Mad Max

TL; DR: Most elements are taken from other games and the few new ones are shallow or dumb. Also a lot of padding. On foot combat is taken from the Arkham series of games. Later on to raise the difficulty, the number of enemies increases, but since you don't really have ways of fighting bigger groups at the same time, the fights get tedious. The map has some interesting ideas, but everything stays shallow and a wasteland gets boring after a while. Vehicle combat is the highlight, but that is also nothing we haven't seen before and gets repetitive after a while. There are also some bad design choices. While on foot in tight spaces and sometimes while driving, fighting the camera is a bigger challenge than fighting the actual enemies. The main goal of the game is to upgrade your new car, because Max's old one gets taken again. First I thought this could be interesting, I wonder where they will go with this? Well, turns out nowhere. You go around helping cardboard cutout NPCs to unlock new parts for your car. The way you help also doesn't change from the start, so it's just endless chores. Max's madness is somewhat touched on connected to character progression, which was a neat idea, but that goes nowhere and even stops being a topic after you reach the highest character rank, which is like halfway into the game. There is also a friendly dog that helps you clear minefields. How this works is you drive around with a specific car with the dog on the back. When a minefield is in the area, the dog starts to bark and point in the direction of the mines. Incredible nose on that dog by the way, smelling a buried mine from a moving car and from several hundred meters. As you get closer, the barking changes until you get very close to a mine and it is marked and you can deactivate it. While the barking is still ongoing. So they've managed to include a dog into gameplay that is both stupid and annoying. Oh, and this must be done for some of the car part unlocks.

Upon release many have commented on the basic gameplay and mechanics of Mad Max and having currently played it, i totally agree that it's a basic game to get on sale, and that is it. Think Borderlands lite, without the color, fun, and weapons. Throw in some batman melee moves since it's the same studio that does Batman, and you you have Batman in Borderlands lite. The good. Visually its very nice especially the electrical wind storms and cars/landscape. Sadly those things really don't mean much in terms of gameplay, where the game is lacking. The bad. Many things. The game is a huge fetchquest, roaming about the same areas collecting scrap to upgrade your skills/car/person/strongholds. About the world are a few things to do such as bringing down enemy towers and snipers, looting another scrap location, using balloons to scout the area, some racing areas to race vehicles. While doing that you dodge or destroy the enemy cars roaming the map. You don't have many weapons either on your car or on Max. He has a shotgun and his fists and can pick up a melee weapon to bash enemies, that is it. No great weapon mechanics like in Borderlands. Hand to hand combat is some copy paste moves from the Batman games which is basically punch and block with some finisher moves. Enemy cars are always faster than you, you never seem to be able to outrace them so you need to learn to cripple or destroy them which thankfully is easy because your going to fight 1000 of them while playing. Enemy bases involve you going in to fight some more hand to hand combat, and more fetch questing to find loot and items to collect. It isn't a great game, it incorporates lots of mechanics and feel from better games like Borderlands, Batman, Fallout and sadly doesn't shine close to those mechanics in games that do it better. Play the first stronghold, clear out all the maps to build it up, and after sooo long grinding and fetching, realize that you still have 2+ more strongholds to do. Ick.

Yes! Finally What Took so long iv been waiting forever for this game. now all i need is sleeping dogs, and wallpaper engine so i can finally complete my switch from steam to gog and uninstall steam come on guy's lets get wallpaper engine or something alike

This is a good solid, entertaining, enjoyable game that would be a shame to pass up on sale and was worth full price. It has some repretitiveness, and filler, but it has fun in spades. Good story and art and the game mechanics work pretty well, but it is weird not to be able to jump. One of the few games a completed shortly after buying.

I really wanted to like this because I've always loved the Mad Max setting (since mid-80ies), it has great graphics, setting and general atmosphere. But - no free saving or loading, the annoying mood-killing sidekick "buddy", weird control scheme and no real open world (explicitely mission-based), with the incongrous feel in general, have all killed my desire to play and am doing it just to see the "ending" - playing out of habit, so to speak. Sadly.