Mad Max

GTA in a desert wasteland? Sign me up!

Mad Max does a ton of things right. Driving feels great, especially once you have a few upgrades installed. Cornering feels weighty but responsive, and the boost meter fills up fast enough so that your thumb never gets too bored before it has another chance to hit A. Combat is also fun, playing similarly to Rocksteady's Batman games. It's not particularly deep and there are only a handful of enemy types, but it was plenty to keep me engaged and coming back for more.

While the fundamentals are strong, the other bits are hit or miss. One big sticking point is the in-game economy. Upgrades are purchased with scrap, which you find littered around the wasteland. You can pick up a handful of scrap from certain defeated enemies, and also travel to marked locations on your map to salvage it. The problem is that these marked locations often only yield scrap in single-digit quantities. When you need 2000 scrap to upgrade your engine, driving around the map and collecting 2 or 3 or 11 pieces of scrap at each location just feels weird. Ultimately, most of my scrap came from my strongholds, which when upgraded can collect scrap from wrecked enemy vehicles automatically and also make occasional scrap deliveries. Why drive all over the map gathering scrap when your base will deliver 500 pieces every 10 or 20 minutes? Thanks to these deliveries gathering scrap never felt like a grind, but it nonetheless felt poorly balanced.

There are plenty of other issues, too. While the desert is beautiful, character models -- especially the roadside NPCs -- look like they were ripped straight from the PS3/360 era. The story is neither here nor there -- it's not great but it also moves at a brisk pace with mercifully short cutscenes. Finally, the game is also notable for its lack of verticality, which is particularly strange given that this is the team that developed the Just Cause games. Then again, the driving and combat are so entertaining that I never felt like I needed to go mountain climbing.

I must also say that I love how my car always lands on its wheels. Realistic? No. But flipped cars are no fun.

Is Mad Max a great game? No, but it's still a good spot of fun. Check it out if you're looking for a mindless open-world game that mostly respects your time.

, i like all the movies so i was joyed to start playing it. i'll first say the optimization is amazing and so are the graphics and animations. after a few hours of playing it became very obvious a few things: the combat is terrible modern mash button to win with VERY little skill (batman,assassins creed combat..etc) its a growing trend in the industry and its disgustingly consolized and simplistic it becomes mindless quickly. next, the game forces a long length by making you grind for certain things just to play the next story mission. i could of easily completed the whole game in 8 hours but it forced me to mindlessly drive around playing simon says to get materials to craft things for some abitrary sense of progression.

it was really frustrating being stuck unable to play the next mission for a good 3-4 hours because i had to grind. crap mechanics. the driving feels fine, though, and the driving combat is fine too. the story is memorable enough with some decent characters (and some forced in ones as well) its really disappointing that there isn't a difficulty as the game felt really easy even without barely upgrading anything. (never got a single fighting upgrade because the combat is so fucking stupidly easy) a fun experience, but flawed massively.

6/10

Mad Max is one of those games that was hyped up a bit and supposed to be this awesome open World game where you could build your own vehicles and have these epic fights and races. Well it turns out for one the wasteland isn't too exciting to explore and that the combat and racing in this game is just average. Plus why the hell was this released so long after the movie came out. Either way its not a bad game, it does everything okay, it has a big World to explore, even if the World has practically no variety and all looks the same, the story is pretty average, the missions can range from mildly fun to mediocre, and the side content is your typical tedious, grinding bull crap you'd find in most open World games. The vehicle customization is mildly fun and its satisfying knowing your car gets more powerful and faster with upgrades but the combat is just bland and feels no different than any other third person game, and the most fun thing about this game was probably taking over the enemy bases but even that got old after a little. I mean in terms of gameplay its decent, but at the same time it isn't a must play game and there are way better open World games out there.