- The fire and explosion effects are some of the best I've ever seen in a video game - The ground combat is some of the most viscerally satisfying I've ever played - The world is stunning and haunting - There are some surprisingly poignant moments in the historical relics and the story line - The characters and voice acting are great (esp Chumbucket) and they kept the Australian vibe which I appreciated
I interpreted the Plains of Silence as a metaphor for what remains after you’ve 101% the game. As you’ve destroyed all the threats and enemies (other than the ones that spawn so you can take a car if you need one). So you’re basically left to drive around an empty wasteland.
@@P0SSPWRDexcept it’s very clearly stated to be somewhere he is trying to go, not where he is or what it could be, he just wants to die, other dude is right kinda, it’s more of a metaphor for death as a whole
They mention Plains of Silence in Fury Road, but Furiosa clearly shows that the oceans are still there. Guess it's just the wast Australian desert between the Citadel and the east coast that's almost 3000km, but it's still doable with enough gas, water and food I suppose.
I was literally going to do this exact comment, I'm currently working towards 100% and I gotta say that's probably the only "bad" thing is all the stuff you gotta do to obtain the plat trophy
This game really is the best 7/10 game nobody played. These days the game is $20 and I see it go on sale for $5 all the time across all the marketplaces. If you like the Mad Max world and want more, or just like post apocalypse stuff, this is the perfect bargain bin game for you. Everything in the Mad Max game is just so visceral and satisfying.
@@fireballs7346 But the thing with Mad Max is the road, the side challenges actually give you more of the road. With any other game I'd agree (except AC Black Flag, I wish that journey never stopped).
@@AlfredFJones1776There kind of is one. Load a save with story completed, then start a new game in a new slot until you complete the story mission when you steal your first car body. You will then have Max’s Road Leathers and his Iconic Shotgun unlocked. No Interceptor though unfortunately
The iconic shotgun is almost a downgrade because you go from four barrels to two, but it does reload super fast. And I'm pretty sure you get the interceptor after killing scrotus don't you? I think it's in the garage when you load the game back up
it would have been pretty darn neat to see a random WarBoy earn their own car, convoy, and eventually become a WarLord with his own little troop of WarBoys.
It's tricky to put the Mad Max game into a genre, but the recent release Sandland reminded me a lot of it, it had both character and vehicle combat where you explore a mostly desert wasteland. But outside of those two games I can't think of many other game series that did such a similar kind of gameplay.
@@Mattax355 I Played the game 3x now and will start a 4th run this Weekend. You do not even lose vmax of the Car with the V6. I would liek to use the V8s but as you said, the V6 sound so much raspier. But thats not the main reason, why i stick t othe V6 in the Game. It is that damn Startup animation. When having the V8 we still have that one extra rev and Smoke that shows that. It is still animated with the V8, but there is no sound. THAT is actually my only complaint about this game. Other than that, it is kind of a perfect driving open world game to me. Bugs and repetitiveness aren't changing this.
I stumbled upon the objectively (IMO) correct way to play this game around my fifth playthrough. I decided to see how quickly I could just bull through the game to get the V8 as fast as possible. I did the bare minimum to progress the story and get me to gas town, ignoring every unnecessary mission/encounter/side task. By the time I got to Gastown, I hadn’t made a dent in Scrotus' control and barely unlocked any car upgrades. So when Hope and Glory were murdered, I was woefuly unprepared for the final battle. I needed to do those side taskes to unlock the upgrades I needed. As I set out to do so, I discovered that when you're out in the waste with the final mission not started, every now and then you will hear Hope and Glory speak in your head. Their ghostly, echoing prases remind you of their deaths, their suffering, and your failure. Suddenly, the rest of the game went from busy work to a rage fueld plan to systematically dismantle Scrotus' kingdom. Every mission, every camp raided, every combat encounter punctuated by the haunting voices of Hope and Glory egging me on, telling me to "Hurt them", to "Remeber what they did", to "Make them pay! Make them bleed!" Every time I'd upgrade my tools, car and weapons their voices would remind me "You promised!" "You said you'd save us!" By the time I had removed the threat levels and was fully equiped and ready to take on Scrotus, I'd spent hours angrily smashing and killing my way through the wasteland with those lines echoing in my head that I thought I was just as crazy as Max, and I went at that last mission like a rabid dog. I love this game.
I'll try this approach next time. My first gameplay was the opposite, I didn't enter gas town until I had finished and cleared everything in the other regions, which made the final levels easy to finish.
I'm glad I read your comment. I've played the game dozens of times and never tried this approach. But I tried doing only the bare minimum quests, and for whatever reason this has given me Chumbucket dialogue lines which I have never heard him say before. It's really weird. Probably because I only got the Speed Demon car parts when the quest needed me to and not by me just roaming around.
I love the ending of this game. Really captures the spirit of the movies. Nothing gained or lost. Max just stuck in that never ending loop of suffering, losing everyone, even when he tries not to be to close with them. But at the end of the day, he returned his car, that's all that matters, he forgets everything that just happened (even forgets Glory's gift), it's only him, the car and the road, the mad road warrior returned at last
A Mad Max Kojima Joint would be absolutely nuts. I recommend you look up the Whu Happun? Behind the Scenes Episode of this game, because it's development sounded like an absolute nightmare with development restarting and pivoting multiple times, all the more incredible it turned out as good as it did.
