Let me transport you back to the year of 2015. just , revitalizing the once long-dormant franchise. There’s excitement about the world and characters from mastermind director George Miller and fans can’t wait for more.
Fast forward a bit to September 1st, 2015 and fans are eagerly lining up to buy their blu-ray copies of (trust me, I was one of them) and a hot new open-world video game that released on the same day: . The rest was history. There was another video game that released that day though.
One that flew under many people’s radar, including my own. That video game was from Avalanche Studios, makers of the franchise. The game set out to immerse players into the revitalized world of and presented a story that acted as a prequel of sorts to the film.
Players would take control of Max Rockatansky, the last of the V8 interceptors, as he comes face to face with Scrotus, the son of warlord Immortan Joe from . Left out in the wasteland for dead and without his trusty vehicle, players would guide Max and his companion Chumbucket through the open-world and build the “Magnum Opus”, a new deathbringer vehicle. Players would get to visit iconic locations from the series such as Gastown and The Bullet Farm, and even come into contact with characters that would appear in both and .
stood out from other open world games at the time and allowed players to fully customize their car with various upgrades and defenses. Sure there was hand to hand combat evocative of the games, .
