I Played Every MAD MAX Game

Max Max movies are awesome! The games... not so much.
In this video, I take a look at the history of Mad Max video game adaptations. I start by taking a look at the Mad Max 1990 NES game, which is so bad, George Miller then became incredibly wary of whoever he gave the Mad Max licence to. I then move onto Outlander for the SNES and Sega Mega Drive (aka Sega Genesis), a game which developer Mindscape lost the Mad Max rights to halfway through development. I then talk about two Mad Max games which got cancelled: Mad Max: Autorama (a game planned for a VHS console called the Controlvision) and Mad Max: Asylum (a PS2 game developed by an Australian developer who hadn't even acquired the rights to the Mad Max franchise). I then end by reviewing Avalanche Studio's Mad Max game from 2015. By FAR, the best Mad Max game, with amazing graphics and gameplay, albeit soured by its Ubisoft style open world and repetitive objectives.
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⌛TIMECODES⌛
0:00 Intro
1:27 Mad Max (1990)
6:05 Outlander
10:42 Mad Max: Autorama
13:16 Mad Max: Asylum
15:35 Mad Max (2015)
25:39 Outro / End Screen
#madmax #madmax2015 #madmaxnes #madmaxgames #madmaxmovies #madmaxreview #review #gamereview #retrospective #gaming

[@Suspect_Green]

Hey guys! So going forward, all my videos will have subtitles! So be sure to switch on the closed captions option if you want 'em :)

[@siddharthvasu3511]

Thanks for adding subtitles, I'm one of the people who voted for subtitles on the poll you held

[@Makman1994]

Thanks so much. Subtitles are really handy to pick up every line.

[@trblemayker5157]

Can you do a video where From Software games have been copied to oblivion?

[@Suspect_Green]

Check out Iron Pineapple on KZbin; he's got that covered!

[@jacobmatthewcrawford2120]

14:19 Terrific example of how a pitch meeting should NOT be executed! This is case where, "You bust the deal, you face the wheel!"

[@JOSH-lw2jv]

This reminds me of when they were going to work on a remake of *"Planet of the Apes"* in the '90s with Arnold Schwarzenegger, director Phillip Noyce & executive producer Oliver Stone; only for a Fox studio executive - Dylan Sellers - suggested to add comedy in the script, and wanted a scene where the Apes would have trouble playing baseball, and Schwarzenegger's character would help them. Yes, that was a thing! And when Terry Hayes presented another draft of the script - without the infamous baseball scene - Sellers fired him, and the remake was cancelled.

[@nbkguy4203]

The story behind the 2015 Mad Max game is so interesting, the channel Mad Max Bible has a really interesting documentary on it and how George Miller was screwed over during it's production

[@MegaSting1981]

Oh really? I'll look into that 👐

[@torquetheprisoner]

they should of given the player the choice to play the game with unlimited fuel

[@ckellyedits]

I'll never 100% Mad Max because of one of the sub requirements is killing a certain type of enemy a certain way, and once you start defeating the world and the threat level lowers, they don't spawn except in one location, once an hour, 33% of the time. So sad.

[@repulser93]

I'm not sure I can Platinum it because apparently a server went down? (For a single-player game, the fuck?)

[@devilprooftiger]

Poundfist is up!

[@itsand1866]

Same. I’ve spent so much time trying to 100% it and I couldn’t all cause the last few challenges are extremely specific to do

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

Honestly, though Mad Max would work really well as like a Twisted Metal Style Car combat game, plenty to do with that kind of thing.

[@smithwesson1896]

I'm all for more video game series retrospectives! Maybe some we could boil down to a theme, like games about samurai or ninjas, more movie-licensed games, Cyberpunk style games, games inspired by Alien, etc

[@citywitt3202]

The fact the JustCause devs got a mad max franchise makes complete sense. Just cause was a total tripfest and to date the funniest game I’ve ever played. I’d go into a town in just cause 1, and start firing at things with my pistol. When people showed up, I’d take them out. When the big armor showed up, I switched to a medium assault rifle and go ham. When helicopter showed up, I would use my rocket launcher. But the basic gun never ran out of ammo, so you’d end up in this insane scenario against 6 tanks, 4 cars, 30 men, two helicopters and a f***ing jet squadron, vs 1 unhinged man with a gun and a grappling hook. Then you’d nick the helicopter because wtf would that not be impossible, dodge the missiles from the aforementioned tanks, and hot foot with a small army chasing after you, until you reached a liberated area. At which point, your own army showed up, blew the ever loving cheese out of the entire lot of them, and the heat dropped to zero. At which point? You did it all again.

