That was awesome, and thanks for the shoutout! Yeah this game is.... it's a good game but it's like a copy of something much better that was never completed. Which is what essentially happened. I recently talked to Cory Barlog who worked with George Miller on the true Fury Road tie-in game and he told me that this 2015 Avalanche game was built on the skeleton of what they were working on. Barlog and Miller came up with Scrotus and Chumbucket for their game. The story was obviously lifted from the official comic books (which Cory didn't read he told me so I urged him to check it out). But the worst offense from WB was that they didn't care what they were putting in their game. Furiosa is coming out in a year, so imagine this - this game showed us the main villain of Furiosa some odd... what, 8 years before the next film? No wonder George Miller's name is not in this game. There's a whole mission exploring 'Dementus' tomb' which also has spoilers about the upcoming film ON THE WALLS OF THE CAVE! I kid you not, go and visit that location and look at the murals - it's depicting a wasteland war between the Immortan and Dementus' gang over Gastown. They had the nerve to put that in the game. There are also other things, like Scrotus who will also show up in the next film but damn.... It's not as much as just butchering source material when it comes to the story. It's stomping all over it without any respect for the man who created it.

@albertoperusquia6044

9 ай бұрын

No wonder why Warner Bros is sinking right now, they are bunch of corporate dicks you will only see in a parody 🙄 Also, as bad as I want a sequel, it seems that the greatness of the project was due to Miller and Barlog like you pointed out. Since I played the game when it released I had that strange feeling that it was an awesome and fun game with good ideas but made with laziness or something that I could not describe that stopped the whole game from reaching it´s true potential. Now I know the reason why, thank you.

@MadMaxBible

9 ай бұрын

@@albertoperusquia6044 Yeah WB is full of brilliant ideas like that. They wanted to release Fury Road without the Citadel scenes, imagine that! They thought the whole movie was done after they filmed the main parts in Namibia (which are the chase scenes mostly). George Miller had to film the Citadel scenes in Sydney by WB were like - nope, the movie is done, ready to go! Miller fought tooth and nail to finish filming it because the film was not complete. WB wanted to release a film without the beginning and ending, that's how clueless they are! And it goes beyond that too. For example - we were going to get some decent quality Fury Road merch - figures from NECA (I know ppl say they're quality is not the best but bear with me). After WB took over the merch side of things after the rains in Broken Hill in 2010 (just like they took over the game) - they decided to release those Funkopop figures - which is the most low effort thing anyone can do - because it saved them money. And barely any merch at all besides that. There's about 80 vehicles in this film that people would love to have models of and they didn't care about it! They really are clueless. The game is yet another piece of this crappy puzzle. Goes to show that creative and corporate don't mix.

@albertoperusquia6044

9 ай бұрын

@@MadMaxBible Oh yeah, I heard about that NECA story back in the day. They don´t realize the gold mine they have with Mad Max if they make the proper deals with the license to produce merchandise. Instead they make funko pops, these guys are beyond me.

@austinsavage5962

9 ай бұрын

Love your videos and i had no clue they did those things for this game im gonna look at this game in a different light now

@StylePoints14

9 ай бұрын

@@MadMaxBible It is not even the creativities they are lacking, but they fail to even understand their own market and get the money piles they could have gotten. They could have gotten so much money from this game and merchandise. I am glad though, because Hollyweird needs to fail.

My favorite thing about this game is that WB was so confident that the game would sell super well that they added a DLC opinion in the main menu and then proceeded to never add DLC to the game.

@golden3065

11 ай бұрын

If I remember there was only like one or two main dlcs and they were decoration and a car.

@Chrisack593

11 ай бұрын

@@golden3065 I've only played the steam verson and it doesn't have any of that, but if that's the case that kinda makes it extra funny.

@golden3065

11 ай бұрын

@@Chrisack593 funny enough both the car and hood ornaments were rockstar energy. The car you had to get through a race

@user-is2mj2ig4v

9 ай бұрын

@@Chrisack593 im on steam nd it has the dlc with the game...

@bluscout1857

9 ай бұрын

Imagine if there was dlc, what do you guys think it would be/could have been?

The thing about Max not changing from the beginning of the game to the end is.. kind of the point? All these stories, from books, to movies, to games, involve some kind of character growth. But Max.. isn't a character. He is a vehicle (haha) that drives the plot forward around actual characters. He shows up, interacts with the locals, hijinks ensue, then off he goes. If he changed then he wouldn't really be "The Road Warrior" anymore. This mythical entity that is spoken of around camp fires, that may or may not even exist. For Mad Max to work he kind of *has* to stay static. Because that's how the stories are told. Not the one's we're told, but the ones this world tells. Looking at Max from the lens of these wasteland wackos he almost seems like an urban legend rather than a normal man.

@tuckerelliott6056

11 ай бұрын

I see your point but as he said it stands alone in its own universe they could have easily made a better ending but all they did basically is "everyone is dead and its all your fault"completely ignoring basically the entire reason for the game play just to end up back where you started. mentally unstable but with the interceptor...like they don't even let you drive up to the convoy I believe I think it is just a cut scene that happens and boom big war rig and scrotum in your face...also they completely through out the unchanging part in the window in fury road

@zambekiller

11 ай бұрын

​@@tuckerelliott6056counter point fury road wasn't truly a mad max movie it was a furyosa movie and Max just happened to be in it

@ripvanwinkle2002

11 ай бұрын

disagree strongly. his growth as a person is clearly documented in the real Mad max movies ( not that last abomination which was Mad Mary Sue) he started as an idealistic kid fresh on the police force thinking it was a game then he lost his kid and wife.. then he had to learn to find humanity again and he did, twice more.. but now hes suddenly just this psychopath? im not buying it. its lazy as shit writing..

