Max Payne 3 Gets New Trailer and Reveals Final Box Art

The third installment to the hit action shooter series Max Payne is set to be released on May 15, 2012. The game continues the tale of a troubled former police officer that can't seem to escape his awful past nor live his life without something terrible going wrong. Game developer Rockstar has released both a new trailer displaying the game's visual effects and cinematics as well as the final box art for the upcoming release, and both can be seen below. Read on for more details, and enjoy the new media!

About Max Payne 3

Based on incredibly precise and fluid gunplay and maintaining the series’ famed dark and cinematic approach, Max Payne 3 follows the famed former New York detective onto the streets of São Paulo, Brazil. Max Payne now works in executive protection for the wealthy Rodrigo Branco in the hopes of escaping the memories of his troubled past. When a street gang kidnaps Rodrigo’s wife, Max is pulled into a conspiracy of shadowy, warring factions threading every aspect of São Paulo society in a deadly web that threatens to engulf everyone and everything around him. In another first for the series, Max Payne 3’s multiplayer offering brings the game’s cinematic feel, fluid gunplay and kinetic sense of movement into the realm of online multiplayer. Building on the fiction and signature gameplay elements of the Max Payne universe, Max Payne 3 features a wide range of new and traditional multiplayer modes that play on the themes of paranoia, betrayal and heroism, all delivered with the same epic visual style of the single-player game.

For more information on the game, check out the official Max Payne 3 website.