[@DarkRulaMedia]

Game-based videos are just as fun to watch. You brought the a-game as usual for this one. Loved it!

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

14:32 Wow, that is the most ballsy thing ever and also the dumbest. Hope the guy who thought that was a good thing to include was fired.

[@evie4371]

There's also a couple unfortunate caveats that come with the 2015 game. In 2020, they finally killed the servers so the Scrap Crew you can unlock, thats a major method of earning Scrap (the in-game currency) while not playing the game, is just gone and now nothing more than set decoration you can collect for the strongholds. And there's also how this game has a distinct lack of George Miller despite how a lot of his ideas and concepts were used without him knowing. A lot of the vehicle designs and characters were taken from his concepts for Fury Road and Furiosa. Thats a very unfortunate tid bit which has made me view it in a not so good light but only slightly, I still think its a phenomenally underrated game and one that deserves way more love. And I can't help but feel for the Avalanche devs who worked on it and saw it sent out to the slaughter as it was released as the same time as MGS V. And George Miller just recently said he wants Hideo Kojima to do a Mad Max game. OUCH.

[@TheSuckoShow]

It sounds like WB screwed Miller and Avalanche both, so they both have raw feelings about it

[@TheSuckoShow]

I never heard the "thunderdome sucks" part of the Asylum story. That's hilarious. Nice work turning up new details that even Mad Max fanatics like me haven't heard.

[@fignatoli-guevara5826]

"Ubisoft. Open. World." Or as Yahtzee calls em, Ubisoft Sandbox Game.

[@ASpaceOstrich]

I had a ton of fun with the recent mad max game. 10/10 world design. They made a lifeless apocalyptic hellscape into a varied and interesting world. I love that Max himself looks like a fusion of Mel Gibson and Tom Hardy. Vehicular combat is great fun, though the game was sadly missing mechanics for jumping across vehicles and fighitng on the outside of vehicles which was a solid 60% of fury road

[@TheSuckoShow]

Absolutely needed that for the "road war" feel

[@Sonicjohnathon]

Sonic Movie 2 reference? YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gregorydavidson2744]

I’m always blown away by your editing. Every video of yours surprises me

[@joshuaoneal233]

Now I'm imagining Ace Ventura in the world of Mad Max with that kind of driving, like a glove.

[@SirTyJensen]

Your Ace Ventura joke made me laugh out loud.

[@chishnfips877]

Movie video game reviews? HELL YEAH! Maybe the next one of these could be the Home Alone games?

[@krono5el]

Absolutely luved Outlander on Genesis, as a mad max fan back then it was incredible.

[@jackbailey7870]

Do a similar video like this but about all the King Kong video games

[@alexgreenwood404]

Deffo more video game retrospectives. This was a good video

[@b-radvideoshow4737]

I usually do everything in an open world game, but rarely ever replay most of them. Loved mad max and ghost of tsushima! Cool vid!

[@danielatthemovies7554]

The videos just keep getting better! Keep it up

[@nathaniellevesque2782]

Great to see you doing another video game video. I love these.

[@AlfredFJones1776]

As someone who has never seen any of your videos before, I plead with you to keep making video game retrospectives. You are unique in your mannerisms while also having elements of AVGN, JonTron and Scott The Woz as well as some Nostalgia Critic in there. Please make more video game videos.

[@SJ_RANKS]

I’m surprised that mad max for the nes wasn’t made by LJN

[@Kenshiro3rd]

Mindscape were almost as bad. Crap Ports, shitty licensed games, and Eurojank abound... often in the same game.

[@Shades14]

And yes, more game reviews, too, please. I know they take longer than a movie review, especially if you're doing multiple in one video, but a few sprinkled in here and there would be a nice treat.

[@mauromerconchini]

Oh man, I missed the game reviews, this video was awesome! I would definitely be on board for more.

[@thomasb.8101]

This game was absolute crack for me. Played it to 100%, platinum trophy, etc. i wish there has been a PS5 upgrade so I could do it all over again, like I just did with Death Stranding.

[@TheSuckoShow]

George Miller has said that he first got an inkling for the world and story of Fury Road/Furiosa sometime in the late 1980s, right around the time he was working on Mad Max Autorama. So that game might be the reason why he's still telling Mad Max stories.

