Mad Max

The combat feels dated (even though this game's only a few years old), but there's a solid story, there's lots to do, there's plenty to find to keep you busy, and the game is very stable. I'm 42 hours in and nowhere near finishing. Even though I sometimes find myself firing off shotgun shells by accident, I whole-heartedly recommend the game.

Not a car person, but deffo a post-apocalyptic enjoyer. Great voice acting, great graphics, simple gameplay. Vehicle combat and manuvering isn't too difficult for me who hates driving in my games.

Plot : The last of the V8 Interceptors is destroyed and Max needs a new car. You get a replacement immediately, but wouldn't you like to grind hours for upgrades so it's slightly less terrible? Gameplay : Drive from A to a huge range of B locations, left click until the nutters at B are pummelled into submission (ocassionally right clicking to parry, for variety). Walk up to anything with a hotspot icon and hold the Action button to do a thing. Repeat for a hundred hours. Plot (B) : It's a game about 'Mad' Max. He's going to survive, but not develop or advance in any meaningful way. There will be a hint or two at the possibility of a redeption arc, but it's going to end with Max in exactly the same place he was as in the beginning. Nothing you do matters. Difficulty : Almost nonexistent. Your car gets repaired to full if you sit in Park for thirty seconds. Fighting is just left clicking, with some very easy right-click timing to avoid taking damage. It never gets anywhere near as complicated or engaging as in something like Hand of Fate. If you do manage to 'die', you respawn nearby without penalty. The World : New-Max, with a stable-but-oppressive wastelander society you slap around a bit. Very "Fury Road". Big chunks of the map are gated off with equipment requirements, access to which are in turn arbitrarily gated by Max's level, so you can't just drive to the obvious Heart of Darkness without a certain arbitrary amount of faffing around for XP. Summary : Although it's 90% just holding "W" down, driving around the wasteland is pretty and feels good. Combat is one-button Simon (right click if the enemy's "I'll hit you soonish" icon appears), but flows reasonably well. It is easy to zone out and ... enjoy?... the moment to moment play, despite how little anything matters in any way. It's a time killer, but not really anything else. 3.5 stars, rounded down for unskippable splash pages and long load times. TLDR - Play "Brutal Legend" instead?

Game is fun and the world building is enjoyable. However, close to the endgame (SPOILERS) there is a single race that comes out and is just utter trash design. Developers really screwed the players at this point making a game mechanic very frustrating, and almost unwinnable REQUIRED to proceed. There are other challenges that are surmounted prior to this point, but this one option throws all your prior work out on its face and laughs at you. Get it on sale for the world and game play up until this point, or pass completely if you are someone who has to finish a game completely.

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.