FUN FACT 1: Hope & Glory are the woman & girl seen in Max's flashbacks in Fury Road. FUN FACT 2: Hope and Glory are Dementus' wife and daughter that he referred to in Furiosa. FUN FACT 3: Max is the reason they are dead. He tried to rescue them from Dementus.
Interesting interpretation. The comic suggests otherwise. We did our own version with a 40 minute long Mad Max short film. Miller will probably do something completely different with his take on Hope and Glory in Mad Max The Wasteland.
@@brightstonepictures I wasn't talking about the game as if it were canon. I was just talking about the characters it poached.... based on what I have could piece together from the comics and movies. Though I do think I need to go back and reread the comics, as i read it once... like 8 years ago.
@@TaitLawrence-xl2xb Yes, because Max had a wife and son (not daughter)... both of whom were killed by Toecutter in the first movie, BEFORE the the world was turned into a wasteland. And The flashback was AFTER.
The only beef I have with this game is that when I tried to get all achievements, the one that requires you to loot all 191 scrap camps on the map got bugged and I was stuck with 190/191. Really pissed me off
Now that Furiosa is out... the Game screams for a sequel! We need the Citadel, the Bullet Farm, as well as the other notable locations / Strongholds which remained intact.
I never really thought the movies should be followed chronologically, but rather as if you are hearing different legends about the road warrior from different people. The first one about how he became an unstoppable wanderer through a tragic revenge story, the second about the good natured wasteland we saved the lives of a tribe from a ruthless warlord. And so on
it pisses me off to no end that WB Games just published the game, and then left it to dry up and die. it not only WAS amazing when it first released, but STILL IS Amazing! sadly tho, nobody has managed to mod the game on PC, so no new chasies like the one i really wanted, which was the classic 1969 Dodge Charger RT, which is my favorite American Muscle Car of all time.
I personally loved it but then again I love almost anything post apocalypse. Mad max also appeals to my philosophical side specifically the nihilist side.
The biggest irony here is that George Miller himself has stated that he isn't a fan of the game yet apparently had no problem making references to it in Furiosa. So that means one of two things: 1) He eventually came around to it. 2) He acknowledged that fans of his movies liked the game so he decided to throw them a bone in true classy fashion.
a fun detail i liked about this game is that if you repeatedly get into the wrong side of the magnum opus Chum will just tell you that himself. it's a habit many Americans will have since the wheel in game is on the right side of the cars. it's a cute detail i really like.
Remember downloading this game when it was on game pass. Knew nothing about the game itself. Enjoyed the movies as a kid though. Ended up fucking loving the game.
Like that house you found, there’s a small little camp in the hills that has a heart painted on the wall. There’s some interesting little places but nothing enough to really draw you out since there’s no real loot to be found.
Regarding the "max Payne" house, it's a known location and I've found it myself, but I never out it together as someone who has not played any max Payne games
Just about finished my 4th playthrough. Absolutely love this game. It would be awsome if they did a new game with an online featured free roaming where you can create your own character and car. Players build thier own factions and go against each other to claim/ retake over territory's. Thers so much potential that could be done with it.
Something about a game being focused on one vehicle that’s able to be upgraded and personalized is so satisfying. Days gone has a similar type of feeling with a motorcycle
I had one of my funniest gaming experience in this game : I went to give water to a group of wandering beggars when a Warboy car spotted me. I couldn't stop the cinematic but I saw the car behind the poor girl going full speed. A little bit before reaching us the car hit small sand dune, sending it flying into the air and it resulted in the car basically Kamikazeing hitself into a group a beggars just to kill me. And the best part : everyone died except me, I didn't even take a little bit of damage. It's been years but I still remember that moment clearly.
I restarted 6 days ago im in pink eyes turf with almost a fully upgraded magnum opus but fully maxed max lol on griffa and the regular skills plus a road warrior lvl 23 just fyi just got in pink eyes turf still fun till this day no care for the new movie do this because the 3 original movies got me into this btw Griffia is homeboy from the first movie its was actually proven after years of investigating it from others but he was in max mind not really there its his conscious he was talking 2 himself to make him stronger and trying to make him sane
i think you might actually be the first person to discover that max payne house. Ive never seen anyone find it before and ive been watching videos and playing the game for years now.
No game is perfect. There are a few criticisms of this game: -Chumbucket is at least as old as Max, so he should know what the world was like before, but he has no clue - doesn't know what airplanes were, doesn't know about oceans, etc. (Hope, who is apparently younger than Chumbucket, remembers the world before) -The actual story is pretty short, and you're only required to clear out camps in order to downgrade a territory's danger level to unlock upgrades in the garage. -Having to build the Archangel "the Jack" in order to be able to enter Gutgash's sanctuary is a silly requirement, because the car you'd have built by the time you get the parts to make "the Jack" is superior to the Jack itself. And then no Archangel is required anywhere else in the game, except for Death Runs. -Max can jump, but the mechanics to do it are clumsy, and the 2 or 3 places where a jump is actually necessary are more tricky than they need to be because of the sloppy jumping. -Sometimes there is a glitch where the Intel people don't spawn near the camps to tell you about the secret entrances, and if you clear the camp before they show up, you'll get a blurb on the camp info page that says, "No intel gathered." -Chumbucket's repair speed (finding his special wrench) doesn't become available until closer to the end of the story, so the 3 phases of repair speed abilities weren't planned out well, because level 2 and 3 are unlocked at the same time when you do the mission to find that one wrench. -When you clear out a camp, the horrible yelling in the background of the camp does not change or stop. -In a world where fuel is scarce, it makes no sense for Max to have to destroy all the oil facilities for allies to take them over....then be left with no oil, because he destroyed the pumps and tanks. -The prompt to press "B" to drop off a ladder sometimes automatically makes Max waste a shotgun shell when he lands, because that button also fires the shotgun. -The in game GPS takes you the wrong way to get to some destinations; leads you to a road at the bottom of a cliff when the target area is at the top of the ciff -The Scrap Crew Parts for each sanctuary is useless now. Having the Scrap Crew built for each sanctuary used to allow allies to collect scrap for Max whilie the game is turned off, but it "requires internet connection," and because the online aspect of Mad Max has been turned off, no scrap is collected for Max when the game is off anymore. But you still need to build that component to complete each sanctuary. That said, this is still a great friggin' game.
