Max Payne theme (arranged for Piano - MP3 & Sheet Music)

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Max Payne is a third-person shooter action thriller video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Gathering of Developers in July 2001 for Microsoft Windows. The game centres on NYPD Detective Max Payne, who attempts to avenge the murder of his family. It features a gritty neo-noir style and uses graphic novel panels (with voice-overs) in place of animated cutscenes to narrate the game, as it draws inspiration from hard-boiled detective novels by authors like Mickey Spillane. The game contains many allusions to Norse mythology, particularly the myth of Ragnarök, and several of the names used in the game are those of the Norse gods and mythos. The gameplay is heavily influenced by the Hong Kong action cinema genre, particularly the work of director John Woo, and it was one of the first games to feature the bullet time effect popularized by The Matrix.
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In 2006, I was asked to arrange the Max Payne Theme for Piano... so I did. I figured a game with such a gritty theme song deserved to be immortalised, so I arranged it for solo piano.

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@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

Wow... seriously - 100K views. That's a bit of an accomplishment. Hopefully I can get some of my other videos up to the same view count. Also, I realise that sadly enough Adverts seem to be appearing on this video - I am so sorry, I do not deliberately put adverts on my videos because I can't stand them and I don't do them for monetisation purposes - so please forgive me if adverts are plaguing this video. 😒

@dyingbattery228 5 лет назад

You will your content is good, it's just a matter of time.

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

Thanks - appreciate the kind words. :)

@Hart8 5 лет назад

This is well deserved :)

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

@@Hart8 Thank you... I wonder how long it will take to reach 200K views?

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

The arrangement? Yeah - did it by myself. Sadly enough - this was the easiest arrangement, and yet it's the one that gets all the views. I did a 14 minute Zelda Medley arrangement, and the theme from Superman and no one seems to care... :(

@NPC_GENERIC_ENEMY_INFANTRY 7 лет назад

“There it was, the soundtrack of my life.”

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

Wonder what's in the future for Max Payne games... but I guess whatever happens - Max Payne 1 will stand as one of the greatest games of all time.

@NPC_GENERIC_ENEMY_INFANTRY 7 лет назад

Epic Piano Arrangements I don't even think there is going to be another Max Payne game. Max already has been through hell and is living happily now, so I don't think he should go on another adventure. It seems very stupid if he somehow got involved in another gang or something. And if it focuses on a different character it wouldn't be Max Payne would it?

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

I meant like a remake of the first one. I know it's not often that re-makes get done, but considering it's Max Payne - I would LOVE to see it done with todays graphics.

@NPC_GENERIC_ENEMY_INFANTRY 7 лет назад

Epic Piano Arrangements Ah, I see. It'd be nice, Max Payne being done in Max Payne 3 graphics, maybe better.

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

Max Payne 3 is years old now, and frankly I thought the Max Payne 3 Engine was rather awful. Sure it was optimised, but given that Max Payne 1 & 2, had the slow-motion Particle FX and the incredibly beautiful muzzle flashes in slow motion, the Max Payne 3 engine seemed to be a bit of a let down for me.

@chrnocrusader21 7 лет назад

"The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger.... and then it was over"

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

I swear I must have beaten that game at least 20 times. If they did a re-make of the game with next-gen graphics - I'd be the first to buy it.

@chrnocrusader21 7 лет назад

Epic Piano Arrangements agreed

@Anw4rr10r 7 лет назад

Yes please. What do we have to do to make this happen? Awesome play btw, you've got talent.

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

Thank you very much... If there was a petition or something... I'd be signing it.

@kazma99a 6 лет назад

thats my wish. With max payne 3 graphs and gameplay max 1 and 2 omg that would be perfect

@andrejandric1439 4 года назад

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

@EpicPianoArrangements 4 года назад

At least he met his end in Max Payne 2...

@andrejandric1439 4 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements Alfred Woden

@EpicPianoArrangements 4 года назад

@@andrejandric1439 I know... I played the games religiously in High school - which is probably why my grades suffered a little. :)

@mazadancoseben4818 4 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements,and look where you are now!

@TheTriangle444 3 года назад

"Einstein was right. Time is relative to the observer. When you're looking down the barrel of a gun time slows down, your whole life flashes by, heartbreak and scars. Stay with it, and you can live a lifetime in that split second." Max can slow time confirmed

@EpicPianoArrangements 3 года назад

I seriously don't know why they haven't remastered that game already. It was genuinely beautiful, and for its day - the graphics were brilliant. I know some people frown upon remasters, but some of them have been great - and if they did this right; I think this game would appeal to a whole new generation of people.

@innoclarke7435 3 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements To be honest, probably ego, more than anything. Max Payne 3 shows that Rockstar weren't *really* interested in making a Max Payne game. So they didn't. They made a pretty uninteresting Rockstar movie that occasionally lets you play. I think since Max Payne 3's reception was just sort of "meh," they've decided they won't touch the series again. All those years of development hell that MP3 went through so that they could craft this weird vision of a title that ultimately just came and went. What a waste. And now the result is that the series basically just sits in their hands and rots away pointlessly, pretty much forgotten by them.