@kg_canuck

11 ай бұрын

@tuckerelliott6056 All the Mad Max movies basically take place in their own universe. The only connections are really Max's car, outfit, and knee brace.

@hermitgisvids

11 ай бұрын

Well said, to compare it a little to Dragonball, Goku plays a similar role. While he does learn new techniques and interact with others, he remains the same person in order to drive the plot as a circular character.

Personally, I liked the ending. Ending it off with Max essentially back where he started fits well with the theme of despair and guilt. Plus, having it essentially function as "just another day" for him feels unabashedly badass.

@zufieusagi7509

10 ай бұрын

I always felt that the game served as a prequal to Fury Road.

@MrRAGE-md5rj

9 ай бұрын

I'm told that was the intention, but I always it as happening in tandem. Max Hardy is out saving pretty girls while the REAL Max is having his own journey in the unforgiving wasteland, under the thumb of Immortan Joe's 3rd son, Scabrous Scrotous.

@willc3697

8 ай бұрын

I like the idea that Max is one of those characters who has very precise goals, but something always gets in the way, and he either beats it up, blows it up, helps it turn into a prosperous community, or slaughters it just to move a single step closer to his goal. He’s the kind of guy who travels through a Warzone and overthrows a government just to get a gallon of milk.

@TripleXMango

7 ай бұрын

I just finished the campaign for the first time since beating it upon release, and yeah, it really suits the tone they went for IMO. Every moment of the game is sad and depressing story wise, and it feels very natural. We as the player have that complete lack of hope for anything good for most of the game, until the end of Act 3, when we learn more about Hope, and begin our hunt for Glory. Having forgot the story from there, I felt myself really feeling the hope come back, I would kill Scrotus, get the girls, and take them and the Magnum Opus somewhere new. Then, in one twist, all that is stolen. Max is forced to confront his truth, that no one around him can be trusted, and he can never change who he is, or the path he is on. It matches the tone from early part of the game, and CRUSHES any hope you feel as Max. I quite enjoy how Max kind of comes off as a neutral force by the end. He achieved essentially nothing, set himself days behind on his plans to leave the waste, sort of murders Chumbucket, the traitor, for no real reason, and loses the car he just spent so much time and effort on. That moment of him sitting behind the wheel of the black on black and just taking a breath before tearing off is perfect. Max has learned nothing, except maybe to keep to himself from now on. A few camps are doing better now thanks to him, but hundreds of people are also dead or dying because of him.

@TheZohan907

5 ай бұрын

I agree

This game is such an underrated gem and the fact that it didn’t get any dlc is such a shame

@AC-hj9tv

10 ай бұрын

Bro fr

@shalindelta7

4 ай бұрын

It was overshadowed by MGS5, simple as that.

@lutherheggs451

Ай бұрын

Its really not. Its extremely mid at best, the combat is kind of a joke, the gas is cool and all but goes way too quick, its a constant boring fetch quest and your doing the same like 5 missions over and over and over for way too many hours.

@user-yc1xe1pd1f

9 күн бұрын

This game has flaws, constant grind is becoming boring… But overall - it’s pretty good, feelings similar to Rise of the Tomb Raider 2013.

Honestly, hearing the story, it just kinda… Clicks, for me. Sure, lot of points are stupid. But, same happens in the Mad Max movies. And, honestly, it’s nice to see Max actually keep the Interceptor beyond just the first film.

@smokedbeefandcheese4144

11 ай бұрын

Totally agree

@averagepizzaenjoyer5681

11 ай бұрын

some of it genuinely sucks, but some of it isn't SUPPOSED to make sense. MAX has gone MAD. everyone else is crazy too.

@vsGoliath96

11 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, the story is just fine for a Mad Max entry. I agree with the majority of people that Hope and Glory definitely needed some work. Either better writing or more time to actually get to know them. Not the end of the world though and we've all seen much worse.

@marley7868

11 ай бұрын

@@vsGoliath96 my personal thoughts on them are I buy max cares

@ZAKXOXOXO

11 ай бұрын

after many years of good bad old gems dies i realize that not everygame/show story has to make sense as long as they're good and enjoyable

Can we all just agree that Chumbucket was one of the coolest characters in that game? I swear he's only a few cybernetic implants away from becoming a 40k Mechanicus nerd and probably can outdo most of them through sheer know-how. His Angel Combustion is an avatar of the Omnisiah and he is one of its greatest worshipers.

@launch4

11 ай бұрын

That and half of all the other inhabitants of the wasteland are digganobz. That scene with the maw is straight out of GorkaMorka.

@launch4

11 ай бұрын

@@88HAILSTONE I tried dozens of times to make him say that again!

@biosaber585

11 ай бұрын

@@launch4 regularly enter on the wrong side of the car, Chum will start spouting it a LOT because you're doing it wrong

@ripvanwinkle2002

11 ай бұрын

he annoyed the shit out of me honestly.. plus you know even in a world as fucked up as that one, that he stank worst than most.. his only redeeming feature was fixing the car in the middle of a fight..

