Fury Road isn't the only road Mad Max is on right now. Along with "Mad Max: Fury Road" (the film that's become a smash hit and is being hailed as the best action film of the year), there's also Mad Max, an upcoming PS4 game based on the Mad Max franchise. And the newest trailer, titled "Savage Road" explains how deeply the game ties into the film that shares its name.
The new trailer makes it obvious: the Mad Max game is set in same trippy post-apocalypse as "Mad Max: Fury Road." The two worlds are identical, with the same cars and the same insane, skull-faced drivers losing it behind every steering wheel. However, the stories of the game and "Mad Max: Fury Road" don't intersect. While the film sees Tom Hardy as Mad Max, Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa, Nicholas Hoult as Nux and Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe, only Mad Max will feature into the game (and unlike Tom Hardy's portrayal of Mad Max, the game's will have a thick Australian accent).
Instead, the story finds Max attacked by a band of Wasteland savages (much like the opening of Fury Road), and finds his car has been stolen. Max and his mechanic, Chumbucket must work to get his car back from a hulking warlord decked out in human skulls. the game features plenty of car combat, racing and hand-to-hand fighting in an open world setting.
The Mad Max game, which releases on PS4, Xbox One, PC and Linux, was actually delayed several times and is just now making it onto the market; the game is set to release this fall. It's quite similar to the latest Mad Max film, which was also hit with years of delays (and at one point, starred Heath Ledger instead of Tom Hardy). Mad Max will finally crash onto store shelves on September 1, 2015.
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