@EpicPianoArrangements 3 года назад

@@innoclarke7435 Well... yeah it is hard to argue with that. I will admit, they did a better job with Max Payne 3 than I thought they would. The mechanics of the shooting seemed REALLY Excellent with Max Payne 3, so much so that I think it helped them influence their GTA V and RDR 2 games... I'm hoping a revival in the future is possible.

@innoclarke7435 3 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements See, that's Max Payne 3's biggest problem. They slaved over making the gunplay very satisfying and then... promptly decided that you only get to experience really short gunfights that you're thrown into the middle of via cutscenes instead of a natural flow, then the second the few bad guys are dead, you have another cutscene. If Rockstar had actually opened up the video game for you to *play*, it could've been one of the best third person shooters ever made, but trying to actually play the game for the gameplay is hindered so constantly and consistently that I never find myself returning to it for some shooting fun. I'd rather just replay Max Payne or Max Payne 2 again and have a significantly less frustrating time. Still, I think there's... sort of potential, at least. I think if Rockstar were to take another crack at it, they could do a decent job, provided they learned some lessons from Max Payne 3 and, frankly, just rebooted the series, since it didn't really feel like there was anywhere to go after Max Payne 2 (which was intentional), and it REALLY feels like there's nowhere to go after Max Payne 3. But this is all very unlikely to happen.

@EpicPianoArrangements 3 года назад

@@innoclarke7435 Maybe, but at least for once they tried to make a decent storyline for a game that had basically wrapped things up at the end of Game no. 2. They played homage to some of the New York stuff, and had him visit the cemetery where he buried his family... and because of this, they probably needed to insert a lot of cutscenes. I didn't mind them believe it or not. I think as long as they use cutscenes to either explain, develop or move along the story or provide meaningful dialogue - I think it can work. I'm hoping they never try and make a Max Payne 4... I know that sounds horrid, but it wouldn't make sense. If they did a re-boot of the Max Payne Trilogy in their newest RAGE engine - I'd happily pay through the nose to see 4K textures and millions of polygon rendered bullet time.

@cyborgninja5489 4 года назад

"Say what you want about Americans, we understand capitalism. You buy yourself a product, you get what you pay for."

@EpicPianoArrangements 4 года назад

Sorry about the holding of comments, but a while back - I said one constructive comment to another arranger and he started spamming me with racial and aggressive comments. Had to start withholding comments just to ensure he stopped doing it.

@itsrocx 7 лет назад

"And for a few seconds, came harmony"

@teslashark 4 года назад

Max actually knows how to play a piano, if that means anything

@mazadancoseben4818 4 года назад

@@teslashark,it means everything!

@Dhaos620 6 лет назад

He was trying to buy sand for his hourglass. I wasn't selling any

@EpicPianoArrangements 6 лет назад

The moment I stepped into the room he folded like a deuce before a royal flush. Seriously - that was the best game ever in my opinion.

@George_Bulkin 6 лет назад

Yeah, this game (and few others) brings a lot of nostalgia...

@Mr.Honest247 5 лет назад

Epic Piano Arrangements Even though it was a game it was a better movie than most movies these days.

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

@@Mr.Honest247 And yet, with such a brilliant storyline and plot - they managed to completely bugger up the actual movie. Don't understand it.

@cyborgninja5489 4 года назад

Dhaos620 why does everyone keep referencing that like it's the coolest thing the character ever said? It's actually one of the goofier lines in the game.

@olly9185 5 месяцев назад

Just so you know.. This is absolutely incredible. RIP James McCaffery, voice of a lonely childhood.

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 месяцев назад

Glad you found it incredible... such a shame about James McCaffrey - he was still quite young. 😞

@HCSRBLX 2 года назад

Randomly got this in my head today lol, I’m glad to see there’s still a small community of people who enjoy the theme.

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 года назад

Small community? I've done the Halo theme, 3 Zelda videos, Fallout and Dohvakkin themes for the piano, and the game that's over 20 years old is still my most popular video.

@Dungeonus 2 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements mr Epic Piano my bet is because your Max Payne arrangement is simply stunning. I like it better than original score, I only coud try to imagine how you would sound in some great concert halls with orchestra or something. You're a wonderful artist.

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 года назад

@@Dungeonus That's very kind to say - I must admit, I still do like the original only because while the piano can try and emulate some instruments, those strings in the middle still tug at the ol' heartstrings; not to mention the electric guitar sounds.

@666Kudos 6 лет назад

Brings back all those memories dodging bullets on a crappy computer...... Good times...

@EpicPianoArrangements 6 лет назад

I know - back then we had a Gigahertz computer... and it was phenomenal to think there was a 1000Mhz of speed in that thing. I think we had 512Mb of RAM back then too. Seems so paltry and pathetic now.

