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Metal Gear Solid V, Mad Max, and Lara Croft GO: let’s Click-Swipe-Play

This week on the show I have a bag full of big names for you. There is a reinvented franchises, a classic movie license, and the end of a gaming icon – all reviewed in under three minutes. Let’s Click-Swipe-Play.

Based around Tomb Raider’s star, Lara Croft GO (iOS|Android) is a game designed from the ground up for mobile. It takes the premises of table top-gaming and mixes them with Tomb Raider’s action. The result is a turn-based strategy game that somehow still evokes the feel of the franchises classic adventures.

Mad Max (PC) is of course based on the movie franchise, but not on any specific movie – which probably makes sense as most of the films feel completely unconnected. Not that this matters, as really it is the Australian wasteland that is the star – and that is reproduced wonderfully. My problem is that I wanted an actual wasteland, but the game’s open-world is a little too full unimportant items to collect.

Aptly, we finish with the final part of one of gaming’s most beloved franchises, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (PC). This moves the stealth action series into an open-world for the first time, offering you complete freedom in how you approach its missions. That’s right, you can lead Big Boss to his eventual fall from grace however you choose.

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Next week I am out of the office, but don’t worry we have a preview show to highlight some of this Winters’s most exciting games. Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss that, and I will see you then.

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Watch the first Mad Max gameplay video

A Mad Max game is being developed by Sweden’s Avalanche studios, the creators of the OTT open world games Just Cause and Just Cause 2. Today the first gameplay video was released, showing us the violent post apocalyptic world of the movies, and the hero himself, Mad Max.


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Not much is known about the game, but from the trailer it looks like Avalanche is putting its open world experience to use for Mad Max. And just like Just Cause, this game looks like a third-person action game with a huge world and plenty of vehicles and combat. Mad Max will need a good story to keep you engaged though: the Just Cause games didn’t really deliver in terms of narrative – but they made up for it with jets, skydiving and the fantastic grappling hook. Mad Max is unlikely to have these cool tools at his disposal, so we’ll have to see how Avalanche manages without them!

One notable thing about Mad Max is his face. Bearing no relation to original actor Mel Gibson, Max now resembles a more stubbled version of Just Cause hero Rico Rodriguez.

Mad Max will be released in 2014, but we don’t know if will be coming to PC or which next gen consoles.