Max Payne 1-3 were some of my favourite games of all time. I remember being so excited back in 2008 seeing screenshots of Max with a shaved head wearing a Hawaiian shirt somewhere in the South of America. But then in 2009 it saw a huge 3-year delay and didn't come out until 2012 under a new studio. But I was so happy with it when it finally did come out. I loved Max Payne 3 and played it to death. I can see why some would have disliked how it moved away from some of the elements of the first two, but that's only natural given how much had passed and how it was a new studio. I never felt it moved backwards in any way.