@chrissy1045 6 лет назад

Same, except I was using a controller with a broken right stick on my ps2. So bullet time was the only way to aim in fast enough xD

@xxafthabxx9346 6 лет назад

dam true we didnt cared a shit bout graphics and fps, time flys

@midnightgamerx7848 6 лет назад

thats was good

@MrKersey 6 лет назад

Good old times when games had "soul" , great characters and amazing story, not just CGI like today.

@Armin9529 4 года назад

"I was still alive. My loved ones were still dead. I lied to myself that it was over. It wasn't over."

@amansinha7632 2 года назад

2gb ram,160gb hdd,shitty graphics but we all lived the story while playing this game. Good old days 💟

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 года назад

I know. I think if I remember, I had a Nvidia GeForce 4 420 Go on a Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop. Those were the days. Funny comparing those cards to the ones we have now.

@tahirmehdi Год назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements I played it on geforce 2 and had 8gb hdd :)

@Metoobie Год назад

Crappy? Hellz no! I would totally play this again! Install the Kung Fu mod! (no joke)

@user-gb7wi7ig8t Год назад

2gb ram? I had 128 MB of RAM in 2001

@mad-scientist6027 Год назад

You must have been a really rich kid to have 2 gigs, unless I'm really misremembering how computers were back then.

@HerryLaff 8 лет назад

fucking beautiful

@EpicPianoArrangements 8 лет назад

Thank you very much. I'll be taking down my old recording soon... although it's a shame that view count will disappear with it.

@HerryLaff 8 лет назад

Epic Piano Arrangements I quite agree, a well deserved view, each and every one.

@marioulmer4397 6 лет назад

I don't know about angels, but its fear that gives men wings

@EpicPianoArrangements 6 лет назад

Valkyr had been meant to be a white-winged maiden that would lift you to a warrior's heaven. But it turned out to be a one-way demon ride to hell. The devil was in the drug. I knew. I had met him.

@marioulmer4397 6 лет назад

Haha yes. One of my fav lines from Max Payne 2: "Max! Vlad told me you're the sheriff. I guess that makes me your deputy, let's ride!". -Mike the Cowboy

@EpicPianoArrangements 6 лет назад

I didn't play Max Payne 2 as much as the first. I thought the first one was way more epic.

@George_Bulkin 6 лет назад

+Epic Piano Arrangements Heh, lucky you! My first Max Payne game was the second one. Luckily, I've beaten first game about... hell, I dunno, year ago? Y' see, to play Max Payne 1 I've had to get old computer with WinXP on it.

@EpicPianoArrangements 6 лет назад

You do realise it runs on Windows 10 as well? They've got a patch to get it working on Win 10. Played it about a year ago as well.

@miguelferreira4370 6 лет назад

"There it was. The soundtrack to my life."

@ardacotuk3277 7 лет назад

The flesh of fallen angels

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

Quite possibly one of the best made games in history. I still play it from time to time.

@ardacotuk3277 7 лет назад

this game never gets old

@MJSherwood 6 лет назад

I think I die....I don’t know!! That line haunted me. What an amazing game.

@AdzzVR 3 года назад

Now this line had me scared especially how it was said in the game. I’ll never forget

@potaufeu2893 3 года назад

"The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper, more terrible it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it's like looking down into the grave of your love, or kissing the mouth of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, ready to blow your head off. When the darkness fell, New York City became something else, any old Sinatra song notwithstanding. Bad things happened in the night, on the streets of that other city. Noir York City." Happy birthday, Max Payne.

@SaadiX858 3 года назад

I dont know why but i always felt connected to the pain of max payne this game is not just your random video game its a masterpiece cuz this character presented such an immense amount of impact on our souls

@EpicPianoArrangements 3 года назад

It's amazing that a game from almost 20 years ago, despite the poor graphics (compared to todays almost cinematic standards) managed to convey the hurt and tragedy that struck Max so poignantly.

@ImranPangilinan 2 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements I became a criminal lawyer partly because of this game believe it or not.

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 года назад

@@ImranPangilinan Wow - that's quite an impact on your life.

@ImranPangilinan 2 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements they are remaking this game. Instead of your generic battle royales and loot boxes… more narrative driven games like Max Payne should return. It reflects the sick side of human society.

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 года назад

@@ImranPangilinan THANK GOODNESS!!! We need a brilliantly narrative driven games. I'm sick of hearing about Fortnite and their 1,000,000th skin.

@tirzan1988 7 лет назад

"They were all dead...and then it was over!"

@weiss27md 7 месяцев назад

Great job. "I was dead tired. I just wanted it to be over. It was all my fault. I'd had this dark place in my head for so long. Sometimes I'd forget the pain was there. Like it was the way you were supposed to feel. I was not in a dark place. I was the dark place, the source of it all, the vessel. Me and the writer, we were the same."

