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Brief copy editing done. May 27, 2016

hey fixed closed to 20 editing mistakes, this article should be ready for GAN now. Thanks, bye — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unholydoom993 (talk • contribs) 03:54, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Jaguar (talk · contribs) 17:05, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Mine. JAGUAR  17:06, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Initial comments

• "Mad Max is an action-adventure video game set in an open world environment and based on the Mad Max film universe" - try Mad Max is an open world action-adventure video game set in the Mad Max film universe. Though you can ignore of rephrase this if you want, I think it sounds cleaner this way
• " on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on September 2015 worldwide" - and on Xbox One in September
• "the Magnum Opus with his assistant Chumbucket"- along with this assistant
• "but none of them were successfully released" - but neither of them were
• I would recommend sorting the lead into three paragraphs, per WP:LEADLENGTH. A short forth paragraph seems choppy here
• Too many uses of "in which" in the gameplay section. "Max is also customizable, in which his clothing, appearance, fighting skills and weapons can be modified" - try Max is also customizable, with his clothing, appearance, fighting skills and weapons being modifiable
• "Each region has a boss, who can be found (and defeated) in their base" - why the need for brackets? It would be fine without
• "Max can be guided by Chum in strategically completing his objectives" - why not Chumbucket? Unless that is their nickname in the game
• "Max can also eat small animals (such as rodents and maggots from decomposing corpses) to replenish his health" - again, no need for brackets here, it would read fine without them
• "According to Avalanche, due to the Big Nothing the game's map is infinite" - this sentence is a run-on, try According to Avalanche, due to the "Big Nothing", the game's map is infinite
• "Avalanche Studios later confirmed that he would have an Australian accent" - does this mean that his voice actor got replaced?
• One of the paragraphs in the Release section could be merged
• Similarly, the last two paragraphs in the Post-release section should be merged to improve flow.
• "behind Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (released the same day)" - ...Phantom Pain, which was released on the same day.

Nice work with this, as usual! On hold until all are clarified. JAGUAR  17:19, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

@Jaguar: - Thanks for the review! I have fixed most of the issues you mentioned above. AdrianGamer (talk) 04:02, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Good job! JAGUAR  18:18, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

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)