Fallout Dev Was Working on Mad Max Game, Here's What Happened to It

if this game is gonna be lik e th fall out games im not getting it

Shame this project fell apart, however the upcoming Mad Max from Avalanche Studios does look great... Reminds me of Shadow of Mordor

To be honest I am kind of glad it fell apart. It's not because I don't think interplay wouldn't have made a good game,

I love Fallout 1/II, tut to me mad max isn't about turn-based or a party-based tactial rpg.

Mad max needs the action, the driving, to me that is what the game should be.

I think it would hav ebeen great if they could have melded those two aspects together. Keep the action and the driving, but also have a party and deep rpg story/choices and things to make like the old fallout games.

I take it this is during the EA circa 2005-2009 when they were canning games left and right......

remember that innovative looking Command & Conquer FPS game Westwood had in the works where you played a battlefield commander, someone who get's their hands dirty while still commanding units into action......seemed really interesting and different and it was canned.....

it's kinda shocking how EA still has any rep left.....or why any dev would wanna side with em.....

EA....we ruin everything

"EA got involved and it fell apart", now I wonder how THAT happened. Hmm.....

EA getting involved ALWAYS turns games to a negative. Wonder why I don't buy EA games...

It would have had a better story at Interplay. Just Cause devs writing a story, give me a break.

The videos of the game I've seen so far are seem really shady, like they're trying so hard to hide the bad things in it...Who knows though? Maybe Avalanche can pull it off, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt only because I loved Just Cause 2, and Just Cause 3 looks dope!

Yeah, EA is a super-rich d*ckhead company, but neither game would've ever seen the light of day, which is why Mad Max is currently being published by Warner Bros and developed by Avalanche Studios.

It's probably better anyways, because I finally watched the original trilogy, and a lot of the stuff I do in JC2 seems more inline with the films. I seriously don't see it as an RPG, and after watching the more in-depth trailer, I think Avalanche at least has the concept locked down. Hopefully they'll deliver.

EA ...... Really? Fucking bastards, runing another potentially good game.

Ea means electronic arts i think it should mean more like evil aholes

And people still buy EA's games and give them the means to do these things. STOP BUYING THEIR GAMES.

I hate that EA did this, but at the same time, would a Mad Max game in an Isometric RPG-style like they described in the article really work out? I think Avalanche's version works better for Mad Max.

That being said, it sucks that these guys got something that they really wanted to do cancelled because EA.

(that gramatical error is intentional by the way)

EA loves to make cheap, half-assed cash grabs from movie tie-ins. 20 million was probably 10x's the amount of money they would've invested in the game.

Warner Bros. has been on a roll with the quality of their franchises lately. Both Batman & Shadow of Mordor are big money makers and quality games (except for the last Batman game, with all the bugs). Even though they're not a great company, I trust them much more than EA to do ANY game justice. EA would've probably given the dev 6 months of development time to launch the game when the movie releases.

I also thought the Mad Max game coming out was just a car combat game? The one that was announced for XB1 & PS4 when both systems launched. At first it wasn't, but then it was. And now it isn't a car combat game again? Or are there multiple Mad Max games being made?

FFS EA. Well, at least we get some sort of mad max game at least..

Interplay?! I thought they went under in the early 2000's?

Anyway, I'm a HUGE fan of theirs. I buy every PS1 game I find with their logo on it.

EA should just stick to their sports games and leave everyone else alone.

"EA got involved and it fell apart"

As it always does. EA is actively toxic to gaming, it prevented this game from being made, and produced nothing of value in its place.

I love fallout as much as the next man but if anyone can bring this universe to life in game its probably avalanche.

I mean this universe at its best is not something I could see working too well as an RPG.

A super violent, over the top, open world action game however?

Yeah thats probably gonna fit nicely.

WEERRRNSTROM.

EA ruining something? Why, they've been doing that for years upon years. BioWare's already treading that path to the point of no return.

"... EA got involved and it fell apart..."

EA, YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE WORDS.

I can't really think of any situation where EA got involved and it turned out well.

We could have had a Wasteland or Fallout style RPG set in the world of Mad Max?

*shakes fist in EA's general direction

I'm not saying I don't want a Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mad Max from Warner Bros, but EA walking in to stomp on a sand castle and then walking away is seriously frustrating.

EA got involved and something bad happened?

NAAAAAAAAAAW!