How HEALTH Made That Amazing Max Payne 3 Soundtrack

The band HEALTH’s killer Max Payne 3 soundtrack was easily one of the best of last year, and a chunk of the reason Max Payne 3 was among my personal top games of 2012.

This video from The Creators Project shows the band talking about the process of scoring the game, focusing on the stadium level (maybe my favorite music in the game) and that climactic late-game moment when the vocals kick in.

They’ve also shared some of the musical “stems” they used over at the Creators Project blog. You can listen to those below, and check out the various ways the band would layer sounds to make the music more or less intense. If you’ve played that stadium level as many times as I have, this stuff will be very familiar. HEALTH’s John Famiglietti points out that numbers 2 and 4 are dominant stems, so they won’t mix.

Nifty. Makes me want to go crack wise and dodge some sniper-fire.

HEALTH Breaks Down Their Score For Max Payne 3 [The Creators Project]

Originally written and published by Kirk Hamilton at Kotaku. Click here to read the original story.