Max Payne 3

Let’s start with the obvious. The Max Payne series on launch was directly associated with another Keanu Reeves property, The Matrix, what with its directly lifting the bullet-time mechanic from the Wachowskis’ film. However, as the series went on for three games over the next decade, things definitely drifted more toward what would eventually become John Wick territory.

Released in 2012, Max Payne 3 precedes Reeves’ current ongoing roll by two years, moving its action from New York to São Paulo, Brazil, where Max gets himself muddled up in a battle between warring factions, and a need to fill any and all of them with bullets.

Still featuring the series’ trademark bullet time action, where you can slow down time to precisely aim at multiple enemies at once, it certainly offers you Wick’s uncanny murderous abilities. It’s also a huge ton of morbid, self-loathing fun

Tragically, there hasn’t been a new Max Payne game for over ten years now, although we were recently promised remakes for the first two in the series