Currently offered in the Monthly Bundle, I tempted to subcribe just for this month for it.

Anyone played it ?

Haven't played but heard its great looking open world desert with vehicular combat and AC / Arkham style melee combat. Its a 3rd person open world game. You have a buddy who repairs your card who talks about religion in terms of automobile parts tagging along with you and I hear he's quite entertaining.

Yeah I know how the gameplay is, just wanted to hear a personal opinion.

Played it for an hour on a friends PC and while it was okay, the world felt empty with not much to do if you want to take a break from story. Apparently it gets better after 2 hours and after completing the first area.

Yep

Thanks, sounds like a buy then.

As always YMMV.
For example I don't think W3 is all it's cracked up to be.

I did, and I liked it.
Hand to hand combat sequences are efficient, but somewhat uninspired. Breaking warboys heads is fun, but it becomes repetitive after a while.

Driving, on the other hand... It's pretty awesome. Roaring fullspeed through beautiful desert landscapes, raming other cars (no bikes nor real trucks, unfortunately), driving and fighting in the middle of a convoy with exploding vehicles, warboys jumping on your hood and wheels ripped form their axles... There's a feeling of power to it that blew me off.

The game is your typical "open world with stuff to collect everywhere", so it becomes repetitive after a while, but I never got bored from the driving. Even at the end of the game, after unlocking most of the (pretty big) map, I never used the instant travel. Always drove to the destination, looking for trouble. (and seeing the warboys crap their pants and flee for their lives when they saw my pimped up car :) ).

A great movie and a great game.

What has this world come to? :P

A game with no DLCs... Might be worth a try. But so far the rest of the monthlies (the hidden ones) were kinda crap.

I think there was DLC, 'The Ripper'?
No idea what it did though.

On the Steam page there is nothing shown. But it seems there was some preorder DLC with some car... Still at least no post-release DLCs

Just don't play the NES version of Mad Max. It was really, really bad.

Good to know that the driving feels good. Right now I'm playing Just Cause 2 (from the same developer) and the vehicle control is absolutely atrocious.

actually its not that bad, if you eat some cat food and huff some glue before playing. and it gets really great, if you do it without playing the game :)