Travel as Max, a lone-wolf warrior, through post-apocalyptic world full of death and misery in a vain search for seclusion and peace of mind.

Pretty good game actually, although it suffers from the open world area syndrome.
The story line is easy to catch up with even if you don't know the movies much as there is some basic information about the characters and the wasteland locations noted down. Otherwise it's a very linear experience, no choices for us here, just follow the grim path and do whatever it is necessary to reach the ultimate end - creation of a new car worthy of the lost Interceptor, the Magnum Opus. Chumbucket, disfigured blackfinger (car mechanic), is gonna help with building it, much to Max's disdain. Resources are scarce and Max has to bargain for them with important figures of the wastelands - stronghold leaders Jeet, Gut Gash, Pink Eye and Deep Friah. He is gonna help them only for the right price though, not because of some sympathetic feelings, as for Max everyone around him is only a stepping stone on a stairs leading towards his goal. And some of them he's gonna stomp into the ground pretty hard.

The Magnum Opus is the game's main star. You are building up your dream car from old rusty parts to new shiny monster ones. For the main design you can select from a few different car bodies and then adjust it to your liking with different parts and even colors, ornaments or decals. With all of this you upgrade your car with more defense, attack power, maximum speed and so on. The most important element of the Magnum Opus is Chumbucket though as he maintains the firepower (harpoon and thundersticks) and can repair your car right on the spot! You can of course ride every other car you find in the wasteland and later even the pre-made Archangels, but in case of war party attacking, it's just Max and his shotgun. Simply, road-wars are much more fun with Chumbucket behind you! Also when you get tired by just random driving, you can take part in Death races all around to find who is the best driver! I have quite enjoyed them, it's a great opportunity to try the other cars. Some of the races are pretty challenging and hard to come victorious in them. Racing in the Magnum Opus is rather unfair to your fellow rivals as we are dominating on the field. ;)
Except for the road-wars you get to talk with your fists a lot and it's fun. Combat isn't hard, just don't let yourself be surrounded and build up your combo to deliver devastating finishing moves. You can also use different melee weapons to smash some heads more quickly.

So apart from the main missions that push you in the story, there isn't much to do. You can do a few side quests which will give you some upgrades for your car and that's all. Everything else is the same old story repeating in every territory - destroying sniper nests, war totems and convoys, liberating enemy camps and scavenging around for scrap and other useful items. Although all of it is great fun, one can become pretty tired by it in the long run. If you put aside the achievements you can gain for it, it doesn't offer anything much to the story… yeah, in some locations you can find the project parts used in upgrading the strongholds or historic relics (collectables), but otherwise it's just tedious work for some small amount of scrap. Storming down the camps is basically the same routine, although they tried hard to make them different. Sometimes you can even learn its weaknesses beforehand, but it doesn't change the outcome much - you still invade the camp, fight a horde of enemies and destroy the tank fuels. Some kind of a challenge offers the Top Dog camps, where you have to fight a boss at the end, but even those can’t surprise you much in the end.

If you follow the main story line the game has a great pace, missions are varied and pretty intense. It's really fun and quite enjoyable. Sadly all that freedom and open world is a little bit tedious and can become boring. Characters are mostly forgettable without any impact on the story (other than helping Max). The ending is brutal, but in canon with the Mad Max franchise, I suppose.
If we overlook all those (not really serious) problems, it's a great game. The post-apocalyptic atmosphere, graphics, music and voice-acting, it's all well done. Driving the Magnum Opus around the wasteland and piercing my enemies with a harpoon was a simple joy. Maybe it doesn't look like it from my review, but I have enjoyed my almost 80 hours with Max, totally worth the money. Can only recommend.