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So called "professional" reviewers got it so wrong.

posted 9 years ago by zoniax
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The fans (aka the ones that don't plow through the game like a drunk through a free food buffet) have spoken. 9.5 user average here on IMDB, 8.1 average from 524 user reviews on Metacritic.

This is Road Warrior: the Game. All its missing is Mel's face (but the character model and voice actor are perfectly fine in his absence). Playing through it myself now, I'm extremely happy with this game. Big, beautiful, brutal. Not once in 30+ hours (so far) have I ever felt like saying "oh, this again" or "I wish I could skip this part".

I'm not seeing this "shallow experience" these reviewers are claiming, nor feeling any fatigue from repetition. Farcry 4 was amazing; did you do a lot of similar missions in that? Uh... hell yes. And guess why I didn't get tired of those, as I'malso not in Mad Max? Because they're FUN, asshats.

Fun, a little something I think these "reviewers" have forgotten. Actual reviewer complaint: "gas lasts too long, I don't have to go look for it very often".

Are you *beep* KIDDING me?! I play games for fun, who the *beep* wants to stop a mission to go find *beep* GAS?!?! "Oh, you must be having too much fun, player. Go hunt for gas or water". If I wanted a true survival experience, I wouldn't look for it in a *beep* video game, geniuses. I'd drive out to the middle of New Mexico, set my car on fire, then try to make it home on foot.

The combat is classic "Batman" style, which is simple and it just works. You want 100 move combos, go play your TERRIBLE Dark Souls some more.

TL;DR Go buy and play the *beep* out of this game. It's Twisted Metal + Batman + Mordor + Rage. If you like FUN like a normal person, you won't regret a second of it. I'm done listening to the "professional" reviews. Word of mouth from here on out.

I'm sure I could vent some more, but I need to get back to playing Mad Max. And LOVING IT, YOU SMELLY HIPSTER REVIEWERS.

[–] Littlebitsofgaming 8 years ago

Only recently got myself a copy of this.

Put in around 20 hours so far and I'm far from being bored...but I do think the map is a little "busy" with distractions. Yeah it's an open world game so you are going to have these distractions everywhere. But this game just seems to have a few too many.

I really don't like the voice actor for Max, there is something about it that just sounds off.

But the game as a whole package is amazing. It feels like Mad Max 2, but it looks like Fury Road.

After being disappointed by "big titles" this year like Arkham Knight and MGS V. It's refreshing to be surprised by this game. Much like Dying Light, this game is one of the best games I wasn't expecting much of that ended up surprising me a lot.

Just wish it had a difficulty setting as I'm not finding much of a challenge here to be honest, needs to be harder.

Great game and hope they do sequels in the future.

And so, God came forth and proclaimed widescreen is the best.
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[–] Smoku 8 years ago

Dude I loved the game so much I actually reduced all threat levels to zero. Alot of minefields though haha!

Best things that I loved were

-simplicity
-cool stuff like carrying fuel canisters, using his tools and every tool made sens rather than unnecessary add
-shortness of ammo
-the faithful and very detailed representation of almost every aspect of the movies
-fight system both road and melee which had a great degree of unpredictability which allowed much of creativity and fun during the game
-the wasteland itself- its funny but you always wonder whats behind next hill, you actually quite often use binoculars which helps alot in this game.

The bad:
-cars doesnt take all that much fuel. It would made sense if the biggest engines would eat alot of fuel while v6 not that much. But it doesnt make that much of a difference between v6 and v8, also there is not much fun with salvaging fuel like in road warrior opening scene (but you actually can collect fuel and scrap from destroyed cars which is great they put all that tiny bits into the game)