So I tried playing MAD MAX In 2024...

Furiosa is out in theaters and that means many of us are in a Mad Max mood! That means there's no better time to fire up the oft-overlooked Mad Max game that stormed onto the scene with a unique blend of car combat and freeflow battles.
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[@DanielJ-00]

6:07 A top tier pause worthy moment lmao

[@charlieswan1514]

8:21 Another pause-worthy moment lol

[@AltraWave7]

It's not just you Matty, the car is meant to be a slow to respond pain to drive until you start getting the upgrades, I mean it's slapped together from junk and spare parts at first.

[@jesse2083]

Really makes you feel the desolation and hopelessness at first. Haha

[@grapeape325]

Spare parts bud.

[@humblemudgames]

Fist of the North Star Lost Paradise does this too

[@leungjohn1]

@@grapeape325pitter patter

[@williammoore1030]

More and more people discover this one all the time, loved it when it came out. The car and on foot combat feels great. I remember this, sleeping dogs, prototype, singularity, wolverine origins, captain America, Alpha Protocol, The Saboteur and so many other “mid tier games” that are some of my favorites to revisit.

[@isonic]

I feel like Sleeping Dogs has aged poorly in my opinion. Enjoyed it when it came out, went back to the remaster a few weeks ago and just couldn't get past the jank

[@ezioassassain]

its not really janky at all, i played it on ps3 ps4 and pc​@@isonic

[@James-gj8rn]

It's an underrated gem this one, i feel like it doesn't get enough love honestly

[@iagosplace]

add in the fact that u can buy the game for practically nothing on everything, best £2 i’ve ever spent i think

[@martinramirez9647]

Yet everyone on the internet says so, when absolutely everyone says it's underrated, is it really?

[@MrWachmen]

This game, alongside the Witcher 3 Complete Edition, best purchases I've ever made, I spent easily over 150 hours on each game, dirt cheap too.

[@Hasan-hm5fy]

@@martinramirez9647it’s underrated in the word that it got no critical success and a sequel was never confirmed. It released in between fallout 4 and mgs 5, same day as mgs 5 I believe

[@martinramirez9647]

@@Hasan-hm5fy just like days gone, players loved it, critics didn't, and that's probably all we will see of it.

[@Spinnekk]

Mad Max still has some of the best car explosions ever in any game.

[@benwasserman8223]

If anyone knows how to blow things up in a video game, it’s the Just Cause developers.

[@Amicals]

I did a whole playthrough of this game on PC last year. It can be repetitive I get that, but it was a game where I could just turn off my brain, play it and have fun, I really enjoyed it.

[@jonathancunningham8739]

Exactly like far cry turn off your brain and enjoy for me that is one of the greatest types of games around.

[@Killicon93]

Played it almost exactly a year ago and now finally downloaded it again and installed a mod that lets me toggle the HUD. Haven't started a new game yet tho. Been just driving around and enjoying the scenery. Clearing those few little hideouts that I've had left and trying to find find all the history relics. As well as doing as much roleplaying as I can. One of the things I do in the game RP-wise is taking off and on Max's gloves, gauntlets, armor, jacket and shirt in their most sensible order as well as not wearing the strongest armor or weapons at all times. I just love the vibe of this game. What I'd like to see in a sequel would be having it be less of a Ubisoft-style checklist game as I feel like it's a bit opposed to the scavenger lifestyle of that world. And speaking of scavenging; one of the things I'd want to see would be what Avalanche had originally planned for The Big Nothing, where it was meant to be procedural and you were find upgrade materials there. In general I think games should have more massive expanses of eerie nothingness.

[@StuieHunter]

Hey Matty, loving the retrospective reviews. You're by far my favourite youtuber right now, keep up the great work! I've been meaning to play this game on steam deck soon!

