Was Max Payne 3 Really A Failure?

I don't think the reception from some fans means Max Payne should stay in his miserable lane forever, or even the core impetus for the remakes. Maybe its lack of success (if you believe Take-Two at the time) is due to other factors. Perhaps the world was over Max Payne. Maybe it expected something else entirely from Rockstar and wasn't willing to put down $60, especially with so many other big games that year. It could even come down to marketing or the lack thereof. As the man himself said, “Things had a habit of only making sense to me looking back, long after I'd run out of time to fix them.” Regardless of the reason, Max Payne 3 still stands out as an incredible action game, and no, not with the caveat of being a bad Max Payne game. Opinions will always vary, but just as there's room for remakes that could fundamentally alter everything we loved about the originals, there's also space for a Max who finds some solace at the end of it all.