Max Payne 3 celebrates its tenth anniversary with new soundtrack, no remake

It’s been ten years because the Max Payne trilogy concluded. All three video games can be found to play on Xbox Series X/S due to backwards compatibility, and in case you soar into the third entry, you’ll hear a soundtrack composed by celebrated noise rock group Health. The band is again for Max Payne 3’s tenth birthday, however we’re those getting the current: new music.

Announced by Rockstar, “a new version of the iconic soundtrack” is within the works. It’ll be launched on limited-edition vinyl, however you don’t must personal a file participant to listen to it — it’s headed to digital platforms like Spotify too. There’s no launch date for the soundtrack as of but, so these ought to “stay tuned to the Rockstar Newswire” for now.

The soundtrack itself accommodates some fairly celebrated songs. Health’s “signature melancholy noise rock sound” was taken to some new locations when the band composed for the game. One of the Max Payne 3 tunes, “Tears,” remains to be often performed at Health’s reside exhibits. The anniversary soundtrack will “also debut previously unreleased tracks from the game,” so in case you assume you’ve heard all of it earlier than, you haven’t.

As good as this soundtrack information is, many followers stay disillusioned on the lack of a remake for Max Payne 3. Remedy, the studio behind Alan Wake and Control, has teamed up with Rockstar to remake Max Payne 1 and a couple of, however that leaves the third game out within the chilly. Here’s hoping that may be ‘remedied’ sooner or later.

In the meantime, we’ve been celebrating the Max Payne video games with a sequence of deep dives into the themes of every entry. The authentic Max Payne shoots to the center of how video video games work with improvements like bullet time, and the sequel chooses what it should protect and go away behind. The remakes don’t have launch dates but, however these analyses ought to be a great way to prepare for his or her arrival.