Almost 3 weeks for a 15 minute video seems long, but don't worry, I've been doing a lot more in the meantime. I've scripted and recorded a Mirror's Edge Catalyst video, scripted and recorded a Transformers Devastation video, I've played and recorded a bit for Prototype 2 and I've finished the script for Prototype. The intro for Prototype is going to blow your minds.
The most badass story in my opinion it’s literally about a guy who gets his car stolen so he rips through every single cannibal psychopath and maniac in the wastes to finally get the one thing he wanted...his damn car
He doesn't even wanted his car because he saw it was scrapped in the first mission. He tore through the wasteland just to build his new car, and i think that's more badass
@@piscessoedroen but In the last mission you fight scrotus in his original car and once you kill him max steps into his OG car and takes a sigh of relief and drives into the desert
Mad Max is Highly underrated, and while I agree with all of your opinions, I can't help but feel sorry for Avalanche. They made the best game given their experience, and the resources given to them. WB were straight-up aiming for "The Open-World Game of Open-World Games", and George Miller had zero contribution to the project. But hell, the game is good. And you should've also mentioned Chumbucket.
@@markmonoton6224 How can someone unironically say the game stole ideas from Mad Max comics and movies when the game is literally called Mad Max? You can't be serious.
whenever I’m in a Mad Max mood, I still come back to this game just to cruise, wander, role play, get caught in a few sandstorms, etc. I still wish there were a New Game plus!
Mad Max absolutely had some fantastic visual and audio design (not to mention atmosphere), and I totally know where you're coming from when you say it oozes passion. I'll never forget a particular moment when an overcast sky was dressed in hues of gray and pink, and after having my jaw drop from its incredible beauty, I realized: somebody genuinely cared. It made it all the more of a shame that I lost interest after around 15 hours, because the core gameplay loop - while perfectly servicable - was just not enough for a game that can take anywhere between 20-60 hours to complete. I might return to it some day, if for no other reason than just to cruise around one of the most well realized, and visually stunning desert wastelands out there.
The Eldritch Truth I suggest going back for the story. I hear a lot of critics say "Well theres no progression of characters" or its lackluster. I agree the story is lacking in screen time, but its done incredibly through Chum Bucket and the other characters. And theres no real progression of characters, because the story is a reminder for Max, and a sorta look into his mind as to one of the reasons why hes mad. Nothing ever changes for Max, and neither does he. Aside from maybe growing more bitter. But the ending filled me with rage and made me want to cry.
@@MusicFreak0426: They're looking for the wrong thing if they expect Mad Max to include lengthy dialogue and longwinded character development. The point of the entire Mad Max setting is that humanity (both as a species, and as a state of mind) is regressing and even dying. The people that embrace brutality and ruthlessness get to stay alive a little while longer, while more compassionate and well meaning people get ground up to pink paste. You see it in every aspect of the setting. Language is regressing and becoming more debased. Communication is done more through looks and stares rather than words. All pecking orders are decided by who's got the bigger muscles, guns or cars or just sheer determination to kill for whatever it is they want. Humans in this setting are basically slowly turning into more of an ape-like species, psychologically speaking. The story and character progression is primitive because it has to be. Since the characters themselves are primitive.
LOL so true ! Everything is expected to be bare bones ! Max's character IS only bare bones in this story, he seems reluctant to have feelings and care about anyone, but I think those who find it boring totally misses the point, that this is a story with a context, not a fuckstupid last of us "everyody dies let's love and care" fucking point and click experience
God I love this game. It gets repetitive and there's barely any story, apart from the world itself, but it is a perfect game to play while listening to a podcast or something. In my opinion it is one of the most underrated games of the past decade, and perhaps also one of the best.
Hmm... my kind of game, hahaha, games to play while listening to podcasts (or youtube videos videos that don't require us to look at the screen). I'll try this one, thanks! =)
This is a solid 7/10 game, not every game has to be a masterpiece to be good and this game provided fun for a lot of people. Plus the PC version was pretty well optimised which always helps
The majority of modern 7\10 games are more masterpieces than the supposed masterpieces that are actually 7\10 or even 6 \10... You cannot say that rdr2 is the best game ever when gameplay is inverted by narrative and is flawed by inconsistency and god of war reboot was artistically, visually, stylistically and narratively void of quality... Pretty Textures and pretty polygons DOES NOT makes good visuals that's why crysis 1 to 3 looks great technically (matematically if you want) but looks bad compared to FF 12 or FF 13, dark souls, armored core, darksiders...
@@1r0zz I can agree. Imo this game couldn't have been better because I mean it's mad max. I want an action packed game for mad max not a cutscene driven game. Rdr2 has some nice visuals and cutscenes but I like gameplay, it's also the reason why I haven't played Uncharted 4 or The Last of Us yet. Don't get me wrong their fantastic games I just don't want to play them very much. And I don't wanna play RDR2 for one reason and one reason only. I'm going to get bored of it because of how long the story is. Its a good game just not one I'm willing to play. I like campaign or single player games that are about 10 to 30 hours long. Mostly so I don't get bored of it.
@@MrGamelover23 more examples you mean? I already give context after all, but I'll gladly give more examples. I'll use metacritic votes because they represent the "zeitgeist" of supposed "expert criticism". GTAIV and GTAV MCS(metacritic score) are the two biggest score on PS3 (98 for IV 97 for V) and those scores are "interesting" considering they are much less complex than GTASA (on a weaker console and on a game engine that was both underused and already obsolete) especially for how much GTAV (that seems to be built on the engine version of RDR 1) cut a LOT of stuff from GTAIV... both are very much 7/10 if you ask me... uncharted 2 MCS is 96, and for how much I like Uncharted 2 and 3, both games aren't really "the best" under a lot of sides: shooting gameplay is kinda mediocre, the story is good but not amazing, variety is not great. it's true that they excel in presentation, but that's most of it. both 7.5/10. RDR MCS:95. it's a good game, but 95 is way too much. all the same problem of GTA, some weird decisions, cute story but also a cluster of cliché that does not explore what it was supposedly the core of the setting (the "end" of the West/frontier era) hell it's set in 1911 and most cliches/tropes are from a idealized second half of the 1800(I know history does not "change" right away like Age of Empires, but that's way too much)... TLoU MCS: 95. yeah, not by a long shot: the plot is over-bloated with sudo-sentimental stuff (oscar-bait is a good insult for the story) completely contradicting it's own setting and any possible chance at any mimesis (Resident Evil is more "realistic" in it's use of zombies), the character are forced and rather shallow (a puddle is still a puddle even if made of colorful ink) and it's so filled with cliches it's kinda embarrassing... from a technical side the models are good to mediocre (scene textures are very LQ sometimes) and the "art direction"(if copy pasting stuff from zombie movies can be called such) sometimes kills the quality of the models. the gameplay is rather underwhelming, with somewhat cluttered ideas and a very limited scope of interaction and very arcade stuff. 7/10, but we are already kinda stretching it from a more correct 6./10 Portal 2 MCS:95. it's a good puzzle game, I like the banter (but it's kinda "memetic"), some story elements are interesting but completely unexplored or unconsidered (how Aperture can keep building incredibly expensive stuff when under economical crisis? how it can compete with Black Mesa when Black Mesa have military/governement/whatever-G-Man-is funds and Aperture does not?). in the end is a more complex and refined portal 1, not a "masterpiece". Bioshock Infinite MCS:94. yeah, it's just a Shooter imitative of Call of Duty and Halo and is VERY inferior to both, the locations looks fake (interesting since the first game had a "grounded" but stylized look) and the story is kind of a joke that does not understand the premise itself...very much a 7/10 here's few examples.
The feeling of enemy's weight is a big part of what makes fist fights so satisfying. They don't fly backwards when you kill them: their legs go out from under them, or they stumble backwards into an attempt at staying upright then flop back, or sometimes just drop like a sack of shit. It never feels like you have superhuman powers, you are a crazy person fighting like an animal and I love it.
Man, for me just cause is stupid af it is just a playground for explosions, nothing else Mad max is easily better than all just cause games put together in my opinion
@@boleshuggah I totally agree with you I bought just cause 2 the year it came out and returned it just because of that... I never bought another one after...
