Mad Max director George Miller is not a fan of the 2015 video game and he thinks Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima could do better. As Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa hits cinemas this week, the film’s director has spoken about his dream collaboration for a game adaptation. The last game (there’s really only been one other, for the NES) based on George Miller’s dystopian universe was 2015’s Mad Max from Avalanche Studios , which was a surprisingly decent attempt at adapting the IP into an open world game hinged on vehicular combat.
However, despite consulting on the game himself, Miller has now expressed disappointment with how the title turned out. Speaking in a new interview, Miller highlighted how 2015’s Mad Max, intended to be released alongside Mad Max: Fury Road, ‘wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be’. ‘I’m one of those people that I’d rather not do something unless you can do it at the highest level, or at least try to make it a high level,’ he told GAMINGbible.
Avalanche Studios co-founder Christofer Sundberg, who left the studio back in 2019, has since taken umbrage with Miller’s comments and described them as ‘complete arrogance’. George Miller revealed he wants @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN to make a Mad Max gameð¤ ̄ @Kojima_Hideo pic.twitter.
com/o8mDdSAkFs ‘This is complete nonsense and just shows complete arrogance,’ Sundberg wrote on Twitter . ‘They did everything they could to make this a complete linear game after having signed up w.