@TheEPICGAMINGS 19 дней назад

Man, this is even sadder than the original OST, and it's beautiful. I was still a teenager when I first played Max Payne 3. Back then, I couldn't fully appreciate Max's story, but now, being closer to 30 and having played all the games, Max's story just hit even harder. I never thought I would relate to him or face similar problems like his, minus getting shot at.

@EpicPianoArrangements 19 дней назад

Given how tragic the game is, I hope not too much from the game has actually happened to you.

@TheEPICGAMINGS 19 дней назад

@EpicPianoArrangements definitely not as bad as what happened to max losing hes wife and kids but depression and trying to feel something from vices is just a vicious cycle

@tooMuchTired 6 лет назад

My whole childhood spend in thinking of being a detective like Max!

@GameN3rdz Год назад

U really don't want that

@rhiannaschumacker1847 25 дней назад

"Gun fire over Hoboken. It felt strange to be at the center of it again, the target that is. Like an old comedian hearing one last round of applause." I must say sir this is such a beautiful piece and you played it so well, Thank you for paying such great tribute to a wonderful franchise

@EpicPianoArrangements 25 дней назад

If you've played Max Payne 2 as well - I did do an arrangement of 'Late Goodbye' as well. Glad you like my performance. 🙂

@LucasFerreira-uh4tj 8 месяцев назад

Rip James mcCaffrey, nosso eterno Max Payne 🙏🙏

@inside9050 Год назад

I love it when talented people come across in the recommendations, and not some kind of nonsense like tik tok

@EpicPianoArrangements Год назад

I didn't realise I was still making my way into peoples recommendations... but I'm glad you found something you like. I agree with your comments about TikTok as well... can't stand it.

@hichemovic1 6 лет назад

I keep coming to max payne music because it's the first game i played when i was a kid, it had a huge impact on me it hit me on so many levels, now when i listen to this i remember how carefree i was back then. Great piece of art btw!

@EpicPianoArrangements 6 лет назад

God knows how many times I played this game, because the story was awesome... and being in 2001 and getting to play a game with Bullet time??? Greatest thing ever.

@johnyang7126 5 лет назад

Ground breaking video game. The graphics at the time were top knotch, the sound track drew us deeper into the maddness, and bullet time was fun. I can remember running and jumping in between three baddies and with two mac-11s, eliminating the three cronnies in spectacular fashion.

@Abhishek-io6lj 5 лет назад

You picked up drinking too ?

@VLOneWay 3 года назад

i love the story of the game As i was kid my mother died and my father and i played this game together. We could really feel the pain of max as he lost his family. It was really personal. Now i got so many great memories.

@user-bc8qu9ri8x 2 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements This is an outstanding game with an ingenious main theme, and in your performance this music evokes the most stylish feeling of nastalgia! If in my diligence of playing music there were a counter of the composition's playbacks, it would have broken on Max Payne 10 years ago)). Thank you for the flawless and sincere execution! And now I know that I can learn to play it myself)) it remains to find the notes.

@Rottinator95 2 месяца назад

After 8 years still damn good and one of my favorite tracks on the piano. “There it was, the soundtrack of my life.”

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 месяца назад

Still can't believe it gets more views than pretty much every other video of mine... combined.

@ARSHXVN 7 лет назад

memories of gunfire , gore and bullet cams anyone ?

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

I still believe to this day, this was the best game of all time. The story was excellent, the graphics were fantastic for their time, and the bullet cam was AWESOME!!!

@ARSHXVN 7 лет назад

Epic Piano Arrangements what can I say...... It's a rockstar game

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

Erm... Max Payne 1 was a Remedy game published by 3DRealms (when it was still functioning), not Rockstar. Rockstar took over and published Max Payne 2.

@ARSHXVN 7 лет назад

For some reason I was trying to remedy games but my brain was saying Rockstar Maybe it's cuz I've been playing Max Payne 3 a lot

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

No problem... I realised after I posted that's what you meant.

@MehmetAbiProsu 6 лет назад

16 disslike Vlad's men

@mrnobody007 5 лет назад

and Nikole Horne's men too

@twonk890 5 лет назад

Mehmet Abi Pro. 'su haha I liked vlad tho, he was a good character

@MAXPAYNE.01 5 лет назад

@ÜLKÜCÜ BOZKÜRT oh be türk varmış

@sleepyblockanimations1482 4 года назад

Vladimir really on russian is Vova, but... Yeah, it's sounds cooler!

@EpicPianoArrangements 4 года назад

@@sleepyblockanimations1482 Damn - that does sound awesome.

@doomdrago2583 2 года назад

I feel max's pain throw this..... wow what a creation

@ZooDSSfirst 10 месяцев назад

This is the simply the best performance of this composition, you can find on the internet!

@EpicPianoArrangements 10 месяцев назад

I'm hoping if you check out my other videos, you'll find them to be the best performances of said composition as well.

@ZooDSSfirst 10 месяцев назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements Ahahaha! I will check them for sure!

@vv900vv Год назад

Маэстро, это прекрасно. В каждом из нас есть что то от Max Payne. Мы страдали, теряли родителей, родных. Теряли смысл и вкус жизни.

