Max Payne 3's original score was provided by the band Health, and the group detailed the process by which they put together the music in a video for The Creators Project.
"All the music we did," said bassist John Famiglietti, "it's to support the action, it's to support the gameplay." The recording process was very different from Health's typical method of making an album of its own, according to vocalist and guitarist Jake Duzsik, who also said that the band strove to find music that fit the on-screen action. "It's not like we're just making songs," he pointed out. "We're making a score."
Health worked with Ivan Pavlovich, music director on Max Payne 3 at Rockstar, to come up with an interactive musical score. He described the process of coming up with "stems," lines of music for...
