However, this was in contradiction to the fact that on the opposite side of the screen, while highlighting the prison level, it showed all the clues and golden gun parts I'd discovered, and the Rockstar Social Club even showed my achievements from the level.

I went to 'Chapter Select' and noticed that the game didn't think I had even unlocked the prison level, and I couldn't select it.

The next day, I got on to play, I clicked on 'Story' and moused over 'Continue' and tried to click, and nothing happened, which is when I realized that the 'Continue' button was greyed out, as if I'd never started a new game. I ended the task and went on with my day. However, when I quit the game, a message came up saying 'Max Payne 3 has stopped working'. I decided to just quit the game and try to restart, so I navigated down to the 'quit' button in the main menu, again, still using nothing but audio cues, and managed to quit the game. I tried ALT + Enter-ing, ALT + Tabbing, etc etc, nothing fixed it. I heard the game go back to the main menu, but I was still staring at the pause screen from before I left my computer. I decided I would try to navigate back to the main menu and try to reload the game, so I used my muscle memory and the audio cues to highlight the 'quit game' button, and I selected it. I mean, I could hear the menu sounds as I tried to unpause and use my arrow keys to scroll through the options, but nothing was changing on the screen. I paused the game for a bit and left my PC, and when I came back and tried to unpause the game, nothing happened.

I was playing the Prison level and was about halfway through the level, just past the part where you find the slideshow in the briefing room. On one day, I had been playing for a while, and I'd gotten up to Chapter 13 or something. So, I bought Max Payne 3 during the summer sale, and I'm absolutely loving it.

Max payne 3 ps3 save game