[@matthew.8970]

bro ive been beating this game every couple of weeks for years, ill never stop playing it

[@rianholmes1139]

Call this man Mad Matt

[@bltn7469]

@@rianholmes1139 LMAO ! haha

[@ali8283]

I randomly played this because it was a ps+ game. Loved it way more than I expected

[@PunkRockZombie205]

Same

[@shortinos]

I still find it weird that WB was able to patent the Nemesis system

[@monkeycorpz7982]

4:03 That's such a weird way to say that. Mad Max came out first and inspired Fallout, but the way it's said in the video makes it sound like the opposite.

[@Absolynth]

Mad Max is quite focused around punching and driving, but the attention to detail surrounding those simple elements is masterfully crafted.Great art design can trump great graphics, Mad Max has both!

[@lo602u4]

Just started playing this again after almost a decade….it is a blast!

[@Andre-fq6xg]

This game is an underrated gem! I played it 2/3 years ago and loved it all the way.

[@purefoldnz3070]

yeah I didnt expect it to be that good after its MEDIOCRE reviews

[@ceeece]

I had it in my library for a long time and after seeing Furiosa i decided to download it and start playing it. Now I can’t stop. Such a fun game and so addictive.

[@heisenberg6442]

Such an underrated masculine game packed with guns and loud supercharged V8s racing through the wastelands. Why dont they make games lile this anymore?

[@conormolloy1010]

It’s absolutely criminal that more people haven’t played this game. And the graphics still hold up to this day.

[@mikdan8813]

Just bought the game. I met some thirsty wretches in the desert, wanted to give them some water. As soon as the first drop touched the guy's lips, two cars (one of them packed with explosives) came outa nowhere and decided to ram into us head on. The cars ran over the wretches and both exploded, also killing the drivers. I was completely unscathed, surrounded by 5 corpses and 2 blazing wrecks. That was THE MOST Mad Max thing I have ever seen in my life.

[@dphylan]

Just recently replayed this game. Personally hoping they make a sequel one day! Love your stuff man! Been watching for years!

[@mcribprime6594]

It’s an incredible game, great to see the Easter eggs in the new movie as well, Scroutus and Chum bucket, scroutus should be a lot bigger but still good to see that character in Furisoa.

[@99GregPotter]

Im so glad more people are going back to this game :) it was a really entertaining and fun hidden gem

[@jonathancunningham8739]

The car handling yeah that is what those upgrades are for.

[@dadman8474]

This game for 5$ on Xbox store is an absolute steal, could not put it down. Would hate for it to come out modern today basically because we all know they’d add a battle pass or a Road Warrior pass and make everything get placed behind a pay wall

[@supergamerhell5110]

Even though I feel it is unlikely for a sequel of this game to happen I think it would be great if there was a max max 2

[@LegenderyDarkLink]

such a good game played it when it first dropped on PS4 and now im replying again on PC .. its a gem such a underated game

[@BigIronEnjoyer]

This was one of my favorite games of the 2010s. On top of the broader "open world fatigue" that was starting to come in when this game released, there's also the factor that it was also essentially a movie tie-in game. By this point we all had a couple decades of experience telling us that movie tie-in games are always terrible. This of course is the exception, maybe the single best exception to that rule. Speaking of the movies, the first movie isn't actually post-apocalyptic. Its basically set right before the apocalypse. Where resources are starting to grow thin and wars are kicking off all over the globe over them, meanwhile at home criminals are running rampant as governments with fewer and fewer resources struggle to do anything to stop them, and even when they do manage to bring someone in a feckless justice system just lets them right back out again, and while things haven't completely fallen apart it feels like that's right on the verge of happening. Crazy... imagine living in that world!

[@thelpfen]

Dude please do Singularity a super underrated kickass CoD Bioshock mix

[@voltsx4664]

Got this game for £3 on a sale a little while ago, one of my best game purchases its so underrated

[@sekrad]

I want a sequel where you upgrade the interceptor.

[@kevlar218]

I loved this game when it came out and agree that everyone should at least try it for the visceral combat alone. It's usually on sale for less than $5 on pc and well worth picking up.

