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  • Summary: Mad Max places players in the role of a lone warrior who must embark on a journey to reclaim his stolen interceptor from a deadly gang of marauders.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 22
  2. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Sep 4, 2015
    84
    A very good Mad Max game, with some excellent bits but also some issues. The setting is great, car combat is incredibly fun - there's a good sense of freedom and the main missions are pretty good, but the story is quite flat (even though the ending is great), the fighting system is nothing more than decent and the optional stuff becomes pretty repetitive.
  2. Sep 7, 2015
    80
    Mad Max successfully blends well-known and popular elements from other games. Post-apocalyptic world is very well presented and driving behind the Magnus Opus' wheel is so engrossing that the latest work from Avalanche is definitely worth your time, even if one needs to turn a blind eye to few shortcomings.
  3. Oct 29, 2015
    80
    In the end, Mad Max’s ability to create a good time far outweighs any problems it has.
  4. Sep 3, 2015
    76
    It captures the charm of the outstanding original, and should satisfy fans of the original. However, it is also monotonous, tough and a little unimaginative.
  5. Jan 19, 2016
    70
    Is it a bad game? Absolutely not. On the contrary, Ubisoft's open-world template is perfect for churning out market-friendly games that tick all the boxes of "What People Want." Or, perhaps, "What You Want."...And honestly, Mad Max's formula is still to some extent "What I Want." Just not as much as a few years ago.
  6. Oct 7, 2015
    70
    The formula wears off quickly but the fans of the movie will have their Mad Max fix.
  7. The type which does not present a novelty for open world Mad Max. Repetitive missions. Is it fun to collect scrap metal?

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Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 24 out of 284
  1. Sep 1, 2015
    10
    I bought MGS V and Mad Max last night, I figured I would try Mad Max for an hour before i would start Metal Gear. I still have not playedI bought MGS V and Mad Max last night, I figured I would try Mad Max for an hour before i would start Metal Gear. I still have not played metal gear a day later. This mad max game besides being beautufl graphically is so much fun, there is so much stuff to do in the game. My one little grip is that you cannot collect scrap metal by driving over it Expand
  2. Jun 30, 2022
    10
    how can anyone not like this game? he is incredible. a desert Arkhan Batman ;-; I love this game's vehicular combat and especially itshow can anyone not like this game? he is incredible. a desert Arkhan Batman ;-; I love this game's vehicular combat and especially its hand-to-hand combat Expand
  3. Sep 15, 2015
    9
    This is no 100m sprint, you are in it for the long haul... The game has a great feel and look to how Mad Max is. There is so much to do inThis is no 100m sprint, you are in it for the long haul... The game has a great feel and look to how Mad Max is. There is so much to do in this open world game, you get side tracked from the main mission, he'll iv fully ranked up max and iv just left jeets fort...the negative thing about this game is its very repetitive for the side missions, and a pain getting out of the car collecting scraps from fallen cars... EDIT(when you upgrade your fort scraps is collected automatically) what you will like about Max is the sheer fun factor of driving around in the waste lands taking down convoys, running into a sand storm and upgrading the car.. Iv just unlocked the side flames and it's a blast.. The sound is truly amazing of the vehicles . and the explosions are a joy to stop and take a screen shot while it's all going on.. As they have a very nice editor option where you can record and take snaps.

    My highlight is going into first person when driving and taking down a convoy it's epic..
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  4. Feb 22, 2019
    8
    I had heard that Mad Max could be a bit boring of a game but when I got it on sale for $6CAD I figured I would give it a go. It was a goodI had heard that Mad Max could be a bit boring of a game but when I got it on sale for $6CAD I figured I would give it a go. It was a good choice. I do tend to get bored in open world games sometimes but the combat and story of Mad Max kept me entertained. There were a few quirks along the way but nothing gamebreaking. The graphics were solid, the game was stable, the combat was great and the story fit the lore.

    The gameplay was a mesh of the Batman games from Rocksteady and Sleeping Dogs. It mixed the timing based combat of the Batman games with the brutality from Sleeping Dogs. It felt very at home with the Mad Max series as it was very low tech but brutal. You could use shivs, various finishers such as breaking bones and necks, melee weapons and go into fury mode which aside from extra damage has it’s own selection of finishers. I wished you had more control over which finisher was used as sometimes they would repeat a lot but that’s a minor gripe. The car combat was pretty decently done but felt clunky at times. There were a good variety of weapons to use from the car but aiming them just felt off sometimes. I could be right next to an enemy but not have the option to shoot for their tires but move a little away or back and suddenly I could even though I should have had a clear shot before. The car damage was a mixed bag as well. I could run head on into a rock and half my car’s health could be gone or get t-boned by an enemy and same thing but I could then go and boost off a cliff, flip over a half dozen times and land without a scratch or dent to my car’s health. One more thing is that the lack of a jump ability was really poorly thought out. I literally couldn’t get to some loot because the game wouldn’t allow me to walk on a few surfaces to get to it. Had I been able to jump there would be no issue. I wish the map would tell me which areas were locked because sometimes I travelled all the way to a loot location only to be told this area was locked to a story quest which means I wasted my time going there.

