Post-Apocalypse and zero playable women. So will the Swedish interpretation of the Mad … – IDG.se

From a Swedish perspective, it was above all one thing became clear during this year’s E3: Games Sweden is hotter than ever. And among the most prolific is Stockholm-based Avalanche.

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Mad Max, The Avalanches interpretation of the classic license, was actually supposed to be released last year, but after a longer delay is instead set to launch in September this year. The timing may seem strange. The fourth film in the series premiered earlier this spring, and traditionally tend game released for the same period in order to ride the wave. At the same time avoid the Avalanche now end up in the shadow of the blockbuster, which also seems to be a conscious choice. The developer is sure that you do not want to be compared to the movie.

There spite is the interface striking when IDG auditioning preliminary version. The focus is on driving in the modified weapons and armed vehicles and in the background there is a regime that does its best to shoe on the few resources that are left after the apocalypse.

 
 

John Fuller, producer behind upcoming Mad Max, is reluctant to compare the game with the film, although he thinks that clear links exist.

– Of course, we have taken inspiration from the film. We have worked closely with director George Miller to collect references, says producer John Fuller.

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Something that movie Mad Max has been praised for is that a large part revolves around strong female portraits. These calls, however, by its absence in the game version, instead focusing the story exclusively on Max’s journey through the world. The female characters that exist make it rather in the role of side characters.

– For example, you encounter a wheelchair-bound girl who controls one of the game’s camp. She aims to rescue a group of children. She knows that her time is over is over, and she would just save the children and free them from Scrotus said John Fuller.

The format of Mad Max feels again from the amount of action games that have been launched recently. The map is large, and filled with enemy fortifications, watchtowers and smaller assignments. Max’s car can even be customized, just like his qualities. What distinguishes Mad Max ate rather the environment. Like the film series is about the endless desert landscape as far as the eye can see.

During our session it is clear that it is precisely this that the risk of falling experience. Because even if it’s visually beautiful lacks Mad Max considerable differences in the environment. It simply becomes tedious to watch.

 
 

Emil Kraft Ling at Avalanche mean that there has been a major challenge in designing the game world.

Emil Kraft Ling, chief designer at Avalanche, is aware of this and explains that one of the biggest challenges has been to create something interesting in a world that consists of only desert landscape.

– We have chosen not to see it as a desert, but rather as a place in the world after the great disaster. World takes place in and around a former big city, and you can see where, for example, the port and the water once stood. Everything is still there, and this approach has meant that it has been extremely fun to work with Mad Max.

Another thing which differs Mad Max from many other similar games, not least from the Avalanche own Just Cause, is that there is more action driven.

– It is has been an interesting and exciting challenge for us. We want to be able to do everything that studio, and this gave us the opportunity to take on a more serious world than we have previously done. Just Cause series has a more light-hearted humor, here is the darker. But we have not lost the entertainment, this is after all not something Ingmar Bergman epic.
 

Open World. The desert landscape is huge and everywhere there are things to see and do.

 While it is clear that the Mad Max is an Avalanche-product. The document must not be allowed to take the upper hand, but exploration in the first place. For example, it uses less events to get the player to visit new parts of the world.

– We must have things that attract utfoskande. It may be that you discover two characters standing by a car and kicking on a third. There you have also a story, albeit a simple one. Such things are popping up everywhere to entice you out into the world.

Mad Max will be the epic action title Avalanche promise remains to be seen. What is clear already is that the title marks the start of the wave of Swedish blockbusters are planned for the autumn. In addition to Mad Max, we have Star Wars: Battlefront from Dice, Need for Speed ​​from the Ghost and so the Avalanche own Just Cause third

– It happens much at all fronts currently in Games Sweden. For us it is grateful because we know that we are prominent. At the same time, we want to work to strengthen it, says Emil Kraft Ling.