[@kingofthewickerpeople9450]

I recently went back to platinum this game. What a day! What lovely day!

[@JohnathonAxtman]

I feel like Mel Gibson is watching me when I play this. Going for %100 completion this go round.

[@Smoker5739]

Rocksteady definitely perfected free flow combat but they didn’t create it. Jet Li: Rise to Honor probably was the first or at least the first version of it or it was Matrix The Path of Neo. The Warriors also had a similar version of it as well although that was more like Sleeping Dogs combat with the grapples.

[@zagariasbooysen7401]

Hell this is one awesome game. I love riding aroind for hours and shooting everything that moves. Collecting scap never felt so good.

[@nickbuckley4371]

The melee combat is brutal on the game

[@chrisprad8325]

It frustrates me to no end that WB trademarked the nemesis system and haven’t used in in any of their games in almost a decade.

[@Twinsfan1992]

So I picked this up today for $5 on PSN. Started it up and seems like it will be pretty solid, it releasing against MGSV though sent it to die because the gameplay of that is so good, this just feels like an Arkham clone with car combat (which feels way better than Batmobile imo)

[@PunkRockZombie205]

Definitely a hidden gem. I'd love to see a 2nd one eventually

[@athisio836]

I enjoyed this game and never understood why they didn't add any dlc.

[@tylerwood8710]

My review is: I really, really enjoyed this game. I put a lot of time into it and played it until it was dead. The graphics are great. The story is fine. The quests are fine. The fighting is excellent. The driving is serviceable. The upgrade system was fun. Just a really solid, good game. And then, when I had beaten it to within an inch of its life, I uninstalled it, never reinstalled it, and completely forgot it existed until you just put this video up. It's not a great game, and it's not particularly memorable, but at the same time: it's a FUN and entertaining game, and I guess it's what I wanted at the time. There's nothing wrong with this game at all. If you want a 'Mad Max'-style game, play 'Mad Max'. If you don't, you're not missing out on anythinf seminal. I definitely recommend this game.

[@strongguy258]

Hey Matty! If you love free flow combat you should definitely play sleeping dogs if you have not already it is another hidden gem :).

[@hectorosbornerodriguez9683]

Thanks for reminding me of this game. I really like it. Have not finish it

[@adammonahan7096]

Talk about timing. I literally started playing this for the first time about 5 days ago. Only 3 or so hours in, but it seems really solid! Got me playing the Shadow of... games again. WB Games has a pretty decent track record. And Witcher 3 Wild Hunt is included. Anyways, really solid, especially when compared to some of the stuff that's released today.

[@colbymclemore7642]

I also just restarted it immediately after watching Furiosa lmao. Such a great AA game.

[@P_D-px6iv]

AA? It's AAA It just feels like a AA cause all the cut content

[@kaliboi2475]

Played the game last night I was inspired by Furiosa. The game is really fun! I kept saying to myself what if they made this game on a new gen console 😮

[@Yellowjack17]

This game made me wish so bad that the Fallout series also had vehicular combat

[@P_D-px6iv]

If only Bethesda would abandon that awful creation engine

[@Silentkilla29]

Great game but I refuse to play it anymore now that only one of the achievements isn't obtainable. Super frustrating.

[@LatashaMoore-y7r]

I thank you for making this channel you are a cool nice person

[@Reefer-Rampage69]

I’m starting a play through for the first time!

[@iambroso8620]

This game is & was amazing. It needs more loving

[@321LANParty]

I %100 this game last year (save the races) and trust me the handling sucks so bad early game, but all in all I dig this game. I know the story is kinda crazy, but I wish they made another one.

[@itsdeonlol]

Mad Max was so good! We need a Sequel!