@roys.1889

11 ай бұрын

@@ripvanwinkle2002 you're genuinely the first person I've seen that dislikes him. Why?

I played this game for 176hrs and loved almost every hour. It's 100% one of the best games I've played ever.

@roger5555ful

9 ай бұрын

Same,theres someting about the game that makes me came back to it every year

this is a diamond in the middle of the games. The playtime is great, and the story is badass. Really good game, 10/10.

@shalindelta7

4 ай бұрын

What i don't understand is how Avalanche Studios made solid gameplay and driving mechanics like this and then wemt back to complete dogshit controls for Just Cause 4.

@joedingo7022

4 ай бұрын

@@shalindelta7 Man there's an insult to the gaming industry I haven't thought about in a while until watching this video, played the crap out of 3 but 4 just fell like a sack of bricks.

@lutherheggs451

Ай бұрын

The playtime is awful. That mid as hell game was like 30hrs long and the majority of it was fetch quests. Fetching gas, fetching parts, fetching collectables. People really need to stop this 10/10 crap too, NO the game is not perfect and nowhere near deserving of a perfect score. the game is mid, it was a big dead map with not much going on, doing the same 5 missions over and over again, the combat is basic at best. At its best its a 6/10 mediocre game, not bad, but not great and its way too long and drawn out with the constant fetch garbage.

I've always wished the Dev's would just give this game mod support. I'd PAY for a trickle of replayability at the end of this game. My favorite parts were just the insane car combat when you get more than 4 heavily armored vehicles making you sweat as you thread the needle. A New Game+ or just an Endless Wave mode would have made this game an easy 10/10 imo.

@dooksmckooks

11 ай бұрын

This and a better end-boss fight. I let out the most gratuitous sigh imaginable whenever I threw a couple of funny sticks and he immediately bit the dust

@lekdenwimkida

11 ай бұрын

I think there's replayability on it the history was so unremarkable that I was able to play 176hrs of it, almost like those old movies that you always rewatch on Christmas Lmao

@athenian221

11 ай бұрын

Agree , what I do is take on convoys (just found out there's a 1st-person view) but I don't kill the main vehicle and let them drive off. Grinding for scrap

@theRPGmaster

11 ай бұрын

I've thought this for years. I think the game is moddable, but it's so unknown, nobody is trying. I could probably do it, but it's demotivating knowing that not many would use the mods. (this is my favorite game, I bought it twice, FYI)

@VGLounge

9 ай бұрын

Then make the mods for the people like yourself that want the experience!@@theRPGmaster

This game does car destruction justice. Is it "realistic?" No. Is it rad as hell? Hell yeah brothrr

@CBRN-115

11 ай бұрын

Definitely shiny and chrome grade

@heimvar

11 ай бұрын

Been doing barrelrolls offa cliffs into scarecrows n shit having a blast hahahahaha if it was realistic it'd be booooring

@danielhomant2832

11 ай бұрын

One of my best car kills was during a mid game convoy battle. I did a couple side bashes and as I bounce of the right vehicle, harpoon the left one. This caused it to flip as soon as it went over a cliff, only to explode gloriously top first while flying sideways against a cliff wall. It worked out so seamlessly smooth, so shiny and chrome, what a glorious explosion of red and flame it was!

@eeemistr7237

9 ай бұрын

Play only using the realistic in the car view at steering wheel ,drive and shoot out of your windows is so much better than the chase view.

@heimvar

9 ай бұрын

@@eeemistr7237 wait what this is an option?!

The mission to the Underdune is also my favorite part of the game. Something I saw on the subreddit for this game is speedrunning to get the V8, which means your car is very underleveled for the entire game up to that point. It's really fun.

@zagstrukk

11 ай бұрын

Yeah but that race is fuckin horrid since you have almost nothing

@GenuineGuitar56

Ай бұрын

Gotta try that now

This game, Fallout 4, and Just Cause 3 were my holy trifecta throughout high school. Even made a stop motion video for class based off a mission from Mad Max using Hot Wheels and plasticine.

@sethteamcrashgaming1770

7 ай бұрын

man I wish I thought of that when I did that assignment instead I did a monster truck race using mini Knex monster trucks in a Figure 8 stadium

@WiseOwl_1408

6 ай бұрын

Nice 👍

this was personally my favorite ever game. i just wish it was longer

@nosnebsnikwah1839

11 ай бұрын

Same dude! I was just playing it an hour ago when I saw this video come up haha

@brandonthomas6602

11 ай бұрын

I have 2,600 hours in this game on steam I never beat it I just drive and sometimes I take in the sights I just wish there were different skins for max and maybe if you could upgrade the car that would be nice but I haven’t done the story yet idk

@vellinghem2187

11 ай бұрын

It may have been an under the radar game but I loved every minute of it! One of my favorites too.

@HBSDU54

11 ай бұрын

​@@brandonthomas6602You mean 260 hours, right ?

@theRPGmaster

11 ай бұрын

@@brandonthomas6602 You can upgrade the car, and customize max a bit. The scenery is the best part of it though, I agree.

For me ending is perfect... typical "Mad Maxish soured" like in movies. And game is showing that Interceptor is inseparable from Max...Every time when is destroyed its coming back to life.

