Mad Max has a new trailer and a new release date, or release year at least, and that is now 2015, the game having previously been scheduled for this year.
Developers Avalanche are also behind the Just Cause franchise, the third instalment of which was rumoured a few days ago.
Teflon went hands on with the game eight months ago and as this new delay is rather lengthy I decided to have a snoop round and find out just how long the game had been in development. I found this little nugget on the MTVwebsite.
Along with “God of War II” designer Cory Barlog, Miller is developing an action-adventure videogame based on the fourth film.
George Miller is the producer of the new film, that quote is from 2009 when the fourth Mad Max film was going to be an animated feature and “both projects were expected to take 2 to 2½ years, according to Miller, with a release date of either 2011 or 2012.”
Further digging reveals Barlog left SCEA in November 2007 and moved to Avalanche. In an interview with website Mega64 in 2008 he announced that one title he is would be working on is an adaptation of the fourth Mad Max film.
The film ended up being live action with Tom Hardy as the Road Warrior and began filming in July 2012, eighten months late. This pushed the film release back to 2015 so I guess that is why the game has moved as well.
That means when it finally arrives the Mad Max game would have been in development since at least 2008, making it seven years and two console generations old.
Source: YouTube
Mick939
Ive not really followed the game tbh, but i saw from comments yesterday there will surely be people dissapointed by this
TSBonyman
Why has it been delayed? .. Just beCause…. ;)
Tuffcub
Nah, Just Cause is Square Enix, this is WB. WB wouldn’t let Avalanche delay their game just to develop another, it’s cos the movie has been pushed back. If they release the same time as the movie they benefit from a load of cross promotion.
TSBonyman
Ah i see, different publishers.
JR.
I watched the first Mad Max movie the other week for the first time in anticipation of the game. I thought it was a bit rubbish to be honest. Are the others any better?
TSBonyman
It’s been quite some time since i watched it, i believe it was pretty wild for it’s time but didn’t look like it was made on a huge budget. Obviously it did pretty well so there was more financial clout behind the sequels, and possibly more of a saturday-matinee-adventure direction.
Not that’s a bad thing, Mad Max 2 is much better, and definitely worth a watch. The third one has Tina Turner.
Tuffcub
I tried to watch it again a few weeks back and it’s pretty terrible. Was good for it’s time!
MayhemMonkey
I really hope that those customisations allow for some truly different vehicles and not just a “oh look, I unlocked the next more powerful part” with everyone’s end game engine of destruction looking pretty much the same. Either way it looks interesting for sure.