From USA Today: “Rockstars Max Payne 3 launched in 2012, taking Remedy Games iconic anti-hero, shaving his head, and kicking him through Brazil in a floral shirt. Nine months after launch, Dead Men Walking arrived a DLC wave defense mode where you and a friend fought off hordes of AI enemies. But there were originally much bigger plans for two players.
Max Payne 3 was supposed to have a co-op prologue campaign. Taking control of Max and one of his old cop partners from New York, the co-op campaign saw two players shooting and bullet-time diving their way through modified versions of the single-player maps, including New York alleys, the graveyard, the Panama canal, and more.
The London studio worked on it for about a year before the whole co-op campaign mode was dropped, a source familiar with the project tells GLHF. Focus moved over to the multiplayer modes including Gang Wars. Some of the maps ended up in the single-player campaign.”