Talk:Mad Max (2015 video game)

Not connected to the film

This needs to be stated, the Mad Max video game is not a loose sequel or prequel (how can it be both?) to Fury Road and that's coming from people who actaully worked on the game, these links are already on the page of course.[1]

• "A Mad Max game is coming, but it's not going to be related to any of the movies, because of Avalanche's radical position that movie tie-ins are pretty terrible."

• "A Mad Max game is in development, but don't call it a movie tie-in. Developer Avalanche Studios is making it clear that their upcoming game, based on the long-standing franchise, is not tied to any of the films, particularly the upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road."[2]

• "The studio is very clear that this game is in no way associated with the upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road movie starring Tom Hardy, that it is very much an original, standalone story, set in a standalone world."[3]

The official comic book doesn't show the events of the video game.[4] The only links I see trying to disprove this is only opinions coming from people who didn't work on the game and had nothing to do with it.108.208.136.214 (talk) 09:01, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

This is complete nonsense. The 'production design', colour palette, landscape, elements like the flaming-head steering wheel insignia and the exploding javelins - those are all absolutely drawn from the film. Fury Road also has very brief flashbacks to Max apparently failing to save a woman and a young girl, which would appear to be the story that unfolds later on in the game. I get that continuity in the films is deliberately fuzzy, and it's not supposed to necessarily be one story leading into another (kind of like the Dollars spaghetti westerns). But it's absolutely obvious that this game has Fury Road in its DNA. There might have been some mission-creep where the game and the film drifted apart as deadlines came and went, but to say the game has no connection to Fury Road is visibly and obviously not true - regardless of the press and marketing spin at the time. It's even got a "Fury Mode" FFS. Cardinal Wurzel (talk) 15:30, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

One huge thing that shows that the game has no connection to the films is that it clearly shows that he had a daughter, while the films show that he had a son and Fury Road doesn't change that fact. The girl he sees in flashbacks is not his, the comic book proves that[5], that story has no connection to what happens in the game.108.208.136.49 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 19:58, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

But you're making the mistake of thinking that there's any continuity or canonicity in this series. You're saying the story of the game appears to contradict the films. Sure - but in the films Bruce Spence and Hugh Keays-Byrne play two different characters (who might be the same character if you wanted them to be and squinted really hard), Max is two different people (three if you include the game), the Interceptor gets destroyed twice, the world ends apparently overnight... Glory is two different girls between the comic and the game... The game doesn't contradict Fury Road any more or less than Fury Road contradicts the other three movies. None of these things directly match up. They're "adjacent", if you like. But story points are a separate issue here anyway. It's fair to say that the game isn't a straight prequel or doesn't have a direct connection to Fury Road in a story sense. But from a production sense, you can't possibly be arguing that it's a coincidence that the game has the word "fury" all over it, is visually identical to Fury Road, and shares a lot of really specific design work and props and language ("Gas Town", "bullet farm" etc.) that are unique to that film. Calling it a "standalone world" is patently bollocks. It's all Mad Max. It's just that Mad Max is a lot of contradictory things. Cardinal Wurzel (talk) 08:57, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

The Vertigo comic (story by George Miller) and game are connected. Miller wasn´t involved with the game but WB gave them access to the production bible. This is why Glory is in both the comic and game and why the deaths of their mother and her overlap in both version of the tale. The comic is as of now the "canon" backstory of how Max enters Fury Road but we will see in 2024. The game also features plot points that will be in Furiosa (originally a scripted as an anime by Studio IG). Audio logs chronicle the death of Warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) for example. Nothing really fits all that well, nothing ever did, but the last word has to be said here. More people than just Mad Max Bible on YB will start digging once the new film´s press cycle starts. Sources will come. 77.64.255.48 (talk) 23:57, 31 December 2023 (UTC)