Show of the Week: Mad Max vs Outside Xbox

After Mad Max: Fury Road blew our faces off in the cinema, we’re good and ready for a Mad Max videogame. Witness us as we get to grips with the apocalypse in Show of the Week. Subscribe, bloodbags! http://www.tinyurl.com/SubToOxbox

The storyline for the game is as simple as you’d expect. Max’s iconic V8 Interceptor car has been stolen by psychotic warlord Scabrous Scrotus, son of the movie’s villain Immortan Joe.

Naturally, this makes Max angry. Mad, you might say. And with the help of his mechanic buddy Chumbucket, he sets off across the wasteland to get a new car, called the Magnum Opus, and kick Scabrous right in his scrotus.

That quest is going to involve a lot of combat, both on foot and in a vehicle. Hand to hand combat takes its cues from the Batman: Arkham school of fluid fisticuffs. Max is a slightly scrappier fighter than Bruce, but a progression system allows you to unlock new skills and improve your abilities for that inevitable final punch up to end all punch ups.

Vehicular combat, meanwhile, makes use of a series of upgrades that you unlock as you progress through the game. You’ll want to make good use of the harpoon launcher, which lets you hoist drivers out of their cars and drag them behind you or yank the wheels off vehicles. It’s not quite the boundless hilarity of the Just Cause 3 tether, but it’s a lot of fun.

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