[@Joecbg100]

24:20 I feel the same way as i take breaks and erven after 9 years i still go back and replay and get enough to hold me over.

[@charlierenwick3682]

9:52 my absolute favourite bit

[@commanderskittles6558]

Honestly, I'd love to see game reviews and movie reviews, this was an awesome video And I hope this does well With the algorithm

[@jacklarsen4578]

5:15 My eyes also you forgot to mention thunderstorms in mad max 2015 driving in those is spectacular

[@StickNik]

Nice, would like another like this, although you could also flip the script a bit with games that have been adapted to movies, say covering the Hitman games and showing what the movie adaptations are missing from the source material.

[@realOmegasMovie]

Amazing video 😹 really funny editing. I hope you make you will make a new video like this. Where you talk about video games from a franchise👍

[@gang-ridertv5433]

Excellent video! Give us more!

[@NorthernRoadsRacing]

There's actually more than one way to defeat most camps since many of them have secret entries. That being said, that feature is wasted because once you complete story you can't reset camps, you have to start over. But if I understand correctly, that feature was planned but eventually scrapped with DLC. Also I don't mind combat system being simple because Mad Max isn't really about hand to hand combat anyway but vehicular carnage, and that this game handles well. And yes, it can be bit repetetive lol

[@dr_volberg]

23:40 - This is me in Witcher 3 in Skellige Islands

[@FreeNintendo21]

This looks like the same direction I would go for when I review the Mad Max games myself.

[@geekydiy5323]

I think more video game retrospectives are a solid idea and pretty cool

[@Xegethra]

19:50 The Warriors also did this, with a handful of different moves as well.

[@BlackMysteries1]

best intro to a video ever

[@kylejoe8393]

I do that to myself with almost every open world game... Over doing the side objectives..

[@Valkres]

The Megadrive version of Outlander does have engine sound effects! You just have to wait till the title screen shows up, then you press any button so you can change the sound options. The engine sound is fine i guess, it gets better once you get the Supercharger and use the nitro.

[@BenjiJayGeeJay]

Loved this! More video game content please! Though I still love the film stuff

[@RedPineaplleStudio]

There are 8 SIMPSONS REFERENCES in this video. This is a little less than *3 references every 8 minutes*

[@OskarasNauseda]

fun fact 2015 game was created without millers input thats why it contains bunch spoilers

[@johnstriker480]

6:54 PERFECTLY TIMED joke! Oh, & BRING BACK the "Toy Story" actor list & where you know them from...!

[@AmethystOrlando]

I don’t know what games will be covered next, I’ll be looking forward to the next retrospective

[@NewOrderOfAlexandria]

Yeah I really wish Avalanche gave the open world of Mad Max more story quests like Fallout with dialogue options & multiple paths. It's the grandad of post Apocalyptic world's, it definitely deserved that level of attention. I think a mad max rpg would be amazing though.

[@matthiasneidenberger9471]

Honestly, I have the opposite problem when it comes to side quests. I am a big fan of story and I often go straight into each story mission so I can see how the story progresses but then I realize I barely touched the side missions. So I get what you mean man.

[@milksands]

Thank you. Cool to see somthing diferent some times. Good luck.

[@terrymcanalen3031]

His gripes about taking 60 hours to 100% the game are irrelevant. Mad Max is the single best car game that's not a race sim. It's a hootenanny. 10/10 classic. I owned a 1977 Kawasaki Z1000 and a 1995 ZZR 1100 back in the day.

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

Honestly a massive Open World Multiplayer Mad Max game could work. You start out with a car and some resources, looking around the wasteland for things like oil fields, bullet producing facilities and the like, joining up with other players to create your own clan or army and wage war for control of resources and the land itself. A combination of Twisted Metal, Fallout , WOW and Ark Survival Evolved. Could be a chaotic boat load of fun.

[@BrandonCroker]

What a lovely video indeed!

[@butteredpopcornjellybean7583]

Mmm another yummy video, Mr. Unusual Green! Can't wait to eat your next one!

[@garyking1986]

Great video as always, Ross! I loved the Mad Max game, but I played it in 2015 when I was a teenager. I've wanted to go back to the game ever since but it's open world just seems so daunting now. As an adult I don't really have time to sink dozens of hours into a game that takes ages to get really good. Plus, while the world is pretty cool, Max himself doesn't have the intellegence and charm of Mel Gibson's version to be likeable, nor the absolute feral madness of Tom Hardy's to be entertaining. If he were a more interesting character then maybe'd I'd want to spend up to 60 hours with him again.