@EpicPianoArrangements Год назад

Это действительно мелодия, которая демонстрирует хрупкость жизни и счастья. Рад, что тебе нравится моя аранжировка. [Google Переводчик]

@prodsoma_ 7 лет назад

Pain killers is all I need :3

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

Who knew that was all you need to survive a New York, revenge filled, rampage taking out mobsters, goons and mercs. :)

@BolaGatoPraOntem 5 лет назад

And a Coult Comando and Desert Eagle

@victorrain 2 года назад

Interfectum! It kills your pain!!!

@victorrain 2 года назад

@Emirkan Ceylan Don’t forget Frankie Niagara’s baseball bat!

@whyareureadingthislol5925 2 года назад

"There it was, the soundtrack to my life." "And for a few seconds, came harmony..." *"Finally."*

@MATT-AT 4 месяца назад

"And so it began, the chorus that would tug on not only my pain but the threads that lead me to the point of no turning back, it would play in my head constantly reminding me that I'm a heartbroken detective whose in a videogame" This is fantastic btw 10/10🎉

@EpicPianoArrangements 4 месяца назад

Glad you like it... have you seen my Zelda & Fallout videos as well?

@MATT-AT 4 месяца назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements No not yet but I shall do post haste

@tiger518chanel 7 лет назад

Amazing!

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

Thanks. :)

@tiger518chanel 7 лет назад

Thank for you)

@CrestedSaguaro520 4 года назад

@Bart Iudaea when you shoot the alarm during the bank robbery, or the elevator speaker in the clowns' laundry place...

@BUCKETHATACE 5 лет назад

If someone had told me six months ago this is where my life would be headed, I'd have ordered a double of what they were drinking, drunk it, then blown my head off.

@mazadancoseben4818 4 года назад

Or try to not let that happen?

@whiskeyjim9549 2 года назад

“I didn’t ask for this crap trouble came to me in deep dark swarms”. Amazing talent man you earned a sub.

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 года назад

Thank you very much - glad you like my videos. 😎

@armygirl7851 5 лет назад

I'm Japanese. Amazing! Splendid! Max Payne is favorite music by the game of the memory♪ I was impressed to be completely reappeared! Thank you so much!!

@Ilsololl 8 месяцев назад

RIP James McCaffrey...

@b.i.g.j.i.p.s.z.41143 5 лет назад

Well done sir! I finally found an actual human man who can play this historic piece perfectly! Max Payne 1 will always remain in my top 10!

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

Thank you. I aim to please. I'm surprised no one else can play it as well - it's not really that hard.

@b.i.g.j.i.p.s.z.41143 5 лет назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements You very welcome

@ruthlessgaming4682 4 года назад

All we need is James mccafery’s commentary in the background stating something obvious in the darkest sarcastic manner.

@EpicPianoArrangements 4 года назад

His voice is seriously underrated... I wonder if he ever did any other video game work.

@ruthlessgaming4682 3 года назад

Epic Piano Arrangements , I think he did some understated 90’s tv drama series which is what landed him the role. Other than that, I was kinda pissed he wasn’t max payne in the actual movie.

@EpicPianoArrangements 3 года назад

@@ruthlessgaming4682 I'll admit, I don't think Mark Wahlberg did too bad a job of portraying the character Max Payne - he is a good action actor and he did have that gravelly New York voice. THE PROBLEM was that the entire script and storyline was a pile of garbage... and HOW they fucked it up despite the game having a BRILLIANT plot? I don't know.

@ruthlessgaming4682 3 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements It’s how they handled valkyer, and they didn’t add any third person commentary from max, in his head. Which was the issue.

@murtazahasnain5450 2 месяца назад

"Let me take you back 3 years ago....back when the pain started" These lines are stuck in my head❤️

@wdunn06 Год назад

Very well done indeed. Its amazing how music can just transport us to moments in time. Its a blessing and a curse as Max would say.

@EpicPianoArrangements Год назад

Very, very true. It can take us back to our childhood in seconds...

@shashanksharma8630 3 года назад

"Your past is like a piece of broken mirror." A perfect symphony played perfectly.This gives me some heavy nostalgia.

@EpicPianoArrangements 3 года назад

I know - it's a bit of a pain to get the game running on newer systems, but damn I still like playing it.

@albroz6731 6 лет назад

Amazing performance, this song is so dramatic and yet so beautiful at the same time, love it.

@EpicPianoArrangements 6 лет назад

It really fitted with the noir style gameplay and the storyline. This was a fantastic theme.

@saze5660 3 года назад

Maaaaaax, Dearest of all my friends

@EpicPianoArrangements 3 года назад

If you think this is good, you should check out some of my other arrangements.

@alvie2457 5 лет назад

*There it was . . . the soundtrack to my life, and, for a few seconds . . . came harmony, finally.*

@shellyyytoday 12 дней назад

Just a few will understand the power of this

@EpicPianoArrangements 11 дней назад

Most people underestimate the power of music.

