12 Pointless Video Game Details (That Will Blow Your Mind)
7. Max Can Learn Piano Throughout The Game - Max Payne 3
Max Payne is one of gaming's best written characters, and though at the time we weren't ready for Rockstar's extension of Max's core nihilism, the third instalment is easily one of their finest works, and arguably the best-playing of the trilogy to boot.
In regards to Rockstar knowing they were stepping into the shoes of giants though, Max Payne 3 might have ditched the lone piano theme from the original games, but it does make a return if you know where to look.
Triggered across a series of pianos Max can optionally interact with, throughout the campaign he'll play the wrong notes or otherwise not remember how the theme goes, until eventually bringing it all together in the final act.
Payne refers to this theme as "the soundtrack to my life", and it's only when Max has shaven his hair off and truly stopped caring about being anything other than "a dime store angel of death", that he's quoted as achieving some actual "harmony".
To this day Max Payne 3 features one of Dan Houser's best scripts, but with the game not even available on backwards compatibility, very few people have experienced it first-hand.