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Just popped up in my youtube subscription box:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4vOWZeM8oA

Looks cool.

Steal my ride if old.

The trailer on the WB Games UK channel confirms the delay in the last seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz7G_oLJJ_U

Press release for context:

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today released the Official Mad Max Game - Magnum Opus Trailer, showcasing how players can customize their vehicles.
The trailer will be premiering on TV via West Coast Customs on Sunday, April 27 at 7 p.m. PDT on FOX Sports 2, following the debut of the Magnum Opus, Max’s in-game vehicle.

The real-life version of the Magnum Opus was designed with the West Coast Customs automotive specialists and features a high-performance engine, killer tires, a suspension system built to handle the Wasteland terrain and much more. Check out the included one-sheet to learn all about the West Coast Customs vehicle build-out and how the real-life Magnum Opus vehicle showcases some key Players’ in-game options.

Set to release in 2015, Mad Max delivers open world gameplay in a post-apocalyptic setting where cars are the key to survival. Developed by Avalanche Studios, gamers become Mad Max, a lone warrior who must fight to stay alive in The Wasteland, using vicious on-ground and vehicular combat against savage gangs of bandits. Following the theft of his iconic Interceptor, Max must align himself with a gifted, but peculiar, mechanic named Chumbucket and others to build the ultimate war vehicle as he works to escape from the dangerous Wasteland.

Thanks to Simo

 

[SkullplateMurray]

2015.

 

[le.phat]

HOLY SH- YES

 

[SJRB]

WEST COAST CUSTOMS

 

[Dinjooh]

We're doing caps? ooowhkay..

VIGILANTE 9, WOOHOHO

 

[Miles Quaritch]

So this is essentially an open world Destruction Derby with on foot sections?

If they've nailed the handling and weight of the vehicles....

 

[Veive257]

Day 1 special edition purchase (just 'cause)

 

[BlackBuzzard]

Edit: nvm

Looks good.

 

[MrSerrels]

This whole game feels like the Mad Max license was just shoe horned on for the hell of it.

 

[Darklord]

Pretty shitty they took an Australian character in the Australian outback and just slapped it in America. Now it just looks like Rage or something.

 

[Ashtar]

Post apocalyptic world with west coast customs sponsorship?
Interesting choice
Looks okay

 

[Terbinator]

The comment section though

Which Gaffer is the third one?

 

[kulapik]

WEST COAST CUSTOMS

A HUNDRED TVS ON THE CARS CONFIRMED

 

[cripterion]

Tell me that was the ps3 version.

And West Coast Customs?

 

[matty2Dfraud]

West Coast Customs... Wut?

 

[Ricky_R]

Interesting.

Shame it's cross gen.

 

[Nugg]

The comment section though

Which Gaffer is the third one?

Also, which Gaffer is the second one

 

[L1NETT]

Pretty shitty they took an Australian character in the Australian outback and just slapped it in America. Now it just looks like Rage or something.

IIRC they said he was going to have an Aussie accent (think this was post E3 last year)

That voice over at the start ain't him (I hope).

 

[kriskrosbbk]

Is this game a shooter or a driver?

 

[Jimmyfenix]

IT LIVES.

 

[anddo0]

I need to see gameplay...

Decent trailer, kinda far off.

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

didnt know there was going to be car customization

 

[Enduin]

Not feeling it.

 

[Guymelef]

Umm is the gameplay only with cars?
I thought it was a open world game.

 

[Quentyn]

2015.

Yep.

The description for their Twitter account used to look like this.

Now it looks like this.

 

[Man]

I think this might be a surprise hit.

It's the perfect developer for the license.

 

[kulapik]

We had no info for almost 6 months. Seems like the Just Cause 3 register reminded the guys on Avalanche: "Weren't we making another game...? OH FUCK MAD MAX PUT A TRAILER NOW"

Plus:

Watch @officialWCC build a @MadMaxGame Magnum Opus this Sunday on Fox Sports 2. More info: http://madmaxgame.com http://youtu.be/ViBCMzDguvI

https://twitter.com/MadMaxGame/status/459680001932009473

 

[Afrodium]

Glad I'm not the only one who thought a West Coast Customs in a post-apocalyptic wasteland was a bit jarring.

