a nice adventure character game. I would suggest staying away from full combat characters, they level up too fast. Play a tech leader to have much more fun.
Would have been a decent game if it had decent controls. Unable to rebind keys, having to use the mouse instead of WASD etc makes it clunky and irritating.
your typical roaming rpg type game. You don't get much character customization, the fun part of the game is you use crystals to upgrade your weapon so you can choose to add elemental properties and such. Lots of running around, you get bored fighting the same stuff. No fast travel, but you can travel between save stations. This still does nothing if your way out in the middle of nowhere.
a nice little adventuring game, limited on adventuring but really big on item creation. Sadly this old classic lacks much of what we normally expect in a game now, such as a world map, quest icons and indicators, and other things. So often you'll be about in the world and no clue which way to go or what to do next unless you stumble across it. A perfect example is a quest to find someone out in a forest. They don't show up as an icon on the minimap and there isn't any indicator on where they are, you just run into a cutscene if you arrive near the area in the forest where the event trigger is. Now the good part about the game is you can collect material in order to craft armor and items for your 5 characters. As you get higher in levels and find better items you can make better items and gear. Sadly, this is pretty much the main focus of the game. Combat is lackluster, enemies aren't difficult, and you'll be looking and gathering a ton of gear for you to craft stuff. For me, about about level 11-12 i was really really bored with the item crafting feature and realized.. well that is the main part of the game is finding material and upgrading your gear. Na, i was done.
Such a fun little game for what, less than a dollar when it's on sale? A no brainer! A game that is fun, isn't a cakewalk, takes tactics in the battle to adjust your army based on if you got beaten up the last battle. You can focus your leader into a melee leader or magic (magic is 1000% stronger), and roam the land looking for enemies who stand in your way.
An average rpg type roaming game like many others with good points and bad points. The good? its a nice big exploring world where you can go about where you want. Decent movement mechanics allowing you to jump, climb, stealth and disguise yourself as you roam about. The bad, like other reviewers have said, a great world to explore but with horrible game mechanics to do it. A lot of bugs that were never fixed, some gamebreaking that allow you to go someplace but not be able to get out. Quests that can't complete due to some trigger not working and no way to finish. How about just getting stuck on a railing trying to climb over it, having to reload. Then it comes down to your abilities. No way to increase stats, carry weight, no experience, no character leveling or customization. A badly put in crafting system that requires you to explore just to find recpies or upgrades for items, and even then those upgrades are piddling and not worth doing. Oh, i can increase electrical resistance on my armor! great! 5% nice! except that is only 5% increase of your current armors resist. So with armor of 6 electrical resist, you don't get 11% resist, you get 5% of 6, which means your now at 6.3% instead of 6. laughable. Since you really don't get stronger in the game, there are foes you better not try to fight more than 1 vs 1, even after 20 hours in since you don't level up, that same guard can beat you up after you've played a long time, because your puny weapon upgrades don't do nothing. So while the game looks good and has a good foundation and atmosphere, a good map and exploring, the gameplay mechanics will quickly have you going somewhere else with something else to play.
lots to do, lots to replay, lots to experiment with, one of my favorite games i play over the years. oh, i have 4000 hours on record, yea i like it. One of the best games ever, stable, fun, and mods to make it even more fun. Oh yea, you can build your own town settlements how ever you want.
While many had high hopes for this title, sadly it petered out into something not remotely what people were expecting. Your basic world exploring rpg that is limited in both exploring and rpg. Minimal skill systems, restricted builds due to level limit, basic weapons and gameplay, there just isn't anything spectacular in this title. It really doesn't matter which weapons you use, it doesn't matter what sides you ally with, or which companions you take or don't take, the gameplay and story are bla. I just finished playing the first time, and there isn't any need to replay any since there won't be anything different. I don't remember one companion name, there wasn't any story to talk about or roleplaying to worry about. You don't even need to raise any weapon skills just grab 2 companions who do 50% more experience than just you, outfit them in the strongest weapons and armor, and breeze through the game. Raise your hack/lockpick to max so you can open anything, raise your 2 companion skills to max so they are the toughest strongest damage dealers and then science so you can upgrade weapons, and fight the same foes, over and over. monkeys, dog thingies, insects and humans.. mmm that's about it.
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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.
