and for the PC in North America on May 29, and internationally on June 1.

Max Payne 3 picks up the story of fallen former New York City detective, Max Payne several years after the events of the original games. Close to washed up and addicted to painkillers, Max accepts a job offer of private security work in Sao Paulo Brazil protecting Rodrigo Branco, a wealthy businessman, and his beautiful trophy wife, Fabiana, in the hopes of an escape from his tragic past. When Fabiana is abducted while under Maxs protection, Max finds himself caught up in something much larger than a simple kidnapping, looking for answers on the streets of an unfamiliar city as his personal demons return to haunt him once again.

In a first for the franchise, Max Payne 3 brings the series signature combination of precise shooting, fluid movement and Bullet Time online in a range of co-operative and competitive modes that allow players to compete in free-for-all deathmatches, fight for the right to play as Max Payne in Payne Killer, or build out events from the single-player story in the dynamically branching rounds of Gang Wars.
   
In another first, Max Payne 3 features Crews, persistent clans of friends that can play together online, building alliances and rivalries while tracking progress and Crew Feuds through Rockstars online hub, the Rockstar Games Social Club. Crews extend across platforms and across game titles, with Crews created within Max Payne 3 ready and available for players in Grand Theft Auto V and other future titles.