I revisited this game after getting hyped for Furiosa, and it is honestly better than I remember. Its pretty much what I want in a game these days: just straight up fun gameplay that you can get lost in for a couple hours here and there. I think the game hits for the same reason Spiderman works for alot of people: they love to just swing around New York and beat up random criminals. I really get that, but its not my jam. Me, Im totally content to just drive around a toxic wasteland in a badass car, kicking ass and collecting random bullshit to upgrade my bullshit. Thats it. Thats all I need. If I want an award winning story, Ill watch a movie, or maybe a show. The story in this game is everything it needs to be: a reason to keep your foot on the gas pedal.
Its very interesting hearing about the hope and glory storyline after experiencing it through the comic book first. I think it was done slightly better in the comics but I'd still like to play it out myself, I think I'll pick this game up
Finished playing it for the first time about 2 weeks ago. Really fun game. definitely had some small bugs but they were pretty easy to get pass. The combat system was my favorite part personally. The world was surprisingly in depth if you read everything.
Aside from being extremely repetitive, it was a fantastic 7/10 game. The encounters, especially by the 3rd act, become pretty much copy & pasted, and it was almost like they didn't have time or forgot to add something unique to each boss fight. And there was a whole section of the map that had absolutely nothing going on. I enjoyed the game, it was beautiful and intense, but it could have been so much more. I am happy that Miller has owned the canon and integrated some details into Furiosa. Being reminded of the ending after all these years stirs up a lot of emotions... Not many games can do that.
I honestly didn't know there was a game. Which is funny because I rewatched mad max before going to see furiosa. And the whole time I was thinking like man, this would be such a killer PvP game mode. Team 1 - tries to deliver the war rig to a location. Team 2 - war boys, try to stop it.
I played this years ago after it had been released. It was old then but had good reviews. I never considered playing it because I just thought it was another crappy movie tie in game. I was so wrong. I played and 100 percented the game with my nephew when he was a young teen. Hes in the Marines now and when we get together we still bring up this game. It was such an amazing, post apocalyptic, racing and fighting game. I just bought the game for 5 bucks and I am playing again. Its still so much fun and the graphics dont lack at all. I'd give up all my guzzoline and water for another Mad Max game!
I remember enjoying rage 1 and 2 more than this game because it didn't just focus on driving for the most part but the sparse melee combat in mad max is cool.
I still regard Mad Max (2015) as one of my favorite games ever. The gameplay is basically perfect. The car combat is brutal. The upgrades and unlocks keep it fresh, even tho it is pretty repetitive.
Big fan of this game. Didn't love the ending, Max ended up right where he started. It felt like a different person wrote the last two or three missions than the rest of the story.
Damn, I did the same thing with this game. Seeing that after you get to Gas Town the story really picks up makes me wanna give it another go. I had the same feeling though, and didn't want to have to grind out the repetitive stuff to get the parts I wanted. I think I'm gonna give it another run though and just use guides to get all the tedious stuff over with quickly. I hope this hype results in an update and release of that DLC.
Glad I'm not the only one! Haha but I definitely recommend finishing it out, once the game actually gets a story it gets pretty good, just takes a while for Max to give a shit about anything but his car
on my first play-through rn last time i played it i was to young to understand how to do a mission but its so fun now 80% complete and gonna run it back when im done cause i wanna get my car back asap. i found a plane in the top right dunes w mannequins on it standing how the kids did on the plane in thunder-dome the people who made this game cared about the story enough to put easter eggs like that and i love it
I got the game a couple years after release, I played it, loved it but never beat it same as you. This was mostly because I was attempting to 100% complete it. Couple years later I restarted the game because I wanted to get the full experience again and tried 100%ing it again. Got about as far as I did the first time because I burned myself out. A couple months ago I picked it up again, but this time continued where I left off and this time I beat it and 100% it. I really loved it but the story was pretty lackluster and I really didn’t like the ending. Everything else though is honestly amazing, I mean it is repetitive but beating people senseless as Max never got old, or just utterly demolishing people in car combat. Sadly you can’t get all achievements anymore because they killed the “live service” but if you download someone else’s save you can get the last achievement that you can’t get.
