12 Biggest Video Games That Are The Most Value For Money

4. Mad Max

Busywork in open-world games can go one of two ways. Either you have something like Assassin's Creed: Unity, where your map is absolutely caked in icons and pointless side-missions you could complete for no reason, or you get something like the wonderfully underrated Mad Max; asking you to take back the wasteland, one grain of sand at a time. The general marketing and reviews for this glossed over a really cool sense of survivalism, which starts to give Mad Max a great sense of identity once you get a handle on things like ammo conservation, water allowance and fuel management. See, there is a story to slowly pick away at if you want specifically-designed missions, but along the way you're free to take back scores of outposts, ram loot-filled convoys off the road, venture out into storms to catch pieces of valuable debris and fight a handful of 'boss' characters that head up more armoured encampments. Your personal vehicle of hell-brought death and destruction won't upgrade itself, and as a player, your acclimatisation to the harsh realities of the wasteland mimics that of Max himself. Put simply, if you're looking for an open-world game that absolutely relishes in letting you pick a direction and seeing what you come across, knowing everything factors back into an overall progression Avalanche Studios did a wonderful job breathing life into one of the most otherwise desolate game worlds in quite some time.