Mad Max

This game has a cult following. I suppose it scratches a certain itch that Fallout and other post apocolyptic games miss. However, the game is very shallow and is a low effort movie tie-in. It's basically a Mad Max coat of paint over Arkham Knight.... without a good story, characters, interesting objectives, rewards, etc. It's a hollow shell made to promote Fury Road and it shows. You will have seen all the game has to offer in about 2 hours. Oh, and it has progression blocking bugs. That's a BIG problem YEARS after its release.

The settings and artwork absolutely capture the Mad Max vibe, except there are far more fresh corpses than the wasteland could support. The cars are cool and the landscapes nicely open-world. The inclusion of melee is also excellent. ...but... The vehicular combat is less Interstate '76 and more "mindlessly steer at other vehicles in hopes you can bash them in an unrealistic fashion". It's difficult to exert car control and the game-controlled cars routinely out-drive you, all while you're being exulted by the NPCs as a "great driver". Your saving grace is the completely overwhelming firepower you have. Never mind that you can only get the V8s at the very end of the game, and then you get all five pretty much at once, after suffering through the entire game with the V6s. That's bullcrap. I have three V8s in various states of rebuild in my garage right now, plus three more in vehicles. The only V6 is in my wife's car. GIVE US THE V8s! The melee controls are absolutely horrible. In theory they're great, but in practice they just don't work. It's far too common that a finishing move on an opponent pushes you past secondary enemies, but you can't get turned around to face them, and they punch you in the back while you're wailing on air. One of the "Legend" achievements is to defeat 12 enemies in a row without taking damage. I'm sure somebody's done it, but I'd click for a parry - with the parry icon active, but Max would just stand stupidly while someone punched him. Or some idiot would make a move that has to be dodged and Max just refused to move. Or some fool would throw a rock at Max. The boss fights are god-awful. You MUST defeat them in certain ways, and often the game just refuses to act in a way that makes that achievable. You MUST get Scrotus to attack barrels, but it only works in 1 attack in 10, but he can kill you in three attacks. Do the math on that fubar. Hitting him, even with a weapon, does no damage. This could have been so much better.

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