The success of Mad Max: Fury Road and the new Furiosa movie have reignited interest in the Mad Max universe. Director George Miller discussed his thoughts about the Mad Max game released in 2015 and evaluated the series’ potential for new games in the future.
Mad Max director George Miller wants Hideo Kojima to develop a new Mad Max game
George Miller made candid statements about the Mad Max game, developed by Avalanche Studios in 2015, in his interview with Gaming Bible in Cannes. Miller stated that the game did not meet his expectations and said, “The game was not as good as I wanted it to be.”
Miller said he thought not being directly involved in the project and having to give all materials to Avalanche degraded the quality of the game. “I’m one of those people who would rather not do something unless it’s done at the highest level,” Miller said.
While Miller wants a new Mad Max game to be made, he sees Hideo Kojima as the ideal person to direct this project. Kojima, the creator of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding, has made it clear that he is a big fan of Fury Road. Miller stated that he talked to Kojima, but he was hesitant to make such an offer because he was busy with his own projects.
Avalanche’s Mad Max game was released a few months after the release of Fury Road and featured a story that took place between Fury Road and Beyond Thunderdome. Although the game received positive reviews when it was released, it had to compete with Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which was released on the same day, and this negatively affected the sales of the game.
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Christofer Sundberg, co-founder of Avalanche Studios, said that Warner Bros. insisted on not changing the release date of the game, and this had a bad impact on sales. Sundberg stated that Warner Bros. canceled some DLCs for this reason and that the game’s potential was lost due to political reasons.
Sundberg also rejected Miller’s criticism of his game and argued that Warner Bros.’ forcing the game into a linear structure had a negative impact on the game’s development. He said that if Kojima made a Mad Max game, he thought it would offer a completely different experience.
Since its release, the game from the movie series has become a cult classic and is playable on both PC and consoles. The Mad Max universe, which came to the fore again with the Furiosa movie, will perhaps cause the game to attract more attention in the coming days.