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If it's all the same to you...I'll drive that tanker. [Mad Max: The Game]
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So according to this interview with Mad Max director George Miller in Newsweek, he and Cory Barlog (of God of War 2 fame) are working on a new game based on the Mad Max franchise. More specifically, the (possibly) upcoming sequel "Fury Road".
Not much is known yet, but it will probably include fast cars, guns, flamethrowers, and veiled homosexual stereotypes. Because Mel Gibson will more then likely not be involved in the new film, no Max Rockatansky for you, sadly. The main character will be whoever the new films main character is. Miller seems to pretty well versed in video games, so I have high hopes for this one. I'm gonna take a guess and say this will be on Xbox360, PS3, and PC. A few good quotes:
George Miller wrote:For many, many, many years--for as many years as I can remember, we've been asked to make games of the 'Mad Max' story. I mean, we've been approached by every major game company or developer virtually, asking 'Can we do a Mad Max game?' And to me, it always felt like what I used to call empty calorie action. Where you just -- the thing that you were alluding to before, which is just action for its own sake without anything underneath it.
George Miller wrote:Games are a way more nascent medium than cinema. We're watching games evolve as we speak, very dramatically. The balance is going to tip the other way. I go back to the notion of immersion of the audience. Games, being highly interactive, are very immersive with the audience, but there needs to be some experience that the player takes from that. And it's a very fertile medium to work in if you're looking towards how you can inform a character. So what I'm saying is, just as movies are moving towards games, games are going to be moving towards movies, where that balance is going to be less--that sort of balance towards action over character, and any character or story is basically in support of the action sequences.
I for one am damn excited. I've always been a huge Mad Max fan and to finally see a good official game with George Miller directly involved is great. As long as I get to drive the V8 Pursuit Special, I'll be happy. What do you guys want to see? Lots of gasoline hoarding? Wrist mounted crossbows? Thunderdome side missions?
Also, possibly beat'd by this:
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Dude, they TOTALLY ripped off Fallout there.
I never asked for this!
Is it wrong that as soon as I saw that picture, the 'turn-based mode' sound effect played in my head?
I have my hopes up and trust Miller but I can see this sucking.
I doubt that it'll be an MMO because Miller seems pretty obsessed with the idea of telling a true story through the medium, but I like the prequel idea....it's a hard trade off because I love the "everything's gone to shit" hopelessness of Road Warrior, but I like the "everything's on the brink of going to shit" world of Mad Max. I think they'd both make great games but I'm not sure they'd work together in one game...Although if it was a really long game and it showed the gradual breakdown of society it would be very impressive.