This game was incredibly badass, looked phenomenal and oozed character and charisma. Sound design was incredible as well. I swear, some of the action shots you can experience in this game are worthy of Hollywood. I loved how the shotgun basically becomes a melee weapon, and the multiple strategies you can employ to take down camps. I also enjoyed the extreme scarcity of ammo, which forces you to think strategically about combat. Granted, the story was definitely weak, but I've seen far worse, especially since the characters and locations were very interesting.
Its sad really. I dont know, if its just me ... but i loved the game until i finished the main story. The ending left me so bitter and disappointed that i couldn't enjoy it any further.
@@PeterGriffin-kb2hf That's it. I know why it had to happen. My problem is with the execution of the last act of the campain. Its just my opinion, but i think, there might be better ways to end it all. Not with this "the end is near, we have to destroy everything you build the entire game".
That shot at 5:27 is so great. Great video dude! I've been in love with the movies for years, watched the shit out of Fury Road, and followed this game close up to release. Still love it to bits.
Yeah, I bought it recently and was suriprised that it run at 144hz with a 1660ti, ultra settings, without a single frame drop. I looked up and found out that Mad Max was done by Avalanche Stockholm, the team behind Just Cause 1 and 2, while Just Cause 3 was handed by a new team at Avalanche New York. That explains everything, the good performance of Mad Max, and the bad performance of JC3.
Imo it because it's mostly empty and only few things that happened on screen. Unless If it stronghold. Idk in my gameplay, stronghold make game run suck. I can say it probably because my gpu also suck (r5 240) but im surprised that outside of stronghold it run so good (using 1440x810 because my screen is 900p)
Avalanche is very good at this as I have noticed that instead of looking like a slide show of images it bassicaly puts the game in a slow motion instead. the only anoying thing about this is cutscenes
Absolutely loved this game. I made sure to do most of the side stuff before I did the main quest. I had a blast with this sleeper hit. Getting it for free or 5 bucks is a steal.
@@mixwb hey if i had the option why not it would make me feel stranded in the wastland be more scared if a storm was coming and try and find and steal a vehicle to use it opens up more ways to experiance and enjoy the game mulitple times through
I mean it's not challenging enough you know. the game itself is set in a post apocalyptic wasteland. if you are living in that kind of place, then you obviously need to save your supplies and try to survive. but this game literally throws everything in your hand. which makes it very unrealistic and unchallenging
Man haven't seen people talking about this gem in a long time. Glad its getting the attention it well deserved. Hopefully Avalanche studios makes Mad max 2,I wanna really wanna break some more bones and do even more mma moves on those raiders.
It always felt weird to get some intel regarding a "secret entrance" to a camp, then realizing that it doesn't matter if you take it, or just ram through the front gate, engine roaring and guns blazing. It's like, "thanks, but I'll just do this the same way I've done the last 40 camps."
3ATERMINATOR same, I’ve replayed this game so much and I’m on my 5th or 6th playthrough now. There really aren’t any games that scratch my mad max itch.
When they did the Rockstar energy drink challenge I actually won that in Canada! Came home too Mad Max on Blu Ray and over 400 cans of Rockstar. I'll never forget it.
You commented this a while ago but there’s a glitch with me with one of the trophy’s it’s that one we’re you have to win a race at every death race location for some reason I do them all over and over and I never got the trophy. Anybody know how to fix this because imma come back
One of the things I loved the most about this game is the amazing level of immersion and ambience design, especially for the collectables, and vistas... You will find things like a bloody toilet seat (which is a hole in the ground) in a shed at the side of a abyss with a view to the wasteland, two dead skeletons with a collectable that is a picture of their last happy memories and a last message to their loved ones... You can actually get lost thinking about the stories behind all these scenarios and situations
I actually loved this game at release. Being a lifelong fan of the films, I went into it expecting a Mad Max game and thats exactly what I got. People give it far more hate than it deserves. Edit: I absolutely can't wait for RAGE 2!
RDR2 was the worst game I played recently. It started off strong but gradually it became a chore. It’s overlong and has extremely unintuitive controls and systems. I actively dislike it and Mad Max is FAR superior in terms of gameplay and progression.
RDR2 is leaps and bounds better than Mad Max if you actually enjoy great story telling over explosions. Mad Max was fucking great, but shut the fuck trying to be a hipster, shitting on RDR2. The game's a masterpiece if you have the patience. Or just go and play COD all day
@zouni The game might have been (and probably is) the most complex game ever created, but its story isn't. It's just a bit slower paced and they had the damn balls and confidence to do so. Just like Blade Runner 2049. Also a masterpiece, but a bit slower paced. That doesn't mean it's boring though. RDR2 has become such an easy scapegoat for these morons.
Starting at 9:43 is a wonderful action set: jumps out of the car, clumsily slides under the fence right into enemy territory, is carefully approached by a group of goons while one of them jumps straight at Max from behind the others, and Max slams him into the dirt. Awesome
I’m so glad that people still talk about this game. I fell in love with mad max when I was a kid, but I was to young and inexperienced as a gamer to finish it. I only beat it for the first time a couple weeks ago and I am so happy that people still care about it. This game is so fucking awesome and I really hope it gets a sequel
This a great series for viewing the 6-7/10 games that had passion or genuinely good qualities poured into them. My candidate would be the PS2 library, as it was filled with such games haha. Racing games could be a great fit here too. Edit : *Rebellion games* library (Sniper Elite series, AvP 2010) and Homefront Revolution (game has some surprisingly great amount of "little things" like full body presence, raindrops wetting the surface when rain starts; DLCs better than main game)
PS2 library is choke-full of top tier games. I'd say a good 20-30% of games on PS2 are easily 9-10/10. Trust me, I still play PS2, it's forever hooked up to my tv.
FUCKING PROTOTYPE! YES! The first Prototype game is one of a kind experience IMO, I remember putting some dark music and just going through completely infected city and soaking up the atmosphere, that was something else.
Thank you man! I loved this game alot and was very frustrated with the reviews it got. I spent alot of time in this open world and had a blast with out online or any of that crap. Avalanche did a great job and I wish they would work on another Mad Max game instead of Just Cause, Mad Max was a much much better game. Every gamer should take down a convoy and enjoy it in all its glory.
I love it when people say good things about Mad Max (the game). I loved it. The amount of hate it received from mainstream “gaming” media is just laughable. I purchased PS4 last year and had Max in my wishlist. You can imagine my inner kid bursting into screaming and random dance moves when I saw it in PlayStation Plus. I played it, platinum’d it, and played again. And then again after several months. I loved the films, I love the game. I don’t care. Don’t fight me cause there’s nothing to fight over, it all boils down to personal taste. If you like the franchise and love games - give it a conscious try, I dare you. If you’re not into post-apocalyptic setting and Arkham/Vigilante 8 gameplay, well... Don’t hate on something just because it’s not Witcher 3. Thank you and Dog bless Dinki-Di, amen 🙏
I loved this game. Probably my fave open world map ever, loved the variety of scavage locations. When I found the subway tunnel in the middle of the desert i was so immersed.
As much as I'm a huge fan of Mad Max, I felt I enjoyed the game mainly because of that: it's Mad Max. The open world activities felt like such a slog after the first 10 hours, and hunting down mines may be one of my least favorite diversions in a video game due to how tedious it ended up being. But in the end, I did enjoy the gameplay. And like you said, the game has some stupidly pretty sky boxes to stare at. Definitely looking forward to more Design Secrets videos! As for other games to cover eventually, have you thought about checking out the Ace Combat series? Dunno how well the games would work design secrets wise, but almost every game has something that makes it stand out from another in the series, like the post-stall maneuvers in 7, or unique enemies depending how you play in 0.
Avalanche really needs to work on in game activities as they’re usually their weakest points in their games but you always end up having to do them as they have high rewards attached to them
I thought Avelanche did a truly masterful job of depicting a huge weather blasted post-apocalyptic wasteland under menacingly huge and fierce desert skies, with a real sense of beauty and desolation yet with surprising subtle vibe differences in the various regions - And blasting through it in your majestic, rusty, dented, spiky fendered, scuffed up but glorious Max mobile and with a roaring beast of an engine as you tool about the landscape.....In simple terms of the *feel* of being there - I think they created one of the most effective post apocalyptic wastelands in all of gaming! Loved it!
