The experience of driving around in a sick car with chumbucket in a big open wasteland is unmatched. In the wasteland you stumble across ruins and outposts that literally are just rusty shipwrecks giving you a glimpse of the previous civilization before the apocalypse hit earth. The gameplay is very fun and the combat is like the Arkham games except maybe a bit more violent which I think it’s great. The game can however get grindy and require you to hunt for scrap parts and etc. But I don’t mind doing it and it feels very rewarding compared to a game like the newer Assassin’s Creed games where you spend lots of time grinding really for no reason other than that the enemies have levels.

Decided to do a marathon watch with all 4 films before I saw Furiosa yesterday so I decided to also replay the game to understand the lore a lot more and the mad max franchise itself.

This game for it's time it was good story wise and also graphics were awesome especially on max settings on PC. The one thing I dislike about the game is the fact you have to do repetitive side quests to gain salvage and other useless stuff when I just want to focus on the main story. Besides that this game is honestly underrated especially for it's time and the characters, story, gameplay is smooth besides a few glitches here and there but also it stood with the films.

Oh and this game felt smoothed as hell on KBM.
Mad Max Films Ranked: https://boxd.it/vG8PK
Mad Max (1979) Review: https://boxd.it/6w8SrH
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Review: https://boxd.it/6wwQIp
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Review: https://boxd.it/6wVkH5
Mad Max: Fury Road Review: https://boxd.it/6xHcut
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Review: Still logging.

I really tried to like this one, but while it captures the feel of the series nicely, and the car and melee combat are satisfying in a vacuum, it's the progression that makes it so hard to complete. The grind in Just Cause 3 is much easier to stomach when it's not tied to this really slow gameplay, and Mad Max is the prime example: completing camps takes forever, there's not a lot to do when going from A to B and the story missions aren't very exciting, constantly requiring you to get resources to build determined car models that you'll swap out of instantly.

It was a great game... i took 2 years to finally finish it

-the combat is very fun, i like the "Batman-like" combat where you can spam X and Y

- i had headaches driving, the wheels feels like f*ckin soap on the road (or is skill issue? i dunno)

- the story is a bit short, but is full of repetitive content on the map, so take your time

It was a fun game, very repetitive but fun.

As counterweight to recently played 4X-Strategy, i picked "Mad Max" with the approach of a easy-to-handle, chill open-world game; also wanted to synergize on the movie, while theaters showing "Furiosa - A Mad Max Story" rn.

First Impression:
- Theme and quality of the narrative and presentation is sombre and top-notch! Totally into it and Max' brain-wrenched quest for the Magnum Opus to finally find his peace (we all know: he won't).
God, i love the atmosphere and graphics. Plays really well on a 3080 with all the details and in high-res. No drops in frames though! Love it. I think it's important for it to run smoothly, in regards to the driving/racing gameplay-features.
- Which brings me to exactly that - gameplay. I like every part of it so far, especially fighting / driving....
-...but both a little to easy though.
- Scavenge scrab get's a litte annyoing because you can't collect it while driving. I know - wouldn't be realistic, but can't they build in such a QoS-Feature?
- Upgrade-mechanic(s) for Max are a litte under-explained in the beginning, because they're two-part and you don't really know, if Griffa comes back, once you spent all your points (he does, in the same area, so, worries silenced - but had to google it first.)

First Impression:

Excellent surprise.
It really felt like I was in the movie.
Car mechanics and fights are awesome.
The open world is so beautiful but its mechanics are boring.
I wish some ennemies would scream " witness ! " when fighting.

It's pretty obvious that this game had a troubled development. There's simultaneously too much narrative and too little connective tissue to that narrative. It plays pretend at survival mechanics and then immediately discards them in favor of lawnmowering map icons to upgrade strongholds. Every character is annoying, and Max in particular does not act at all in coherence with his movie counterpart. It doesn't really "understand" Mad Max as a series or a story.

But damn if that vehicle combat isn't bone-crunchingly satisfying. Some of the best vehicle combat outside of Russian games and giving you plenty to do on the road while motoring around feels great. It's just everything that happens when you hop out of your car that kinda stinks. Better than you've been told, worse than the promise lurking underneath the surface.

I want to see someone make a Mad Max game with the same autistic attention to detail and open world conceits of Red Dead Redemption 2 or Metal Gear Solid 5. A real car-fucker kind of game. Now that would be glorious.

Originally 100%'d on console, replaying on PC after watching Furiosa (which feels like a videogame itself, and which has Scrotus and Chumbucket, so it all comes full circle lol)