Mad Max
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Brutal hand-to-hand brawling and vehicular combat against human raiders, with blood, bone-crunching melee finishers, shotgun blasts, and enemies smashed or burned apart in car battles.
Frequent strong profanity in dialogue and combat barks across the wasteland gangs.
A bleak post-apocalyptic world built on ecological collapse and scarcity, with a story centered on grief, loss of family, and lawless cruelty.
Enemy war boys and Max himself are shown with branded, scarred and crudely stitched flesh, and the gang leader has a chainsaw blade lodged in his skull for the whole game; bodies are shown broken and burned in vehicle wrecks.
Grotesque, scarred enemies and grim, oppressive wasteland imagery create a dark tone without being a dedicated horror game.
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What it is
Mad Max is a single-player, open-world action-adventure set in a barren post-apocalyptic desert, where you play a lone survivor building and upgrading a battle car called the Magnum Opus to fight a gang of raiders. Much of the game is fast, destructive vehicular combat, mixed with on-foot melee brawling that features heavy blood and brutal finishing moves. Enemies are grotesque, scarred wasteland gangs, and the tone is grim and violent throughout, with frequent strong language. There is no sexual content, and the game has no online play, chat, or in-app purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as survival and revenge in a collapsed world where brutality is the norm; Max is a reluctant, hardened loner rather than a hero, and the story leans into themes of loss, grief, and the emptiness of the wasteland rather than glorifying its cruelty.
Details
- Developer
- Avalanche Studios
- Publisher
- Warner Bros. Games
- Released
- Sep 1, 2015
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