Saw this pop up after my buddy and I were talking about this game, and you have both convinced me to give it another go. Great video with solid and well articulated points
One thing this game made me do that I will always love it for was making me look at a location and think “ what was this place like before everything went to shit, and as you pieced together what the whole map did before it got destroyed
I don't know how to explain it, but I want more of this game. Not necessarily a sequel, but something better, something more. I had lots of fun playing this and I want to relive that experience again.
I like the story! Chumbucket is absolutely hilarious and overall it is way less cheesy than 90% of games which seem to be aimed at 13 year olds. Like the movie, the situation and the need to survive is the story. The dialogue is awesome. What else do you really want?
I am replaying this now. Such an underrated game. Brilliant. The handling of the cars, the visuals... It is a super fun game and still looks amazing. There are even visual effects that mimic some of the action scenes from the films, like the shaking of the camera when boosting and the sped up looking camera work that George Miller used. Definitely a great experience. I hope they can make another one someday. A total hidden gem.
This is one of those games that I was extremely excited to play after seeing convention demos. I picked it up at a midnight release, played 1 hour and it already had hooks deep into me. Hell I even tried for many hours to get a top-tier Time on the Rockstar competition. IIRC I had 8th place for an evening, but then a handful of dedicated gamers, most likely with cybernetic help, started placing a solid 10 seconds faster than anything I could muster. I don't recall why it got average reviews, but I would assume it was because of repetition, which in my eyes was an irritant, but not a flaw. I love Racing Games, Shooters, Post Apocalyptic RPGs, and Open World Adventure. It had bugs, many bugs, but not the kind that ruin gameplay or drive you crazy, they were the kind of bugs where I would almost peed myself laughing and trying to recreate for a capture. Don't even get me going on the breathtaking lightning storms, or how hard I laughed at the Leslie Nielsen Airplane quote. ..."and don't call me Shirley!" So many fond memories, and kudos to Avalanche & WB!!! ruclips.net/video/4H1uKaRdV3Q/видео.html
I'm so happy you made a video about Mad Max. It was so addicting when everything was firing off. There's always something to do, and it all feels great.
This is one of my top 5 "therapy" games: after a long day it's sometimes nice to just come home, put on some music and drive aimlessly around a massive and lovingly-detailed sandbox.
Avalanche seem to be one of the last breed of devs who really understood game design effort for something that no one expects much out of. MAD MAX is one of my favorite games. And I don't think anyone, including myself, was expecting that out of it when it came out.
I'm REEEing at the pronunciation of muthaloot, I thought it was like "the motherlode" but of loot, and mispronounced making it Mutha-Loot. I may be wrong, I never heard it pronounced in game, but w/e, to each his own. Good vid, I bought the game on a black friday, in one hand was this and the other was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5. I liked this game more.
Somehow this was in my "watch later" for over a year. so glad to rediscover it and become a new subscriber to your channel. great video, editing, narration and writing, everything. sorry i've been missing out!
Mad Max isn' the perfect game, but it's a solid 7,5/10 and if you like the movies, you'll most likely enjoy the game too. I could only shake my head when I read some of the reviews and they were complaining how your car actually uses gas, you have to find water and you don't have a ton of ammo to blast through every enemy. That's the whole idea behind Mad Max that you don't have everything and have to scavenge to survive in that shithole of a world. It has its problems, but all in all it's a good game.
Watching this 4 years later and I’m only just noticing you used Marilyn Manson’s amazing rendition of Sweet Dreams at 7:39 - one of the first songs I learned how to play on guitar! Hopefully it didn’t cause any content ID issues
One of my top 5. Was invested in the story and thought the upgrades were fantastic...What set it really apart though was how much damn fun the car combat in the game was/is to me. I loved Twisted Metal as a franchise and sadly there aren't any games like that anymore...but this game for sure got me ripping doors off and flattening tires with a big a*s smile on my face! Wanna avoid car maniacs while driving the wasteland??? You can...Just blast that gas pedal along with your Nitro and go do what you need to while at the same time...You wanna pick a fight??...You don't ever need to go far to fight the car maniac War Boys who are more then capable of testing your skills (certainly in large groups) and getting your adrenaline bumping. I have gone back to the game 4 or 5 times since I first picked it up cause there is something special about it. I will never forgive myself for writing it off the first year of release cause I thought it was just another AC game with different dressing. So much is different. How you didn't mention CHUMBUCKET is crazy though...One of they best NPC sidekicks in all of gaming! I hate The Ubisoft core gameplay in like AC and FC...I can forgive Mad Max for it though cause I actually liked the story, loved the car combat, and the wasteland in general as your kicking up dust and see that GIGANTIC DUSTSORM BEARING DOWN ON YOU AS YOU KICK OFF YOUR NITRO AND TRY TO OUTRUN IT....Dammit...REDOWNLOADING NOW...See what you did!!!!
This is honestly one of my favorite games of a time. Something about it is just a perfect storm that’s full of tens of hours of fun, maybe even a hundred hours or more if you’re a completionist. It’s a bit dated, but something about the visuals still remain gorgeous even this long after release.
Just because some games don't got intense story doesn't mean everything is bad about them. This game got best sand box to fuck around doing bunch of stuff besides doing main campaign 💯🔥 I'm having blast playing this In 2020
I got this game because it was on sale and i haven't got more bang for my buck since, i really enjoy the characters and the lack luster story kinda immerses me in the game as a wanderer trying to find something to do, i love turning my brain off and clearing chunks of the map but i do wish there was more to do
actually I think a good candidate for this series is one you brought up in the vid; the original Rage. It gets as much wrong as it does right imo, and it's a pretty fascinating game as a whole
I absolutely love this game, thanks for giving it some love! It has maybe the best post-apocalyptic world in any game. I was absolutely floored when I found an optional mission that was a church burried beneath the sand and you had to get in through the Bell tower that was sticking out. All the locations are so interesting. It's great.
@@Xaxp: Nah, that is a retcon that's not really valid. In Fallout 2 you had a functional car. And since so many vehicles were nuclear powered, just like power armour and many if the weapons, there's really no valid excuse as to why all cars should be permanently disabled. Oh, and then there's the fact that functional vertibirds are practically everywhere.
I really like this format, it's great for players to nail down what they liked about a game and made it work for them and make better thought purchases and designers to pinpoint the strongsuits and weaknesses of past games. Keep up the good work!
Honestly if this game got rid of most of the scarecrows, put long paved highways, put in convoy routes with big semis like what was hinted at in one of the missions for hope. I think it would have been even better. Imagine telling chum to grab the wheel as you jumped onto a semi, and started fighting people on top of the semi while cars are dropping people off. You take it back to one of the settlements (which need to be double the size and with a little more pizazz, think thunderdome) It would have been just like the movies. The ending, Oh lord don't get me started. Just scrap hope and glory dying and have them be captured and you use that mechanic of "semi-hopping" to rescue them. Instead of you sacrificing chum how about he sacrifices himself? Max grabs hope and glory and jumps off after blowing most the semi to shreds, it lingers on the cliff. Max calls for the car. Chum revs the magnum opus screams something, and then rams the semi full speed and it tumbles down. Then the interceptor jumps out. The same end fight insues and you get the interceptor. You drop hope and glory off at pink eyes where the sailing mission pays off because they go off in the distance as max continues on. And it would end just as all of the films have ended. That's what would have made this game best of the year. Edit: since you'd be expanding the world quite a bit. You'd have to add more car bodies and more content maybe more guns idk. Maybe they could allow you to team up with an npc to help take on the semi's. They could help deter cars from dropping people off. Oh and when you finally steal the semi other war camps come which give you some variety to characters. Obviously it would need to be a much bigger map, but I think I would appreciate less density for more awesome content. For empty space for more area for the semi to roll is a trade off I would very much like. After all, it is a desert it should feel kind of empty.
