MP3 is now a collaborative effort between four of Rockstar's studios: Vancouver is still developing as before, but New England, Toronto and London are now all involved. It has been mentioned before that development has been a joint effort, but specifically who was involved was unknown until now.

'We have a lot of talented people across all our studios,' said MP3's art director, Rob Nelson, 'and this just means we can bring the right people in for a specific task when needed - and it gives the games a consistant level of quality and an approach that's Rockstar.'

Environments are fully destructible; we're going to see a wheel-based weapon selection window; and a new cover system will use scenic objects. Bullet-time will be charged up by killing enemies.

The comic-like panels from the first two games will return, but, according to EDGE: 'These dramatic plot pointers use the in-game engine and show an animated collage of action footage.'

Hundreds of hours of mo-cap footage have also been recorded, which has been mashed with the Euphoria engine to make characters which will interact with the environments realistically and accurately, apparently.

James McCafferty, Max Payne's voice actor in the first two games, will also return in a fuller role. Rockstar previously said it would bring in a new actor to play Max in the third title.

Probably the biggest revelation from the piece is that the game will feature online multiplayer, although it isn't mentioned how it'll work.