20 Most Underrated Open-World Video Games Of The Decade (So Far)

20. Mad Max

This is what you get when the Just Cause developers are allowed to let loose with a completely different IP. Mad Max's video game tie-in suffered immeasurably thanks to launching on the same day as Metal Gear Solid V, thereby selling but a fraction of Kojima's final entry in the legendary saga.

Still, Avalanche crafted a post-apocalyptic game that ticks all the right boxes. Brutal melee encounters where haymakers connect like shotgun blasts help punctuate some great on-foot segments, and that's before you get to the car combat, which plays like a more physics-based incarnation of Twisted Metal.

Its world is one dotted with collectibles, enemy encampments and car upgrades, all coming together to give you myriad reasons to dart off in any direction and chase the horizon to your heart's content.