10 Gameplay Tweaks That Seriously Improve Video Games

Avalanche Studios' 2015 Mad Max game is criminally underrated. It gave us one of the best - if not the best - car combat systems around, a successful take on Batman: Arkham-style combat that was more brutal, and most importantly, an uncanny recreation of the Mad Max world.

Every licensed game should take a lesson from what the game did best: turn your property into a virtual theme park. That's where the game's real charm came from - the opportunity to exist and play in George Miller's unique post-apocalyptic wasteland.

But the game's criticisms were not unjustified. It did get fairly repetitive and some of the open world activities felt a lot like needless padding.

Additionally, the game's mild survival elements - needing to find food and water to heal, ammo being rare and valuable, and scarce resources to upgrade the game's various settlements - rang hollow under the lens of the game's mostly trivial difficulty.

A fully upgraded Max is, simply, a behemoth, and non-combat skills only exist to mitigate the survival mechanics elsewhere. By simply refusing to level up beyond that first time (which is mandated during the tutorial) Mad Max becomes the harsh, unforgiving wasteland it's meant to be.