If you fully complete pink eyes quest then go to the gas station she gives you a picture of it has a secret set of wheels which are the best in the game, I was able to put the best pieces of armor on my car and still have positive handling because of this which is so good

Fun fact, you can play this game as a Car First Person Shooter, which makes the car combat even more insane.

@Billy-bc8pk

8 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm shocked he didn't mention how awesome the first-person is, especially using the shotgun while in first-person.... it hits so hard!

@WormsMaster100

Күн бұрын

@@Billy-bc8pk THE GAME HAS FIRST PERSON?!

@Billy-bc8pk

Күн бұрын

@@WormsMaster100 Yeah and it's awesome. Just too bad that it doesn't work well with force feedback steering wheels. I tried some software to get it to work and it sort of does, but then you can't use the controller if you do.

I forgot to add chapters when I released this. Thats been fixed now, for those that want to breeze through a bit faster.

@ripvanwinkle2002

11 ай бұрын

the most hateful thing about this game, which is not alone in this sin.. is wasting my time thinking my choices and actions will matter and they dont.. this is the WORST sin a game can commit.. if you want me to play out a pre scripted story line. thats fine.. that can work.. but when i spend hours playing a game making decisions based on an outcome im working towards, and the game just cut-scenes you into choices and endings you would have never actually made. its frustrating. most especially when the ending they force on you, fits NONE of your behavior patterns or goals. especially when many of these forced choices could have been solved by max or other characters. just explaining themself. a game whose story elements rely too heavily on the characters lack of communication is lazy writing.. such a fun game with such poor writing..

@taniaflemming7751

11 ай бұрын

hi

@loganguy2155

11 ай бұрын

I’ve never seen your channel before and saw you thumbnail🙌🏽 hands down, looks great honestly, for a channel with nearly 23k subscribers your quality and content is very impressive. I high hopes for your channel and wish good health.

@Void_Ghost_Beelz

11 ай бұрын

@@loganguy2155bro same! I saw a Duck with Max body and a shotgun and was like “yep, imma watch that shit”

@taniaflemming7751

11 ай бұрын

do u like mad max:)

Just so you know, the Interceptor flipping end over end while they're dancing is the *EXACT* same crash as what happens in Fury Road's beginning. And then Max meets a War Boy named Scab, who's giving you his blood, which is fed into Nux later when Max gets captured after the crash in Fury Road.

@revan6920

5 күн бұрын

holy fuck, even though the game isn't canon but damn there are some hints of details that fit the both together, credit to you for finding that out, absolutely mind blowing

@VerdeMorte

4 күн бұрын

@revan6920 It was supposed to be canon, Glory's flashback scene got deleted from Fury Road, and Hope's role was cancelled mid casting. You can still pull up the scene online...

Some of us are still out there in the wasteland, waiting patiently on some sort of sequel, prequel, whateverthefkuel. I loved the game, it's about as much fun as you can have in a gritty surivival environment. My playthrough was bugged though, otherwise I would have 100% everything. We still have hope for a sequel, good things sometimes survive years of bad taste.

@theRPGmaster

11 ай бұрын

Yes, we're waiting!

@justinjames965

8 ай бұрын

I loved this game too. There's no such thing as a perfect game, they all have plot holes and glitches, because they're just games and this was a great game mechanics and game play wise.

@cobrakaicyberdon

7 ай бұрын

Yes I want to 100% it but I blew up the kaboom buggy with the dog in it, and although the dog is bk at the base, evrytime I leave in the buggy to clear mines, the dog won't come with me. So I can't get each territory to 0. I've done 190 hrs, but them bloody mines I cannot find. So im atm just riding around the mine area and blowing myself up each mine and it's tedious as fk, but I'm determined to 100% the game. I've done everything else apart from the mines. Other than that glitch with the dog. It's a 10 outta 10 game for me.

I would personally say the ending is perfect. Because all of us have always known Mad Max as being alone on the road. Like all the other stories with him, it always ends up with him continuing his journey alone. While for a modern audience who has not watched all the movies, the ending would be very confusing yes. Max does not get his happy ending Because this ending has not happened yet. Sure, good and bad things might happen to him on the way, but his story is not done yet.

@ripvanwinkle2002

11 ай бұрын

disagree.. the ending was pointless and forced and as satisfying as a glass full of dust..

@nmhjjp

11 ай бұрын

Disagree... the game has cool cars and im not from the UK or gay (same thing tbh) so i dont care about the story of a game... i just want to kill things and have a cool car.

@tfordham13

11 ай бұрын

Disagree the game is non canon so it could have had a good ending

@saphinadarkness2502

11 ай бұрын

@@ripvanwinkle2002 it wasnt meant to be satisfying. Quite the contrary

@gimmeyourrights8292

9 ай бұрын

​@@tfordham13 That goes against the Mad Max tradition.

sometimes life gives you little reasons to celebrate and gives you an hour video from your favorite creator

Maybe my standards are low, but I was blown away by this game, loved it. Really want a sequel.

@Montross

3 ай бұрын

yeah your standars are low, maybe youi just were really really really young whilst playing this game.

@leonardodavid4670

3 ай бұрын

@@Montross Youre just a little duuumm kid.

