A Mad Max recreation is greatest dealt with by somebody like Hideo Kojima, franchise director George Miller has recommended. The Australian filmmaker was quizzed a few recreation throughout an occasion selling Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which Kojima additionally attended. Miller and Kojima apparently struck up a dialog throughout the occasion.
Mad Max director wasn’t a fan of the 2015 recreation
In a clip of the interview shared by GamingBible, Miller will be heard praising Kojima whereas stating that 2015’s Mad Max wasn’t that good. The online game was developed by Avalanche Studios of Simply Trigger fame, and earned a blended reception.
“If he [Kojima] would take it on… he’s obtained a lot incredible stuff in his personal head that I might by no means ask him,” Miller mentioned. “But when it was somebody like that who would take it on, as a result of I couldn’t do it.”
Miller’s feedback drew the ire of Avalanche Studios founder Christofer Sundberg. Sundberg, who left Avalanche in 2019, claimed on X that Avalanche was requested to make a linear recreation regardless of the studio’s energy being open-world video games. “After the primary yr of growth they realized that they had pressured us to make a linear expertise relatively than the open-world recreation we pitched,” he mentioned.