[@italexs_]

Today found your channel

[@chicanotrooper0893]

Badass & Beautiful Game 🎮

[@DennyPiza]

I fucking love that game

[@moyassermohammed7516]

4:56 Not mentioning Sleeping Dogs when talking about the free flow combat system games is considered a crime in my book

[@MegaMerdeux]

Free flow is trademarked by WB games. Sleeping dog doesnt have that system. They only have the "counter" with the triangle button on playstation and whatever button on xbox. But you can't ramp up a special meter and destroy your opponent in quick succession like the games from WB. So it's not a free flow combat. That's like saying the original RE4 game is the same as gears of war due to the over the shoulder camera aim. But these two shooting mechanics are vastly different.

[@thomasjml82]

Personally I loved this game. 9/10

[@MegaMerdeux]

4:02 you can see the fallout dna in mad max movies? No bro, you can see the mad max dna in fallout games. The original mad max movie and sequel came out before the first fallout game....

[@P_D-px6iv]

Mad Max, Mad Max 2, and Beyond Thunderdome all came out before Wasteland and way before Fallout Thunderdome came out in 1985 Wasteland came out in 1988 Fallout came out in 1997

[@nikoniko4457]

Lot to love about this game but open world was mundane and repetitive. The game felt 75% done. The car combat was the best part. The ground combat felt powerful but clunky at times. Still would love to see another studio take on Mad Max.

[@videogamerforever312]

You know an underrated gem yeah that never got a chance as it should’ve been. It’s kinda the devs is fault though cause hey we are going to release our game the same day as Metal gear solid phantom pain and nothing will happen right. Wrong they were. I was standing in line at GameStop for mad max pre order and the line was not so big. Metal Gear solid phantom pain is line was.

[@ThePatente]

Just finished it (again) last month. YES! It's still THAT good!!! I find the Batman series, to this point, boring compared to Mad Max. If you didn't go all the way with the car... Of course it's slow and boring and unplayable... But Damn, after the first half of the game, it become a freaking unstoppable Tank. You clearly don't know what an Upgraded Thunderpoon can do. You didn't finish it? 5-6 hours? At max? And I did it, 7-8 times, mouse and keyboard. There wont be a sequel, unfortunately. Too bad.

[@jefffischer8395]

Only £3 for the next 8 days

[@nafisishtiaque]

If you have a console get the Xbox series version got fps boost 😊

[@j.pearce3981]

IF YOU LIKE MAD MAX YOU SHOULD PLAY RAGE 2

[@LprogressivesANDliberals]

Works on steam deck great on the go

[@MaxPainMSF]

Ad money coming Matty's way 🤔😉😁🤌🏾👏🏾

[@jonathanmercado963]

Mad Max with the Nemesis system and the lore and locations in the game. My god that would be tight

[@conq1273]

Man that would be cool but it would be better on OC character than max himself. Your MC becoming Immortan joe's legend would be awesome

[@robertblackburn752]

Its genius lies in the fact that when you start out it seems a bit simple and kind of repetitive but as you move on it becomes a whole lot deeper than that. The world is vast and incredibly varied and the storms are really scary. Everything works fast and seamlessly with a great gritty style. The sound effects and explosions are visceral and unashamedly violent. I love it.

[@ThePatente]

The storms yeah. Storm coming seek shelter, Shit, Where I am? SHIT! Nowhere!!! 😂

[@chuchushoeTW]

When I played this game for the first time, I was so surprised by how underrated it was. I had an absolute blast with it! The car combat is so cool and works well in this game, especially during those crazy storms in the wasteland! In my opinion, it's one of the best movie-based games.

[@PHILLIPAYx]

One of those games that really stuck with me the last generation. I may be in the minority but this is in my top 10 of favorite games. I think the world is what really sold this game for me. It's desolate and pretty barren, but it felt incredibly immersive, and when you did find a point of interest, it just felt that much cooler. Paired with engaging car combat and driving physics that actually felt good, I highly recommend this game for anyone that has an interest in open world games. Also I'd recommend Rage 2, which a lot of the same developers from Mad Max worked on that game. A bit of a spiritual successor.

