And once one has drawn that comparison, here's where those work(I'll put those parts in parentheses at the end of sentences), and this fails: what you'll realize in this is that whether you've played this for minutes or hours, what's happening will be the same. With it being him instead of them, it doesn't make that much sense. In many ways, this feels like Kane & Lynch.
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It's no longer personal, and there's no new fleshing out of him as a person. While a new setting is fine(and kudos for the choice to have most locals talk Portuguese, without translation - we feel his isolation, the foreign nature of his surroundings), and it is explained why he ends up there, it has no connection to him, he feels placed in someone else's story. You can already see some of the problems. When someone under his care is abducted, he tries to get them back(as unlikeable as they, and most characters in this, are). you get to go around in it, visiting, among others, a nightclub, a mansion, and most engaging and threatening, the favela), bodyguarding rich socialite brats. He is recruited by Raul(Dean, charming) for a job in Sao Paolo(which is authentic and detailed.
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With the passing of nearly a decade, the events and growth of The Fall are forgotten by the developers, with a retcon allowing for a retread: the death of his family tortures Max(McAffrey doing great with decent material), who disappears into a bottle.