A weekend sale on Dampf. Max Payne DLCs, Arma 2 & addons, and Braid are also heavily discounted on Vapeur. If your brain is unable to handle games with more than 6 keys, pass on Arma and get a Call of Duty game instead, or Serious Sam. Operation Flashpoint and the Arma series are very rewarding though to grognards who take the time to learn the UI and mechanics.
I have no idea how Payne 3 has gotten such good reviews.
The gameplay is horrible. Not when you're actually allowed to run around and move; then it's quite good! But you get a cutscene for every 0-10 guys you kill. You get cutscenes that tell you nothing new. Most of the cut scenes are unskippable because it's "still loading" even when it's clear from the length of the cutscene and the lack of HDD activity that they've simply not allowed skipping this cutscene.
There are a couple of points in the game where you have to "play" cutscenes. Literally, you have to hold a direction button for 30-240 seconds so you can slowly move forward or sideways. I think it's purely to trick people into thinking they're playing a level instead of watching another cutscene.
Whenever you come out of a cutscene (which again, is always, you're always coming out of a cutscene) they've switched you back to a single pistol. Even if the cutscene involved you not moving at all. So you have to change your gun every single damn time, which means having to do it constantly.
There's also a consistent stream of flashing back and forward and getting caught and disarmed that removes/changes your weapons and removes your painkillers, making collecting things feel pointless. You want to use the cool gun you just picked up? Nope, cutcsene, we've taken it away. You've built up 7 painkillers through being a fuckin' badass and searching every room? Nope, taken away. Great.
The story is also completely flat. People Max has no connection with whatsoever have some trouble, it's what it looks like, nothing surprising happens (except maybe finding out what the bad guys are making their money on), no characters turn, everything is exactly as it seems. Max bumbles his way through, confused the entire time. And they tried to throw in a AA message in there in spite of Max constantly popping pain pills? Yeah, that was fully deep, bro.
The mixing of Tony Scott movie visual style and Max Payne/Noir narration doesn't work. It's pure Tony Scott style, there is no Noir here. There's also zero comic book or computer game style or references/in-jokes that were the signature of the earlier ones. This is fine, it just makes it easier to separate this thing from MP1 & MP2 which I'm OK with. But if you're going to discard the old style just discard it and go full Tony Scott, don't try and keep it Max Payne-y by putting in a non-Noir narration.
Anyway. If you don't care about story and can handle the fact that there's no real levels in the game as everything's broken up with cutscenes and at the end of the cutscenes you won't be wielding the same guns or have the same amount of painkillers, the game mechanics are actually really fun. But for me, that stuff kills it.