[@antiquecardboard]

Rage 2 is the true hidden gem. Favorite game of last generation and pure “fun” distilled. While also great, Mad max has become well known. People still snob their nose at Rage 2.

[@CmbAdvisor]

Huh, that explains why Rage 2 felt so similar to Mad Max, in a good way.

[@TylarScott-Tate]

This is one of may favourite games

[@paullebowitz3784]

Arguably, the post-apocalyptic settings that likely inspired the Mad Max movies and Wasteland / Fallout are rooted in literature. Harlan Ellison's novella "A Boy and His Dog" was published in 1969. Alan Dean Foster's short story featuring vehicular combat dates to 1971 and his "Why Johnny Can't Speed." The first Mad Max movie hit screens in 1979. Check 'em out!

[@heroicgangster9981]

i hope george miller and avalanche studio make a mad max game someday together!

[@rianholmes1139]

It makes me sad that George Miller didnt like this game

[@rianholmes1139]

and on top of that he said he would want Hideo Kojima to make a mad max game if he had the choice

[@Killicon93]

@@rianholmes1139 Having played Death Stranding I'd say Kojima would definitely deliver an excellent Mad Max game.

[@streetmagik3105]

I'm a big Mad Max fan and bought this at launch. Great game! Played through it again at the end of last year on Series X. Still great!

[@TGill22]

There is no point when you sabotage or bad mouth one game and came back years later to tell it is a great game. Real gamer would support good game and can identify if the game is good or not. Unlike you who join the train whatever is coming. If all people are saying something negative about game just join them if years later they are saying nice things about it join them. This is wrong. People like you are the reason this game got bad publicity and not again want views. Because of people like you who only want views not how games are actually who have nothing just want attention do these things and we lost this amazing game. Now many people will start buying Console because no one want to leave behind and want as many followers as they can and all KZbinrs will buy console for GTA5. And eventually many PC gamers will do the same and this will become a trend to sell copies multiple times to same people at the end PC gamers are at loss. GTA survive and build its empire on PC gamers but now we are just dirt to them. Real reason is our own community I hope PC gamers don’t buy console and stop watching these KZbinrs who are going to play GTA on consoles. We should hold on and show GTA can’t survive without PC gamers and Modders

[@jasonsingleton1980]

I actually love this game! The overall presentation was loud and awesome, the car combat was one of my favourite parts of it!! Might just boot it back up again after watching this! 😁

[@rikstan15]

The way this game does collectibles is so good cuz it feeds into the upgrade system, just like Far Cry 3 did and Far Cry 4 perfected, the collectathon is for upgrading your existing gear not just for the sake of it, and you are not being showered in non unique random *replacement* gear. Far Cry 4 did it the best imo where you had to get the skins of animals you hunt, habitats being restricted by area which improves the pacing of the game, and then when you get the second to best level of "ammo pouches" you get a quest to hunt like the "white rhinoceros" to get the last upgrade for your ammo pouches. I really prefer this system to just collecting journal pages 1/140

[@Dogmaguy74]

I LOVED it...but one specific mission will ruin the game for you because of how *bullshit* it gets .

[@denisrutz]

I purchased this game 3 days ago on my Xbox for a lil' less than 5 bucks - money super well spent i gotta say and man does it still look graphically neat, given it's nearly 9 and a half years old. 👌🏼

[@digitalXP13]

What's crazy is WB releasing Furiosa without a remake or next gen update!!! What a disappointment and a miss, love this game

[@GothGfGG]

Matty, I love you. But you need to watch the movies my guy. How you haven’t by now is actually wild cx

[@DammitBobby619]

Redownloading it, playing it again for the 3rd time

[@coolbatfleck9952]

It is a shame the game doesn't have a ng+ mode, taking down convoys while listening to the fury road ost was something else man

[@Movienerd092]

