Mad Max (franchise) Mad Max (franchise) Mad Max is an Australian dystopian action media franchise created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy. It began in 1979 with "Mad Max", and was followed by three films: "Mad Max 2" (1981), "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (1985) and "" (2015). Mel Gibson starred in the first three films and Tom Hardy took over as Max in the fourth film. The series follows the adventures of Max Rockatansky, a police officer in a future Australia which is experiencing societal collapse due to war and critical resource shortages. When his wife and child are murdered by a vicious
Mad Max (2015 video game) game", but thought the game's climax was exciting. Matt Bertz of "Game Informer" also criticized the story, calling it thin and light, and called the voice actors' performances uneven. "Mad Max"s world design received generally positive reviews. According to Brandin Tyrrel, it captured the films' savage tone and the game's sandbox was a "gorgeous" setting for players to explore. GamesRadar's Leon Hurley praised the game's scale, which he compared to "". Martin Robinson of "Eurogamer" compared its scale favorably to Avalanche's previous "Just Cause" game series, and opined that Avalanche had successfully combined the "Mad Max" universe with an open-world