George Miller, Mad Max director and owner of the Mad Max IP, has announced he's working on Mad Max: the game with God of War II director Cory Barlog. It'll be an action-adventure game inspired on the Mad Max: Fury Road film that Miller had to cancel. Guns, vehicles and the like are all in.<blockquote>On the balance between action and drama in videogames:
Games are a way more nascent medium than cinema. We're watching games evolve as we speak, very dramatically. The balance is going to tip the other way. I go back to the notion of immersion of the audience. Games, being highly interactive, are very immersive with the audience, but there needs to be some experience that the player takes from that. And it's a very fertile medium to work in if you're looking towards how you can inform a character. So what I'm saying is, just as movies are moving towards games, games are going to be moving towards movies, where that balance is going to be less--that sort of balance towards action over character, and any character or story is basically in support of the action sequences.
On why he's resisted previous entreaties to work on a "Mad Max" game:
For many, many, many years--for as many years as I can remember, we've been asked to make games of the "Mad Max" story. I mean, we've been approached by every major game company or developer virtually, asking "Can we do a 'Mad Max' game?" And to me, it always felt like what I used to call empty calorie action. Where you just--the thing that you were alluding to before, which is just action for its own sake without anything underneath it.</blockquote>Link: Exclusive: Writer-Director George Miller Announces 'Mad Max' As First Game From Creative Alliance With God of War II Director Cory Barlog on Level Up. See also their in-depth Q&A, part I and part II.
Thanks Lexx and Wasteland Stories.
Games are a way more nascent medium than cinema. We're watching games evolve as we speak, very dramatically. The balance is going to tip the other way. I go back to the notion of immersion of the audience. Games, being highly interactive, are very immersive with the audience, but there needs to be some experience that the player takes from that. And it's a very fertile medium to work in if you're looking towards how you can inform a character. So what I'm saying is, just as movies are moving towards games, games are going to be moving towards movies, where that balance is going to be less--that sort of balance towards action over character, and any character or story is basically in support of the action sequences.
On why he's resisted previous entreaties to work on a "Mad Max" game:
For many, many, many years--for as many years as I can remember, we've been asked to make games of the "Mad Max" story. I mean, we've been approached by every major game company or developer virtually, asking "Can we do a 'Mad Max' game?" And to me, it always felt like what I used to call empty calorie action. Where you just--the thing that you were alluding to before, which is just action for its own sake without anything underneath it.</blockquote>Link: Exclusive: Writer-Director George Miller Announces 'Mad Max' As First Game From Creative Alliance With God of War II Director Cory Barlog on Level Up. See also their in-depth Q&A, part I and part II.
Thanks Lexx and Wasteland Stories.
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