How ironic that I was playing this last night after watching Furiosa. You drop a video on the gand

[@shizuwolf]

Have you played the Fist Of The North Star game made by the Yakuza devs? It’s got some pacing issues and some major grinding, but it’s pretty fun once you get into it. Especially when you upgrade the combat and you’re doing DBZ like ki blasts

[@murderman8578]

Is it faithful to the Material

[@shizuwolf]

@@murderman8578 not entirely. It’s more like a fanfic abridged version of certain events while adding some stuff

[@ItsParachuteAdams]

My fav avalanche studios game. Need a sequel or I'd love to see them do a Waterworld game

[@Zyke_iLLest]

I imagine we will get another after mad max the wasteland comes out

[@EndzonE-is1wv]

It does not look like it but this game is so addictive

[@CliffuckingBooth]

Only game I finished 100% on two separate systems.

[@mrmusickhimself]

My biggest issue with the game was the lack of a New Game Plus, or any kind of postgame content, especially since you unlock the Interceptor upon beating the game, but if you made the mistake of getting 100% completion, there is nothing left to do. Unless I'm mistaken, you don't even get new, respawing Convoys or enemies to beat down. You are DONE.

[@lorddrifter7296]

Sydicate didnt do well cuz unity was buggy

[@baddragonite]

The game was originally gonna be more of a direct tie in with Fury Road, with the director even changing parts of THE MOVIE to better fit the game's narrative But due to many moments that caused the budgeting to skyrocket that project got shelved but then was brought to another team

[@loitersquadX]

I bought it for 4.99 well. Xbox gave me money so it was free. I LOVE WB GAMES. Shadow of war. And mad max are both 10/10. Mad max on xbox series x has fps boost and its very smooth and very fun. Xbox series x loads the game back up in ab 5 seconds so i am already back in action . In terms of mad max itself the game feels very complete. I like how its so unique yet so familiar. Gameplay is FUN, graphics on the xbox AMAZING. Story is good but thats always opinion based. Some like it others dont. I didnt even know mad max was a movie !! This game feels like a movie everything feels just right.

[@porcupinebutter]

“You can see the fallout dna in mad max”… I’m sorry but I think you got those flipped 😂

[@daman825]

So funny I added this game to my wishlist. Got a notification that the game was on sale and got it. So funny you mentioned the early game driving because I am literally having the same problem. Great review!

[@Duffinhusterr]

Just wait until you get those upgrades on the car. It get amazing

[@brightstonepictures]

Did you watch Hope and Glory - A Mad Max fan film yet? You might recognize one or the other thing from the game in the KZbin short

[@PSNgamer_316]

I picked up Mad Max after I platinum’d MGS5 back then, I fully enjoyed it & it’s a bit sad that the on,y thing this game really had going against it was releasing on the same day as MGS5, had it released 2 weeks to a month before or after MGS5 I think Mad Max would’ve had much more eyes on it & much higher praise. Also your review from back then I don’t agree with as I don’t for most of your reviews, bit of a critique Matty but I think you only enjoy a very specific genre of games, primarily games similar to Fallout or Elder Scrolls while everything else you tend to dislike & are wrong about. It’s actually to a point where I personally see a review from you & if you dislike a game then it’s probably something I’ll enjoy. And by saying that I don’t think you’ve actually learned because again your initial reviews & critique end up being wrong just like with Hellblade 2, I think most people are enjoying it while you didn’t.

I'm 50h in, half the story done, and I think it's a very good game. There are some issues, it's a bit repetitive but it's still fun. Not sure if there would be a Mad Max 2 game, but I want a Road Warrior game :p

[@Alcatraz2]

This is my personal favorite and best game from the PS4/Xone generation.

[@uberboomer8670]

At this point id love to see ANY game implement the nemesis system! It was such a brilliant means of crafting unique in game mini stories, they patented it and its been shelved ever since. For those interested i believe Mad Max is $5 in the PS store. Much love Matty!