I’d love to be a superhero. I’d fight evil, be part of a cool group, and also generally be badass. It’s too bad that videogames don’t share the same thoughts that I do. There has yet to be a videogame that lets you create your own superhero and go to town with him/her.

Yes, there’s been games that are pretty badass, and make you feel like you’re the superhero you’re playing as. Both Batman Arkham Asylum and City have accomplished the feat of making you feel like Batman and immersing you in the comic book world. X-Men Origins: Wolverine also did this to a degree as well. And, as fun as the Marvel Ultimate Alliance games were, they still didn’t let you be the star of the show. It was Deadpool, Mr. Fantastic, or some other Marvel character.

There hasn’t been a Max Payne game in almost 10 years. Since the last Max Payne game, third person shooters have evolved beyond the bullet time mechanic that was the distinctive feature of the first two games. In this environment it would’ve been unsurprising to see a Max Payne game that felt nothing like a Max Payne game or just dated. Thankfully, Rockstar manages to avoid having a game that feels dated or out of place. Max Payne 3 successfully brings Max Payne forward to the current generation of games, and it is a great experience.

The most noticeable and daring change to Max Payne 3 is the game’s setting. Unlike the previous two games which took place in New York, Max Payne 3 takes places in Sao Paulo Brazil. Max works as security for the rich and mysterious Branco family. In the years since we’ve seen Max he’s become addicted to both painkillers and alcohol. Although the previous two games never made Max out to be the happiest of guys, Max Payne 3 takes it to a whole new level of depression. The events of the previous two games are scars on Max’s psyche, and he doesn’t really have a whole lot to live for. Max’s state in life is one of the games better elements, and it used to drive Max throughout the story as he wonders why he even bothers anymore.

Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller can be funny actors. If you’ve ever seen Old School or Zoolander, you’d know this. However, both actors seem to do more mediocre and bad movies than good ones these days. The Watch is one of these movies. It’s not completely terrible but with its cast (which includes Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade), this movie just seems like an exercise in collecting paychecks, rather than a movie that is attempting to be funny.

The Watch follows a group of buddies (Stiller, Vaughn, Hill, and Ayoade), as they form a neighborhood watch group after a person is murdered in their town. They soon figure out that they’re dealing with an Alien Invasion and shenanigans follow from there out. The Watch is rated R, and it goes for vulgar comedy. It doesn’t work. That’s not to say that I was offended by the brand of comedy in this movie, rather it just wasn’t funny. Throwing in curse words and sperm jokes is only so effective, and in the Watch it just seems like they’re being vulgar for the purpose of being vulgar. It seems out of place in the movie, and almost every time they go for an “R” rated joked, it just doesn’t seem to work.