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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Hopefully many of you guys are familiar with this (IMO) underrated and underappreciated game. Made by Avalanche Studios, makers of Just Cause, it released around the movie but wasn't exactly a tie in. The game had the unfortunate distinction of releasing the same day as Metal Gear Solid V, which would likely be a big reason why the game kinda fizzled away.
At the core it's a very basic open world game. You have dots on your map signifying things to do, you can upgrade both your vehicle and Max's abilities and there's even a version of Ubisoft's towers in this. It checks all the boxes so if you don't like games like that in general, you're probably not gonna have a fun time.
But the game has positive points as well, there's a heavy emphasis on car combat and you get a big amount of car selection and upgrades to your base car to play around with. Similarly, the game has a very Fallout style ultra post apocalyptic barren wasteland feel, no over grown forests or greenery here. The melee combat, like my last thread about Sleeping Dogs, is another iteration on the Arkham "Y" to counter system. The hits feel crunchy and there's a very solid feel of connecting to enemies with both your fists and weapons. Unfortunately no crazy environmental kills here.
All in all, it's not a game that revolutionized the open world genre, but it is a pretty fun. One of those games you can put on a podcast and either crank out a few story missions or clear out enemy encampments to get those upgrade points that make you that much more formidable in the wasteland.
Not sure if I'd wanna classify this as a movie tie-in, yes it released pretty close to the movie but it's not a retelling of the movie and it's definitely not the same sounding Max, this Max is Australian, not Tom Hardy-ish.
Oh and one of the best parts of replaying it now is that basically either any PC built in the last half a decade should be able to play it .. and it runs at a near flawless 120 FPS on Series X and 60 FPS on Series S via the FPS boost. No such patch for my Sony brethren as of now, but this game should definitely be looked at for the remaster treatment.
PS. This game was on sale on Xbox for $4.99 last week, but looks like the sale ended, it's back to $19.99 now.
At the core it's a very basic open world game. You have dots on your map signifying things to do, you can upgrade both your vehicle and Max's abilities and there's even a version of Ubisoft's towers in this. It checks all the boxes so if you don't like games like that in general, you're probably not gonna have a fun time.
But the game has positive points as well, there's a heavy emphasis on car combat and you get a big amount of car selection and upgrades to your base car to play around with. Similarly, the game has a very Fallout style ultra post apocalyptic barren wasteland feel, no over grown forests or greenery here. The melee combat, like my last thread about Sleeping Dogs, is another iteration on the Arkham "Y" to counter system. The hits feel crunchy and there's a very solid feel of connecting to enemies with both your fists and weapons. Unfortunately no crazy environmental kills here.
All in all, it's not a game that revolutionized the open world genre, but it is a pretty fun. One of those games you can put on a podcast and either crank out a few story missions or clear out enemy encampments to get those upgrade points that make you that much more formidable in the wasteland.
Not sure if I'd wanna classify this as a movie tie-in, yes it released pretty close to the movie but it's not a retelling of the movie and it's definitely not the same sounding Max, this Max is Australian, not Tom Hardy-ish.
Oh and one of the best parts of replaying it now is that basically either any PC built in the last half a decade should be able to play it .. and it runs at a near flawless 120 FPS on Series X and 60 FPS on Series S via the FPS boost. No such patch for my Sony brethren as of now, but this game should definitely be looked at for the remaster treatment.
PS. This game was on sale on Xbox for $4.99 last week, but looks like the sale ended, it's back to $19.99 now.