Hand to Hand with Attitude
Taking a gaze at Mad Max will instantly give you a sense of familiarity when you see the combat system. The Batman Arkham series and Shadow of Mordor clearly provided huge inspiration to the brutality of the wasteland. But Mad Max manages to take the familiar and still make it feel like its own. The combat has a much more weighty crunch to it.
Players won’t glide between enemies as they swiftly kick, punch, and string up scavengers and bandits. There are no pretty beheadings as they rack up incredibly high combos and use powers to brainwash the enemy masses. There is no beauty in the violence of Mad Max, and in a way that is the most beautiful thing. Combat makes you feel despair. Taking a hit hurts, killing is ugly and bloody, but it must be done if you are to survive.
There is no sugar coating, no praise, only survival as you use everything around you to bash the ever-loving life out of whoever dares to cross you during your journey.