@Rikuyami_x 9 месяцев назад

This soundtrack’s melancholic, unspoken beauty makes me want to play the Max Payne games- I’ll give it a chance soon, much obliged. And thank you for covering such a beautiful harmonic OST of a game theme. ❤️

@EpicPianoArrangements 9 месяцев назад

You're welcome - I'm glad you like my arrangement. There was something deeply memorable about that first game, wasn't there?

@Rikuyami_x 9 месяцев назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements Seems like

@rishabhrockstar5739 5 лет назад

Greatest video game Soundtrack ever

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

If you think this is good, you should check out some of my other covers. I do the theme from Halo 3 as well for 2 pianos.

@anielmaharjan3074 7 лет назад

wow this tone really touches my heart

@user-kr9fk2ci9l 9 месяцев назад

I listen to this music during 22 years. This is beautiful melody! My favourite!

@EpicPianoArrangements 9 месяцев назад

I am sitting here desperately awaiting the Max Payne remaster. Can't believe it's been 22 years since that game came out. That was possibly the single best game I ever played. It's only just been overtaken by RDR 2; again because so much attention was given to how the music in RDR 2 affects the gameplay - much like the Max Payne theme did.

@user-kr9fk2ci9l 4 месяца назад

You right! But remaster must be launched with Sam Lake participation. He is real Max Payne !

@AnoopH Год назад

Brings back my childhood. This game was epic at so many levels. The music was Inspirational. Your piece was no less!

@EpicPianoArrangements Год назад

Thank you very much... glad my arrangement was as epic as the original. I'm in agony wondering how the remaster of the Max Payne games are going to go.

@thegoodguy7650 4 года назад

I got goosebumps just by watching this. I can't imagine how you felt while playing this. 👍👍

@EpicPianoArrangements 4 года назад

If you think this is good, you should check out my 14 minute Zelda arrangement - I actually worked hard to practice the Zelda. This one was a piece of cake compared.

@prafullaraichurkar4369 7 месяцев назад

It's interesting how while reading all the comments, my mind automatically narrates it in Max Payne's voice

@raphaelgonzaga1044 2 года назад

when I hear this song, I always imagine Max Payne looking out over the city in a cold, dangerous blizzard, with his gun in his hand and hatred in his veins.

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 года назад

I can't wait to get that feel again when they remaster it... and since Remedy are remastering it - hopefully they NAIL it.

@raphaelgonzaga1044 2 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements I hope too, after all, the mood of suspense, drama and badass action is in the first Max Payne, I hope they manage to bring that feeling back.

@EvermoreDarkly 3 года назад

Its been years since you posted this video but here I am. All these years later. Thank you for recording this. It means something whether I am late or early.

@EpicPianoArrangements 3 года назад

No problem - glad people still enjoy listening to it.

@zherean42069 2 года назад

Exactly

@adityayengde4148 Год назад

It's always makes me emotional 😭

@EpicPianoArrangements Год назад

I hope the remaster does the same. There was something so EPIC about that last cutscene where you're standing on top of the Aesir building.

@alyctro8158 8 месяцев назад

you combined all the sections into one, beautiful.

@EpicPianoArrangements 8 месяцев назад

That's what I do. Glad you like it.

@alyctro8158 8 месяцев назад

On a scale from 1 to 10, how difficult is it to play for such an experienced player such as your self?@@EpicPianoArrangements

@EpicPianoArrangements 8 месяцев назад

Honestly? A 2... it took me maybe 20 minutes to learn the notes and memorise, and recorded it in the first take. My 14 minute Zelda Medley took me a solid week of practice (and would be much closer to a 9 or almost 10) and I will admit that I did 2 recordings of the whole thing and spliced it together (I had 2 cameras recording 2 angles, changed them and did another recording with another 2 angles and edited the best bits of performance). My Guardians of the Galaxy theme was also maybe a 7 or 8... took me several days of solid practice for that once.

@user-nt5hu6lo7j 3 года назад

The golden age of the games in my opinion: 1990s-early 2000s This game was made in 2001, with GTA3 but i love it!

@EpicPianoArrangements 3 года назад

I know - but you gotta admit, the newer graphics help make the video games feel like interactive movies and can draw you in deeper. There was something special though with Max Payne that doesn't seem to have been attained by almost any other video game since.

@user-nt5hu6lo7j 3 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements Yeah, I want max payne1 and gtaSA remastered like Mafia1

@EpicPianoArrangements 3 года назад

YES... I so want that as well. You'd think for the 20th Anniversary, they would do it and introduce the game to whole new generation.

@Sc0tt0187 8 месяцев назад

Beautiful.. Thank you James

@janisdamroze3042 8 месяцев назад

Sad day, rest in peace!