@zachall101

Ай бұрын

@@leonardodavid4670so the game FORCES you multiple times to DOWNGRADE your car to progress through the game…..it tries to forces a female character that nobody cares for or asked for on you….. when you finally upgrade your car fully….THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU TO DO IN THE GAME ANYMORE 😂😂there was potential in the game BUT IT FAILED HORRIBLY, says on the game screen that there is dlc…. BUT IT WAS NEVER MADE so why is it on the game menu 🤦‍♂️COMPLETELY USELESS

@Clapperofcheeks5000

Ай бұрын

It was a good game . Kiddiewinkles nowadays are spoiled

@DomStronger

Ай бұрын

@@Montrossplaying it now and I love every single minite

I think the archangels in this game COULD’VE been more interesting/useful if they provided unique stats or effects you couldn’t find on a personal/custom Magnum Opus. For example: an archangel with high defense that wouldn’t hamper the acceleration of the vehicle too much in the same way heavy amounts of normal car armor would. Edit: I think it would’ve been nice if they also allowed you to redo outposts and conveys to give the game more replay value after it’s over- getting more use out of your beefed up Magnum Opus.

@NoFriendLikeJesus

2 ай бұрын

That's a good idea for the arch-angels. Wish we could ahve upgraded some of the collectible enemy cars just a bit too.

The hallucination with Hope would've been much more beautiful and meaningful if they gave her more screentime, along with more time with Max. That's all they needed to do. Edit: Man the Magnum Opus had a bigger V8 than the XB Interceptor. 429CI over 351, and the Interceptor made nearly 700bhp (600hp to the wheels roughly translates to around 700 based on an FR layout), partly thanks to NOS woven into the fuel mixture. That's the spec in the first movie, and it's been years of decay ever since 1984 or 1985, as the first Mad Max takes place in the 80's. As much as I love the funny Aussie Falcon (like, A LOT), I agree that with funny duckman when he points out the problems with sacrificing the Opus.

@spread_niggativity

11 ай бұрын

700bhp? I though it made less like around 500 considering that in the first movie it had a xbgt v8 and a supercharger or at least how I remember it look like

@klyvemercado2001

11 ай бұрын

@@spread_niggativity When the Interceptor is first introduced in the first movie, Barry the mechanic states that it makes 600 horsepower to the wheels. With FR cars that roughly translates to 700bhp when the calculations are done

@spread_niggativity

11 ай бұрын

@klyvemercado2001 I don't remember that so idk still tho that's alot

@spread_niggativity

11 ай бұрын

@klyvemercado2001 only thing I dont agree with is that u said sacrificing magnum was bad. I get it in a game perspective but in the story it makes sense like that weird tripping cutseen it has alot of meaning behind it as mutch as Max tries that car still has a hold on him as if his fate is to be a straw dog wandering around with no owner going place to place and well just like dinki di at the start of the game get used and then tossed back to wandering around so I like the ending specifically when Max closes his eyes and looks up as he revs his eninge knowing he can't escape from the black on black he know the Plains of Silence don't exist. Or maybe I'm just reading to mutch into it

@klyvemercado2001

11 ай бұрын

@@spread_niggativity damn that do be a good way to put it though

My favorite part of this game was the little cutscenes with the Griffa. Something about the gravelly-smooth voice, the mysterious way he talks, and the fact that it's never truly explained who he is (or even if he's real)... I love that sort of stuff. He's like a less malicious version of Gaunter O'Dimm from The Witcher 3.

@Hawk7886

11 ай бұрын

How can a voice be gravelly and smooth?

@afoxinaviators4105

11 ай бұрын

@@Hawk7886 It isn't gravelly enough to be hoarse, but it isn't normal enough to sound... Normal.

Loved the game, more sad they didn't do more with it or produce a sequel to it, endless hours of fun playing it.

The engine sounds really are the best in gaming. The way the engines rev, the way each motor for the magnum opus has a really distinct tone and feel really sells the car customization. As a massive car lover these are the best engines you will ever find in a game. Second would be how nicely the game progresses. You start with nothing, and a simple scout buggy can wreck you and the magnum opus, but by the end of the game you are a death-dealing war machine with flamethrowers and grappling hooks that topple camps and wrecks convoys of armed vehicles. The story is not liked by some, but others, like me, LOVE IT. Max really is an animal in the game, and his failure to protect the family he only briefly had in the game really drives the knife of loosing his first family even deeper, so he kills scrotus in a blind rage, also killing chum in the process, and continues his insane quest towards the plains of silence in a desperate attempt to find peace. But, when we reach max in fury road (the game is absolutely a sequel to thunderdome therefore sits just before fury road. fight me), his experience with furiosa and the wives makes him want to turn back, because max finally knows how to protect the people around him. And he finally gets his redemption when the wives and furiosa make it back safe to the citadel, and he walks off to wander the wastes, satisfied. the game really does add weight behind max's decision to turn away from the plans of silence. The environtment is top notch too. the way they make a dozen+ regions each feel distinct and populate it with many distinct groups of people really is awesome. in the words of george miller (paraphrased): "It's all a bunch of nothing, but you have to have dozen varieties of nothing". the game really gets this right. in other words THE STORY OF THIS GAME IS AMAZING AND PERFECTLY WORKS WITH THE GREATER ARC OF MAX'S STORYLINE!!!!!!!!!!!

@dylansmit3883

6 ай бұрын

Apart from the fact the V6 sounds like a high revving V8 and the V8 Interceptor sounds like a low revving V6. They really messed that up.

