MAD MAX (Honest Game Trailers)

Mad Max is the 63rd Honest Game Trailer.

Synopsis
In the tradition of Jaws, The Matrix, and E.T., get ready to experience another awesome movie with a mediocre, rushed out video game adaptation - Mad Max!

Script
In the tradition of Jaws, The Matrix, and E.T., get ready to experience another awesome movie with a mediocre, rushed-out video game adaptation: Mad Max.

From the developer of open-world games about blowing sh** up (Avalanche Studios) and the publisher of open-world games about punching dudes in the face (Warner Bros. Interactive) comes the face-punchiest, blow-uppiest, open-worldiest game you've ever played. Did I mention the face punching? There's a lot of that. (shows clips of Max punching enemies' faces)

Discover a generic-brand version of the wasteland you know and love from the Mad Max films, with none of the characters or storylines you remember. Take on the role of Max, a guy who's Mel Gibson levels of mad (sound clips of Mel Gibson yelling "I'll burn the goddamn house down, but blow me first!" and "How dare you?!"), as you serial kill your way across the desert with a colorful cast of lunatics, then take on an entire Burning Man festival worth of face-painted desert weirdos. I'm pretty sure this is what Australia's like all the time, right?

Get ready for a game that does absolutely nothing to exceed your expectations, featuring hand-to-hand combat ripped straight out of the Arkham series; graphics so brown, they look like Gears of War with a sepia filter; and the same open-world design you've tolerated since the first Assassin's Creed, but this time, the towers are balloons. (Max rises into the air in a balloon) Innovation!

Contain your OCD as you try to ignore a map full of side objectives and collectibles, then rage as you realize that stuff is 90 percent of the game, and an endless loop of tedious errands, all to complete the most important quest of all: pimping your ride. Yo, we know you like to murder people, so we hooked you up with a Thunderpoon so you can murder people while you drive.

Settle in for the game that thinks realism means everything takes for-f**king-ever, as you wait for your car to be repaired, wait for storms to end, slowly fill up your gas tank, slowly fill up your water bottle, and slowly drink from that same water bottle, only to experience even more realism as you eat a bunch of dog food. Hey, at least you're not eating live maggots out of a rotting corpse or something, right? (Max eats maggots from a rotting corpse) Oh. Cool...?

So sit back, relax, and download your energy drink DLC, because the best straightforward action movie of the year, that would've made an awesome straightforward racing game or an awesome straightforward car combat game, is here as a muddled open-world mess, and there's only one word to describe it:

Immortan Joe: Mediocre!

Starring:

Not Tom Hardy (Max Rockatansky)

It's Not a Tumor! (Jeet)

Duck Dynasty (Gutgash)

Not So Hot Wheels (Pink Eye)

Dude, I'm So Baked Right Now (Griffa)

Beer Helmet (Deep Friah),

and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Chumbucket).

Arkham Desert.

You know, if you really wanna survive the wasteland, maybe don't strap explosive barrels to everything. Think about that.