Max Payne 3 has "been developed in parallel, it's not a Port"

Rockstar Games has officially announced today over on Twitter that Max Payne 3 is not a port.

[Skate-AK]

Still has some insane specs.

[adorie]

Specs ARE insane. They recommend 16g of ram. seriously!? well... I have 1 more DIMM slot and I could just pick up another 4gig stick :D

Only thing I wouldn't consider messing with, is my CPU, I am content with the i7 2700k atm. I will upgrade once Ivy Bridge comes out though and GTX 680 is looking more likely to me. 2g of Vram makes me comfy. \m/

[Army_of_Darkness]

After GTA4 and Red dead redemption, they better do a great job with the ps3 version!

[Imalwaysright]

16 gb RAM!! WTF? They didnt even bother to optimize the game!!

[chanmasta]

Herp derp. They clearly stated in the specs 2GB-16GB...

http://www.rockstargames.co...

[KeiserSosay4788]

I actually don't understand why they listed the specs like they did. VERY out of the ordinary. I just don't see listing a GTX 680 as the ONLY way to run this game maxed at it's highest resolution and pulling 60 fps to be realistic. I mean, I haven't played the game but combine this CRAZY info with the fact that it recommends 16 GB's and I think this is BS. BF3 recommends like 4-8 gb RAM and that is HALF of what, apparently Max Payne can use. I can see the game looking better, but not needing TWICE the freakin' RAM!

[Huarle]

They listed the range of hardware the game works on, not the recommended settings. You don't need 16 GB RAM (especially since a 64-bit .exe will most likely not be included anyway) to play in max settings.

[adorie]

I think I was a lil too excited when I saw the specs. Those insane specs are just for refence. But's it's good to know Max Payne 3 can and will utilize the top of the line. That could be for 2500x1600 res @ steady 60fps, for all I know.

It seems like BF3, where the game scales great with HW.

[Megaton]

Uh huh. I'm sure it's just the same as all their other games. Packed with several forms of 3rd party DRM and poorly optimized.

[chaldo]

This is R* not activision or EA

[Megaton]

You clearly need to educate yourself on PC gaming.

Activision doesn't bother with DRM other than Steamworks. EA uses 3rd party DRM like SecuROM or SolidShield in some of their games, but not all. Rockstar uses 3rd party DRM in all of their games and in some cases, more than 1 form of it. If you buy GTAIV on Steam, you have 4 types of DRM to deal with. Steam, GFWL, SecuROM, Rockstar Social. It's absurd.

[BitbyDeath]

Anyone know if you'd need to play the others to understand this?

[FarCryLover182]

I don't think so. However, it'd probably be a good idea to watch some youtube videos of Max Payne 1 and 2 or read the wikia for it. I have a feeling though that there will be a 'catching up' video with MP3 to bring you up to speed though.

[SilentNegotiator]

Give them a playthrough anyway. They're great.

[GamingPerson]

I am not sure what you play on but if you get it on steam you get max payne 1 & 2 free!

[BitbyDeath]

My Toshiba Qosmio is about 2 years old now and probably couldn't handle the 3rd on a decent setting.

[SilentNegotiator]

Thanks for the tip!
I wouldn't mind replaying the first 2 on PC. I just got into PC gaming.

edit: I just read megaton's comment (2.1.1). Eh....nevermind. I'm not gonna bother with any Rockstar games on PC.

[ReservoirDog316]

Probably not.

Recap. Max's life is hard and everyone dies around him. Especially women.

But truth be told, there's so much quality in the Max Payne series that you'd regret never playing 1&2. They're truly great games and they're not very expensive nowadays too. Part 1's even on iOS for $3.

[Holeran]

If you can get them play them because they are outstanding. Max Payne 1 was one of my favorites of all time and Max Payne 2 was good as well. I have them both on the original xbox still.

[GamingPerson]

so pc version it is then! Plus I wan't my free max payne 1 & 2 plus max payne 3 dlc free on steam.

[basilezz3030]

i'm buying the pc version too
maybe ps3 too when the price drop

[turgore]

ridiculous specs - just buy the game on consoles !

[fourthpersonview]

Yea sure, no version would be superior to the other.

[closnyc]

if those are the real specs, and the game is fully optimized to use all these then i will gladly buy the pc version. i am still waiting after crysis 1 for a developer to use pc ald its full potential. witcher 2, bf3 and metro 2033 are other that come to mind, but nothing has come close to beating crysis yet in photorealism with open world on top of that.

[theeg]

Max Payne 3 System Requirements (Minimum):

OS: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.8 Ghz / AMD Athlon X2 64 @ 2.4 Ghz
Memory: 1 Gb
Hard Drive: 16 Gb free
Video Memory: 256 Mb
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 7900 / ATI Radeon X1900
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Keyboard
Mouse

Max Payne 3 System Requirements (Recommended):

OS: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 @ 2.4 GHz
Memory: 3 Gb
Hard Drive: 18 Gb free
Video Memory: 512 Mb
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800 / ATI Radeon 3870
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard
Mouse
DVD Rom Drive

this game, like almost all games, will run on a $400 desktop and look 10x better than the console version, on an $800 pc, it will look better than next gen 720 and ps4 games!

[GearSkiN]

Will look better than next gen?.... right.... pretty much sayin MP3 is beyond the next console. Dumb statement budd.

[Stratus]

Pc will always be leaps and bounds ahead of the consoles it's rumored that the ps4 will have a Radeon HD 7670 GPU which is only great compared to older consoles. Good site to tell how far behind it is already http://www.hwcompare.com/

There are already way n i mean way better gpu out there and it's not suppose to come out till 2013 in time for christmas of course n by then it will be even more behind.

Hey and by then you will be paying about $600 for one top top dollar.

[qwertyz]

pc >>>>>>>&g t;>>>>>>>& gt;>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ;>>>>>>>co nsole
(2+generations ahead)

intact pc hardware is now effectively 2+ generations ahead of console hardware in terms of horsepower but of course devs dont take advantage of PC. I is now possible to run Samaritan tech demo REALTIME on 1 kepler MID-RANGE gpu the high end keplers aren't out yet I'm sure those will be about 2x the horsepower of the midrange version available today.

PC cpus are also over a generation ahead of console cpus at performing all tasks including graphics processing and physics which the cell is designed for this can now be done much better and more efficiently on modern desktop quad core cpus(the i5 2500k for example , the cores alone without help from the onboard gpu have much greater graphics processing capabilities than the ps3s cell) although this rarely happens because devs don't push pcs to their absolute limits. PCs are also fully customizable which makes optimization a bit difficult

[paddystan]

16 GB RAM, 680 GTX 2 GB and 35 GB HDD space? Seriously? That's some bad port I guess.

[MissAubrey]

anyone love true 1080p(and higher) and 60fps from PC?

[Acquiescence]

that the PS3 version won't be greatly inferior to the 360 one then. You know what Rockstar are like.