@@MrHammers yeah I heard of this game as a hidden classic from a channel (name I forget) doing hidden video game details It was on sale online I got it played it loved it and then watched 2,3, then 1 and then furry and i want to watch the new one
This game was really well-made even for its time. I decided to replay a long time after I first completed it. I was hesitant at first because I already knew what was going to happen and it took me some effort to get back into it. But once I got the hang of it once again it, I just couldn't stop playing. There is no real story, but who cares? It's a Mad Max game, we don't play or watch Mad Max for the plot anyway. But the game is just fun. Simply entertaining. And the graphics are terrific. This game might as well have been released today and the audiovisual aspects of it would still stand their ground. Game developers should really learn from this game as it is so well optimised that even my old PC can run it without issues on high graphics. Despite the fact that many newer games look much worse than this one and I can't run them. This game might've been a little underwhelming when it came out but the gaming industry have deteriorated so much that this game could be considered a masterpiece among the garbage they produce nowadays. Mad Max didn't bring much to the table but what it did bring it executed perfectly. This game cries for an MMO where you can just roam the wasteland, build cars, forge war parties and try to build your strongholds. Maybe even driving war rigs would have been cool, where you could actually fight on the truck and the cars like a land version of Assassin's Creed Black Flag. It's such a pity that this game went under the radar as it can still put a lot of other games to shame today.
I had a major issue with the fact I couldnt fully get rid of the motion blur even with turning it off there is still motion blur which sucks. It took me almost 3 months just to get through the beginning portion of the game due to that reason alone.
I have only one achievement left which is the challenges one. But somehow I just don't do it, it's hard coming back after finishing it but god I had fun with it.
I played this for maybe 5-6 hours when I first got my ps4 then became distracted with other games and never went back. I've got it on the steamdeck now so gonna give it another try
Two things stand out to me regarding this game: 1. The fire / explosions are AMAZING!! They have that perfect level of saturation and color. 2. The Longshot is one of the MOST satisfying weapons I've ever used in a video game. The animation and feedback / recoil is rather impressive.
to this day i am STILL confused by how such a well made game has gone under the radar for so long
it even inspired one of the biggest fan film projects of all time with Hope and Glory- A Mad Max Short film. Watch it here on RUclips
@@brightstonepictures It rocks!
Probably the same reason titanfall 2 under performed
Got overshadowed by Metal Gear Solid, which was released on the same day.
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- The fire and explosion effects are some of the best I've ever seen in a video game
- The ground combat is some of the most viscerally satisfying I've ever played
- The world is stunning and haunting
- There are some surprisingly poignant moments in the historical relics and the story line
- The characters and voice acting are great (esp Chumbucket) and they kept the Australian vibe which I appreciated
Absolutely agree with you!
Gonna pirate it rn!
Noooo, it’s worth a buy for sure.,
@@prinzvalium242Bro please buy it, this is one of those games that’s worth spending money on, especially at a discount
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I'm pretty sure the Plains of Silence is just the dried up ocean, void of any life, where Max was going to drive into until he would eventually die.
I interpreted the Plains of Silence as a metaphor for what remains after you’ve 101% the game.
As you’ve destroyed all the threats and enemies (other than the ones that spawn so you can take a car if you need one).
So you’re basically left to drive around an empty wasteland.
@@P0SSPWRDexcept it’s very clearly stated to be somewhere he is trying to go, not where he is or what it could be, he just wants to die, other dude is right kinda, it’s more of a metaphor for death as a whole
Furiosa starts with a view of earth from space, and the oceans are there, i was speechless when it happened
They mention Plains of Silence in Fury Road, but Furiosa clearly shows that the oceans are still there. Guess it's just the wast Australian desert between the Citadel and the east coast that's almost 3000km, but it's still doable with enough gas, water and food I suppose.
@@_MaZTeR_ They just forgot what the ocean is
Picked the game up for 5 bucks after a break up and i couldn’t put the game down. Such a fun game I still call gas guzzoline to this day
Couldn't relate more, I think since playing this game I've called gas gas less than I have called it guzzoline.
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I'll save you the time, yes....yes it was
No please dont😂! I love hearing him out
I've played it 6 times to completion, Im at 7 currently.... I can't stop😂
@@ulcar77 lol still a great video
@@dantedarko8696 I gotta do a second playthrough soon, runs close to 120fps on series x which is insane
I was literally going to do this exact comment, I'm currently working towards 100% and I gotta say that's probably the only "bad" thing is all the stuff you gotta do to obtain the plat trophy
I love that all the items are visible on max. That they dont appear and dissapear.
This game really is the best 7/10 game nobody played. These days the game is $20 and I see it go on sale for $5 all the time across all the marketplaces. If you like the Mad Max world and want more, or just like post apocalypse stuff, this is the perfect bargain bin game for you. Everything in the Mad Max game is just so visceral and satisfying.
Absolutely!
played the moment i realized u forced to side challenges to upgrade i refunded this filler
Sad there'll be no sequel ={.
@@fireballs7346 But the thing with Mad Max is the road, the side challenges actually give you more of the road.
With any other game I'd agree (except AC Black Flag, I wish that journey never stopped).
Won't win any goty or make a top 10 games list but it's a damn fun time this game.
It is a beautiful but not that amazing 7/10 that we all need
It’s free with game pass
V good
Its the enjoyment really
A game that needed like ONE MORE interesting thing to do in it's world to be one of the best open world games ever.
New Game Plus.
@@AlfredFJones1776There kind of is one. Load a save with story completed, then start a new game in a new slot until you complete the story mission when you steal your first car body. You will then have Max’s Road Leathers and his Iconic Shotgun unlocked. No Interceptor though unfortunately
The iconic shotgun is almost a downgrade because you go from four barrels to two, but it does reload super fast. And I'm pretty sure you get the interceptor after killing scrotus don't you? I think it's in the garage when you load the game back up
@@MrHammers Yeah you get interceptor but it's really underwhelming
@@MrHammers Yes but not in a new game.
