Let Madness Take You – Mad Max Review

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"CENTER"><em>Mad Max<&sol;em> was always a franchise that was ripe for a video game adaptation&comma; with the setting&comma; constant use of explosions&comma; and interesting characters&period; Its actually what inspired Borderlands and many games like it so it was about time that <em>Mad Max<&sol;em> got its own game bringing its unique setting to game form&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT"><em>Mad Max<&sol;em> is a 3<sup>rd<&sol;sup> person action sandbox set in a post apocalyptic Australia like all<em> Mad Max<&sol;em> movies&period; The game starts with Max being ambushed by the local warlord&comma; Scabrous Scrotus&comma; and his War Boys&period; Max fights back but is ultimately stripped of his car&comma; the Black on Black&comma; and all of his worldly possessions and is left to die in the desert with nothing&period; Luckily&comma; you survive and meet a denizen of the wastes called Chumbucket who says that you&&num;8217&semi;re the prophesied Saint sent by The Angel of Combustion and that you could help him build the mightiest car of the Wastelands&comma; The Magnum Opus&period; Since Max was just stripped of all his worldly possessions he really isn&&num;8217&semi;t in a position to deny the miscreant so he decides to make an alliance with Chumbucket in order to build himself a new car that can match the Black on Black&period; Max&&num;8217&semi;s primary motivation for wanting to build this new vehicle in place of his old one is that he wants to use it to find the mythical &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Plains of Silence” that he believes will calm his madness&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;92083" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-92083" style&equals;"width&colon; 730px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;04133334&sol;MadMax&lowbar;TheWasteland&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-92083" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;04133334&sol;MadMax&lowbar;TheWasteland-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"MadMax&lowbar;TheWasteland" width&equals;"730" height&equals;"411" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-92083" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Mad Max&comma; Warner Brothers Entertainment&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT">The game takes place in a large open world that even though is set in a wasteland&comma; has a lot of different locales and settings to it&period; Never did I feel like the setting was repetitive even though I am supposed to be in a desolate place&comma; the developers created the world in such a unique way that it makes different locations and landmarks feel fresh and not boring at all&period; The characters are also unique and memorable in each hub area of the world with Max volunteering to help them clear their territory of Scrotus&&num;8217&semi;s influence in order to get more pieces of the Magnum Opus&period; Since this is the wasteland&comma; most characters show a little madness and its interesting to see the various ways people have adapted to survive in the harsh environment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;92071" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-92071" style&equals;"width&colon; 743px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;04133405&sol;Watch-Mad-Max-in-action-in-this-new-gameplay-video&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-92071" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;04133405&sol;Watch-Mad-Max-in-action-in-this-new-gameplay-video-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"743" height&equals;"418" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-92071" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Mad Max&comma; Warner Brothers Entertainment&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT">The Magnum Opus itself is a dream ride of custom pieces that you can unlock by doing various missions and reducing the threat levels for the different factions throughout the wasteland&period; The car has a wide variety of customizable parts and it lets you tweak the car to make it just the way you want it&period; The amount of customization is impressive and every part you add can increase or decrease a stat point making it purely up to the player to decide which stats they think are important&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT">Speaking of the cars&comma; <em>Mad Max<&sol;em> has excellent car combat pretty much straight out of the movies&comma; with you using weapons like a harpoon&comma; a makeshift sniper rifle and even a rocket launcher called a Thunderpoon&period; Anytime you&&num;8217&semi;re exploring the world you can come across random vehicles and since this is a post-apocalyptic game&comma; they attack you on sight causing you to have to defend yourself and in response wreck their cars&period; You can even damage the cars enough that the drivers stop and get out letting you take their vehicle and add to your collection of cars&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT">Speaking of enemies&comma; this is where <em>Mad Max<&sol;em> takes a downturn&period; All the enemies are separated into archetypes but unfortunately the factions are just repainted skins for the same archetypes so combat becomes easily repetitive&period; Even the bosses are just palette swaps with every boss having the same pattern and attacks&period; The story bosses aren&&num;8217&semi;t much better either and at the end of the day I only encountered 2 different bosses just palette swapped a bunch of the time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;92070" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-92070" style&equals;"width&colon; 734px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;04133427&sol;Mad&lowbar;max&lowbar;videogame&lowbar;-&lowbar;vehicular&lowbar;combat&period;png"><img class&equals;"wp-image-92070" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;04133427&sol;Mad&lowbar;max&lowbar;videogame&lowbar;-&lowbar;vehicular&lowbar;combat-1024x576&period;png" alt&equals;"Mad&lowbar;max&lowbar;videogame&lowbar;-&lowbar;vehicular&lowbar;combat" width&equals;"734" height&equals;"413" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-92070" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Mad Max&comma; Warner Brothers Entertainment&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT">Combat is in the same vein of the <em>Batman Arkham<&sol;em> games where you have a strike button&comma; a counter button&comma; a dodge and for Max you can use a double barreled shotgun to instantly gib most enemies&period; I found that the counter button is very unforgiving though and even when I hit the button&comma; an enemy would still get a hit on me a lot of the time making it frustrating to fight large groups of enemies where multiple people can attack you at the same time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT">Progression is a problem as well as you can max out your character as early as the second zone if you do all the side missions and scavenging up until that point&period; After that you can essentially just power your way through the rest of the game and any additional resources basically become useless to collect and this can make the game&&num;8217&semi;s progression seem almost negligible as a result&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;92072" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-92072" style&equals;"width&colon; 767px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;04133351&sol;maxresdefault2&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-92072" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;04133351&sol;maxresdefault2-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"maxresdefault" width&equals;"767" height&equals;"432" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-92072" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Mad Max&comma; Warner Brothers Entertainment&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"LEFT">Overall though&comma; <em>Mad Max<&sol;em> is a decent open world game with interesting characters and superb vehicle combat that really is a must play for any <em>Mad Max<&sol;em> fans&period; The world itself is unique and interesting and makes you want to explore it and learn more&comma; while the vehicle customization and vehicular combat are a superb part of the game&period; Unfortunately&comma; the game is let down with its palate swapped bosses and lack of overall pacing&period; Mad Max is an enjoyable game for fans of the series and really captures the essence of the<em> Mad Max<&sol;em> movies for a game experience that while lacking in some areas&comma; creates a really complete open world sandbox game that fans of the series as well as non-fans can enjoy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;" align&equals;"LEFT"><strong><em>An Xbox One review code for Mad Max was provided by Warner Brothers for the purpose of this review&period;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;