@maximantipin1479 5 лет назад

The best Max Payne theme playing I have ever heard. It's amazing! ✨

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

Thank you. :)

@apputaiparambil 5 лет назад

No other video game theme made me cry. Great art. Max Payne series is one of the greatest game series of all time and Max Payne is one of the goats in video game history along the likes of Mario and doomguy

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

I'll admit, it didn't make me cry - but what about Zelda Ocarina of Time. That was one excellent video game that was very well put together and had a lot of emotional tension.

@TasosGamingGrg 7 лет назад

my favourite pc game have a nice theme song cover!! good job man!

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

Thanks for that... it does bring back many memories of bullet-time, slow motions and epic gun fights from 2001. :)

@user-fw6nf4re4r Год назад

Макс Пейн это не просто игра, это история, это характер, потрясающий сюжет. И все это подчеркивает, выражает великолепная музыка.

@EpicPianoArrangements Год назад

Я могу только надеяться, что римейк не только лучше подчеркнет историю и характер Макса Пейна, но и увлечет нас в мир нуарного Нью-Йорка с его обновленной графикой (Google Translate).

@NikosLosBabos1 7 лет назад

Truly awesome. Great soundtrack to a great game, and seeing this video and hearing the theme played on the piano just blew me away. Bravo

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

Thank you very much... it was an intense and brilliant game.

@mandarvaidya7947 Год назад

played max payne first game today and this is my second complete playthrough, its raining outside my house and I can enjoy this deep game and music theme

@EpicPianoArrangements Год назад

Wow... I remember playing this back in 2001, and it released just after I had done my Year 12 mid-year exams. I can't recall how many times I did actually play through the game, but I think it's in the low double digits.

@kristina98005 5 лет назад

Brings nostalgia..... Max Payne was the only game that I truly loved and felt everything it had to say.

@manzoormr7741 2 года назад

"Max payne.Drop your weapons or the bomb goes " 11 years back memories. super your composing

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 года назад

Thanks - the original composers get most of the credit, but I'm glad this arrangement is getting approval from everyone. :)

@BlazeManProject 7 лет назад

One of my favourite games. You're nice musician.

@EpicPianoArrangements 7 лет назад

Thank you very much. :)

@maskedman 5 лет назад

Max, dearest of all my friends.

@farrukhpasha1201 6 лет назад

Max payne is one of a kind .. They dont make legendary games these days .. Good job man ! Well played :)

@EpicPianoArrangements 6 лет назад

Well - they sometimes make legendary games, but they seem very few and far between. Thanks for the kind words. :)

@mariorose8986 4 года назад

Wunderschön gespielt, aller Achtung....ich liebe max payne

@EpicPianoArrangements 4 года назад

Vielen Dank, ich freue mich, dass Ihnen mein Arrangement gefällt. [Google Translate]

@naqashhaider3469 4 года назад

Max is indeed in pain! Powerful music.

@EpicPianoArrangements 4 года назад

To this day I have listened to the theme so much, I can play it in my head note for note like a radio. It was truly epic.

@zombywoof5050 5 лет назад

This makes me feel more than it has any right too...

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

It was a brilliant game...dark, gritty, mobsters - it had the lot. ...and cool explosions combined with slow-motion bullets.

@zombywoof5050 5 лет назад

As a young man, this game had a major part in what became a love for dark, ruthless and gritty crime drama. The stories that remove that safety blanket and you realize that there have been monsters among us always. This song is definitely the soundtrack to a fear realized in a young age. Thank you.

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

That's quite deep. I think that's why this game and the soundtrack was so successful. They haven't really seemed to make a game like this since - I mean in terms of the depths of depravity in portraying the criminal world Max gets sucked into.

@zombywoof5050 5 лет назад

Epic Piano Arrangements Agreed. Here’s to hoping one game may some day top it. It’ll always deserve its place in video game history for many different reasons. It’s awesome to see a talented musician who loves video games. I wish you the best.

@cem2235 7 лет назад

çok iyi be abi

@levishelm426 5 лет назад

Max payne bir yaşam tarzıdır

@furkanvarangel1075 5 лет назад

@@levishelm426 aynen öyle...

@Salihli4545 5 лет назад

işte burada. Hayatımın müziği

@thegretwonz 4 года назад

Gözün kapalı bitiririm adamların yerini ezberledim ha

@sherwood3800 4 года назад

Ah bi remake gelse

@basarbask524 3 года назад

"İ dont know about angels... its fear that gives men wings." Payne to the max quotes aside great stuff you did here!

@EpicPianoArrangements 3 года назад

Thank you very much.

@zheydhan665 Год назад

Listenning to this: Imediatelly thought: "My beretta stirred nervously under my coat..." Man, Thank you so much for your performance. Has been long since you uploaded this but I really had to let you know how much I apreciate what you did with this :)

@EpicPianoArrangements Год назад

That was a brilliant quote. I so hope they don't screw up the remaster. I can't wait to play Max Payne with 2023 graphics.