This would of done really well with the nemesis system
it would have been pretty darn neat to see a random WarBoy earn their own car, convoy, and eventually become a WarLord with his own little troop of WarBoys.
@@Broken_Orbital Absolutely!
Genuinely one of my favourite games, such a underrated gem
It's tricky to put the Mad Max game into a genre, but the recent release Sandland reminded me a lot of it, it had both character and vehicle combat where you explore a mostly desert wasteland. But outside of those two games I can't think of many other game series that did such a similar kind of gameplay.
Easy entry into my top 5 replayable games. I love playing this so much, it is criminally underrated unfortunately so. We so need the sequel!!
I still can't get over how good the sound design is in this game.
No kidding, i was grossed out when i realized i was walking on corpses in pink eye's territory.
I didn't like how the v6 sounded better than the v8...
@@Mattax355 played through it three times, the V8 was always last on my list. Opus was brilliant without it ; ).
Ka-Fucking-BOOM! ; ).
@@Mattax355 I Played the game 3x now and will start a 4th run this Weekend. You do not even lose vmax of the Car with the V6. I would liek to use the V8s but as you said, the V6 sound so much raspier. But thats not the main reason, why i stick t othe V6 in the Game. It is that damn Startup animation. When having the V8 we still have that one extra rev and Smoke that shows that. It is still animated with the V8, but there is no sound. THAT is actually my only complaint about this game. Other than that, it is kind of a perfect driving open world game to me. Bugs and repetitiveness aren't changing this.
Just picked it up for a replay, this game is seriously a hidden gem.
I stumbled upon the objectively (IMO) correct way to play this game around my fifth playthrough. I decided to see how quickly I could just bull through the game to get the V8 as fast as possible. I did the bare minimum to progress the story and get me to gas town, ignoring every unnecessary mission/encounter/side task. By the time I got to Gastown, I hadn’t made a dent in Scrotus' control and barely unlocked any car upgrades. So when Hope and Glory were murdered, I was woefuly unprepared for the final battle. I needed to do those side taskes to unlock the upgrades I needed. As I set out to do so, I discovered that when you're out in the waste with the final mission not started, every now and then you will hear Hope and Glory speak in your head. Their ghostly, echoing prases remind you of their deaths, their suffering, and your failure. Suddenly, the rest of the game went from busy work to a rage fueld plan to systematically dismantle Scrotus' kingdom. Every mission, every camp raided, every combat encounter punctuated by the haunting voices of Hope and Glory egging me on, telling me to "Hurt them", to "Remeber what they did", to "Make them pay! Make them bleed!" Every time I'd upgrade my tools, car and weapons their voices would remind me "You promised!" "You said you'd save us!"
By the time I had removed the threat levels and was fully equiped and ready to take on Scrotus, I'd spent hours angrily smashing and killing my way through the wasteland with those lines echoing in my head that I thought I was just as crazy as Max, and I went at that last mission like a rabid dog.
I love this game.
I'll try this approach next time. My first gameplay was the opposite, I didn't enter gas town until I had finished and cleared everything in the other regions, which made the final levels easy to finish.
I'm glad I read your comment. I've played the game dozens of times and never tried this approach. But I tried doing only the bare minimum quests, and for whatever reason this has given me Chumbucket dialogue lines which I have never heard him say before. It's really weird. Probably because I only got the Speed Demon car parts when the quest needed me to and not by me just roaming around.
I love the ending of this game. Really captures the spirit of the movies. Nothing gained or lost. Max just stuck in that never ending loop of suffering, losing everyone, even when he tries not to be to close with them. But at the end of the day, he returned his car, that's all that matters, he forgets everything that just happened (even forgets Glory's gift), it's only him, the car and the road, the mad road warrior returned at last
A Mad Max Kojima Joint would be absolutely nuts. I recommend you look up the Whu Happun? Behind the Scenes Episode of this game, because it's development sounded like an absolute nightmare with development restarting and pivoting multiple times, all the more incredible it turned out as good as it did.
FUN FACT 1: Hope & Glory are the woman & girl seen in Max's flashbacks in Fury Road.
FUN FACT 2: Hope and Glory are Dementus' wife and daughter that he referred to in Furiosa.
FUN FACT 3: Max is the reason they are dead. He tried to rescue them from Dementus.
Interesting interpretation. The comic suggests otherwise. We did our own version with a 40 minute long Mad Max short film. Miller will probably do something completely different with his take on Hope and Glory in Mad Max The Wasteland.
@@brightstonepictures I wasn't talking about the game as if it were canon. I was just talking about the characters it poached.... based on what I have could piece together from the comics and movies. Though I do think I need to go back and reread the comics, as i read it once... like 8 years ago.
You sure it's not his wife and daughter in the flashback? Y'know from before the world went to hell?
@@TaitLawrence-xl2xb Yes, because Max had a wife and son (not daughter)... both of whom were killed by Toecutter in the first movie, BEFORE the the world was turned into a wasteland. And The flashback was AFTER.
@@Kenshiro3rd I was confused as he had a daughter in the game for some reason iirc
The only beef I have with this game is that when I tried to get all achievements, the one that requires you to loot all 191 scrap camps on the map got bugged and I was stuck with 190/191. Really pissed me off
thats the worsttttt
One of the most under rated games of all time,get it and ride forever in valhalla,shiny and chrome!
Haven't played in four years, owned it since launch, never beat it. But you sold me, I'm dusting it off and giving it another shot. Nice vid.
