10 Best Post-Apocalyptic Games To Play Until Fallout 4 Arrives

6. Mad Max

Unlike its corresponding blockbuster film, the Mad Max game has kind of slipped us by and been buried in the sand, which is unfair because it has a lot of great things going for it. You play as the main man Max himself (not Tom Hardy, which isn't really a problem considering his mumbling turn in the movie), and are tasked with assembling the greatest car the wasteland has ever known before taking on the crazed War Boys leader, Scabrous Scrotus (son of the movie's villain Immortan Joe). You spend much of the game driving around the hostile open-world desert world, combating its warbands and wresting control away from the psychotic warlords. Coming from the developers of Just Cause, there's a heavy focus on white-knuckle action and explosions. The melee combat isn't half bad either, taking cues from the timing-based mechanics of Batman: Arkham and Shadow of Mordor. Similarity to Fallout 4: While many games on this list take the whole post-apocalyptic theme more seriously than Fallout 4, Mad Max is a more rip-roaring interpretation. There is much less focus on character development, branching questlines, and other RPG elements. It's first and foremost an action game, and it can exist alongside Bethesda's seminal title - as a kind of fun, frantic breather from the more slow-paced vibes the Boston Wasteland.