@theranger1304

4 ай бұрын

Also some of the best vehicle destruction and explosions in gaming history.

@elfappo9330

2 ай бұрын

For a long time I couldn't quite put my finger on the reason why the driving in this felt so good to me. Turns out it's the sound design. Those sounds just make everything feel right.

Loved playing this back in the day, glad to see a video that lays out the good and bad so well

@chazzcoolidge2654

11 ай бұрын

The overall "weight" of the hand to hand and car combat is what sold me on this game. Every punch and slam feels significant.

This game was so under rated, Mad Max absolutely slapped and i love every minute of it. I just wish the exploration was a little bit more rewarding, otherwise its a dope as hell experience I'd recommend to anyone who wants a unique take on the Arkam style games.

Like, maybe it's not too on form for the series but-here's an alternate ending. Max doesn't sacrifice the Opus, he can see the rig is going over that cliff whether he does anything or not. Instead, the interceptor still emerges, and you have to fight it with the Opus. You manage to disable, but not destroy it, have the fight on foot which you again win. And Max gives the Opus to Chum Bucket. The two get to make their journey, with both cars, leading off into... who knows, maybe a sequel, maybe a movie tie in, whatever. Maybe it's a bit sappy for the series but honestly, it's not really cannon anyway so what does it matter and it'd give the player the feeling that they actually achieved something.

@saphinadarkness2502

11 ай бұрын

Well, the point is that Max doesnt get a happy ending and that hes not achieveing anything. Hes not someone that gets good things happen to him. That ending would be a perfect outcome of things and thats the polar opposite of mad maxs idea

@----.__

8 ай бұрын

A better ending would be when the Interceptor emerges it mates with the Opus and they make baby Opusceptors that have the W16 engine from the Bugatti Veyron.

the devs easily could've changed the story at the end to be about the plains of silence, where Max finally makes his way through the ocean floor, or finds peace in death

Man I had forgotten about the crazy cutscene with the "wedding"... I love this game but after finishing it with close to 100% I never felt like going back to it. I felt its story was done.

This game is truly breath-taking, even now I still go back to play it now even if I've gotten quite far in the game I still start from the beginning to experience it all again just like the first time it never gets old. Every collectible is amazing to collect once again no matter how far out of the way they are, the titles are a joy to achieve again, I'm unsure if I'm the only one who enjoys doing this. Also the single fact the game takes place in an apocalyptic Australia just makes it enjoyable for an aussie myself. If the world ever fell into apocalypse THIS is how i want AUS to be.

@theRPGmaster

11 ай бұрын

You're not alone. It's one of my favorite games of all time, probably #1. I love the Australian wilderness, need to visit someday.

@Funky_Astroman

10 ай бұрын

Definitely not alone homie on my 5th play through now and still feels like the first time 😂

@yaboijinkies336

8 ай бұрын

I thought it takes place in San Francisco, correct me if I’m wrong but can’t you find the Golden Gate Bridge in the sandy dune area, I think it’s been a while since I’ve been there but I know for sure I saw the Golden Gate Bridge

@idiocracylarper

7 ай бұрын

I'm on my second playthrough right now, just got the buggy and dog yesterday.

@thecoolestofthe834s2

6 ай бұрын

@@yaboijinkies336 aussie clone of the bridge made by the same building company

Can tell this video is gonna blow up, i just replayed this game for the first time since 2015 out of pure nostalgia and seeing a video essay pop up about it that was three days old was perfect, the algorithm is always watching you. Seriously though, great video kept me entertained even if i didn't agree with everything.

Maaan what a game.... Even if it became a separate project from the sequel/reboot that was the last movie, it was still a real underrated banger.

i mean for the scrap crew they still could have had passive income , sure you wont earn offline but while your playing you could still get a bunch and they could have had it so that when you upgrade the scrap piles you get a bonus of scrap along with your passive income

I don't like the ending as much as the next person, but I think it works for the character. In every movie Max ends with less than he started with

@HaykInWonderland

10 ай бұрын

Then this story is a win for Max cause he still has his car, jacket, and sawed off 😊

I bought the game a few years ago. Beat it twice and is still a go to from time to time.

The finale is beautiful.... beautiful for a mad max story. He is a character that always leaves us perplexed. He could have his happy ending but he doesn't want it .He continues to move forward with the traumas of him trying to do the best he can.

man, i would LOVE another mad max game. this game was so fun to play when i was little. def one of my favs for the time

This game has one of the best graphics I've seen in a game. It also follows the same artstyle, so everything feels right. Sound design was good too. I think just adding random groups of cars going on missions would add some hours to the game because you could just destroy them, and it's fun

I actually really loved my play through of this game. The combat felt really good and heavy. The story was gritty and left you feeling frustrated like you’re right back at the start. Exactly like how the movies felt. You’re never able to settle down. Just have to keep moving forwards. Nothings for certain

Got this game on sale for $8, i felt guilty for cheating the devs. This was a game i really liked, loved the brutal and visceral batman melee combat

It's nuts yet awesome that this game somehow always gets talked about & exposed to new people. Especially for how old it is.

It's always amazing to come across a game that you can't seem to put down, and this is one of those games for me. The world is so immersive and the gameplay is just so good that I don't mind spending hours upon hours exploring every nook and cranny. The graphics are truly stunning, and I'm surprised that they haven't received more recognition in reviews. The developers have done a fantastic job at optimizing the game, making it run smoothly on any machine. Although it might not have received the attention it deserved, I can say with confidence that this game is a must-play for anyone who loves a good adventure.

