Mad Max

This is one of the best and most criminally underrated open world games out there. Mad Max isn't just a veneer here on an open world game: this is THE Mad Max experience. You scavenge. You fight wars on the road. You go mad. The world is massive and thankfully quite beautiful in a desolate way, swapping pure desert for a dried ocean which allows for wondrous coral pillars and whale bones in addition to typical ruins and ranges. You're constantly updating your car, your gear, building up bases to improve your odds. There's a lot of side activities like racing and exploration to take up the slack between the absurdly long mission based campaign. Just when you figure you've finished a giant portion of the map Max moves his sights to an entirely different chunk of the world, but you can return to your old haunts if you want to anytime. There is fast travel so if you liberate an outpost or a look out you can zap to a fair few places to avoid the driving. But the driving itself is tight and fun and this has THE best car combat of any game. Fire has a very nifty and unique visual effect in this game where the closer you get to it the louder the roaring becomes and the landscape around you is bathed in red. You can practically feel the heat. You WILL eventually get tired of the loop and the options to do things run out of variety, but by that time you'll have spent hours tooling around, looking for scrap, blowing up raider bases, uncovering artifacts. It's a very responsive and satisfying and authentic feeling homage to a great film series as well as borrowing and refining open world gameplay and adding touches of it's own that just wouldn't work in any other game (one shot kill items make sense in Mad Max, not so much in Batman games). It's cheap, it's big, it's fun. Much more than MEDIOCRE

This game is very fun and work like a dream on linux thank to Feral Interactive. Most of the team that ported games on linux left now, sad. ... I wait for the second opus of this great game... On linux of course ! What a pity that GOG didn't sign with Feral! Anyway for windows gamer, recommended. It's a game in the style of The Witcher, Shadow of Mordor or Assassin creed : open world, multiple quests and clans, some part of RPG as you upgrade your car and loot for more powerful stuffs.

So, I originally signed up for the pre-order on XBOX 360 but obviously that got cancelled. After getting an XBOX One a few years later, the first game I grabbed was Mad Max. After completing it on there, I then bought it on Steam and played through it three more times. Needless to say, I like playing this game. Anyway, onto the review. The driving is a little delayed in steering (in my memory) and the customization is too light for a game that centralizes around automobiles (Midnight Club it is not). These are the main downsides and if you can live with that, the world itself is just cool to wander around in. I ended up building a car that I liked to drive rather than the most effective setup and played through using that. Graphics hold up well (Still looks good on 1080p max on my main rig) and the game can really be downsized to some low resolutions (ran on my Toshiba Satellite at 640x360 with everything but shadows turned off) while still maintaining a good aesthetic. Story is the biggest weakpoint as the game takes place between Mad Max 1 and The Road Warrior so the game comes full circle (for anyone that watched both, the ending is hardly a surprise). Realistically, if you're looking at a Mad Max product for anything other than the action, you're probably doing it wrong. In all, this game is a good one to pick up and when on sale is a no brainer (on sale for $4.99 at time of review).

Sometimes you G.O.G. - guys are just the best. What a supercool surprise to find this great game here. Instant buy. Instant play ^^ .. Its super fun. Until you sell borderlands2 here :)P I'm happy with this..