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‘I Got That Completely Wrong’ — Dan Houser Considers Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 a Failure

Houser said the 2012 shooter was critically praised but sold below expectations and drew mixed reactions from players.

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‘I got that completely wrong’ — Dan Houser explains why he thinks Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 ‘failed’.

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Dan Houser looks back on Max Payne 3. In the new IGN interview, the Rockstar co-founder and author takes responsibility for the fact that the shooter did not achieve the desired success from his point of view. He especially misjudged the expectations of the story. Houser takes his own decisions into his own responsibility. His assessment is clear: "I failed. My contribution was not a success." Houser explains that he believed Rockstar had succee…

Remedy has defined the first two chapters of Max Payne, while the third, realized by Rockstar, although appreciated, did not have the success hoped.Remedy Entertainment owes much, indeed, all to the first two Max Payne, namely Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. Not only do we talk about two of the third person shooters more representative of the genre - technically speaking - but also two really amazing narrative adventures, in li…

Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar, looks back on Max Payne 3 and sees the title in a much more negative light than one might suspect. more

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IGN broke the news in San Francisco, United States on Tuesday, October 13, 2026.
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