[@crusader2112]

I've been having a blast playing Mad Max 2015 over the past few weeks. 👍

[@rianholmes1139]

Brother, You can't just flash an image of lego island by mindscape on the screen. I just got punched in the face with Nostalgia.

[@samanthamarkle6923]

Looked at a number of video games for ideas when I was writing some post-apocalypse stories!

[@RetroRuss]

The 2015 game could've been a hit if it weren't for the baffling decision to release it on the SAME DAY as Metal Gear Solid V, with all of the Kojima-Konami drama boosting its profile.

[@tankjones9964]

Literally just the other day I decided to replay the PS4 game and now I see this

[@seymourpant]

Before watching, I'll mention that the best Mad Max game is probably not a real Mad Max game: Road Redemption, a post-apocalyptic spiritual successor to Road Rash. I've put hundreds of hours into it; the gameplay loop is just so good.

[@pugtie4695]

What a lovely day

[@markpaterson2053]

Mad Max 2015 game was deffo a 6/7 out of ten, simply not that great but not bad either; the movie: modern classic, 9.5 out of ten, and has tons of shelf life.

[@ifeanyikennedy1047]

💀 you have been WITNESSED

[@skidwarpturbine]

24:11 I have had the same thing happen. The only games I've played that didn't make me feel bored doing similar things over and over are the elder scrolls games because of all of the lore behind a lot of locations.

[@aurenian8247]

I'm replaying the 2015 game now and I have to agree about the ubisoft sandbox being the main issue with it. I'm getting around it by going slower to be honest. Just puttering around and enjoying the driving gameplay and knocking off map objectives as I go. When I played it new I was DRIVEN to clear the map piece by piece and got exhausted by it. Now I know what the game has to offer I'm being a bit more laid back about it.

[@OmnicidalClown1992]

How about doing a retrospective of the many Ghostbusters video games? The good, the bad, and the canceled.

[@nutherefurlong]

I'm a fan of open world as a concept but I sort of bounce off of it being a to-do list. Elden Ring was largely great, by comparison. Could you play 2015 Mad Max only for the story missions with the occasional distraction and still have a good time? Maybe it's even a bit challenging in a good way because the areas aren't pacified and the vehicle isn't upgraded? Appreciated this profile of all these games. As much as I like Mad Max I haven't played any of them yet, but I love stuff like Road Rash and Car Wars

[@MemeLordCthulhu]

13:10 beyond thunderdome definitely feels like it was made for kids

[@thehighbutwise5644]

I want to mention that since Avalanche shut down the Mad Max servers, it's impossible to get the platinum trophy unless you got the online related trophies before they shut down

[@Kenshiro3rd]

Nice to see someone else that realizes that the NES Mad Max game is actually a shitty gutted port of a good Amiga game called Road Raider (AKA Motor Massacre), with the Mad Max license slapped on it.

[@limegreensquid]

I understand exactly what you mean! I try to clear everything before doing story missions, and end up being tired of the gameplay. I wanted to love Rage 2, because I loved the first, but something about it just feels... wrong...

[@BeefMissileband]

I’m playing the 2015 game at the moment, great stuff. Giant Mad Max fa

[@theenigmaencoder92]

Oh what a day! What a lovely day!

[@digifan02]

that psuedo ocd nature is absolutely a thing. I deal with it all the time. When I was younger had better control and time and pushed through anyways, now its much harder. Another thing I do is HATE when my menu highlights something new, gotta get rid of those notifications

[@psycho_dog33]

I loved the PS4 Mad Max game, but I never finished it for one simple reason: that goddamn Gastown race. You have to catch an enemy leader (named Stank Gum) in a race and kill him. Sounds simple enough, right? WRONG. First issue, the racetrack is far too closed in for how loose and wonky the driving is. Plus there are often extremely sharp turns that are borderline impossible to make without losing speed or hitting a wall. Or both. Second issue, there are other drivers on the track who will make it their life's goal to slam into you and slow you down. Third issue, once Stank Gum gets ahead of you, he is GONE. You cannot catch up to him. And it wasn't my car that was the problem, I had the fastest engine the game allowed at that point and I took off all the armor and crap that was slowing me down. I dunno if anyone else had as much trouble with this mission as I did, but I tried it for around an hour and a half or so before I got so angry I just deleted the game. Sorry for ranting, I just needed to get that off my chest. P.S. I loved the new video! I'd definitely like to see more game reviews in the future!