I cannot state how much I appreciate you using megadeth in your introduction to Max's new car. It fit perfectly

I had so much fun playing this game, it was actually a gift from my Dad after we’d seen Fury Road. Despite its issues I would say the overall package is definitely worth experiencing, if it had ever gotten a sequel it could’ve been great

I just finished mad max 2 days ago. It seems like every time I finish mad max, some youtuber makes a video on it a few days later

Top ten game of all time imo I revisit it at least once a year. Something about killing people with a car in post apocalyptic Australia hits different.

It’s tragic that they never patched it because the fact that you can’t 100% the trophies/achievements turns a lot off from playing this gem

44:44 now that I think of it How badass would it be if the final boss ends on us battling the interceptor with the Magnum opus I think it could show how far we came after Scrotus stripped everything from us

This is such a well-made review/video. You deserve more followers and likes!!!

I think mad max is my comfort game. I catch myself just booting up the game and driving around the abandoned locations, like the airport, just… taking screenshots. It’s an utterly stunning game, and it fills me with a melancholy I can’t describe. Everything is just so…quiet and empty in some places. I think it’s one of my favourite games ever, and If I knew how to do KZread stuff, I’d LOVE to make a video on my exact feelings with this game

This was one of the first games I ever got for the PS4 and I absolutely love it. The car combat feels so satisfying and the world building is superb. The Airport sequence alone is phenomenal.

Found the game during a sale, and since most of the games (even at the time) were mostly money grabbing trash i gave this one a go for 5€. Well what can i say.. played it several times. Finished it twice already. I guess all this apocalyptic wasteland vibe got me (feels as broken, but even grittier than fallout, which i'm a huge fan off (FO 1-4!). If you can grab it , give it a go.. it's great fun

@yolobathsalts

11 ай бұрын

a p o k a l y t i c

@lookout101

11 ай бұрын

@@yolobathsalts honest typo, thanks ;)

6:13-8:15 HOLY SHIT that was such a cool use of that Megadeth song. The lyrics and game play fit so well together, awesome choice bro

@psychokiller5959

Ай бұрын

What song

@jgaines4

6 күн бұрын

@@psychokiller5959 Gears of War

ITs wonderful to have someone like you talk about Mad Max. I swear this game was the shit when it came out, the car combat, grizzly survival mechanics, and story was really "crashing" into my heart. (You may now burn me at the stake)

A man that has the mask of the pious. A respected driver I can see

Dude thank you for talking about this awesome game this was my first game on Xbox one and it was an amazing guzoline filled experience.

Fucking love this game! I remember the reviews - one criticized the collection of scrap as a currency lamenting the practicalities of having to carry such a heavy load (owning an entire armory in Skyrim or GTA was apparently fine) - there was certainly a disparity between what the critics wrote versus the appreciation by the gaming community - those who were lucky enough to play it anyway.

It's funny cause in the cutscene early in the game where Max is spotting the camp where the Interceptor is you can see them taking off the front bumper and fuel tanks.

Bruh, just want to say that intro earned a quick like. good work on the edits dude now let me continue

in my play through of this game i never experienced any glitches at all. i got the game not to long ago on sale and im 8/10 of the way to 100%

I played Mad Max for a couple hundred hopurs when it came out, would have loved for it to have mod support to extend the replayability. Can't recommend it enough!

@lekdenwimkida

11 ай бұрын

150+hrs of gameplay squad let's go!!!!

@theRPGmaster

11 ай бұрын

It's a shame nobody has made any modding tools, I'd be making mods. I'm still not sure where to start, even though I'm a software developer.

@ExplizitDuester

11 ай бұрын

@@theRPGmaster doesn't help that the Game was Made for console and than adapted for PC. Most controls and menus work best with a controller. I think Mod support was never their intention. :(

@theRPGmaster

11 ай бұрын

@@ExplizitDuester I played it for the first time on xbox. But games are developed on PCs, even console games. As for mod support, big companies don't want that, because it exposes the game files, they're afraid of piracy / "theft" of intellectual property.

@ExplizitDuester

11 ай бұрын

@@theRPGmaster yes IT was obviously developed on a PC, but making the PC Version was an afterthought and the ui and controls feel more optimized for console/ playing with a controller.

YO 30 seconds in and I could already tell your gonna be one of my new faves

Man, I liked that game. Played it through twice, when I can count the games I finished in my time, but not those I played. Progression is very well paced; I always had a challenge up the difficulty I liked.

Mad max is in my top 5 favorite games along side Days Gone and the last of us. I didn't like it at first but eventually tried it again and was blown away. It took me some time to get use to the car combat mechanics but once i did it was on. I couldn't put the controller down until the game was completed. I even skipped work to play it. Any video about mad max has my like but your video was particularly well done. Thanks

I wish more games had the level of impact this title does. I adore this game.

I have completed this game three times over, there is nothing I want more than a sequel to this game set in a different area

this genuinely might be my favorite open world game out there. thank you for doing it some justice.

I sincerely wish there was a sequek to this. Or even a franchise or development. 2015 may have veen slept on by other hits at the time and it may not be the greatest thing ever, but surely somerhing similar with improvements isn't too hard.