    The graphics were overall above average but not stunning. I can’t point to one thing and say it was bad but I also can’t point to one detail that really stunned me. You know the feeling of seeing water or foilage in Crysis the first time or seeing the world of Oblivion after exiting the dungeon after the intro or the fire damage to the landscape in Far Cry 2, etc. I could go on but basically the graphics were good and better than some but nothing stood out about them. It may be tough to make a desert wasteland look gorgeous but either way they didn’t. One thing I will say though is the storms were very well done. Lightning strikes going off everywhere, debris blowing everywhere, made for a sight and was tense.

    As I mentioned earlier the game was stable for me on Linux. On Windows I would get a crash every 10 minutes or so due to a “directX error”. On Linux I had one single solitary crash and that was it. On Linux it had a Vulkan beta as wel as the standard OpenGL version. The Vulkan version offered me more stable framerates, less valleys and peaks than OpenGL. Both were good though as I averaged over 80 FPS with the game maxed out. That being said when I was around two specific areas, Deep Friah’s stronghold and Gastown, I would get random drops to 20-30 FPS even with nothing going on at all. No combat, car chases, just me walking around. I am not sure of the cause but it happened on both OpenGL and Vulkan. The game was only using 26% of my CPU and between 3-3.5GB of RAM so those weren’t the cause of my slowdowns. As for graphics options there were plenty. There were toggles for Vsync and motion blur, 8 different levels for AF, 1 level for SSAO and AA as well as 13 other options all with various levels. There was no way to turn depth of field off though, I could only lower it. While there was no option in the menu for 144Hz the game did allow me to go up to 144hz with Vsync. I beat the story in 52 hours and completed 78% of the game overall. I played on version 1.1 of the game. The game lacked manual saves but it did save after every event whether it was collecting loot, doing an upgrade or completing a mission so it wasn’t a big deal.

    I enjoyed my time with Mad Max. It had it’s quirks and issues but overall the story was good and the combat was good so those are two big wins right there. I would easily recommend it to those who enjoy open world games or the timing based combat of the Batman games. There are better games out there but there are far worse as well. I paid $6 CAD for it but would easily say it is worth $30 CAD.

    My score: 7.5/10

    My system:

    AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 18.3.3 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB | Manjaro Mate | Kernel 4.20.10-1-MANJARO | AOC G2460P @1920*1080 144Hz
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  5. Nov 18, 2018
    8
    Gráficamente está bien, es divertido, mundo abierto con muuchas cosas por hacer: coleccionables, completar campamentos, limpiar campos deGráficamente está bien, es divertido, mundo abierto con muuchas cosas por hacer: coleccionables, completar campamentos, limpiar campos de minas, mucho secundario en resumen. Lo que le echaría en cara sería más misiones de la trama principal, que al final se quedan en pocas si no haces otras tareas/misiones secundarias. Lo recomiendo. Expand
  6. Nov 19, 2019
    7
    A pesar de lo mediocre de su mundo abierto, he disfrutado tremendamente de esta obra.
    Capta muy bien el universo Mad Max y que tu objetivo
    A pesar de lo mediocre de su mundo abierto, he disfrutado tremendamente de esta obra.
    Capta muy bien el universo Mad Max y que tu objetivo principal sea mejorarte el coche me parece un acierto que marca la diferencia con decenas de juegos similares (Dando palmas cuando consigues por fin el primer modelo de V8). El sistema de combate (visto en Batman Arkham) cumple de sobra y las persecuciones son geniales.
    Naturalmente presenta ciertos aspectos negativos de sobra comentados.
    - Poca interacción con NPC's.
    - Mediocridad en secundarias (y alguna principal).
    - Falsa sensación de supervivencia.
    - Estando muy bien las persecuciones...hecho en falta diversidad de vehículos enemigos. Es Mad Max! y solo persigues turismos (con pinchos eso si) ¿Donde están esos camiones nitro-propulsados con lanza llamas y guitarrista incorporado?¿Donde están los Monster Trucks como el de Immortal Joe?

    Interesante propuesta, especialmente para amantes de juegos con mecánicas de conducción( sin necesariamente participar en carreras) y de ambientación post -apocalíptica.
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  7. Apr 22, 2022
    0
    I can't get over how f*cking r*tarded the story in this game is. Throughout the entire game Max came off as nothing more than a d*mbassI can't get over how f*cking r*tarded the story in this game is. Throughout the entire game Max came off as nothing more than a d*mbass selfish *sshole taking one moronic bad decision after the other. One moment Max is treating this woman with indifference and abandoning her and her child to fate, the other one he is going insane with anger and hatred because they were killed. The best and most likeable character in the entire game is constantly bullied by Max and dies in a pointless and contrived way due to yet another stup*d action by Max that you as a player can't do anything to stop. And to crown this whole imbec*lity, the entire story depends on the fact that the antagonist was able to survive his brain being literally sawed in half with a chainsaw. I could eat a dictionary and still sh*t out a better script than what the id*ots who wrote this cr*p came up with.

    The gameplay is tolerable at best, but extremely repetitive and padded out. This entire game felt like a massive waste of my time.
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