Max Payne 3

I'm a huge fan of the "film noir" genre.  Amongst my favorite movies are The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca (which isn't really film noir, but is darn close, in my mind), and Blade Runner.  I'm also a fan of attempts to do fun things in video games, and for a while the biggest "fun thing" that games were messing around with was "bullet time."

You know "bullet time."  It's that thing that happened in the Matrix movies where time slows down and you see the path of every bullet.  It can also be referred to as "John Woo Time" because he tends to use it a lot, as well as spending enough money on doves to satisfy every wedding in twenty states.

So, what happens when you take a grim, gritty film noir character like Max Payne (not the movie one) and put him in a place of sun, beaches, and bikinis?

You get a frustrating but fun game experience, is what you get.