Mad Max

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
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☐ 9
☑ 10

Honest review:

Just a guy in love with his car, but has a bit of a temper problem.

I'd give this game a 6/10.

Story is actually not bad, it follows one decently enough. There could've been some improvements but all in all I liked it.

If you like collecting cars, you'll enjoy this. Unfortunately you can only upgrade one of them, but there is many ways to do so. Physics of driving is entertaining.

If you like Easter Egg hunting, you'll like this open world. There is plenty of things for you to find, some are actually kind of challenging.

Racing, this game has racing. In addition, you can blow up your competition if you'd like. I'd highly recommend doing so.

Crazy stunts, this game has plenty that you can do.

Fighting, its kind of boring and repetitive to me, and reminds me of Batman in that element.
The game to me seems a bit too repetitive, but on that hand its fairly stress free.

Gameplay, is challenging enough, but has harder settings if you desire.

Replayable.... ehh probably not, unless you wanna collect all the cars.

All in all its a little better than OK.

If you like honest reviews, please hit that like button or troll me in the comments.

Mad Max is one of the most underrated games ever made, and I genuinely don’t understand how more people aren’t talking about how incredible it is. Every time I jump into the wasteland, I’m blown away by how immersive and atmospheric the world feels. The car combat is some of the best I’ve ever experienced (fast, brutal, and insanely satisfying) and the Magnum Opus truly feels like my machine, shaped by every upgrade. The world design is stunning in its own harsh, desolate beauty.
From my perspective, the story is far more emotional and engaging than it gets credit for (of course, the ending was too depressing, maybe they could have given us a sense of victory at the end.).
The gameplay loop is deeply rewarding. Clearing camps, improving gear, and mastering combat all feel incredibly smooth and purposeful. The animations are punchy, the customization is addictive, and the entire world feels alive despite being a wasteland. I genuinely think Mad Max deserves way more praise, it’s a brilliantly crafted, unforgettable experience that I’m truly grateful I gave a chance.

Mad Max slowly turned into one of those games where I’d get into the car to drive somewhere and end up completely forgetting where I was going.
The desert has this strange rhythm where nothing happens for a while and then suddenly you're chasing a convoy across half the map, engines screaming, scrap flying everywhere and half the road turning into wrecks. I kept telling myself I’d head back to the objective after the fight, but every time something new appeared on the horizon the plan changed again.
A lot of my time ended up being spent just roaming the wasteland, upgrading the Magnum Opus piece by piece and turning it from a rusty wreck into something that could rip enemy cars apart. Hunting for scrap, spotting smoke trails in the distance and deciding whether it was worth the trouble became strangely addictive.
Somewhere along the way I realized the story had quietly moved to the background. What kept pulling me back was the road itself, the engine noise, and the feeling that something chaotic might appear over the next dune.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u want all the items/badges
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Its OK
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☑ 10
VERY GOOD GAME!!!

They don't make them like this anymore.

Memorable characters, good voice acting, and a decent story make for one of the last great open world triple A titles uncorrupted by modern game development.

Sure, the game suffers somewhat from the usual open world repetitive tasks. But, if you can look past that, it's a very immersive world which captures what Mad Max is all about.

I regret taking so long to finally play the game, and even more disappointed to discover there were rumours about a sequel that never came to be.

Now it seems Avalanche Studios is only working on hunting and fishing games. This is truly a tragedy.

This is like the last game they made before microtransaction stores, wood collection, resource type and icon overload in open world games. As Ghost of Tsushima collated all open world mechanics for the 20s, Mad Max did it for the state of gamemaking in 2013. You have bright yellow paint, ubitowers, camp scouting, camp clearing as well as Batman/Shadows of Mordor combat (which also explains why this sits at 70 in open critic, it just had the same stuff all the games had). But the strong points are: fun driving mechanic, car upgrading, only one resource for everything (!) and particularly: the characters and writing are great. If this was a 2020 game the choice of character types would have been different and object to differing external demands. All in all, this gives a game that is probably more fun to play in 2025 than it was in 2013. For 3 bucks theres no reason not to try.