Max Payne 3 release date set for March, will have multiplayer

Rockstar have sent over word that Max Payne 3 will see a full release in March 2012. We'll get to dive sideways and kill goons in the face as the hardboiled New Yorker as a cop and a private security agent for a wealthy industralist in Sao Paulo in a single player campaign that will span Max's entire career.

For the first time, there will also be a multiplayer mode which "dynamically alters maps and mode progression for all players in a match." There will be a "deep reward and levelling system," too with clan support and loadout customisation. Will bullet time feature in the multiplayer mode? We'll have to wait a few more months to find out. Rockstar have released another pair of screenshots to keep us guessing. See them both below.

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.