Now that Furiosa is out... the Game screams for a sequel! We need the Citadel, the Bullet Farm, as well as the other notable locations / Strongholds which remained intact.
I have been watching mad max since i was 9.
When this game came out i played it non-stop for a good two years straight.
I replayed this about 3 months ago fully agree.
I never really thought the movies should be followed chronologically, but rather as if you are hearing different legends about the road warrior from different people. The first one about how he became an unstoppable wanderer through a tragic revenge story, the second about the good natured wasteland we saved the lives of a tribe from a ruthless warlord. And so on
it pisses me off to no end that WB Games just published the game, and then left it to dry up and die.
it not only WAS amazing when it first released, but STILL IS Amazing! sadly tho, nobody has managed to mod the game on PC, so no new chasies like the one i really wanted, which was the classic 1969 Dodge Charger RT, which is my favorite American Muscle Car of all time.
I personally loved it but then again I love almost anything post apocalypse. Mad max also appeals to my philosophical side specifically the nihilist side.
The biggest irony here is that George Miller himself has stated that he isn't a fan of the game yet apparently had no problem making references to it in Furiosa. So that means one of two things:
1) He eventually came around to it.
2) He acknowledged that fans of his movies liked the game so he decided to throw them a bone in true classy fashion.
..or he gave them the scripts?
they more than likely used his ideas without permission
He didn't reference the game, the game used his ideas he already had mapped out for his future projects
Gee, thanks for making feel stupid. Ya jerks. 😜
@@MrHammers Well don't I feel stupid now. 😋
a fun detail i liked about this game is that if you repeatedly get into the wrong side of the magnum opus Chum will just tell you that himself. it's a habit many Americans will have since the wheel in game is on the right side of the cars. it's a cute detail i really like.
Do i have the news for you, not only americans have steering wheels on the left side of the car
@@356Krisu tell chumbucket
Remember downloading this game when it was on game pass. Knew nothing about the game itself. Enjoyed the movies as a kid though. Ended up fucking loving the game.
Started replaying this beauty a few days ago, hard to believe its nearly 10 yars old, still looks great.
Almost 100k subs, rooting for you man.
Thanks dude!!
Back at it again MrHammers! How this channel isn’t in the 100,000s is beyond me. Genuinely go on your recommendations!
Thank you man, appreciate that ☺️
i still go back to this game every once in a while. i even mess around with the save files to ng+ the game
Like that house you found, there’s a small little camp in the hills that has a heart painted on the wall. There’s some interesting little places but nothing enough to really draw you out since there’s no real loot to be found.
Regarding the "max Payne" house, it's a known location and I've found it myself, but I never out it together as someone who has not played any max Payne games
Just about finished my 4th playthrough. Absolutely love this game. It would be awsome if they did a new game with an online featured free roaming where you can create your own character and car. Players build thier own factions and go against each other to claim/ retake over territory's. Thers so much potential that could be done with it.
If you loved the game, you have to see HOPE AND GLORY. The 30 minute Mad Max short is a blast!
Pretty impressive video. The way the information flows consistently. Nice work
Something about a game being focused on one vehicle that’s able to be upgraded and personalized is so satisfying. Days gone has a similar type of feeling with a motorcycle
I had one of my funniest gaming experience in this game :
I went to give water to a group of wandering beggars when a Warboy car spotted me. I couldn't stop the cinematic but I saw the car behind the poor girl going full speed. A little bit before reaching us the car hit small sand dune, sending it flying into the air and it resulted in the car basically Kamikazeing hitself into a group a beggars just to kill me. And the best part : everyone died except me, I didn't even take a little bit of damage.
It's been years but I still remember that moment clearly.
That is amazing, I love random interactions in games like that. Some of my favorite memories of Red Dead Redemption are crazy hunting stories
A classic hitter. I still play it every now and then.
Me and my buddies all reinstalled this and are all replaying it to %100 as of late, ironic this pops up in my feed the day I start my rerun
Fuck yeah it was, only wish we could’ve gotten a second game
A sequel would slap!
You're absolutely right, I did pass on this game because I thought I was a movie tie-in. Awesome content as always.
I restarted 6 days ago im in pink eyes turf with almost a fully upgraded magnum opus but fully maxed max lol on griffa and the regular skills plus a road warrior lvl 23 just fyi just got in pink eyes turf still fun till this day no care for the new movie do this because the 3 original movies got me into this btw Griffia is homeboy from the first movie its was actually proven after years of investigating it from others but he was in max mind not really there its his conscious he was talking 2 himself to make him stronger and trying to make him sane
This game is almost 10 years old lord it feels like it came out last year or something 😂
i think you might actually be the first person to discover that max payne house. Ive never seen anyone find it before and ive been watching videos and playing the game for years now.
I need to find the dev that made it and see if that's the Easter egg or not lol
I've found it, but never put that together, as I haven't played max Payne before
No game is perfect. There are a few criticisms of this game:
-Chumbucket is at least as old as Max, so he should know what the world was like before, but he has no clue - doesn't know what airplanes were, doesn't know about oceans, etc. (Hope, who is apparently younger than Chumbucket, remembers the world before)
-The actual story is pretty short, and you're only required to clear out camps in order to downgrade a territory's danger level to unlock upgrades in the garage.
-Having to build the Archangel "the Jack" in order to be able to enter Gutgash's sanctuary is a silly requirement, because the car you'd have built by the time you get the parts to make "the Jack" is superior to the Jack itself. And then no Archangel is required anywhere else in the game, except for Death Runs.