In the opening it`s "Say10", in the Fighting-Explanation it`s "Get Your Gunn" and after that it`s "Sweet DReams", sounds like a Drum n Bass Cover Version
Oooh, Prototype coming up should be really interesting. I enjoyed that game immensely and kept noticing cool details on consecutive playthroughs. Even thought the story became kinda interesting once I viewed it through the lens of the protagonist actually being [spoiler]. Considering the horrible world he was thrust in and the kinds of people whose memories he used to learn about the world, I was all the more impressed he deemed it worth saving. [Spoiler] even made sense of him not being much surprised at his powers from the start and not having much qualms about getting violent, since he doesn't start out with our sense of normalcy and the world teaches him a very different kind of "normal" too. I'd also say the game really spoiled me when it comes to movement in open worlds. Moving around in Prototype is really fun when upgraded, which means I didn't mind it if there was a couple minutes of travel time between objectives. Anyway, really excited about Prototype, I think it's the perfect candidate for a series like this where you extract good points from a flawed game!
I finished this game last summer, took well over a year on/off playing it, but damn wahta ride, literally! It felt and sounded so amazing wearing headphones and hear every sound design of the vehicles when starting them up and driving around, creepy atmospheric, and action packing car chases/battles. OH, and the insane lightning storms, those were so freaking fun to do, the panic, the rush trying to farm for extra scrap/money was well worth the damage received! Customizing how your car drives was the best part of the garage because I already suck at taking sharp corners so to have the option to tighten that steering was a blessing! The gameplay got repetitive VERY quickly but if you looked past that and have the patience, there was so much packed into this game to explore, especially going underground, or into enemy territory and seeing the brutal/scary survival/torment all around Max, I explored EVERY corner of this game and rarely got bored. I loved raiding the camps after picking their snipers and rally criers, just all around chaos and awesome finishers. Going into Fury More made me feel like a god of war :D I actually really enjoyed the story and the characters and the relationships Max "develops" even though he could give two shits about them, but I still really loved helping the survivors and seeing their own stories unfold, even Chumbucket made me chuckle with his weird creepy monologues with his "Sweet Angel Combustion", and the upgrades were pretty fun to unlock once you progress through the game. Going into the Northen Tunnel, the Church, the Airport, the haunted house, caverns, and elsewhere under the Dunes were some of the most terrifying moments for me as a a gamer, but some of the best well-designed levels I have traversed. I absolutely LOVED the explosions in this game, so much fun blowing shit up XD I know Mad Max is supposed to be brutal, gritty, dark, and dreary, but I was hoping to an alternate ending to unlock where Grace/Hope were saved and he lives happily ever after T__T Thanks for making this review, I hope more players pick up this hidden treasure and give it a try!
Massively underrated game. The main "character" is not Max, it's the Magnum Opus. The perfect name for sickest car in video game history. The entire story, world design, and game mechanics are built around the Magnum Opus. She is totally worth it.
Don't mind me, just watching your old videos out of boredom. I'd say the feeling you get from sandstorms is also in the STALKER series. Emissions/blowouts are terrifying as fuck and those are some of the best open world games atmosphere wise.
The people that think this game is repetitive and didnt really play it..straight up are missing out on one of the most amazing games ever made..play this game properly and its literally gamer heaven..probably my #1 game ever..and ive been gaming for more than 30 years
I've been playing through this recently and really enjoying it. Thanks for highlighting some mechanics, such as loot during a storm that I didn't know about :)
For me the primary thing holding this game back is it's lack of replay-ability. Side activities don't re-spawn and once you've cleared everything and finally fully upgraded your car, there's nothing left to do. A new game+ would have gone a long way.
Almost 3 weeks for a 15 minute video seems long, but don't worry, I've been doing a lot more in the meantime. I've scripted and recorded a Mirror's Edge Catalyst video, scripted and recorded a Transformers Devastation video, I've played and recorded a bit for Prototype 2 and I've finished the script for Prototype. The intro for Prototype is going to blow your minds.
Where is God of War my man? I do appreciate your content though, so im not too mad 😉
Really interested in those Prototype videos. You do good work, really clean. So, it makes sense that it takes time.
You're doing PROTOTYPE!? YES! YES! Finally someone talks about Prototype.
Daddy I'm excited
I can't wait to see it all
The most badass story in my opinion it’s literally about a guy who gets his car stolen so he rips through every single cannibal psychopath and maniac in the wastes to finally get the one thing he wanted...his damn car
He just wanted the v8
He was literally John wick before John wick , in a freaking apocalypse
He doesn't even wanted his car because he saw it was scrapped in the first mission. He tore through the wasteland just to build his new car, and i think that's more badass
@@piscessoedroen but In the last mission you fight scrotus in his original car and once you kill him max steps into his OG car and takes a sigh of relief and drives into the desert
@@UlfhednarAxe yes, but max and even us the players doesn't know about it until scrotus busted out from the secret bay
Graphics just fine? Man, it looks better than tons of games nowadays!
exactly !!!
Really doesn't
Give examples
@@ceaselessdischarge1026 Assassin's Creed, Anthem, Watch Dogs 2... M
@@Bobby14 definitely doesn't look better than any of them.
Mad Max is Highly underrated, and while I agree with all of your opinions, I can't help but feel sorry for Avalanche. They made the best game given their experience, and the resources given to them. WB were straight-up aiming for "The Open-World Game of Open-World Games", and George Miller had zero contribution to the project. But hell, the game is good. And you should've also mentioned Chumbucket.
The union of carburetor, cam and the piston, then u-joint. The holy angel of combustion, blessed be.
@@Zeeves I disagree. There are very few, if any, games better than this one in terms of open world explosion simulators.
@@markmonoton6224 How can someone unironically say the game stole ideas from Mad Max comics and movies when the game is literally called Mad Max? You can't be serious.
@Mark And I Have a RIGHT to say that in my opinion, you're wrong. It's my opinion. I apologise if it offends you. thank
Screw Trump. Sorry. You're right. Don't even speak that name. Please.
whenever I’m in a Mad Max mood, I still come back to this game just to cruise, wander, role play, get caught in a few sandstorms, etc. I still wish there were a New Game plus!
i heard there was a planned dlc that was supposed to take place in the inaccessible section of the map out east but it got cut
@@VibinBryan Tell more
For a fact man👌🏽This game is awesome man, I'm on a mission to make dope vids from it🔥🔥
@@lukaplays420 you make shit vids
@@VibinBryan s
Mad Max absolutely had some fantastic visual and audio design (not to mention atmosphere), and I totally know where you're coming from when you say it oozes passion. I'll never forget a particular moment when an overcast sky was dressed in hues of gray and pink, and after having my jaw drop from its incredible beauty, I realized: somebody genuinely cared.
It made it all the more of a shame that I lost interest after around 15 hours, because the core gameplay loop - while perfectly servicable - was just not enough for a game that can take anywhere between 20-60 hours to complete.
I might return to it some day, if for no other reason than just to cruise around one of the most well realized, and visually stunning desert wastelands out there.
Never did I expect that bleak deserts could look so beautiful and be so full of colour.
Very well-said, agree on all points.
The Eldritch Truth I suggest going back for the story. I hear a lot of critics say "Well theres no progression of characters" or its lackluster. I agree the story is lacking in screen time, but its done incredibly through Chum Bucket and the other characters. And theres no real progression of characters, because the story is a reminder for Max, and a sorta look into his mind as to one of the reasons why hes mad. Nothing ever changes for Max, and neither does he. Aside from maybe growing more bitter. But the ending filled me with rage and made me want to cry.
@@MusicFreak0426: They're looking for the wrong thing if they expect Mad Max to include lengthy dialogue and longwinded character development.
The point of the entire Mad Max setting is that humanity (both as a species, and as a state of mind) is regressing and even dying.
The people that embrace brutality and ruthlessness get to stay alive a little while longer, while more compassionate and well meaning people get ground up to pink paste.
You see it in every aspect of the setting. Language is regressing and becoming more debased. Communication is done more through looks and stares rather than words. All pecking orders are decided by who's got the bigger muscles, guns or cars or just sheer determination to kill for whatever it is they want.
Humans in this setting are basically slowly turning into more of an ape-like species, psychologically speaking. The story and character progression is primitive because it has to be. Since the characters themselves are primitive.