I loved this game. It's one of the few games I 100% completed.

I've heard so little about this game, that to this point i had completely forgot about it, and maybe would not even remember if not for this video. You literally made me relieve such an beautiful memory of playing this, i had a blast on it. The feeling of the car combat i compare to the same feeling i had when being chased by the police in the old Need for Speed games.

well it came out in 2015 and its a solid single player without any story dlc. What the hell you expected to happen?

This was lowkey one of my fav games to go and mess around in, sucks it never got any love after release

@theRPGmaster

11 ай бұрын

I've loved it, and always will!

I have always love this game but when it was released my PC was not good enough. So I only did it last year and what an handsome game with this issues more over you can get it for only a few bucks. Thank you for the video 👍

@raph121

11 ай бұрын

I apologize for my english, I am french

Chumbucket: -Gives Max a new car and helps him modify it in exchange of nothing. -Supports Max with the secondary weapons and keeping the car repaired -Helps Max get in contact with some of the main leaders of the Wasteland -Calls him Saint and spends the whole time telling everyone how awesome Max is Max: -Implies that he's going to take the car and abandon Chumbucket -Completely and unnecessarily destroys the car and lets Chumbucket die

been thinking few months already to replay this game and you pushed me over the edge, cheers!

I really do hope they do try and test the waters with another mad max game with the Furiosa movie on the horizon

I feel like the archangles are made to be some sort of rubber banding against the enemies as in you dont just 2 tap them cause you grined before you got inti the missions idk i personally like them, btw i NEEED a video explaining how you do edits and cinematics the beamng vid was AWESOME and even in this video they were really good, keep it up

I will say, one of the small things I always loved about this game's combat was the fact that you and the opponents can interact with the walls! Instead of the animations just becoming janky because you're in a corner, it actively changes when you hit the wall. It just always added another level of realism and a kinda "crunch" to the combat that I wish more games would add in

I played this game years ago while it was still on game pass and I cannot tell you how much fun I had. It was always great to turn a new settlement from a ruin to a fortress and kick a whole new type of ass at 120 miles per hour. Awesome to see it wasn’t just me imagining how good it was!

I absolutely love this game, in my opinion its the biggest sleeper hit of the 2010s. So glad its starting to get more recognition

quamk

@bonibaeza

11 ай бұрын

Agreed

@PloscaruDavid

11 ай бұрын

@@bonibaeza quamk

One of my favorite litte details I noticed is that because i kept getting in the car on the left, chumbucket will actually ask you why you keep doing that. I love that because the devs knew that a lot of people from the U.S. would instinctually get in on the left, even though Australians have the driver seat on the right.

This game is gonna be nostalgic for a long time for me because i played it during my freshman year of college.

And let's never forget the best part of this game. That multiple members of Critical Role are part of the voice cast.

It's a singleplayer game. It was released. That's what happened. Sure, it's an okay game, but nothing 'happened' to it.

This is quality i would expect from a 5 mill sub youtube channel. Not 30000. Very well done, keep up the good work :)

One of my favourite games of all time. I've replayed it a few times now. Never get bored of grinding to upgrade the Magnum Opus and creating a fierce machine

playing this games years ago was such a great experience. i even have the little toy car from the preorder. so many memories

Man, this video really connected with me when I saw the giant "E" 5 seconds in

I'm about to download it this weekend. I've heard so much good stuff about this game. I can quote the original Mad Max movie.

This game made me growlingly say "ANYBODY ELSE WANT SOME?!" more than any other game I've ever played.

I have played this game from start to finish many times ever since it came out. It's a shame it never got the attention it deserved. I wish they would make a remaster or sequel.

It even has 1st person mode while driving. Just tap down on the d pad twice quickly. It looks awesome!

first off, real good video, I loved the game so much, one of my favourite youtuber actually made a playthrough back when it was released and I never tought the game had been judged so harshly cause he loved it and it was the most popular playtrough of his channel at the time. The fun, the scale, the scarcity of ressource, the feeling of growing slowly stronger, the goddamn sounds of the engines, the hand to hand takedowns that felt so brutal, it's a gem. It might get boring once you finished all the side quest cause fighting occurs seldomly, but the adventure is worth the time. Tough, for me the game is completly set in the same universe as the movie, for me the game is a prequel: at the beggining of the movie the interceptor has the same external fuel tanks that you get at the end of the game, you visit petrotown, wich often referred in the movie, the bullet farm isn't seen nor in the movie nor the game but both refers it, I even believe that there is some reference to immortan joe in the game. For me all of this proves tht after venturing in the big nothing for days, max ran out fuel and the movie begins with him taking a leak, effectively making the game a prequel to the movie. Also, why would they stick so much to the imagery of the movie (spiked beetle cars, white painted dudes with stick that explodes, big fucking trucks (you cans see a warbringer in a tunnel in the game, exact same one as in the movie)) if not to connect the two? Anyway, good video and heckin great game that cost nothing nowadays, jump on it if you see it!

I remember once watching a review about this game and hearing that "once you get the shotgun, melee is basically redundant and never used" so I played my entire run of the game without a shotgun (unless absolutely necessary or for awesome finishing combos). The melee combat is really good because as long as you hit the blocks you can never take damage! (snipers are extra fun to deal with though)

I feel like a lot of people who have played this game don’t know that you can legit do wrestling moves like suplexs and drop kicks and such so satisfying