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The music overwhelms. The lights are so white they bloom and bleed together. Colors separate, glide apart to form double, triple visions of the same scene. Max Payne needs a drink. Max Payne needs a pill. Max Payne can’t cope without a glass bottle in his hand, or a plastic one in his pocket.

Alcohol always makes an interesting power-up. Put two or three into your character's system and he's feeling fine. Four and five? He starts stumbling and his friends ask for his car keys. More than that and you'll unlock some interesting new abilities: projectile puke, cab call and black out mode.

“Max Payne 3,” Rockstar’s upcoming third installment in the action-shooter trilogy, is set for a May 15th release date. But the soon-to-be launched game is more than just a continuation of the first two titles; it’s an interactive character study, as The Verge writes.