[@taimaninverse1238]

Love it.

[@dvass7253]

OH, WHAT A VIDEO! WHAT A LOVELY VIDEO!

[@Shades14]

24:20 I've definitely had a similar experience with Skyrim.

[@Chris47629]

Thunderdome is my favorite mad max movie

[@MrPezsaab]

I relate so heavily to the Bloat checklist fatigue you mention later in the video, im like you, i love seeing things be ticked and completed, i had the same experience with Days Gone (oddly enough another post apocalyptic open world game) i heard so much about how the story was amazing and i played it and kept doing the checklist gamer brain and fell off the game and needed a break for like 3 months or so, i remember finishing the story later and thinking "wait... Thats it?" Felt fairly disappointed with the narrative and i wonder if thats due to my own experience with the game

[@TheVileOne]

This was good!

[@TheEpicEraser]

The repetitive/boring sidequest issue you mentioned is exactly why I can't play open world games. Including the good ones. The only exceptions I can think of were Saints Row / Agents of Mayhem (side quests so repetitive I mostly ignored them from the start), BotW/TotK (few side quests, focus on exploration with few chores; I didn't bother getting all Koroks), and InFamous (short enough). I have not come anywhere close to finishing the main storyline of a Bethesda or Rockstar game before getting bored of it. In most cases (Oblivion, Fallout 3, GTA 4, GTA 5) I barely make it past the first few main missions.

[@RoyalCrustle]

Really wish the newest Mad Max game got a remaster on console, since at least the PS4 version has pretty bad input lag. Otherwise I really enjoy it.

[@brgwrtrainiacproductions7396]

Do you have any plans for more Star Wars or Mavel videos?

[@bennygerow]

All this did was make me miss the Sega CD 😂

[@Cheeseb0ng]

I 100%ed one of my save files inn the mad max game, but in an attempt to create a different fresh save file, I deleted my 100% one haha

[@cedbanani]

Yeah, I had that same feeling about the "open world" aspect with Hogwarts Legacy. It was fun at first, but after the 58th Merlin Trial and the constant frustration of deciding which wardrobes to get rid of, I wanted to just get to the main story.

[@FeniXMinerva]

You mentioned the repetitiveness but forgot to mention the bosses?! Those bosses were (for me at least) the WORST part for how unvaried they are. 🙄 But apart from that, Mad Max 2015 was indeed fun. The wasteland was such a wonderful place to explore, and those sandstorms were fucking epic. The game honestly reminded me a LOT of Jak 3.

[@davack62]

Seeing the suspect with a ps4 makes me wonder. Does he still have his ps1 lamp

[@gavriilbanakos3083]

fr we are the same but now im playing again with both and its fun

[@Spi-RevAnimates-ig4zz]

24:10 to 24:26 I'm not really a completionist. But I do feel you. I hate it when games overlay on grinding just to make the game easier. and I prefer to just stick to the main story. Hell most of the time I just kill a bunch of enemies just to get XP. Because you also need to be a specific level for side missions. In fact, I've seen this problem most noticeable in a few JRPG'S I've played. In fact I ended up never finishing the original final fantasy 7 because I didn't want to start over the same and do even more grinding, just to beat the final boss. (Who is so overpowered it makes me wonder if the Dark Souls Dev's were the game testers. ) I have nothing against side missions. But I prefer side missions to be either be treated in the way Ghost of Tsushima. Or to just... well there's a there called side missions and not most do to get 100% missions. Sorry, That this rant was way too long. (and possibly pissing off a lot of final fantasy 7 and dark souls fans.) But this was just something I had to get off my chest. (also I'm surprised you didn't address the fact that Max in the 2015 game looked nothing like Mel Gibson or Tom Hardy.)

[@SirIsaacFortesque]

I can definitely say I'd enjoy more video game stuff on this channel, although maybe try and work on the titles, it may make you look like someone trying to be Caddicarus for someone who doesn't know your channel.

[@TheBandit025Nova]

The Jedi Knight games next please Ross I playing Jedi Knight II right now

[@RiderNexus]

I passed on the recent game because the release schedule for games back then was STACKED But now? May pick up a steam key

[@RecentCobra]

Recently started playing Mad Max (2015) and it started off pretty decently, but fell off quite fast. The driving is so damn bad, and the counter just plain doesn't work sometimes unless you spam the button

[@Quasarbanda]

Please review the Star Wars sequels! I'm begging you! I've been waiting for them for years! 😭😭