LOL so true ! Everything is expected to be bare bones ! Max's character IS only bare bones in this story, he seems reluctant to have feelings and care about anyone, but I think those who find it boring totally misses the point, that this is a story with a context, not a fuckstupid last of us "everyody dies let's love and care" fucking point and click experience
God I love this game. It gets repetitive and there's barely any story, apart from the world itself, but it is a perfect game to play while listening to a podcast or something. In my opinion it is one of the most underrated games of the past decade, and perhaps also one of the best.
Hmm... my kind of game, hahaha, games to play while listening to podcasts (or youtube videos
videos that don't require us to look at the screen). I'll try this one, thanks! =)
Let’s face it, the Mad Max movies always had very simple stories. That’s not why people love the series.
Good to know I'm not the only one like this. Been playing this game while I listen to albums for years. Goes well with a blunt.
For a fact bro🔥This game is awesome man, I'm on a mission to make dope vids from it🙌🏽🙌🏽
This And Sleeping Dogs were underrated
This is a solid 7/10 game, not every game has to be a masterpiece to be good and this game provided fun for a lot of people.
Plus the PC version was pretty well optimised which always helps
The majority of modern 7\10 games are more masterpieces than the supposed masterpieces that are actually 7\10 or even 6 \10... You cannot say that rdr2 is the best game ever when gameplay is inverted by narrative and is flawed by inconsistency and god of war reboot was artistically, visually, stylistically and narratively void of quality...
Pretty Textures and pretty polygons DOES NOT makes good visuals that's why crysis 1 to 3 looks great technically (matematically if you want) but looks bad compared to FF 12 or FF 13, dark souls, armored core, darksiders...
7/10?
Bruhhh
9 or 8 out of 10
@@1r0zz I can agree. Imo this game couldn't have been better because I mean it's mad max. I want an action packed game for mad max not a cutscene driven game. Rdr2 has some nice visuals and cutscenes but I like gameplay, it's also the reason why I haven't played Uncharted 4 or The Last of Us yet. Don't get me wrong their fantastic games I just don't want to play them very much. And I don't wanna play RDR2 for one reason and one reason only. I'm going to get bored of it because of how long the story is. Its a good game just not one I'm willing to play. I like campaign or single player games that are about 10 to 30 hours long. Mostly so I don't get bored of it.
@@1r0zz can you give some examples please?
@@MrGamelover23
more examples you mean? I already give context after all, but I'll gladly give more examples.
I'll use metacritic votes because they represent the "zeitgeist" of supposed "expert criticism".
GTAIV and GTAV MCS(metacritic score) are the two biggest score on PS3 (98 for IV 97 for V) and those scores are "interesting" considering they are much less complex than GTASA (on a weaker console and on a game engine that was both underused and already obsolete) especially for how much GTAV (that seems to be built on the engine version of RDR 1) cut a LOT of stuff from GTAIV... both are very much 7/10 if you ask me...
uncharted 2 MCS is 96, and for how much I like Uncharted 2 and 3, both games aren't really "the best" under a lot of sides: shooting gameplay is kinda mediocre, the story is good but not amazing, variety is not great. it's true that they excel in presentation, but that's most of it. both 7.5/10.
RDR MCS:95. it's a good game, but 95 is way too much. all the same problem of GTA, some weird decisions, cute story but also a cluster of cliché that does not explore what it was supposedly the core of the setting (the "end" of the West/frontier era) hell it's set in 1911 and most cliches/tropes are from a idealized second half of the 1800(I know history does not "change" right away like Age of Empires, but that's way too much)...
TLoU MCS: 95. yeah, not by a long shot: the plot is over-bloated with sudo-sentimental stuff (oscar-bait is a good insult for the story) completely contradicting it's own setting and any possible chance at any mimesis (Resident Evil is more "realistic" in it's use of zombies), the character are forced and rather shallow (a puddle is still a puddle even if made of colorful ink) and it's so filled with cliches it's kinda embarrassing... from a technical side the models are good to mediocre (scene textures are very LQ sometimes) and the "art direction"(if copy pasting stuff from zombie movies can be called such) sometimes kills the quality of the models.
the gameplay is rather underwhelming, with somewhat cluttered ideas and a very limited scope of interaction and very arcade stuff. 7/10, but we are already kinda stretching it from a more correct 6./10
Portal 2 MCS:95. it's a good puzzle game, I like the banter (but it's kinda "memetic"), some story elements are interesting but completely unexplored or unconsidered (how Aperture can keep building incredibly expensive stuff when under economical crisis? how it can compete with Black Mesa when Black Mesa have military/governement/whatever-G-Man-is funds and Aperture does not?).
in the end is a more complex and refined portal 1, not a "masterpiece".
Bioshock Infinite MCS:94. yeah, it's just a Shooter imitative of Call of Duty and Halo and is VERY inferior to both, the locations looks fake (interesting since the first game had a "grounded" but stylized look) and the story is kind of a joke that does not understand the premise itself...very much a 7/10
here's few examples.
One of my favorite things about this game is the airport mission in the main story. That was very well done, and extremely tense.
God the visuals of that place
@@lusitanicwraith413 scared me for some reason no lie
the escape was so epic as well
that's a hell hole don't talk about it
The fucking Christmas decorations made that place 100% more creepy.
Why tf apocalypses always begin near Holidays?
This would have been amazing with Shadow of Mordor's nemesis system!
I feel like you may be onto something here
Chad Wilson Any chance to use the Nemesis System is a good opportunity.
Practically any game could be great with the Nemesis System, it’s that damn good
I feel a disturbance in the modding community!
YES!
This game had the best desert environment and most accurate one I have ever seen.
RAGE had the best desert environment.
@@jim191185 rage is good but not on par with Max's desert
I've played a couple hours of MM, it's good but could've been much better.
jim idk man I’ve played both and think mad max did way better. To each their own
Agreed👌🏽This game is awesome man, I'm on a mission to make dope vids from it🔥
The feeling of enemy's weight is a big part of what makes fist fights so satisfying. They don't fly backwards when you kill them: their legs go out from under them, or they stumble backwards into an attempt at staying upright then flop back, or sometimes just drop like a sack of shit. It never feels like you have superhuman powers, you are a crazy person fighting like an animal and I love it.
Just my opinion. I prefer Mad Max over the just cause series.
Man, for me just cause is stupid af
it is just a playground for explosions, nothing else
Mad max is easily better than all just cause games put together in my opinion
@@boleshuggah Just Cause 2 is still the best of all JCs
@@GRiiZZ
That's because jc2 was an evolution, jc3 and jc4 are more reiterations
Donovan Joseph same
@@boleshuggah I totally agree with you I bought just cause 2 the year it came out and returned it just because of that... I never bought another one after...
This game was incredibly badass, looked phenomenal and oozed character and charisma. Sound design was incredible as well. I swear, some of the action shots you can experience in this game are worthy of Hollywood. I loved how the shotgun basically becomes a melee weapon, and the multiple strategies you can employ to take down camps. I also enjoyed the extreme scarcity of ammo, which forces you to think strategically about combat. Granted, the story was definitely weak, but I've seen far worse, especially since the characters and locations were very interesting.
And it earns several points for introducing the MVP chumbucket
It had it cool moments but for me so many things you did started to feel the same and hollow
I played 60 hours of this game, completed averything it had to offer, and still wish it had more stuff to offer. I enjoyed it so much.
I'll agree that the story is unbelievably "meh", but holy shit the ending is the perfect ending to a Mad Max story
Its sad really. I dont know, if its just me ... but i loved the game until i finished the main story. The ending left me so bitter and disappointed that i couldn't enjoy it any further.
Exactly. I think that's the point. If you look at it from a mad Max perspective, it's great
@@PzKIII the thing is it couldn't have ended any other way. Watch the movies and you'll get his character.
@@PeterGriffin-kb2hf That's it. I know why it had to happen. My problem is with the execution of the last act of the campain. Its just my opinion, but i think, there might be better ways to end it all. Not with this "the end is near, we have to destroy everything you build the entire game".
the story gets better as it goes on
Such an underrated game, I believe it has the best fire and explosion graphics of ANY game
Exactly man🙌🏽I'm on a mission to make dope vids from it🔥🔥
Best vehicular combat ever.
I love this game one of my favorites keep it up
@King of Clones oh hell yea man
12:07 huh, i actually found pulling the scarecrows with the harpoon and crashing my car to their faces was really fun.
