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MAD MAX CAST UPGRADE
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MAD MAX CAST UPGRADE

There are a lot of ways to upgrade your car: adorning it with spikes, rams, armor, and flamethrowers, improving traction and suspension, and adding bigger and better engines and nitro boosts. I feel like more could have been done with the wasteland: there are a couple of genuinely interesting and creepy underground locations that felt like they might be leading to something different, but unfortunately they end up the same way every other interior location does: with a roomful of guys for Max to punch to death. More often than not, these activities involve more melee fighting.

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You can search locations for scrap, gather parts to upgrade friendly strongholds or build new cars, capture outposts whose hot air balloons serve as vantage points, participate in timed races, or listen to a friendly wastelander's (usually boring) tale of woe before getting a tip, sharing their loot, or getting a series of small side-missions. I've played for 45 hours and my map is still cluttered with icons, though there's honestly not a whole lot of variety in activities. Mob combat is meaty and clearly inspired by Batman, but turns into a slog.īesides car and melee combat, there are other things to do in the wasteland. Sometimes you'll have to fight goon-mobs at the same time, which at least gives you a new activity: trying to trick the boss into accidentally smashing his own minions. Wait for their signature move, dip in for a quick attack, and repeat until they're beaten. A couple other bosses are of the quick and agile variety, but there's really no difference in strategy. Camp bosses are identical: lumbering damage-sponges wielding giant hammers that require you to dodge their swing, quickly attack to shave off slivers of their health, then dodge again. The dozen-or-so boss fights aren't great, either. I have plenty of fun stories about car combat, but none about the hundred-plus fistfights I had. Ultimately, though, there are simply so many of these fights, all essentially the same, that they eventually begin to feel like a numbing chore. It's animated well: breaking a goon's arm or piledriving him into the ground feels meaty and crunchy, and blasting away with your sawed-off, using spiked melee weapons, and throwing explosive spears gives fights a bit of a kick. Learning special attacks and parries lets you deal with goons more quickly, but in response the game simply increases the size of the mobs you face. The camera can be awful during fights, sometimes completely obscuring Max and his enemies. Invading enemy camps is always done on foot, and while melee combat works similarly to what we've seen in the Arkham games-parry blows with one button, deliver your own by mashing another, chain attacks together for damage bonuses, and execute special moves when prompted-it's simply not as fluid or flexible.

Of course, you need to get out of your car quite often, which is where some of the fun of Mad Max can start to fizzle. Upgrade your car enough, and unarmored vehicles become one-hit kills.

MAD MAX CAST DRIVERS

You're not always the hunted, either: sometimes enemy drivers will realize they've bitten off more than they can chew and beat a hasty retreat, meaning you get to become the pursuer.

MAD MAX CAST DRIVER

Best of all, you can a rip a driver right out of his seat, either through an unarmored windshield or a door you've removed, and then catapult him through the air. As you upgrade the harpoon you'll gain the ability to tear off a car's wheel, completely neutralizing it. Yank off armor, piece by piece, to expose a gas tank which you can then detonate with a shotgun blast. Target a rear bumper and you can slingshot your car into it for extra ramming damage. Target a car's doors and you can tear them off. Luckily, you've got something they don't, and it's one of the most enjoyable weapons I've used in a game: a kickass car-mounted harpoon. As you explore the wasteland you'll randomly encounter lone vehicles or multi-car war parties bristling with spikes, loaded with explosives, or carrying crews of hooting War Boys.

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