Big news for those of you who are waiting and waiting to see Mad Max: Fury Road. For those who don’t know, a few years ago the fourth Mad Max installment was literally weeks away from shooting when everything fell apart. There were issues of security due to it shooting in Africa, and the start of the Iraq war and failing of the American dollar didn’t help things either. But director George Miller wants to do it with or without Mel Gibson… and perhaps without film.
Yes, George Miller may have found his way to finally get his story out through a video game. He’s created a partnership with God of War II director Cory Barlog, fresh from his departure from Sony. Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal (you really gotta get a better name in front of yours, man, you’re better than them) broke the story yesterday through phone interviews with both parties.
It’s very early for this as the game’s still early in planning. There’s no details on what consoles this will hit, or even any kind of gameplay specifics (besides that you can expect some car battles, duh), but you can see that the potential here is staggering. A guy who’s done incredible games in the past with a bad-ass franchise like Mad Max? Let’s hope for the best with this one.
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Miller has not said that the video game will be in place of a movie. He said we're getting both and they'll hit around the same time. Most pre-planning on Mad Max: Fury Road is complete, according to his recent interview. The sucker is ready to go! He's put it on hold for two reasons though: 1. He's still doing Justice League (and maybe Happy Feet 2). 2. He wants to begin development on a kickass companion piece video game so it can hit the streets at the same time as the movie. It will be developed while he's doing the other films.
That kind of makes sense that he could do both, since the game is probably at least two years away (depending on how far along they are right now) from being ready for release. Those things can take forever to make. Unless you're just remaking the same game over and over (Madden, Smackdown vs Raw, Guitar Hero).
Yeah, I really hope he gets to it eventually, but it's been delayed so many times that it's hard to hold any hope. Definitely love to see both, though. I just wonder who he could get to play the lead.
Ben Foster. He should be in everything from now on.
We don't need another hero, Alex.
Is there any way to delete out the post of "First!". Please let's not start that shit here. Go back to AICN if you want to do that shit.
Does this mean God of War 3 will suck? I just finished GOW 2 and it was seriously one of the best games I have ever played, at least in the action genre. Graphics were amazing on PS2, would love to see it on PS3…. but not suck the way Twisted Metal sucked for years after it changed developers. I'd rather see GOW 3 than a Mad Max game, but it might be cool.
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