Max Payne 3 release date delayed

Max Payne 3 has been delayed by Rockstar Games until May 15th 2012 in North America and May 18th 2012 internationally. It will then hit PC on May 29th 2012 in the States and June 1st everywhere else.

“Max Payne 3 brings powerful storytelling back to the action-shooter genre,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “Rockstar Studios are delivering a game that’s both incredibly cinematic and very, very intense to play.”

It was previously thought the game would come out before Easter but we all know Rockstar aren’t ones to push a game out before it’s finished just to hit an event in the calendar.

If you’re not sure what the game’s about, here’s some blurb from the press release: “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.”

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