Cover art is amazing, I wonder if this will be pre to the story, or will it tell us the exact storyline?

As of the title "AFTER THE FALL" I would say that this is building the bridge between what happens after Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne and what happens before Max Payne 3. At least it would make a lot of sense but it's just my prediction. Maybe I just look too much into the title and this has nothing to do with it at all We'll see it on Thursday. Can't wait any longer. Cover art is looking amazing btw!

Well, "The Fall" could also mean the death of Max's wife and child, seeing as shitload of bad things started since then, so that novel can tell the events of MP1 and 2.

Emmi, on 30 April 2012 - 08:39 PM, said:

I would bank on it being the bridge between Max Payne 2 and 3 as well. 10 years is a pretty big gap, and the comic will hopefully fill in those gaps. Too bad we didn't get to play those 10 years

Desdelian, on 30 April 2012 - 11:49 PM, said:

To be honest I can't think of it turning out that way. It just would not make any sense building a comic around what happened in Max Payne 1 and 2. R* thinks that most of us have played through the games, understand the story and so they wouldn't want to stick with it once more, at least I would not. So I stick on my opinion that this comic fills the gap between Max Payne 2 and 3. Get ready for the first issue this Thursday ...

R* already stated that the comic will tell, not sure if briefly or not, the events of MP1 and MP2. That's one of the main reasons they are making these novels, to make new players familiar with Max's story.

Oh, I thought it would be about what happened between Max Payne 2 and 3 but well, of course it would be a great heads up for those who haven't played the first 2 games of the franchise. Though I think that not everyone will be satisfied if it's just explaining what happened in 1 and 2 because lots of people already played the first two games so it wouldn't be interested for them anymore. I must see on Thursday what the first issue is all about. There could be indeed some Max Payne 1 and 2 related stuff but I think they though come up with an all new story that gets us more into Max as a character, more into the whole thing with Mona, the NYPD et cetera. We'll see.

Sorry, you misunderstood me. What I meant was, I think the first episode will tell the events of MP1 whilst the other will focus on what happens AFTER MP2 and the events that will lead to MP3. That's also what Rockstar said,

Desdelian, on 01 May 2012 - 10:33 AM, said:

Ok I might have misunderstood you. Well, ok, sounds logical to me as I think not everyone got to play Max Payne 1 so far, so explaining what happened in this game isn't that much of a false step at all. I'm sure I'll enjoy reading through it. Yeah, 2nd one will be about what happened after Max Payne 2 then. 3rd issue will most likely get us prepared for Max Payne 3, so it will tell us more about the Brancos, Raul Passos, Sao Paulo I think. Get my fingers crossed for it.

Precisly, since we have actually no clue who Raoul is and he seems to be a closer friend to Max than Alex was, but kinda forgotten so we can assume he was abroad all the time and it had to be Brazil.

I wonder if the comic scenes from the older games will be in this but re-drawn out. Gosh, I'm excited.

Well I wonder if we will get a "Prieviously On" that will tell the events of the prievious parts like it was in MP2. Now there the comics from MP1 were re-drawn Remi.

RemiClarke, on 01 May 2012 - 03:30 PM, said:

No way that you'll find any comic scene from the first two games within this comic series. I think they started with those maybe half a year or further back just to make sure it reaches the expectations or it achieves the quality R* stands for. All the illustrations will be new and awesome, I'm sure about that. Can't wait to read issue #1 this Thursday.

Desdelian, on 01 May 2012 - 03:32 PM, said:

Am I an idiot for not understanding what that means? Aghhh. Please re-phrase it for me.

Emmi, on 01 May 2012 - 03:32 PM, said:

You miss-understood what I meant. I was saying if they will use the scenes but will re-draw it up to a better standard etc.

RemiClarke, on 01 May 2012 - 03:34 PM, said:

I think I got what u meant but would this make any sense? I mean it's a new comic series and therfore I think of new content too. Just providing us old scenes in a new look wouldn't be satisfying for me, for you?

Meaning all those major graphic novels from the first one was freshly made for the standards of the second part.

Look at this.



You can see that Max, Vlad, Mona, Vinnie and Woden have diffrent and better looking faces than in the graphic novels of the first part, meaning they were redrawn.

No I doubt it, but I didn't mean all of it would contain old content, but it would be nostalgic to see some of the old stuff in there with the new.

And yeah, Max definatley looks a lot better. I remember laughing out loud at Max's facial expressions in the first game.

OR Rockstar could use that new graphic novel system they have created and render a short video on the game's engine that would tell the events of MP1&2. That would be even more epic.

I really think implementing something like that makes sense since the game deeply focuses on the story and at least a basic knowledge of it is required to understand the events of Max 3. Or R* will simply place that comic we're talking about ingame and be done with it. Time will tell.

Or maybe they'll use bits of the comic as the info. Would be pretty good to see the new system be put to use though. But whatever it is, I'm sure it will look good because of rockstars attention to detail.