That shot at 5:27 is so great.
Great video dude! I've been in love with the movies for years, watched the shit out of Fury Road, and followed this game close up to release. Still love it to bits.
The original film only had a budget of $350,000 which is practically nothing!
360 quick poon
@@wornstrat5517 ya the first one was a grindhouse movie
the optimisation for this game is incredible, i can run this completely maxed out at 1440p with an rx 570
@@ElectrusBoom Ikr.
Yeah, I bought it recently and was suriprised that it run at 144hz with a 1660ti, ultra settings, without a single frame drop. I looked up and found out that Mad Max was done by Avalanche Stockholm, the team behind Just Cause 1 and 2, while Just Cause 3 was handed by a new team at Avalanche New York. That explains everything, the good performance of Mad Max, and the bad performance of JC3.
Imo it because it's mostly empty and only few things that happened on screen. Unless If it stronghold. Idk in my gameplay, stronghold make game run suck. I can say it probably because my gpu also suck (r5 240) but im surprised that outside of stronghold it run so good (using 1440x810 because my screen is 900p)
Avalanche is very good at this as I have noticed that instead of looking like a slide show of images it bassicaly puts the game in a slow motion instead.
the only anoying thing about this is cutscenes
The hand to hand combat felt absolutely fueled by Max's pure rage
Absolutely loved this game. I made sure to do most of the side stuff before I did the main quest. I had a blast with this sleeper hit. Getting it for free or 5 bucks is a steal.
I literally only ran out of gas in this game one time that was forced on you
Yeah the "Limited" resources weren't very limited. It was the one thing I felt the game didn't do right.
A harder difficutly wouldve been amazing for this game
@@HavokHvK Why would you want to push your car through the desert
@@mixwb hey if i had the option why not it would make me feel stranded in the wastland be more scared if a storm was coming and try and find and steal a vehicle to use it opens up more ways to experiance and enjoy the game mulitple times through
I mean it's not challenging enough you know. the game itself is set in a post apocalyptic wasteland. if you are living in that kind of place, then you obviously need to save your supplies and try to survive. but this game literally throws everything in your hand. which makes it very unrealistic and unchallenging
Man haven't seen people talking about this gem in a long time.
Glad its getting the attention it well deserved.
Hopefully Avalanche studios makes Mad max 2,I wanna really wanna break some more bones and do even more mma moves on those raiders.
You’d be stupid to play this game stealthy... it’s screaming “bloody murder”, not “this is library”.
Just saying 🤷🏻♂️
Game: This level has stealth as an option.
Me: *Nukes the front door*
Well, cars can't tiptoe while chasing a war party. Pass me that thunderpoon.
It always felt weird to get some intel regarding a "secret entrance" to a camp, then realizing that it doesn't matter if you take it, or just ram through the front gate, engine roaring and guns blazing. It's like, "thanks, but I'll just do this the same way I've done the last 40 camps."
@@azraelle6232 I always found the "secret entrance" to be useless cause, either way, you're going to get attacked by everything there.
The Angel Combustion didn't grant me a roaring V8 and a quad barrel shotgun to tiptoe around snapping necks
Would love to hear you talk about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. :)
Damn, haven't seen a video from you in a while. Time to fix that I guess.
12:27 imagine being the poor fecker in that sniper tower and seeing this car loaded with spikes flying right at you
You’ve reminded me how fire this game was. Reinstalling now 🙌
I was so confused when I saw the overwhelmingly middling to negative reviews. I thought it was really good.
i put 120hrs into this game! loved it! top 5 games of all time for me! 100% it and got every achievement and every single freaking challenge aswell!
3ATERMINATOR same, I’ve replayed this game so much and I’m on my 5th or 6th playthrough now. There really aren’t any games that scratch my mad max itch.
I tried to get 100% but at 96% a trophy glitched and I wanted to kill myself
When they did the Rockstar energy drink challenge I actually won that in Canada! Came home too Mad Max on Blu Ray and over 400 cans of Rockstar. I'll never forget it.
3ATERMINATOR I really wanna know how the fuck you managed to do the "complete all non-repeating challenges" one!
You commented this a while ago but there’s a glitch with me with one of the trophy’s it’s that one we’re you have to win a race at every death race location for some reason I do them all over and over and I never got the trophy. Anybody know how to fix this because imma come back
One of the things I loved the most about this game is the amazing level of immersion and ambience design, especially for the collectables, and vistas...
You will find things like a bloody toilet seat (which is a hole in the ground) in a shed at the side of a abyss with a view to the wasteland, two dead skeletons with a collectable that is a picture of their last happy memories and a last message to their loved ones...
You can actually get lost thinking about the stories behind all these scenarios and situations
I enjoyed this game, think i 100% it as well which is very rare for me
One of the best games I have played.
Oh look, a Razgriz
I actually loved this game at release. Being a lifelong fan of the films, I went into it expecting a Mad Max game and thats exactly what I got. People give it far more hate than it deserves.
Edit: I absolutely can't wait for RAGE 2!
This video makes me want to reinstall the game again....
edit: Heck! It's queued up on Steam now! See you in the waste land!
Same here. After some research I learned that you get to keep Max's sawed off and leathers on the second playthrough, so I'm now 15 hours in lol
same
Nice. Starting it up in 5...😀👍
I unironically enjoyed this game more than RDR2, and Avalanche had a fraction of the budget Rockststar did. Underrated game without a doubt.
great game, but I wish there was more weapon types in the game.
RDR2 was the worst game I played recently. It started off strong but gradually it became a chore. It’s overlong and has extremely unintuitive controls and systems. I actively dislike it and Mad Max is FAR superior in terms of gameplay and progression.
RDR2 is leaps and bounds better than Mad Max if you actually enjoy great story telling over explosions.
Mad Max was fucking great, but shut the fuck trying to be a hipster, shitting on RDR2. The game's a masterpiece if you have the patience. Or just go and play COD all day
@zouni
The game might have been (and probably is) the most complex game ever created, but its story isn't. It's just a bit slower paced and they had the damn balls and confidence to do so. Just like Blade Runner 2049. Also a masterpiece, but a bit slower paced. That doesn't mean it's boring though.
RDR2 has become such an easy scapegoat for these morons.
Why do you people have such a hard time with someone having a different opinion then you?
Starting at 9:43 is a wonderful action set: jumps out of the car, clumsily slides under the fence right into enemy territory, is carefully approached by a group of goons while one of them jumps straight at Max from behind the others, and Max slams him into the dirt. Awesome
I'd love to see "The Saboteur". Such an underrated game..
I’m so glad that people still talk about this game. I fell in love with mad max when I was a kid, but I was to young and inexperienced as a gamer to finish it. I only beat it for the first time a couple weeks ago and I am so happy that people still care about it. This game is so fucking awesome and I really hope it gets a sequel
This a great series for viewing the 6-7/10 games that had passion or genuinely good qualities poured into them.
My candidate would be the PS2 library, as it was filled with such games haha.
Racing games could be a great fit here too.
Edit : *Rebellion games* library (Sniper Elite series, AvP 2010) and Homefront Revolution (game has some surprisingly great amount of "little things" like full body presence, raindrops wetting the surface when rain starts; DLCs better than main game)
PS2 library is choke-full of top tier games. I'd say a good 20-30% of games on PS2 are easily 9-10/10. Trust me, I still play PS2, it's forever hooked up to my tv.
AvP 2010 would be a very interesting study on how to not make a melee combat system and how heavily limited and dumbed down it was compared to AvP².
The ending to the game is the perfect love letter to the franchise.
FUCKING PROTOTYPE! YES! The first Prototype game is one of a kind experience IMO, I remember putting some dark music and just going through completely infected city and soaking up the atmosphere, that was something else.
I remember just kidnapping soldiers to harvest their skin, because it made me look cool
I had so much fun in that game. Would definitely be nice to see in this series.
It's a cheap ass Activision generic superhero game that they pooped out one after another.
@@yipperdeyip *Uses Superhero game to describe Prototype*
And just like that you invalidated your opinion.
Tbh the only game you could even kinda compare it to with gameplay is like infamous, and even than infamous isn't prototype.