@zheydhan665 Год назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements Remedy is one of those companies that has been really dear to me, such a commitment in always deliver their absolute best in their work. So yeah, I think everyone here is super hyped for the remakes. even though we might have to wait until next year probably

@baiyukui1270 8 месяцев назад

I know I'm not the only one clapping alone in my empty room sitting in front of a monitor. Bravo 👌

@EpicPianoArrangements 8 месяцев назад

Thank you very much... If you thought this was impressive, have you seen my 14 minute Zelda Ocarina of time Medley?

@JR-ly2pu Год назад

The sun went down with practiced bravado. Twilight crawled across the sky, laden with foreboding.

@beloved_dragonBY 2 месяца назад

I smile over and over again when I hear it, but no one knows that when I hear it, I die over and over again

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 месяца назад

Stick with us in the land of the living for now. 😜

@noneofyoucanspell 3 года назад

godlike

@EpicPianoArrangements 3 года назад

Thanks... although, this is like my easiest arrangement. If you're a fan of Zelda, I got an arrangement that may cause flashes of nostalgia, and bring back repressed pain of joystick pressing on the old N64.

@MrSimonsmoke 2 года назад

‘now 2022, another stormy night, just like the night before,20 years ago.’

@Raichulegend 2 года назад

Finding this on the day the Max Payne 1 and 2 remakes were announced, good day today

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 года назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH, for delivering good news. I was wondering if they would EVER remake the games, and I'm bloody glad they are. It IS a good day - thank you for informing me about this. My only worry is that in the hope of continuity - they don't remake the game to be on par with Max Payne 3. That engine is already VERY old, and frankly I'm surprised they don't remake all 3 and make a proper trilogy.

@Zoza15 2 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements They will use the same engine they've used for Control and the next Alan Wake sequel ..

@Raichulegend 2 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements The game from what I know is being handled mostly by Remedy and is using their Northlight engine, which is their in house engine used in Control and Alan Wake 2

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 года назад

@@Raichulegend Maybe it's in good hands then. Still hoping they eventually do Max Payne 3 as well - I mean, a lot of the textures, assets and props would probably be the same between levels (street textures, vehicles etc...)

@Raichulegend 2 года назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements I hope Max Payne 3 gets some attention as well but I think that one is entirely in the hands of Rockstar as Remedy had no involvement in MP3's development (they were only really consulted with for some gameplay decisions if I remember correctly), but regardless, it would be cool seeing Max Payne 3 running on the improved RAGE engine used in Red Dead Redemption 2

@thomasthem4n22 День назад

Beautifully played

@EpicPianoArrangements День назад

Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it. If you thought this was good - you should check out my 14 minute Zelda Medley, or Baba Yetu from the Civilization IV video game.

@VladK-1 Год назад

Одно из лучших исполнений! Потрясающе, до глубины души. Благодарю!

@EpicPianoArrangements Год назад

Большое спасибо за ваш добрый комментарий.

@james11latimore 2 года назад

This is the song I want played at my funeral just plain beautiful music

@liamdulude9567 5 лет назад

The tune was coming together

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

What I need to do is replay Max Payne 3 - and record all the piano footage - see if I can stitch it on top of the audio instead of me playing. :)

@JaMeS159 5 лет назад

This is worth a purchase and what a fine performance.

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

Thank you. If you thought this was good, you should check out a couple of my other arrangements. I've got the theme from Halo 3 in there... ;)

@JaMeS159 5 лет назад

@@EpicPianoArrangements I can relate more to Max Payne than the Chief, regardless your a fine pianist.

@EpicPianoArrangements 5 лет назад

No problem.

@Anw4rr10r 7 лет назад

This was beautiful. I hate you for making me feel this way..

@renessanceYT Год назад

"The rain was comin' down like all the angels in heaven decided to take a piss at the same time."

@user-bc8qu9ri8x 2 года назад

Кто эти 68 человека у которых поднялась рука поставить дизлайк этому безупречному исполнению? Или им не нравится тема Макс Пейна!? 🤬

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 года назад

Спасибо за добрые слова ... вы правы - есть люди, которые никогда ничем не довольны. [Google Переводчик]

@dely51d43 Год назад

Z "патриоты"...кто же ещё)

@lambda-m1676 Год назад

@@dely51d43 what does this have to do with the war

@LameBaker Год назад

@@lambda-m1676 I think he meant z-patriots = idiots. )

@user-ye3ed9lq4b 11 месяцев назад

@@dely51d43нет радикальные нацмены Zzzzzzz

@maximmontana9407 Год назад

This is very great. I love Max Payne as the music it shares in the OST. It stands out from many modern games nowadays.

@EpicPianoArrangements Год назад

Glad you like it.

@zedhow431 2 года назад

never gets old right boys i have played it days ago you did a unbelievable amount of work you did very good keep up the good work also am subing lol

@EpicPianoArrangements 2 года назад

Actually, sadly enough - this is the one I put the least amount of effort into. I spent a day arranging my 14 minute Zelda Medley, and another doing the 'One Final effort' from Halo 3. This one I knocked out in less than an hour. I'm glad you like it though.