-Max can jump, but the mechanics to do it are clumsy, and the 2 or 3 places where a jump is actually necessary are more tricky than they need to be because of the sloppy jumping.
-Sometimes there is a glitch where the Intel people don't spawn near the camps to tell you about the secret entrances, and if you clear the camp before they show up, you'll get a blurb on the camp info page that says, "No intel gathered."
-Chumbucket's repair speed (finding his special wrench) doesn't become available until closer to the end of the story, so the 3 phases of repair speed abilities weren't planned out well, because level 2 and 3 are unlocked at the same time when you do the mission to find that one wrench.
-When you clear out a camp, the horrible yelling in the background of the camp does not change or stop.
-In a world where fuel is scarce, it makes no sense for Max to have to destroy all the oil facilities for allies to take them over....then be left with no oil, because he destroyed the pumps and tanks.
-The prompt to press "B" to drop off a ladder sometimes automatically makes Max waste a shotgun shell when he lands, because that button also fires the shotgun.
-The in game GPS takes you the wrong way to get to some destinations; leads you to a road at the bottom of a cliff when the target area is at the top of the ciff
-The Scrap Crew Parts for each sanctuary is useless now. Having the Scrap Crew built for each sanctuary used to allow allies to collect scrap for Max whilie the game is turned off, but it "requires internet connection," and because the online aspect of Mad Max has been turned off, no scrap is collected for Max when the game is off anymore. But you still need to build that component to complete each sanctuary.
That said, this is still a great friggin' game.
Chumbucket probably has some sort of brain issue which could explain why he doesnt remember the old world
The war crier is funny. If he's left alive, he says stuff like ,"So, do you need a war crier? I have a lot of experience."
I revisited this game after getting hyped for Furiosa, and it is honestly better than I remember. Its pretty much what I want in a game these days: just straight up fun gameplay that you can get lost in for a couple hours here and there. I think the game hits for the same reason Spiderman works for alot of people: they love to just swing around New York and beat up random criminals. I really get that, but its not my jam. Me, Im totally content to just drive around a toxic wasteland in a badass car, kicking ass and collecting random bullshit to upgrade my bullshit. Thats it. Thats all I need. If I want an award winning story, Ill watch a movie, or maybe a show. The story in this game is everything it needs to be: a reason to keep your foot on the gas pedal.
Genuinely adore this game
Its very interesting hearing about the hope and glory storyline after experiencing it through the comic book first. I think it was done slightly better in the comics but I'd still like to play it out myself, I think I'll pick this game up
This is one of those games that is in my personal list of “why hasn’t anyone done a conversion/expansion mod”, along with Dark Messiah and Arx Fatalis
Finished playing it for the first time about 2 weeks ago. Really fun game. definitely had some small bugs but they were pretty easy to get pass. The combat system was my favorite part personally. The world was surprisingly in depth if you read everything.
47:51 omg you did half damage off him, ive never been that good a shot in this final battle
Aside from being extremely repetitive, it was a fantastic 7/10 game. The encounters, especially by the 3rd act, become pretty much copy & pasted, and it was almost like they didn't have time or forgot to add something unique to each boss fight. And there was a whole section of the map that had absolutely nothing going on. I enjoyed the game, it was beautiful and intense, but it could have been so much more. I am happy that Miller has owned the canon and integrated some details into Furiosa.
Being reminded of the ending after all these years stirs up a lot of emotions... Not many games can do that.
I honestly didn't know there was a game. Which is funny because I rewatched mad max before going to see furiosa. And the whole time I was thinking like man, this would be such a killer PvP game mode. Team 1 - tries to deliver the war rig to a location. Team 2 - war boys, try to stop it.
One of my fav games ever...I loved it so much and it's a crime that it doesn't have NG+
I love the war crier's lines when you kill everyone and leave him last, they always have soemthing funny to say about how scrwed they are.
I played this years ago after it had been released. It was old then but had good reviews. I never considered playing it because I just thought it was another crappy movie tie in game. I was so wrong. I played and 100 percented the game with my nephew when he was a young teen. Hes in the Marines now and when we get together we still bring up this game. It was such an amazing, post apocalyptic, racing and fighting game. I just bought the game for 5 bucks and I am playing again. Its still so much fun and the graphics dont lack at all. I'd give up all my guzzoline and water for another Mad Max game!
I remember enjoying rage 1 and 2 more than this game because it didn't just focus on driving for the most part but the sparse melee combat in mad max is cool.
Great topic and amazing video. Would love to see you cover Mercenaries
I still regard Mad Max (2015) as one of my favorite games ever. The gameplay is basically perfect. The car combat is brutal. The upgrades and unlocks keep it fresh, even tho it is pretty repetitive.
Big fan of this game. Didn't love the ending, Max ended up right where he started. It felt like a different person wrote the last two or three missions than the rest of the story.
Damn, I did the same thing with this game. Seeing that after you get to Gas Town the story really picks up makes me wanna give it another go. I had the same feeling though, and didn't want to have to grind out the repetitive stuff to get the parts I wanted. I think I'm gonna give it another run though and just use guides to get all the tedious stuff over with quickly. I hope this hype results in an update and release of that DLC.
Glad I'm not the only one! Haha but I definitely recommend finishing it out, once the game actually gets a story it gets pretty good, just takes a while for Max to give a shit about anything but his car
I love your videos bro, keep it up
Hey, thank you bro. Appreciate that!
