Buy it. At least rent it. I picked this up along with MGSV, spent a few hours late Monday night, early Tuesday morning playing MGSV, then popped this in when I got off work Tuesday night. MGSV is sitting on top of my PS4 collecting dust, while Mad Max hasn't seen the outside of my PS4 for a week now.
The ground combat is sort of like Arkham Knight, though I would say it is closer to Shadow of Mordor. Character control is pretty standard for 3rd person action games. Vehicle handling feels like a well made GTA clone; not perfect, but close. The cars are a little floaty, which is actually how it should be for cars set up to run off-road.
Vehicle combat is a little harder to describe. It starts out as a lot of side slamming and turning circles to get lined up on your opponent. You can shoot the exposed gas tank on most early enemies to kill them quick (game goes slow-mo while aiming) but ammo is not exactly easy to come by at first, so I found it was best just to grind and smash my way to victory most of the time. Once you get your harpoon, most enemies can be pacified by simply yanking off a wheel, or even pulling off a door and then pulling out the driver. Some vehicles you'll want to snag for yourself and take back to a stronghold. Eventually enemies become better armored, so the challenge factor increases.
I'm 35% complete (there's a lot of side missions/optional grinding you can do, so I haven't been burning through the story) and so far I've found all of the gameplay to be fun with a decent amount of challenge and only minor frustration when looking for side objectives.
It does a good job at being its own story, wile still mixing in the lore presented in all of the films. The voice acting is good, the scenery is beautifully rendered. The lighting at times is gorgeous. I've ran into a few bugs with road textures floating and some sounds cutting out, but they're minor enough to be annoying, but not distracting enough to pull you out of the game.
I give it 8.5/10.
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