MAX PAYNE 3 GAME OVER SOUND DRIVER
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Another voice over: 'Trouble seems to find us the way you found me, slumped in a bar.

'The various flashbacks have been timed in such a way as to shed light on the things Max is experiencing at that moment in time вЂ“ the game is about Max's emotional journey into the gutter, and his realizations about that journey, so events from the past are only relevant when Max remembers them.'ДЇor example, the club level ends with Payne looking over at his helicopter pilot, Raul Passos, who convinced him to take the personal protection job in the first place.

MAX PAYNE 3 GAME OVER SOUND DRIVER

'This let us structure the narrative in a more interesting way,' says Houser, 'using Max's memories as the driver of the story, and crafting a story and a game that is about Max's journey towards some kind of self awareness. A shot of whiskey drops the audio for a few moments, settling to a moderate thud. You can almost see the thumping bass in his vision - a constant, jarring blur.

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With the club in full swing, Payne's perspective quick-cuts back and forth between grinding 20-somethings and potential troublemakers. You don't want to listen to advice from me.' I'm 500 miles from home, I'm armed and I'm drinking. When one of his youthful charges asks him for some life guidance, Payne is blunt: 'I'm standing in a nightclub, listening to music I can't stand. They literally take a helicopter to a nightclub. In an early level, Payne is acting as a bodyguard for, as he calls them in a morose voice-over, 'the kinds of people that go to nightclubs in helicopters.' He's not being poetic either. They want players to see the world from his perspective, with all the blurring and haziness that you'd expect from a middle-aged drug addict. To tell Payne's story of redemption, Rockstar put a lot of work into getting inside his head. 'Part of him still yearns for a quest,' says Houser, 'a damsel in distress or some other simplistic and easy to understand scenario in which he can act like a heroic good guy once more, even though last time it did not turn out so good.'

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