Thank you man! I loved this game alot and was very frustrated with the reviews it got. I spent alot of time in this open world and had a blast with out online or any of that crap. Avalanche did a great job and I wish they would work on another Mad Max game instead of Just Cause, Mad Max was a much much better game. Every gamer should take down a convoy and enjoy it in all its glory.
I love it when people say good things about Mad Max (the game). I loved it. The amount of hate it received from mainstream “gaming” media is just laughable.
I purchased PS4 last year and had Max in my wishlist. You can imagine my inner kid bursting into screaming and random dance moves when I saw it in PlayStation Plus. I played it, platinum’d it, and played again. And then again after several months.
I loved the films, I love the game. I don’t care. Don’t fight me cause there’s nothing to fight over, it all boils down to personal taste. If you like the franchise and love games - give it a conscious try, I dare you. If you’re not into post-apocalyptic setting and Arkham/Vigilante 8 gameplay, well...
Don’t hate on something just because it’s not Witcher 3. Thank you and Dog bless Dinki-Di, amen 🙏
I loved this game. Probably my fave open world map ever, loved the variety of scavage locations. When I found the subway tunnel in the middle of the desert i was so immersed.
As much as I'm a huge fan of Mad Max, I felt I enjoyed the game mainly because of that: it's Mad Max. The open world activities felt like such a slog after the first 10 hours, and hunting down mines may be one of my least favorite diversions in a video game due to how tedious it ended up being. But in the end, I did enjoy the gameplay. And like you said, the game has some stupidly pretty sky boxes to stare at.
Definitely looking forward to more Design Secrets videos! As for other games to cover eventually, have you thought about checking out the Ace Combat series? Dunno how well the games would work design secrets wise, but almost every game has something that makes it stand out from another in the series, like the post-stall maneuvers in 7, or unique enemies depending how you play in 0.
Baron I’ve found a fun way to deal with mines. I like to just ram them and jump out of my buggy before my car explodes.
Avalanche really needs to work on in game activities as they’re usually their weakest points in their games but you always end up having to do them as they have high rewards attached to them
I thought Avelanche did a truly masterful job of depicting a huge weather blasted post-apocalyptic wasteland under menacingly huge and fierce desert skies, with a real sense of beauty and desolation yet with surprising subtle vibe differences in the various regions - And blasting through it in your majestic, rusty, dented, spiky fendered, scuffed up but glorious Max mobile and with a roaring beast of an engine as you tool about the landscape.....In simple terms of the *feel* of being there - I think they created one of the most effective post apocalyptic wastelands in all of gaming! Loved it!
This game is amazing. Definitely one of the best licensed games ever made. It’s that good
Saw this pop up after my buddy and I were talking about this game, and you have both convinced me to give it another go. Great video with solid and well articulated points
Absolutely loved that game. Great take on it. Cheers.
One thing this game made me do that I will always love it for was making me look at a location and think “ what was this place like before everything went to shit, and as you pieced together what the whole map did before it got destroyed
Especially when you realize "wow, most of this map was ocean floor at one point"
I actually enjoyed this game more than most.
This was my first next gen game that I played on Xbox one. I’m glad and it may be one of my fav games ever
You've done an amazing job again my man. Great work.
I don't know how to explain it, but I want more of this game. Not necessarily a sequel, but something better, something more. I had lots of fun playing this and I want to relive that experience again.
I like the story! Chumbucket is absolutely hilarious and overall it is way less cheesy than 90% of games which seem to be aimed at 13 year olds. Like the movie, the situation and the need to survive is the story. The dialogue is awesome. What else do you really want?
I am replaying this now. Such an underrated game. Brilliant. The handling of the cars, the visuals... It is a super fun game and still looks amazing. There are even visual effects that mimic some of the action scenes from the films, like the shaking of the camera when boosting and the sped up looking camera work that George Miller used. Definitely a great experience. I hope they can make another one someday. A total hidden gem.
Gotta love that Marilyn Manson SAY10 on the background.
This is one of those games that I was extremely excited to play after seeing convention demos. I picked it up at a midnight release, played 1 hour and it already had hooks deep into me. Hell I even tried for many hours to get a top-tier Time on the Rockstar competition. IIRC I had 8th place for an evening, but then a handful of dedicated gamers, most likely with cybernetic help, started placing a solid 10 seconds faster than anything I could muster.
I don't recall why it got average reviews, but I would assume it was because of repetition, which in my eyes was an irritant, but not a flaw.
I love Racing Games, Shooters, Post Apocalyptic RPGs, and Open World Adventure. It had bugs, many bugs, but not the kind that ruin gameplay or drive you crazy, they were the kind of bugs where I would almost peed myself laughing and trying to recreate for a capture.
Don't even get me going on the breathtaking lightning storms, or how hard I laughed at the Leslie Nielsen Airplane quote. ..."and don't call me Shirley!"
So many fond memories, and kudos to Avalanche & WB!!!
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If the game had a new game plus mode it would have been nice, spent all that time trying to get the best V8 and when you do, games over
I'm so happy you made a video about Mad Max. It was so addicting when everything was firing off. There's always something to do, and it all feels great.
Criminally Underrated.
This is one of my top 5 "therapy" games: after a long day it's sometimes nice to just come home, put on some music and drive aimlessly around a massive and lovingly-detailed sandbox.
I have like nine days of total game time for this game. I'm road warrior level 93. It's a very fun game.
Avalanche seem to be one of the last breed of devs who really understood game design effort for something that no one expects much out of. MAD MAX is one of my favorite games. And I don't think anyone, including myself, was expecting that out of it when it came out.
I'm REEEing at the pronunciation of muthaloot, I thought it was like "the motherlode" but of loot, and mispronounced making it Mutha-Loot. I may be wrong, I never heard it pronounced in game, but w/e, to each his own.
Good vid, I bought the game on a black friday, in one hand was this and the other was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5. I liked this game more.
Somehow this was in my "watch later" for over a year. so glad to rediscover it and become a new subscriber to your channel. great video, editing, narration and writing, everything. sorry i've been missing out!
Mad Max isn' the perfect game, but it's a solid 7,5/10 and if you like the movies, you'll most likely enjoy the game too. I could only shake my head when I read some of the reviews and they were complaining how your car actually uses gas, you have to find water and you don't have a ton of ammo to blast through every enemy. That's the whole idea behind Mad Max that you don't have everything and have to scavenge to survive in that shithole of a world. It has its problems, but all in all it's a good game.
Watching this 4 years later and I’m only just noticing you used Marilyn Manson’s amazing rendition of Sweet Dreams at 7:39 - one of the first songs I learned how to play on guitar! Hopefully it didn’t cause any content ID issues
One of my top 5.
Was invested in the story and thought the upgrades were fantastic...What set it really apart though was how much damn fun the car combat in the game was/is to me.
I loved Twisted Metal as a franchise and sadly there aren't any games like that anymore...but this game for sure got me ripping doors off and flattening tires with a big a*s smile on my face!
Wanna avoid car maniacs while driving the wasteland???
You can...Just blast that gas pedal along with your Nitro and go do what you need to while at the same time...You wanna pick a fight??...You don't ever need to go far to fight the car maniac War Boys who are more then capable of testing your skills (certainly in large groups) and getting your adrenaline bumping.
I have gone back to the game 4 or 5 times since I first picked it up cause there is something special about it.
I will never forgive myself for writing it off the first year of release cause I thought it was just another AC game with different dressing. So much is different.
How you didn't mention CHUMBUCKET is crazy though...One of they best NPC sidekicks in all of gaming!
I hate The Ubisoft core gameplay in like AC and FC...I can forgive Mad Max for it though cause I actually liked the story, loved the car combat, and the wasteland in general as your kicking up dust and see that GIGANTIC DUSTSORM BEARING DOWN ON YOU AS YOU KICK OFF YOUR NITRO AND TRY TO OUTRUN IT....Dammit...REDOWNLOADING NOW...See what you did!!!!
This is honestly one of my favorite games of a time.
Something about it is just a perfect storm that’s full of tens of hours of fun, maybe even a hundred hours or more if you’re a completionist.