Desdelian, on 01 May 2012 - 03:42 PM, said:

You got it wrong there, there's no need to have played the first two games in order to understand Max Payne 3, Rockstar stated that several times. It's just to be even more informed about Max as a character, the background story ... but there's no need to have played the first two games at all, so I don't think that Rockstar is going to do a rendered comic video summaring up what happened in the first two games. I think with the comic series they just want to give us even more info on Max as a character, on what he's up to and of course on the things what happened between 2 and 3 now. That should be the thing Rockstar should really focus on this comic series, nothing other would make that much sense as I think. Rest assured Rockstar has done a great job with the comic and we got to read it this Thursday. Just 2 more days!

Aaaaagh, so excited about this game.

Me too. This game makes me crazy. I can't think of any other game beside GTA and RDR making me that crazy. Just two weeks left.

So hard getting this off my mind, Rockstar creates so much hype with their games.

Sorry for 2 post but I haven't seen that I already replied to it before and I think this one is probably a better answer now! Hopefully it's all fine though the 2 post

Desdelian, on 01 May 2012 - 03:42 PM, said:

No, you got the wrong picture here. Rockstar said about more than 1000 times that there's no need to have played the first two games of the Max Payne franchise in order to understand what's going on in Max Payne 3. It just helps you getting more familiar with Max as a character, what his backstory is, his painkillers addiction ... it is really just in everyones own interest to play the first two games before getting the hands on the 3rd entry. The story will be completely new, different and as of the case that there probably won't appear any characters from previous games, maybe 1 or two ... refering to Mona or so, but in general the characters will all be new, the story is a new one, the setting with flashbacks to the old one or to New York, that's pretty much all. Really no need to have played the first two games.

That's why I think that Rockstar wouldn't loose time by making a reccomendation movie/clip or whatever you want to call it for what happened in the first two games. If anyone is interested in it I'm sure he'll get to buy the first two games or watch some videos on youtube. Rockstar won't stick on Max Payne and Max Payne 2 any longer. It's up to everyone alone how he gets to know the backstory, if he wants to get it or if he just wants to play Max Payne 3 as a very seperate experience apart of the Max Payne franchise.

I'm glad I got to know the backstory by playing all games a couple of times so I couldn't be more prepared for Max Payne 3, coming out in less than 2 weeks. Only thing I must get used to now is the controls on console version and the multiplayer. Will need some time to find out how everything there works, what features the mode offers, et cetera.

I believe it will be jumping back n forth from what happened after Max Payne 1 & 2, n mostly after Max Payne 2. Of course, leading into Max Payne 3. I'm sure as part of the story will be told during the campaign of the game, the writers, I am sure, will be able to fill in all the gaps, especially, the 10 year one that we didn't have a Max Payne 3!

Oh dear, I'm afraid to say that Rockstar just confirmed a slightly delay of the first Max Payne 3 comic issue "AFTER THE FALL".

We'll have to wait until tomorrow morning at last. Then it should be available for download at the official Rockstar Games site as well as here http://www.rockstarg...axpayne3/comics


Here is what Rockstar said at the Newswire:


So no big delay at all. I keep my fingers crossed and can't wait to read it

Can't complain, it's free.

I'd read even if they would release it after the game's launch.

Desdelian, on 03 May 2012 - 05:16 PM, said:

No question about that and actually the 2nd and 3rd issue of this comic will most likely be released after the games official launch.

Yeah, the graphics look pretty nice.

Kotaku gives some hands-on on the comic. They're chatting with Dan House and Sam Lake (!).

Sam Lake: "You'll finally see how far back the tragedy in his life goes and with that a lot of things will click into place."

Sam Lake: The comics take you all the way back to Max's childhood. You'll finally see how far back the tragedy in his life goes and with that a lot of things will click into place.

Dan Houser: All the way back to his childhood, and through his career before and after Max 1 and Max 2, in a series of brief flashbacks.

Read more here.


http://kotaku.com/59...dium=socialflow

Enjoy!

Anyone know when this is coming out? Maybe a few hours?

Hopefully soon. Obviously it's supposed to be out by now, not sure whats up.

It's here guys, IT'S HERE!


You can either read or download it here.

http://www.rockstarg...axpayne3/comics

Also, you can enter your information below to get a chance to win that issue in a printed edition. How cool is that?

Rem, just change the topic's name so you won't have to make another one.

Desdelian, on 04 May 2012 - 05:59 PM, said:

I would, but then it wouldn't show up on the homepage .

My guess from reading the first edition is that it will continue to give background information, most of the stuff we already know but will add in a few extras.

Yeah, finally it's online and it's so so great. Exceeded my expectations but also opened up a couple of new questions, about Max's father, mother and why Winterson was the wrong person to kill, ....

We'll get more background info in the next issue, I'm quite sure.