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    Mad Max

    Game » consists of 1 releases. Released July 1990

    A driving game based on the post-apocalypse franchise of the same name.

    sbc515's Mad Max (Nintendo Entertainment System) review

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    It ain't a lovely day

    This is a very poor adaptation of Mad Max 2. In fact not one person can tell if it follows either the first Mad Max, Road Warrior or Beyond Thunderdome because of how haphazardly mashed up elements of each movie are throughout the level. Well, this game is bad, there has been innovation on this game to be open-world genre, you can explore whatever they want while there has much lack on this game. It lacks a map, which, combined with the large levels, makes exploration much harder.

    There's only one song in the entire game. You would think that Mindscape would hire a more competent composer, but just like Terminator, they tend to have the least talented composer out there.

    The gameplay is beyond repetitive and tedious in which you drive Mad Max's car in various wasteland levels and stop by shops to repair and refuel your vehicle. The controls are stiff, especially in the driving stages. It feels like the car itself is broken beyond repair. Speaking of the car, it has limited fuel. You automatically lose the whole game if you run out. It isn't necessarily horrible, but it's just boring once you start playing, because all there is for each level is a slight palette swap and nothing more, which explains the mediocre graphics.

    When you have enough food and water, you can buy an arena pass and proceed to the arena stages where you must defeat several enemies in a given amount of time and reach the exit. You keep doing this only three times until you face Humungus. The game has a password system, but one of the passwords which lead directly to the final boss is useless, as it brings the player to the boss fight with one crossbow, while at least two are needed to defeat him. Speaking of, the final boss is very difficult to defeat, and the ending itself is not worth beating Humungus due to how terrible it is.

    So where does a man like Max go from here?

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