0:34 Of all time even. I often see it on the very top of Best Action Films of All Time lists.
the infinite warfare music instantly gave me dopamine thank you very much
I love when people point out the songs I use, makes it feel worth it when I'm spending hours picking tracks haha
The cod iw music in background is really nice
i love hearing the GTA: TLAD theme in the background during the premise section
on my first play-through rn last time i played it i was to young to understand how to do a mission but its so fun now 80% complete and gonna run it back when im done cause i wanna get my car back asap. i found a plane in the top right dunes w mannequins on it standing how the kids did on the plane in thunder-dome the people who made this game cared about the story enough to put easter eggs like that and i love it
this game was one of the best games I never beat... I should get back to that
You should, I'm super happy I hopped back in
23:00 today i left one hanging there and he said "welp, its just me now, just hanging here" lol
I got the game a couple years after release, I played it, loved it but never beat it same as you. This was mostly because I was attempting to 100% complete it. Couple years later I restarted the game because I wanted to get the full experience again and tried 100%ing it again. Got about as far as I did the first time because I burned myself out. A couple months ago I picked it up again, but this time continued where I left off and this time I beat it and 100% it. I really loved it but the story was pretty lackluster and I really didn’t like the ending. Everything else though is honestly amazing, I mean it is repetitive but beating people senseless as Max never got old, or just utterly demolishing people in car combat. Sadly you can’t get all achievements anymore because they killed the “live service” but if you download someone else’s save you can get the last achievement that you can’t get.
Another awesome Mad Max-type games: Jak 3 (2004) and Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise (2018).
Great video, as always
I still own and play this game often I miss the online mode kinda a bummer 😢
One of the best games I ever played, still playing 10 years later
Game got me invested in the movies I liked it a lot
Same tbh, I watched fury road and liked it, but this game made me want to watch the original trilogy
@@MrHammers yeah I heard of this game as a hidden classic from a channel (name I forget) doing hidden video game details
It was on sale online I got it played it loved it and then watched 2,3, then 1 and then furry and i want to watch the new one
@therealbingobango I think I picked up on sale as when just on a whim. I also haven't seen furiosa, but hope to soon. It looks good
Now this, this is what I call content
Just realized that stank gum is voiced by yuri lowenthall(peter Parker in spiderman 2 the game)
This game and The Saboteur are the greatest sleeper games.
This game was really well-made even for its time. I decided to replay a long time after I first completed it. I was hesitant at first because I already knew what was going to happen and it took me some effort to get back into it. But once I got the hang of it once again it, I just couldn't stop playing. There is no real story, but who cares? It's a Mad Max game, we don't play or watch Mad Max for the plot anyway. But the game is just fun. Simply entertaining. And the graphics are terrific. This game might as well have been released today and the audiovisual aspects of it would still stand their ground. Game developers should really learn from this game as it is so well optimised that even my old PC can run it without issues on high graphics. Despite the fact that many newer games look much worse than this one and I can't run them.
This game might've been a little underwhelming when it came out but the gaming industry have deteriorated so much that this game could be considered a masterpiece among the garbage they produce nowadays. Mad Max didn't bring much to the table but what it did bring it executed perfectly. This game cries for an MMO where you can just roam the wasteland, build cars, forge war parties and try to build your strongholds. Maybe even driving war rigs would have been cool, where you could actually fight on the truck and the cars like a land version of Assassin's Creed Black Flag.
It's such a pity that this game went under the radar as it can still put a lot of other games to shame today.
I played this game, I loved it and I think I completed the game it its entirety. Super fun completing the little quests, and non main story content.
I remember renting this from RedBox back when it came out and 100 % completed it and loved every minute especially after the hype of Fury Road
On series x at 120 fps 1080p with her support looks better than most modern games , a true masterpiece.
I had a major issue with the fact I couldnt fully get rid of the motion blur even with turning it off there is still motion blur which sucks. It took me almost 3 months just to get through the beginning portion of the game due to that reason alone.
I have only one achievement left which is the challenges one. But somehow I just don't do it, it's hard coming back after finishing it but god I had fun with it.
Excellent PC port.
With arbitrary resolution support, you can play this in vertical window and window/UI adjusts to it.
That's pretty cool! Had no idea.
I played this for maybe 5-6 hours when I first got my ps4 then became distracted with other games and never went back. I've got it on the steamdeck now so gonna give it another try
It runs fantastic on the steam deck, that's where I clocked majority of my hours
Two things stand out to me regarding this game:
1. The fire / explosions are AMAZING!! They have that perfect level of saturation and color.
2. The Longshot is one of the MOST satisfying weapons I've ever used in a video game. The animation and feedback / recoil is rather impressive.
Have you never played any other games with Sniper Rifles? You'd probably really enjoy the Sniper Elite series
@@P_D-px6iv *one of the most
Sure, I've played several games with snipers, including most in the SE series. Thank you.
I like repetitive games so mad max for me was perfect
Just finished my first playthrough. Had it stting in my library since Total Biscuit reccommended it. Yeah, that long. What the hell was I waiting for?
no way I too just started this game up again this week
Need to revisit it and finish my playthrough eventually. Game is definitely still enjoyable. I just haven't been in the right mood to play it.
I've you start it's addicting, it's a very satisfying gameplay loop
I love this game. Especially the hand to hand combat mechanics and vehicle modifications.
Playing it again, and having a blast currently 👍
I beat this game twice in PC and PS4