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If you’re considering a career designing games, remember to do the opposite. New locations are often introduced by action cut-scenes interspersed with playable sequences in which Max must walk around to collect items. Speaking of chores, the game doles them out like vegetables to unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. That the game doubles down on the worst parts of this crappy existence - finding gas, repairing cars, driving long distances - is like making a Batman game in which you attend Wayne Enterprises business meetings and wax the batsuit. In Mad Max, the developers want you to be Max, without considering the hard truth that Max's life sucks. The latest Batman, Arkham Knight, was released alongside a marketing campaign that highlights the pleasure of roleplaying.

WB has made a name for itself in the game space from the Batman: Arkham series, with its open-world and hand-to-hand fighting, which Mad Max imitates to poor effect. This design is creatively risky and paradoxically also smells of top-level notes from the publisher Warner Bros. Taking care of the car, like taking care of a someone else’s puppy, is charming for a few minutes until it becomes a chore.

Go have fun, it says, just not too much fun. A different game about survival might have made these work, but deep down, Mad Max wants to be an action game, and so it sends you from one mission of vehicular manslaughter to the next. Max’s world is a dangerous one, and the original films built tension on the sensation that these cars and the people inside them are incredibly vulnerable, relying on faulty materials and limited resources. On an arguing-at-a-cafe-over-video-game-theory level, I get it. I never thought I’d call a game about post-apocalyptic car battles dull, but here I am. Early in the game, the player learns to collect scrap, wait while the car gets repaired, and locate gas and water. Jumping off a cliff damages the car, driving into the distance uses fuel, and keep your finger off the trigger, because ammo is sparse. Mad Max drops the player in the wasteland, and punishes risk-taking and adventure. There’s no limit to how far a car can drive, and there's plenty of ammunition and explosives for the player when they’re on foot. Cars can be driven down mountains with the player riding them like surfboards. Just Cause is an open-world game that motivates the player to take risks. And Avalanche in particular had the pedigree its most recent game, Just Cause 2, featured car combat that allows the player to grapple onto a car, shoot the driver, and steal the vehicle with a few quick button taps. Video game developers, who often operate on tight budgets and impossible deadlines, have a habit of making gold - or at least silver - from a shit deal. Work on Mad Max: The Video Game, began around 2009 with the involvement of Miller and Cory Barlog, a game designer best known for writing and directing God of War 2, but Barlog eventually left, and by 2014, Miller was no longer, publicly speaking, associated with the game, which at the time was and wasn’t connected to the film, depending on when and whom you asked.īoth projects sounded troubled from the limited rumors finding their way to the press, but Avalanche Studios, the developer of the video game, appeared better positioned to turn things around. The film’s director George Miller had spent the two decades prior making family-friendly movies about talking pigs and penguins while the film went through development hell.

A year ago, my expectations for the Mad Max video game far surpassed those for Mad Max: Fury Road. I’m surprised just how confidently this game whiffs. A half-hour is enough time to grok the game is flawed at its core. Unfortunately, Mad Max, a game that is actively bland, is like a teenager with big ideas about how the world works but without the vocabulary nor confidence to express them. Mad Max, you get the sense, was meant to be a big budget game with soul and something to say. And unlike so many poor games released this year, Mad Max's developer took creative risks. Mad Max is beautiful, and, unlike so many better games released this year, runs spectacularly on PC, as if evidence its creators had plenty of time to polish. Mad Max isn’t a mediocre video game, doomed by technical flaws or shoddy art design. I am only a couple hours into Mad Max, and if I hadn’t received the copy for review, I would be demanding a refund. They can take time to reveal their best self.

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