 

[sunnz]

So this is essentially an open world Destruction Derby with on foot sections?

If they've nailed the handling and weight of the vehicles....

Exactly, they REALLY need to get the physics right for it to work.

Something like the next car games physics ( both crashing and driving) would be incredible.

But, I very much doubt it. Only devs to give a shit about open world driving is Rockstar and mafia 2 devs...

 

[Ganondorfo]

It looks like motorstorm

 

[Steez]

I'm confused. Is this supposed to be a Twisted Metal type of game, or is there more to it?

What a mysterious jogo.

 

[Nyx]

Yo Dawg, we heard you liked WCC so we put WCC in a Mad Max game.

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

Umm is the gameplay only with cars?
I thought it was a open world game.

it has on foot stuff as well but in that universe its pretty impossible to go anywhere on foot

 

[GeoramA]

Probably wouldn't care if Avalanche wasn't involved. But since they are, day 1.

 

[mcfishstick]

Hopefully they start ramping up advertising for this. At the moment it looks like Just Cause in the desert with upgradable cars and no planes, boats, or grappling hook.

I'd expect it to be great considering Just Cause 2, but the lack of info revealed so far is a bit worrying.

 

[bbyybb]

Nice to see a car combat game again, they did really hammer the west coast customs though.

Bizarrely out of place in such a post apocalyptic setting.

 

[Alienous]

I'm negative interested in this game. I've gone from entirely not caring to dispising this game's existence.

Who at Avalanche thought this was a better idea than Just Cause 3?

 

[BlackBuzzard]

Westcoast custom's mention has to do with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tjtcxiUAQM

 

[Skinny Pete]

Well that didn't look so hot IMO. And I guess West Coast Customs is huge in the post apocalyptic future?

 

[Jazzkokehead]

The graphics look pretty impressive. I don't know what else to say at this point, there's been so little information about the game.

Pretty shitty they took an Australian character in the Australian outback and just slapped it in America. Now it just looks like Rage or something.

IIRC they said he was going to have an Aussie accent (think this was post E3 last year)

That voice over at the start ain't him (I hope).

People do realize that Mel Gibson isn't Australian, right? And that neither is Tom Hardy, for that matter?

 

[cacildo]

hm....
It dosent looks as fun as Just Cause 2

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

old interview but he explains that it has just as much ground stuff as car stuff so dont worry they are just showcasing car combat because its fucking mad max
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX82SaD28bA

 

[Hip Hop]

This is just going to delay Just Cause 3 even more.

damn.

 

[Kyoufu]

Sad that it's pushed to 2015 yet still remains a cross-gen game.

 

[kulapik]

Westcoast custom's mention has to do with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tjtcxiUAQM

dat poster with "coming" but without getting to see the year

 

[Sojgat]

Not 'Stralia, not Mad Max.

Will buy for cheap when it bombs.

 

[ashecitism]

This is just going to delay Just Cause 3 even more.

damn.

Different studios.

JC3 might even arrive this year.

 

[Nirolak]

This is just going to delay Just Cause 3 even more.

damn.

Different studios location wise.

 

[SolidSnakex]

I'm negative interested in this game. I've gone from entirely not caring to dispising this game's existence.

Who at Avalanche thought this was a better idea than Just Cause 3?

They're working on multiple games. And one of those is quite clearly Just Cause 3

Unnanounced Sandbox Action game (Square Enix)
August 2011 to Present
Team Members: Christofer Sundberg
New installment in a very well-known game series. The game is being developed at Avalanche Studios New York studio and is scheduled for completion in 2015 for next generation console platforms.

http://se.linkedin.com/in/csundberg

 

[jett]

There was no way they weren't going to release the game alongside the upcoming movie. 2015 it is.

Pretty shitty they took an Australian character in the Australian outback and just slapped it in America. Now it just looks like Rage or something.

I'm not much of a Mad Max fan but even that just seems wrong to me.