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‘I Got That Completely Wrong’ — Dan Houser Considers Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 a Failure - IGN
Publisher description: ‘I got that completely wrong’ — Dan Houser explains why he thinks Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 ‘failed’.
NewsAPI | Oct 13, 2026 | Simon Cardy
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Posted: Oct 13, 2026 1:15pm UTCMax Payne and its sequel, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, are two of the most genre-defining third-person shooters ever made. I felt we were creating a really cool digital noir experience, and the consensus at the time was that people hated it. “So I got that completely wrong,” Houser admitted. “I know Sam Lake [creator of Max Payne] well, and he's a very good guy and really talented. I thought we'd done a good job of doing another Max Payne game.
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