It’s a bit dated, but something about the visuals still remain gorgeous even this long after release.
prolly the best thing avalanche has ever made
The combat was amazing in this! Reminded me of the animation quality in AC3 combat and how satisfying it was
Damn, what a brilliant reviewer.
Just because some games don't got intense story doesn't mean everything is bad about them. This game got best sand box to fuck around doing bunch of stuff besides doing main campaign 💯🔥 I'm having blast playing this In 2020
You've convinced me into liking this game. Great job.
Let’s hope into buying it as well
I got this game because it was on sale and i haven't got more bang for my buck since, i really enjoy the characters and the lack luster story kinda immerses me in the game as a wanderer trying to find something to do, i love turning my brain off and clearing chunks of the map but i do wish there was more to do
actually I think a good candidate for this series is one you brought up in the vid; the original Rage.
It gets as much wrong as it does right imo, and it's a pretty fascinating game as a whole
For those wondering, the music in the credits is SAY10 from marilyn manson
HOLY shit this is a quality video! Keep 'em coming man!
I absolutely love this game, thanks for giving it some love! It has maybe the best post-apocalyptic world in any game. I was absolutely floored when I found an optional mission that was a church burried beneath the sand and you had to get in through the Bell tower that was sticking out. All the locations are so interesting. It's great.
A big recommendation I think you should do is the game you said yourself at the end, the original RAGE
Absolutely loved this game, hope there's a future for it, the fighting system and just the overall gameplay asked of the game is so much fun
I wish Fallout had more aspects of Mad Max to it.
Vehicles and vehicle combat are sorely missed in the Fallout franchise.
While there are stated reasons for why functional vehicles are all but nonexistence in the Fallout world, I agree that they are a missed opportunity.
@@Xaxp: Nah, that is a retcon that's not really valid.
In Fallout 2 you had a functional car.
And since so many vehicles were nuclear powered, just like power armour and many if the weapons, there's really no valid excuse as to why all cars should be permanently disabled.
Oh, and then there's the fact that functional vertibirds are practically everywhere.
I really like this format, it's great for players to nail down what they liked about a game and made it work for them and make better thought purchases and designers to pinpoint the strongsuits and weaknesses of past games. Keep up the good work!
I remember finding entire areas hidden underground that reminded me of The Last of Us. But that stank gum race, yikes.
It reminded me of that scene in terminator 2,in Mexican desert, when side character pulled a chain and revealed a hidden weapon stash
Honestly if this game got rid of most of the scarecrows, put long paved highways, put in convoy routes with big semis like what was hinted at in one of the missions for hope. I think it would have been even better. Imagine telling chum to grab the wheel as you jumped onto a semi, and started fighting people on top of the semi while cars are dropping people off. You take it back to one of the settlements (which need to be double the size and with a little more pizazz, think thunderdome) It would have been just like the movies. The ending, Oh lord don't get me started. Just scrap hope and glory dying and have them be captured and you use that mechanic of "semi-hopping" to rescue them. Instead of you sacrificing chum how about he sacrifices himself? Max grabs hope and glory and jumps off after blowing most the semi to shreds, it lingers on the cliff. Max calls for the car. Chum revs the magnum opus screams something, and then rams the semi full speed and it tumbles down. Then the interceptor jumps out. The same end fight insues and you get the interceptor. You drop hope and glory off at pink eyes where the sailing mission pays off because they go off in the distance as max continues on. And it would end just as all of the films have ended. That's what would have made this game best of the year.
Edit: since you'd be expanding the world quite a bit. You'd have to add more car bodies and more content maybe more guns idk. Maybe they could allow you to team up with an npc to help take on the semi's. They could help deter cars from dropping people off. Oh and when you finally steal the semi other war camps come which give you some variety to characters. Obviously it would need to be a much bigger map, but I think I would appreciate less density for more awesome content. For empty space for more area for the semi to roll is a trade off I would very much like. After all, it is a desert it should feel kind of empty.
Wait is that Marilyn Manson’s Sweet Dreams cover I hear in the background ?
In the opening it`s "Say10", in the Fighting-Explanation it`s "Get Your Gunn" and after that it`s "Sweet DReams", sounds like a Drum n Bass Cover Version
loving that the whole videos background music was manson songs
Oooh, Prototype coming up should be really interesting. I enjoyed that game immensely and kept noticing cool details on consecutive playthroughs. Even thought the story became kinda interesting once I viewed it through the lens of the protagonist actually being [spoiler]. Considering the horrible world he was thrust in and the kinds of people whose memories he used to learn about the world, I was all the more impressed he deemed it worth saving. [Spoiler] even made sense of him not being much surprised at his powers from the start and not having much qualms about getting violent, since he doesn't start out with our sense of normalcy and the world teaches him a very different kind of "normal" too.
I'd also say the game really spoiled me when it comes to movement in open worlds. Moving around in Prototype is really fun when upgraded, which means I didn't mind it if there was a couple minutes of travel time between objectives.
Anyway, really excited about Prototype, I think it's the perfect candidate for a series like this where you extract good points from a flawed game!
I finished this game last summer, took well over a year on/off playing it, but damn wahta ride, literally! It felt and sounded so amazing wearing headphones and hear every sound design of the vehicles when starting them up and driving around, creepy atmospheric, and action packing car chases/battles. OH, and the insane lightning storms, those were so freaking fun to do, the panic, the rush trying to farm for extra scrap/money was well worth the damage received!
Customizing how your car drives was the best part of the garage because I already suck at taking sharp corners so to have the option to tighten that steering was a blessing!
The gameplay got repetitive VERY quickly but if you looked past that and have the patience, there was so much packed into this game to explore, especially going underground, or into enemy territory and seeing the brutal/scary survival/torment all around Max, I explored EVERY corner of this game and rarely got bored. I loved raiding the camps after picking their snipers and rally criers, just all around chaos and awesome finishers. Going into Fury More made me feel like a god of war :D
I actually really enjoyed the story and the characters and the relationships Max "develops" even though he could give two shits about them, but I still really loved helping the survivors and seeing their own stories unfold, even Chumbucket made me chuckle with his weird creepy monologues with his "Sweet Angel Combustion", and the upgrades were pretty fun to unlock once you progress through the game.
Going into the Northen Tunnel, the Church, the Airport, the haunted house, caverns, and elsewhere under the Dunes were some of the most terrifying moments for me as a a gamer, but some of the best well-designed levels I have traversed. I absolutely LOVED the explosions in this game, so much fun blowing shit up XD
I know Mad Max is supposed to be brutal, gritty, dark, and dreary, but I was hoping to an alternate ending to unlock where Grace/Hope were saved and he lives happily ever after T__T
Thanks for making this review, I hope more players pick up this hidden treasure and give it a try!
Massively underrated game. The main "character" is not Max, it's the Magnum Opus. The perfect name for sickest car in video game history. The entire story, world design, and game mechanics are built around the Magnum Opus. She is totally worth it.
Ending broke my heart.
Don't mind me, just watching your old videos out of boredom. I'd say the feeling you get from sandstorms is also in the STALKER series. Emissions/blowouts are terrifying as fuck and those are some of the best open world games atmosphere wise.
The problem of Mad Max the game is it gets too repetitive later on.
Talk about just cause,
Yea that made me quit
The people that think this game is repetitive and didnt really play it..straight up are missing out on one of the most amazing games ever made..play this game properly and its literally gamer heaven..probably my #1 game ever..and ive been gaming for more than 30 years
Early on for me
Mavis and Mipsy Avalanche is infamous for mass repetition in their games and this game is no different
I've been playing through this recently and really enjoying it. Thanks for highlighting some mechanics, such as loot during a storm that I didn't know about :)
For me the primary thing holding this game back is it's lack of replay-ability. Side activities don't re-spawn and once you've cleared everything and finally fully upgraded your car, there's nothing left to do. A new game+ would have gone a long way.
Thank you whitelight for encouraging me to play this again, been watching your videos for a long time, it's good to see you are blowing up
Wish Mad Max got a biker DLC. Also respawn convoy routes for replay ability.
Wouldn't you be way more vulnerable with a bike you could get hit by the car and die from the fall or something lol
Yeah. The re spawning is key in this game.
I loved the aesthetic to fury road. And the color pallet was great
Imagine how sick it would’ve if there was a multiplayer and you have to build your factions