Why Mad Max Is a Hugely Overlooked Game

Sam Brooke:

"Mad Max didn't really make any Game of the Year lists, yet I feel that it's been hugely overlooked, and that it has plenty to offer."

[SimonSmith]

I got this game for Christmas with my Xbox One and after seeing a trailer or two I am looking forward to seeing if the game holds up for me, it certainly looks enjoyable to say the least.

[breakpad]

if it wasnt a movie-game Ip i bet it would have far better acceptance in the gaming community...they made a mistake to tie it up with the movie...

[Clown_Syndr0me]

I found this game really fun but only got about 4 hours in before other games distracted me, and I've had no desire to go back to it. I think it was just a bit repetitive but I find this with many open world games, for example the Just Cause series.

[USMC_POLICE]

It's a car combat game that's all it try's to be and should be of course it's repetitive, it's exactly what it needed to be and dam fun.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

Each to their own but if a ga,e is that repetitive I'm never going to finish it.

[thekhurg]

You can have mechanic focused games that aren't repetitive though. Just requires developer creativity.

[ChronoJoe]

It certainly could have been more diverse, even in regards to its car combat.

And if it's a 'car combat game' and 'that's all it tries to be', as you describe, why do you spend 20 hours on foot slowly roaming around suffering a copy-pasted, yet dumbed down, Arkham Knight combat system?

[FrostXVenom]

yeah great graphics,setting.I enjoyed first 10 hours...then the story quest really felt poorly designed and repetitive...then i stopped playing and didnt wanna go back...

[brokenbracket]

Really enjoyed Mad Max, really hoping for a sequel. There's only a few things it needs to change to really up its game, like the combat system, more loot, maybe more varied weapons. The graphics were great, the length of it was a nice length. The mechanics, outside of the combat system, were spot on.

[2cents]

Handbrake!

Nuff said.

[rynodigital]

I just found out last night that if you change the settings for the driving controls to alternate it switches the "fire" button to R1 and makes O the handbrake

[2cents]

^^

Thank you so much! :)

[boing1]

It's a great game!

[NotanotherReboot]

ANyone else getting a bit burned out from open world games? :(

[Clown_Syndr0me]

Yes but only because many are uninspired, bland and repetitive.

[pompombrum]

This pretty much, I'm all for quality open world games but nowdays it seems that everyone is making their games open world just because it's a trend as opposed to actually having a vision to create a quality open world game from the ground up.

[bunfighterii]

Second that - I think devs are trying to make world's much larger, but in turn they make less interesting worlds. I prefer a relatively more 'compact' open world that's very curated and designed to explore rather than bland mass of nothing.

[Khaotic]

Your comments are repetitive. :)

[spicelicka]

There's just too many of them now. I haven't seen an action game in a long time.

[ion666]

Everytime I buy a game, boot it up. press start and then I look at the map........jeez its freakin huge. Its alwalys a bit overwhelming at times.It makes me tired just looking at the thing.

[Baka-akaB]

Not really . i only go for open world games that each got a distinctive feel to begin with . I also was never enthralled by sandboxes without a story,good enough .... basically literally sandboxes where you have to entertain yourself on your own .

[rezzah]

Its the new Zombies lol

[rhx248]

I really love this game

[2cents]

Fallout stole my time from Mad Max. I love this game, so close to the end but I just couldn't resist the temptation of the 'other' post apocalyptic wasteland.

I will finish Mad Max...

[Kribwalker]

Bought it for $29.99 plus a $10 gift card from the Microsoft store on Boxing Day. Just waiting for it to arrive then I'll give it a go after tomb raider, fall out, Ac syndicate, uncharted collection and my weekly destiny chores and some halo 5 mixed in there.....damnit I just don't have enough time lol

[blakstarz]

"tomb raider, fall out, Ac syndicate, uncharted collection and my weekly destiny chores and some halo 5 mixed in there"

You will never get around to Mad Max...LOL!!

[Clown_Syndr0me]

I know how you feel, unfinished I have more than thirty games at least.

[Kribwalker]

I still haven't finished batman Arkham knight, but I think the batmobile has something to do with that

[Clown_Syndr0me]

I just managed to finish that but it was a chore. Loved previous games but hated how much that bat mobile was forced! Every boss fight was more like World of Tanks!

[Kribwalker]

It's so forced on us. I loved flying around the city in the last one, now everything was batmobile this batmobile that, blow these tanks up...

[PersonMan]

I got kinda bored of Mad Max and I feel like they don't give you enough ammo or weapons to make it fun. Often times I found myself saying... I'd really like to shoot that if I could ever get some friggin' ammo! I even go and loot the nearby camps. I just can't find the damn ammo.

[Scrivlar]

It was good fun but a bit of a let down. It felt like they tried to make it all these different types of games wrapped up into one but were a little too ambitious. It would definitely be one of these games that could improve everything with a sequel.

[Immorals]

Great game, just came out at the beginning of a very crowded season!

[Poroz]

I enjoyed this title. The storms were cool.

[DOSemp]

I really enjoyed this game. Gorgeous scenery and really cool and brutal car combats.

[brianunfried]

My favorite game, working on getting the platinum trophy.

[WizzroSupreme]

It's certainly overlooked, but it's a shame it couldn't be more stable on PC.

[Eiffel]

Lolwut. It's super optimized on PC. One thing it was praised highly for being.

[OoglyBoogly]

Yeah, it ran great for everyone I know including myself. No saying people don't have issues but that side is certainly in the minority.

[Elite-uk]

Its Fun till the story ends, then its just repetitive!.

[MAULxx]

I was rocking it for many hours until I started getting horrible framerate issues (PS4). Slow motion type drops that made it unplayable. That's when I stopped but I definitely want to dive back in if they have fixed it.

This game kinda of needed an open world setting & I love the driving aspect & how the car is your mobile fortress. You can get out & fight but the car is your tank. I love the setting & I think they nailed the Mad Max setting.

[kotaku77]

The definition of underrated.

[thricetold]

I haven't played it yet, but I can't believe it's any more repetitive than mgsv, basically two locales and every base looking the same. Go here, kill baddies, rescue prisoners, leave hotzone. Rinse and repeat for the entire game, yet it was considered game of the year material?

Consistency in judging games nowadays is seemingly nonexistent.

[Jdoki]

I did a 40 episode playthrough on YouTube and loved almost every minute.

I think a lot of reviewers saw it was open world and just gave it a generic score without bothering to immerse themselves in it.

The dynamic between Chum and Max is great. There are a few stand-out moments in the story. The combat is never less than ridiculously satisfying. Sure some of the things were tedious if you wanted to 100% the game (like minesweeping), but overall it was a blast.

[FN4GM]

This one should have made the top five disappointment list.

[Trekster_Gamer]

I liked the game somewhat but it felt tediously redundant. It was the same thing over and over and just about every boss could be defeated easily in the same manner.

Was ready for it to end 1/2 way through.

[runn67]

This is probably the most fun I had in a open world game. I actually finished it and wanted more. I never found a open world game make me want to play it to the end.

[NickAwesome]

Mad Max is great, i had a blast playing this game!

[Realms]

Unfortunately some games will always get over looked both Mad Max and ROTR have suffered from bigger titles being released on the same day. I have heard both games are good but some will inevitably wait until they are in the bargin bin to pick them up.

[WellyUK]

It was certainly better than that other game that came out on the same day that was badly overrated.