Max doesn’t become truly mad until towards the end of the game after he loses the very few people he cared about, causing him to exact revenge on those who took them from him.
If anything, the game’s character appears a tad bland at first, showing little personality or emotion and speaks only when necessary but then living in the wasteland where your only purpose is to survive would strip anyone of their humanity to an empty shell. But if we’re comparing video game Max to cinema Max, he most closely represents the Mel Gibson era (Gibson’s Mad Max famously only had 16 lines of dialogue in The Road Warrior), but doesn’t share a likeness with either Gibson or Hardy other than his trademark leather jacket. This would make sense, though, since the game is a prequel to Fury Road, so his mental state would have further deteriorated following the events of the game. Max is more vocal in the game than he was in Fury Road however, acting less animalistic than Tom Hardy’s gritty portrayal of the character who had very few lines and spent the majority of time grunting. He’s on a quest to reach the Plains of Silence where he believes he will find peace, a place which is also briefly alluded to in Fury Road. As always, he’s an ex-cop turned lone warrior searching for a purpose in the wasteland and a tortured soul haunted by those he couldn’t save, as depicted by photos of his former family pinned to his dashboard. The game’s titular character Max Rockatansky has a lot in common with his cinematic counterpart. Having already watched it three times this year, you could say I’m a fan of that film.īe warned: this article contains spoilers to those who may not have finished the main story missions in Mad Max. This also happens to coincide with the belated blu-ray release of Mad Max Fury Road in the UK (because we love receiving home media releases after everyone else). The game tells an original standalone story seemingly set after Beyond Thunderdome and before the events of Fury Road, but fans have also suggested it shares similarities with one of the Fury Road comics which incidentally also acted as a prequel to the film.Īfter spending many hours wandering the wasteland, we thought we’d uncover some of the game’s connections to the Mad Max cinematic universe in the run-up to our final review. Despite not being a direct adaptation of the critically acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road, the recently-released Mad Max game still has plenty of fan-pleasing nods that suggest it takes place in the same post-apocalyptic world carefully crafted by director George Miller, despite developer Avalanche Studios insisting it’s not canon to the series.
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