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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.
Max Payne is undoubtedly one of the best games released this year for the PC platform, even though it seems to have met with some negative reviews. Regardless, the Direct X 11 engine is fantastic and can demand 4GB of video memory at the highest settings.
This is exactly what we did today for this article.
We increased all the settings to the limit and cranked FXAA and MSAA, with high Tessellation. At these settings the game was requesting 4060MB of memory from 4096MB available.
We measured real world performance from Chapter V, Chapter IX and Chapter XII, then averaged the results below. This will give a good real world average of overall system performance.
At these settings, the GTX680's have no problem maintaining an average of almost 80 frames per second, never dropping below 60 frames per second. For such a demanding engine these are incredible results.
Shogun 2 is set in 16th-century feudal Japan, in the aftermath of the Ōnin War. The country is fractured into rival clans led by local warlords, each fighting for control. The player takes on the role of one of these warlords, with the goal of dominating other factions and claiming his rule over Japan. The standard edition of the game will feature a total of eight factions (plus a ninth faction for the tutorial), each with a unique starting position and different political and military strengths.
We use the built in benchmark via STEAM so you can compare against your own system.
This engine favours AMD drivers/hardware, however to average almost 130 frames per second in the Direct X 11 high 1080p test is quite an achievement.
According to EA, Battlefield 3 garnered 3 million pre-orders by the day of its release. It is unknown at present whether these figures are worldwide or just for the US. The pre-order total makes it “the biggest first-person shooter launch in EA history”, according to the publisher. The engine is beautiful on the PC and very demanding of the partnering hardware.
Great performance again from the system, averaging 175 frames per second at these settings.
