Max Payne 3 is a third-person shooter in which the player assumes the role of its titular character, Max Payne. Max Payne 3 features a similar over-the-shoulder camera as its predecessors, with the addition of a cover mechanic, while also retaining much of the same run-and-gun style of gameplay. Max Payne 3 also marks the return of bullet-time in action sequences, for which the franchise is notable.In bullet-time it is possible to see every bullet strike an enemy in detail.
New to the series is a “Last Stand” mechanic, which gives the player a grace period after losing all health during which time the player may kill the enemy that wounded them in order to continue playing, however this mechanic is only usable if the player has one or more bottles of painkillers in their possession.
We cranked the image quality settings at 2560×1600, enabling 4x MSAA. Texture Quality was set to very high, Shader quality was set to high, Shadow Quality, Reflection Quality and Water Quality were all set to very high. Tessellation was set to normal.Total memory draw was 1999MB.
This game engine is demanding at 2560×1600, especially with our high image quality configuration. The system averaged 43 frames per second, dropping to 31 frames per second a couple of times. In real world terms, it was perfectly smooth at all times.
brilliant system, im sorely tempted to just not bother upgrading my system, could probably get £600 for my own still.
Hate spending weeks tuning the build, this one looks very nice inside.
Its a nice build, but I agree with author id spend a little extra for the cosmos IMO, well worth it.
Thats a good price working it out, its a very low overhead considering the wrranty. My mate would love this, will link him later
Not on their site 🙁 im interested to see the configurations available as I would like a differetent case – such as Corsair. have you any kitguru codes for reductions in price?
When will it update on their site on 2nd? i want this!
Thats a very good system build. I dont like some of the systems you review, but this is spectacular. Ill wait till it updates and see about working out a different configuration.
Shame PC SPecialist dont do a special deal for kitguru readers, like 5% off or something :p
Hey, quick one to let you know that they will be available to order at midnight tonight! We have a slightly different launch time to the media 🙂
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Kinda gutting the £1499 is purely for the stock model. Seeing this I thought I’d found my dream prebuilt system, a tweak to a nicer case as per reccomended. Going to configure the system seems to make the price jump up a good £250 purely for the pleasure of getting to spend more money on it.
Hey CH,
If you call our Sales Team, they’ll sort you out with the case of your choice 🙂
Great PC spec for the price but that case is hideous – I tried giving the sales guys a call to change to the Fractal R4 but they were only able to offer the CM Storm Enforcer at the price point, otherwise as CH pointed out. Putting an R4 on instead would add 200 odd quid on. Damn shame!
Can you make this possible to ship to Philippines?
looking at https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/view/Vanquish-Enforcer/ its £1702 in vat not £1499
PC is good for sure! But 100% overpowered! Waste of ur money! Dont buy it.